India Asked to Be Fair in M. E. Relations
and Set Up Ties With the State of Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW DELHI—India was urged
Tuesday to adopt an "even-handed
posture" in the Middle East and
was assured that the establishment
of ties with Israel would not injure
New Delhi's relations with the
Arabs "because India is important
to the Arab world."
The speaker was Ambassador
Michael Comay, political adviser
to the Israel foreign ministry in
Jerusalem, who is currently serv-
ing as floor chairman of the Israeli
delegation to the United Nations
Conference on Trade and develop-
ment (UNCTAD).
Addressing the Indian Council on
World Affairs, Ambassador Comay
named a long list of countries that
maintain diplomatic relations with
both Israel and the Arab states.
He said he understood the concern
expressed by some of his Indian
friends that "India's case on Kash-
mir would be prejudiced by
diplomatic ties with Israel," but
believed those fears were "highly
exaggerated." He said he thought
it was "inconceivable" that the
Arabs would sever relations with
India if Indian-Israeli relations
were normalized.
Israel earlier challenged the
nominating and elective proce-
dures employed at the conference
that have so far kept it off all the
various working groups and com-
mittees set up at the interna-
tional gathering. UNCTAD, now
in its third week here, is sup-
posed to devise means for ad-
vancing the industry and econ-
omy of underdeveloped nations.
Ambassador Comay said that the
conference rules were contravened
when the group that has been di-
recting the electoral machinery ;
barred certain developing countries ;
from its deliberations. He said Is-
rael was never consulted about the
to membership on them. It is be-
lieved that Soviet support of the
Cuban protest will strengthen Is-
rael's position and assure its par-
ticipation in all meetings on an
equal basis with other sovereign
states.
In an earlier development, Am-
Israel Vows Equal Opportunities for Immigrants
but many of its advocates and de-
tractors are often not clear what
it means or what it is intended
to achieve.
Abram. who is U.S. representa-
tive to the United Nations Com-
mission on Human Rights, ad-
dressed the Brotherhood of Central
Synagogue on "the modern mean-
ing of brotherhood." He said that
"black power, as a first step to-
ward integration, may be more
modern and more relevant than
brotherhood in terms of Negro-
white relations today. It will en-
able Negroes to act out their group
interests in a pattern similar to
that of other ethnic and racial
groups in America."
Abram, however, decried the
ambiguity that often surrounds the
term. "Sometimes it means noth-
ing more than black people com-
ing together as a political, eco-
More Phonograph Records
Are Allowed Into Israel
JERUSALEM (ZINS) An Israeli
who has lived abroad for a mini-
mum of two years, is permitted to
bring back with him 200 used
phonograph records duty-free, the
commerce ministry announced. Stu-
dent returnees will have the same
privilege if they spent only 22
months in another country. Until
now only 50 records were exempt
from import tax.
THE
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OF A
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EWISH
se-
to Israel" will be decisive in se-
future."
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BOMBAY — A member of the curing Israel's
Jewish Agency Executive assured
an audience representing the local
Jewish community here Monday
night that immigrants coming to
Israel will enjoy equal opportuni-
ties in education, social welfare
and housing. Woolf Perry, who is
vice chairman of the Keren Haye-
sod, fund-raising arm of the World
Zionist Organization, said that
"Jewish immigrants from India
have been satisfactorily settled in
Israel as a part of that nation."
Perry stressed the importance of
immigration. He said that the new
immigrants diaspora Jewry sends
bassador Comay hit back at the
Soviet delegation which used the
conference last week as a forum
to denounce Israeli "aggression"
and to demand Israel's withdrawal
from occupied Arab territories. The
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Russians, echoed by the Jordanian
delegation, blamed Israel for caus-
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and
political
stress
in
the
Middle
composition of that group, as re-
quired by UNCTAD rules and ac- East.
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Ambassador Comay said it was
cused its members of discrimina-
PONTIAC, TEMPEST or FIREBIRD
not helpful to inject political issues
tion.
into
a
conference
devoted
to
trade
you do not have the best price.
He added that the group, known
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as 77-S, has no official status as a and development.
United Nations body and therefore; He suggested that if the Soviet
is not qualified to pass on nomina- Union wishes to play a construc-
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tions or to serve as part of the tive role it should use its influence
electoral machinery. A similar ; to bring about a peace settlement
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protest was filed by the Cuban in the area for which it professes
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great concern. He reminded the
delegation.
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India's minister of commerce,, conference that the UN Security
Council
and
the
General
Assembly
Dinesh Singh, the presiding officer,
said that working group meetings had firmly rejected every attempt
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would hereafter be open to all coun- by the Soviet Union to blame Israel
tries including those not nominated for starting the Middle East war
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last June.
Several Arab and African dele-
gations walked out when Comay
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the
nomic and social force, forcing
each
their representatives or electing flow of private capital into under-
their representatives to speak to developed nations, proposed by
David Horowitz, governor of the
their needs. If this is what black
Bank of Israel and a leader of
power means—the right, indeed the
desirability of Negroes to organ- the Israeli delegation, was sup-
ize to develop self-regard and ported by Ghana and Ecuador.
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exercise maximum political and Ambassador K.B. Asante, head
of the Ghanian delegation, said
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economic pressure, surely it is
that in his view the Horowitz
welcome."
But, Abram warned, "there is plan "would bring mighty re-
serves of private capital to the
also a destructive aspect to black
power, often deliberately concealed rescue of international aid pro-
grams" and would help break
in ambiguity, which only occasion-
ally discloses dreadful glimpses down the barrier of high interest
rates and short term payments.
of racism, black separatism, viol-
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Horowitz proposed his plan in
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This ambiguity makes black power
a speech urging a global eco-
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appear dangerous. Black power nomic policy aimed at the rapid
as a racist concept is alien to our expansion of farming and food pro-
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dressed in the quality and up-to-the-minute
best tradition and is rejected by duction to meet the threat of
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NEW YORK (JTA) — The U.S. times of recession, and would also
Treasury Department has sent to ease the violent fluctuations be-
the 14,000 banks across the coun- tween boom and depression that
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field conducted by the American honor.—Coleridge.
Bankers Association.
The report, printed jointly by
the bankers' group and by the
American Jewish Committee, con-
tains a,denunciation of discrimina-
tion against Jews in the banking
field by Morris B. Abram, AJC
president, and an outline of the
committee's program to combat it.
The report also includes the
Don't let the sunny weather trap you! The biggest snow
speech to the workshop by the as-
sistant secretary of the treasury,
storm to "PERILIZE" the Detroit area happened on Feb.
Robert A. Wallace, explaining the
executive order which requires
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companies doing business with the
government—including banks — to
provide equal opportunities in their
employment practices.
SAUL BERCH
VICTORY COIN
Black Power Healt by as Social Force
but Not as Racist Concept—Abram
NEW YORK (JTA)—Morris B
Abram, president of the American
Jewish Committee, declared here
that black power is a healthy con-
cept for Negroes and whites alike
Friday, February 23, 1968-5
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