De Gaulle Words, Action Cause Dismay Among French Jews; Von Thadden Happy While 44 per cent of the French approval of the UN Security (Continued from Page 1) by your words which may well People agree with Gen. de Gaulle's Council resolution, while the Free revive the prejudices from which characterization of the Jewish peo- Center asked for immediate an- we have suffered." Among the ple and 30 per cent agree with his nexation and the settlement of signers were Professors Raymond contention that Israel is an expan- occupied territories. Aaron, Henri Baruk, Rene Cassin sionist state, according to the poll Neo-Nazi Backs de Gaulle; and Francois Jacob. Grand Rabbi by L'Express, 35 per cent dis- Von madden Assails Israel Jacob Kaplan reported meanwhile agree with the French leader. The BONN (JTA)—The first expres- that he had received many letters poll, however, apparently did not sion of support for Gen. de Gaulle's from "prominent and ordinary reflect the feelings preponderant views on Israel and the Middle Frenchmen, Jews and non-Jews," in French political, academic and East to emerge from any Western supporting his reply to Gen. de intellectual circles where de political source was voiced here Gaulle. Rabbi Kaplan's statement Gaulle's statements on the Jews by the leaders of the neo-Nazi Na- charged de Gaulle with giving "the and Israel drew storms of protest tional Democratic Party, Adolf von highest possible sanction" to anti- and expressions of revulsion. Two Thadden. He told a press confer- Semitic discrimination and with prominent Gaullists took issue with having defamed the Jewish people the French leader, one of them ex- ence Israel was endangering world that peace by trying to "impose to shore up his attack on Israel pressing regret over what he its will" on occupied Arab terri- as an aggressor. Dr. Kaplan told called the birth of French anti- tories. the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Zionism which follows the Soviet Von Thadden also asserted that that he had replied in greater de- anti-Zionist line. Jacques Baumel, former secre- the NPD has 27,000 members, in- tail to de Gaulle's attack at a meeting in Meudon on Dec. 5 at- tary of the UNR Party, declared eluding soldiers presently in West 1,500 Germany's armed forces, tended by 1,000 persons. He said' that "every Frenchman must fight that it intended to enter candidates he had quoted Napoleon, who con- against anti-Semitism," adding that sidered the Jews as "heirs de jure," "each nation has a right to exist, in in the every district in the country 1969 elections and would especially the smallest ones which spend six to seven times as much or the legitimate heirs, to Israel. De Gaulle was assailed at a are the most threatened." Jean in the next campaign as in the meeting here of the Interna• i Lecanuet, president of the Centre previous one. This would indicate tional League Against Anti-Semi- Democratic, accused the de Gaulle an expenditure of 9 to 10,000,000 government of renewing the Middle marks (between $2,250,000 and tism addressed by Sen. Andre East conflict. $2,500,000). The expected result, Monteil, who said most French- according to von Thadden, would men supported Israel. He called Eban Tells Cabinet That Iraq be at least 10 per cent of the a "scandal" the embargo on vote which would send 50 or more shipment of spare parts for Is a Combatant and Is Unfit to JERUSALEM Get Jets from (JTA) France — Foreign NPD deputies to the Bundestag, Israel's air force planes which are mainly -ranch-made. Minister Abba Eban told the Israel West Germany's lower house. (One Frenchman who was more Cabinet that Iraq, which will re- Von Thadden, who put his party calm about the problem was Baron ceive jet fighter-bombers from on record in support of Gen. de ranee, was indeed a combatant Gaulle's Middle East position, also Alain de Rothschild, president of France, the Consistoire Central Israelite in last June's Six-Day War, disput- declared that he favored the 1939 de France and d'Algerie. Speaking ing France's contention that only Munich pact which he contended at a press conference at the of- non-combatant nations will get was still legal. The Munich agree- fices of the Union of Ort hodox French arms, now that her em- ment gave Hitler the Sudeten re- Jewish Congregations in New bargo on the shipment of arms to gion of Czechoslovakia, leading to York, of which he is currently a the Middle East has been lifted. the try dismemberment that coun- by the Nazis and of the outbreak guest, Baron Rothschild said he Speaking at a closed session, did not consider the general an Eban said that, on the first day of World War • IL • s anti-Semite and said it was "un- of the war, an Iraqi plane bombed and Boycott Proposed in NYC- thinkable" that the French govern- the coastal town of Natanya further but Clothiers Cautious ment would ever adopt an anti- was shot down, and that NEW YORK (JTA)—Sources in Semitic position. The French Iraqi air incursions over Israel Manhattan's garment district con- banker called the general's Nov. ceased only when an Iraqi airfield firmed that a number of ready- 27 pr es s conference remarks near the Iraq-Jordan border was to-wear manufacturers planned to "naughty but not bombed by Israeli planes. organize a committee to deter- meaning that the remarks were Eban noted that units of the mine whether a boycott should. be not a surprise to anyone aware Iraqi army moved into Jordan on established against French fabrics of the general's penchant for such the eve of the war, were on their in protest against President de public statements.) way to the West Bank, and were Gaulle's recent anti-Israel, anti- Raymond Heymann, of Strass- deployed for action when Jordan Jewish and anti-American attacks, Bourg, prominent in the resistance accepted the United Nations cease Eight heads of such firms held movement during World War II, fire, thus ending military action a secret meeting which was also sent back to Gen. de Gaulle the on that front. He pointed out fur- attended by representatives of medal he had received for his ther that Iraq was one of the com- other garment district firms. Ac- heroic war work. A well-known batant nations approached by UN cording to the sources, there was writer, Edoyard Brumont, com- Secretary-General U Thant with a sharp division of opinion over pared de Gaulle's present stance the UN cease-fire proposals, and whether such a boycott should be to the utterances of notorious had agreed. to comply with any launched by the garment industry French anti-Semites and fascists. agreement accepted by Jordan. and, if such a decision was ap- Former Premier Edgar Faure, Israel's ambassador to France, proved, how the boycott should be presently minister of agriculture, Walter Eytan, arrived here at the organized. Many of the Jewish implicity criticized President de request of Foreign Minister Eban businessmen expressed concern Gaulle's one-sided lifting of for consultations. Eytan had been over the known State Department France's Middle East arms em- received, at his request, by French opposition to such boycotts as well bargo in favor of the Arabs when Foreign Minister Maurice Couve as over the possibility that such an de Murville for a discussion of action might cut both ways. he declared in an interview with Franco-Israeli- r e l a t i o ns and the weekly magazine Paris Among the industry's top de- French plans to sell Mirage jets signers and manufacturers attend- Match Monday that "it seems desirable that the embargo to Iraq. ing the secret meeting were Jerry There is no reason to believe Silverman, Adolph Klein, president should apply to all parties or to none." Faure, who has apparently been under pressure to renounce de Gaulle's anti-Israel policies, said, however, that while the Egyptian blockade of the Gulf of Aqaba which sparked the war last June was "regrettable," that act "could have been solved by a juridical procedure and France's position at the UN follows the logic of such a policy." He declared that "even for the friend of Israel that I am, there is no reason why I should have resigned." Emir Bedhir Khan, foreign rep- resentative of the Kurdish people, a separatist minority in Iraq, ad- dressed an open letter to de Gaulle protesting reports that France will ship Mirage jet fighter planes to Iraq. Pierre Vianson Ponte, political editor of Le Monde, warned that "de Gaulle's declaration on Israel and the Jews may well leave a deep and lasting scar on France." He said that numer- ous leaders of the Gaullist move- ment were prepared to join the opposition as a result of the general's remarks. war will resume in the next few months, Eh= told the Knesset, summing up during a foreign policy debate. When the transi- tion to peace is achieved, this will mean process and not with- drawal, he stated. Holding on to the new territories may be a necessity, but it is not Israel's ultimate goal, he asserted, point- ing out that the problem is not the territories, but their popula- tion. Eban stressed that the dialogue with France is continuing, but he of the New York Couture Busi- ness Council, Shannon Rodgers, Chester Weinberg, Nat Rubin, Paul- ine Trigere and others. Klein said after the meeting that "noth- ing definite has been decided. The gathering was just a meeting be- tween friends." Weinberg said that the meeting constituted "a useful exchange of ideas which provided us with what the other man was thinking." He added that "definite steps will emerge once the committee has been formed." None of the participants would say when a meeting would be held to form the committee. New York importers in the ac- cessories business were reported to be thinking about stopping im- ports of such items as handbags but avoided talk about a boycott. While many retailers said that women customers were avoiding such imports with "Made in France" labels, some of the ma- jor New York specialty stores in- dicated a cautious attitude to- ward the boycott idea. William Hanson, president of Julius Gar- finckel, said that his stores, which said that whoever sends arms to Iraq bolsters the strength of the forces aligned against Israel. Iraq has 20,000 soldiers near the ceasefire line inside Jordan, he said, and Iraqi officers train sabo- teurs who are infiltrating Israel. The foreign minister also said that a fruitful relationship with the United States is continuing. All parties except the Commun- ists and two splinter groups voted approval of Eban's statement. Four Communists voted against the government and the right-wing Free Center abstained. The Com- munists demanded inclusion and include Brooks Brothers, would not join in any boycott although be viewed also against the back- "we are hearing more and more ground of the age-old relationship customers saying they won't buy between Christians and Jews. If genocide has been a disaster for anything French." the Jews, my people, it has also The noted French author, been the greatest moral catas- Manes Sperber, who came to in the history of Christian- this country to accept an inter- trophe ity. The Holocaust taught millions national literary award, Sun- of people a most destructive les- day night attacked Charles de son. They learned that Jews Gaulle for giving "a new pres- be murdered, desecrated and tige and appearance of decency could robbed under an open sky without to anti-Semitism" and thereby harm to themselves. This is a "once again opening the gates destruction of the fundamental to anti-Semitism." rules of human relations. This atti- Sperber spoke at the dinner of tude has had far reaching conse- the World Federation of Bergen quences for humanity. And human- Belsen Associations where he ac- ity is still terribly ill as a conse- cepted the 1967 Remembrance quence of the Hitler years." Award for "excellence and dis- tinction in literature." The presen- 14—Friday, December 15, 1967 tation was made to him by the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS French-American novelist Elie Wie- sel, the first winner of the award. 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