THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 23, 1968-9
Overseas .Jewries Pledge to Hike JTA Aid for Services
NEW YORK (JTA)—Increased
participation by overseas Jewish
communities in the financing and
maintenance of the Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency was reported by
ter Harold Wilson on his recent Robert H. Arnow, JTA president,
visit to Washington was that the in a report to the JTA executive
United States held the same committee.
views.
He said that the results achieved
The possibility of bringing the were in line with a board direc-
Middle East crisis back to the tive to widen the base of support
forum of the UN has been men- for the worldwide news agency and
tioned recently in Egypt and other to ensure that communities deriv-
Arab countries where the press ing special benefit from the agen-
has already dubbed the peace mis- cy's operations should bear their
sion of UN emissary, Ambassador fair share of the costs involved.
Gunnar Jarring, a failure. The
In pursuance of this objective.
British view, the JTA was told, is
JTA's
that another Middle East debate Arnow said, Jack Siegel,
slirector
of development, was sent
in the UN "would merely provoke' on a special
to England,
another row and, if anything, make France and mission
South Africa to ex-
the situation worse."
plain
the
situation
to
the Jewish
(In Jerusalem Foreign Minis-
in each country and to
ter Eban and Ambassador Jar- leadership
secure
their
participatiion.
ring had two meetings Monday,
In England, Arnow said, agree-
after which the UN special envoy ment
was reached for a substan-
left for Cairo. It was understood tial
increase in allocations to JTA
that both meetings revolved and plans concerted to make the
around the question of bringing JTA British operation self-support-
both sides together for peace
talks. Ambassador Jarring is due ing. In Israel, he said, agreement
to return to Jerusalem for fur-
was reached on increased ser-
ther talks next week.)
vice fees which will reduce the
President Nasser told journalists deficit
previously incurred in the
in Cairo over the weekend that JTA services
to Israel. In South
Egypt wanted a peaceful solution Africa, the community
confirmed
of the "Palestine problem" and a previous agreement
in prin-
that Egypt was acting at the United ciple to defray the costs of de-
Nations "so that the world will livering the news to Johannes-
understand that we are a people burg and a share of the basic
who do not say no to everything." news-gathering cost. Community
The Times Beirut correspondent leaders and officials directly
reported meanwhile that Egyptian assisted JTA in successful nego-
defense forces were placed on a tiations with the South African
state of alert Thursday because of treasury for the transfer licen-
alleged Israel troop movements on ces. The South African service,
the Suez Canal east bank and pur- as of Jan. 1, 1967, must now
ported warnings on the Jerusalem be considered self-supporting,
radio that reprisals were planned Arnow said.
against Egypt for guerrilla activi-
In France, he disclosed, possi-
ties in Israel. Egyptian authorities
Closed Suez, Wilson's UAR 'Soft Line'
Stir Criticism of British Labor Govt.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—The harrassed Brit-
ish labor government is facing a
dew barrage of criticism over the
continued shutdown of the Suez
canal and the "soft line" on Egypt
alleieQy taken by Prime Minister
Het Id 'Wilson. The critics stem
from the \ opposition, but include
many lakorite members of parlia-
ment who indicated Tuesday that
they planned to question the gov-
ernment on the Suez issue.
Unless the government is able
to say that Nasser has agreed to
Open the canal it is in for trouble.
one MP said.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency
was informed by authoritative gov-
ernment sources Tuesday that
rumors of direct British financial
aid to Nasser to help rescue
Egypt's tottering economy were
sompletely erroneout. Britain has,
however, agreed in principle to join
in an international "rescue" opera-
tion to aid Egypt within the frame-
work of the International Monetary
Fund. It is planned as a shortterm
loan but there is no longterm aid
from Britain to Egypt involved.
the JTA was told.
The Guardian and the Financial
Times both confirmed Tuesday that
the International Monetary Fund
has called on Egypt to pay off
47,000,000 pounds sterling ($112,-
000,000) overdue on an earlier loan
before sanctioning a new loan of
60,000,000 pounds sterling ($144,-
000,000) which Egypt needs to
avoid bankruptcy.
Great Britain Is strongly op-
posed to returning the Israel-
Arab dispute to the UN Security
Council and would resist such a
move, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency learned from authorita-
tive sources which said that the
Impression given to Prime Minis-
tried to keep the alert secret, the bility of extensive use of JTA ser-
correspondent reported, but roads vices to meet the informational
leading from Cairo to the canal needs of a community which has
zone, normally open for essential
civilian traffic, were closed.
Elath Tells Role in Israel Statehood
Played by New U.S. Defense Chief
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — Clark The story is told by Eliyahu
Clifford, newly appointed secretary Elath, Israel's first ambassador to
of defense of the United States, Washington, in his recently pub-
played a dominant role in persuad- lished book. He relates that Gett-
ing President Truman to recognize oral George Marshall, secretary
the state of Israel in May 1948. of state, bitterly opposed a Jewish
state, and threatened to resign if
his political line were rejected.
Also that at a White House meet-
ing, a sharp verbal exchange
erupted between Clifford and Mar-
shall, pertaining to the American
government's position in the Arab-
Israel conflict.
On May 14, 1948, Clifford tele-
honed Elath and told him that
doubled in size since 1945 and is news bulletins in both countries
now the largest in Western Europe, as well as in Peru.
was extensively canvassed and
mutual studies begun.
the continent. JTA publishes daily
JTA maintained an office in
Paris and published a French-
language bulletin for more than
20 years prior to the Nazi occupa-
tion of the city in 1941, Arnow
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noted.
The campaign to enlist the par-
ticipatioin of foreign communities
will be continued in South Amer-
ica which JTA serves with a daily
radioprinter circuit from New
York. Arnow said that Siegel
would leave in March for Argen-
tina and Brazil, the two major
centers of Jewish population on
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grant Israel de facto recognition
the moment it proclaimed its in-
dependence. "It is imperative,"
Clifford said, "that you submit to
me as quickly as possible an offi-
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Department, stating that the state
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for recognition by the U.S. gov-
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Chief Rabbinate Bars
Digging at Wailing Wall
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A request
by a noted Israeli archaeologist to
excavate near the site of the south .
wall of the Temple in Old Jeru-
salem was turned down by the
Chief Rabbinate Tuesday.
Prof. B. Mazer, a former presi-
dent of the Hebrew University, was
told that he couldn't dig because
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"Holy of Holies" where only High
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