French Actress Rejects de Gaulle Invitation; Unified Protest Dropped in NYC
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, December 22, 1967
had been advised that U.S. govern- who himself once championed Is- Left, issued a statement warning
ment trade agreements with France! rael and all freedom-loving peo- that "an out-dated conception of
WHAT WE DID WHEN OUR
national independence blinds the
would be hurt by nongovernmental pie."
ADVERTISEMENTS "BACK-FIRED"
We then published this explanation:
action. Other members of the corn-
A report of the board's foreign French Government to the reali-
At Amber Park Apartment Colony,
mittee said that another reason for affairs committee was presented ties of our time and the means of
3807 Crooks Road. Royal Oak, hew
"flatlet dwellers" have told us they
the decision not to make a group by Sir Barnett Janner, MP, who our country, thus depriving France
hesitated to ring 549-4045 when they
of
any
chance
to
contribute
to
protest was concern that it might said that de Gaulle's "shocking
first read our advertisement, though
peace in the Middle East."
they were quite interested. Because,
be
considered
an
expression
of
dis-
statement"
could
not
pass
without
A meeting of French-Jewish
they inferred from the manifold and
satisfaction
by
Jews
against
Gen.
comment.
The
Jews
of
France,
he
unique
amenities cited that the rents
leaders was held here at head-
In an earlier statement on be-
would be prohibitive. But when they
quarters of Fonds Social Juif Uni- de Gaulle's anti-Jewish statements. declared, were to be complimented half of the French Israeli Associa-
finally came and saw what an Am-
One
member
said
"we
are
all
on
the
manner
in
which
they
had
ber flatlet embraced, for less than
tion, its presiding officer, a for-
iie to give further consideration of ,
they had expected to pay, they
responded to this attack. The ma- mer Cabinet member, M. Diemede
the Jewish community's response , Americans first."
consummated the lease summarily.
: 4, s
jority of French people, he be- Catroux, expressed regret over
Come to the "rental rendezvous." at
to Gen. de Gaulle's attacks.1
the kiosk, for a happy ending to
lieved,
were
not
anti-Semitic
or
Among the participants was Grand Deputies Assail
President de Gaulle's anti-Israel,
your drama of apartment acquisi-
desired to be so, nor were they an- anti-Jewish statements and de-
tion.
Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, who had is-
P.S. Broach Amber Flatlets to your
sued the community's formal pro-
ti-Israel. nounced the resumption of French
contemporaries and nubile progeny.
test against Gen. de Gaulle's new-
Alderman Fidler, on behalf of arms deliveries to the Arab states.
ly-expressed attitudes toward Is-
LONDON (JTA) — Concern the Board of Deputies, congratu-
rael and the Jewish people.
about the position of Jews in the lated the Jewish Telegraphic Agen-
Dr. Joseph Weil, honorary pres- Soviet Union, and condemnation of cy on its fiftieth anniversary and
ident of the Jewish consistory of President de Gaulle's recent anti- its "great achievements during the
the Lower Rhine, announced that ' Jewish and anti-Israel statements, period."
President de Gaulle was urged
he has returned his French Legion was voiced by Alderman Michael
of Honor medal to President de M. Fidler, president of the Board
by two political parties to adopt
Gaulle, because of the anti-Semit- of Deputies of British Jews at a
a realistic policy on the Middle
SEE
ic remarks made by the general at meeting here Sunday. The status
East if he has any hope of con-
of the Jews in the Soviet Union
tributing to a solution of the con-
his recent press conference.
"continues to cause the deepest
flict in that region.
NEW YORK (JTA)—A spokes- anxiety," he said, "deprived as
Valery Giscard D'Estaing, rep-
Sales Manager
man for a group of Manhattan gar- they are of rights afforded to all resenting the "Independent"
ment makers, most of them Jew- other ethnic minorities."
group, supporters of the Gaullist
ish, confirmed that the producers
Fidler expressed British Jewry's government, declared that
"condemnation of the completely "France cannot stay neutral but
unwarranted and insulting attack must adopt a realistic attitude in
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upon the Jewish people by General favor of Israel." The French Rad-
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de Gaulle. The attack," he stated, ical Party, a constituent of the
between 7 and 8 Mile Roads
"was unworthy of a great leader non-Communist Federation of the
PARIS (JTA) — Vera Korene,
well-known French-Jewish actress.
has rejected an invitation from
President Charles de Gaulle to at-
tend a garden party, in protest
against Gen. de Gaulle's recent an
ti-Israel, anti-Jewish remarks.
De Gaulle, USSR
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had dropped plans for a unified
against statements last
protest
month by President Charles de
Gaulle of France.
Members of a committee of 10 of
the garment makers, who original-
ly talked about launching a boy-
cott of French fabrics, decided to
register protests only as individ-
uals. Jerry Silverman, president
of the firm bearing his name, said
that members of the group had
talked the question over with Unit-
ed• States Government officials, in-!
ternational trade executives and
other officials, and that they had
been advised against any boycott.
Silverman said the producers
My, How Times Have Changed
France, freed from that monster,
Bonaparte, must again become the
most agreeable country on earth.
It would be the second choice of
all whose ties of a family and for-
tune gives a preference to some
other one, and the first choice of
all not under those ties.—Thomas
Jefferson (1814).
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