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( Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)

GENEVA REFLECTIONS: High and dignified flutters the flag of
the United Nations, over the old building of the League of Nations here
which serves now as the UN European headquarters. The solid building
reminds one of the days when Dr. Chaim Weizmann and other top
Zionist leaders appeared before the Mandates Commission of the League
of Nations, pleading for the establishment of a Jewish National Home
in Palestine. It also recalls the times when world Jewish leaders
appeared there in defense of Jewish minority rights in Poland, Romania,
Hungary and other countries where anti-Semitism was rife.

The issue of establishing a Jewish National Home in. Palestine no
longer exists. The dream has been fulfilled by the establishment of the
State of Israel. However, the issues concerning the existence of anti-
Semitism in certain East European countries are still alive today.
Poland is the best example.

Attention of diplomats in Geneva is now strongly centered on the
anti-Semitic policy of the Polish government. Western diplomats often
go from Geneva to Warsaw and return with shocking reports on the
mistreatment of Jews. The information one gets in Geneva presents a
far more morbid picture of events in Poland than one obtains from read-
ing press reports in the United States.

There are only about 20,000 Jews left in Poland—more than 60 per
cent of them over the age of 55—and almost all of them are deeply
affected by the brutal anti-Jewish policy now being pursued by the
Polish authorities. No element in this small and helpless community is
spared. Aged or children, artisans or employees, intellectuals or ordin-
ary workers—all are victims of the vicious government campaign to
keep the Jews_in a constant state of fear.
•
Diplomats of neutral countries who visit Poland tell stories of con-
tinuing mass arrests of Jews throughout the country. Jewish suicides?
Yes, they report that there have been such. They tell stories of des-
perate Jewish parents whose children are now under arrest by the
hundreds. They bring reports that Jewish camps for 3,000 youngsters,
which have been in existence ever since the liberation of Poland from
the Nazis, are not being reopened this summer. They estimate that
5,000 Jewish invalids, aged and sick, who for years had been receiving
regular monthly relief from the Joint Distribution Committee, are now
left helpless to fend for themselves. The Polish government ordered the
JDC to liquidate its relief activities in Poland. They recite a long list of
other facts, showing that the Polish authorities fnd it no longer neces-
sary to even camouflage their anti-Jewish acts as a campaign against
Zionists.

POLISH "PROMISES": What about the promise made by the
Polish government to issue exit visas to Jews wishing to emigrate from
the country? The promise still stands but everything is being done to
make its implementation difficult, if not impossible, according to
foreign diplomats in Geneva who looked into the situation. The Polish
authorities impose heavy fees for exit visas which the average Jewish
family in the country cannot afford. They are also inventing other
difficulties. One of the restrictions now faced by Jews who wish to
leave Poland is that they must repay to the government all the past
costs of the study of their children in state schools, which is a fantastic
sum to pay. Another 'innovation' is a provision that Jews applying to
leave Poland must repair their dwellings before they emigrate, or
deposit money for such repairs. A third prohibits them from selling
books and musical records prior to their departure. Polish officials
visit Jewish homes to compile lists of books and records there to make
their sale impossible. -

More and more restrictions against potential Jewish emigrants
are born every day. All have the same aim — to bring the Jews wishing
to leave Poland to destitution. Jewish applicants for emigration visas
are declared stateless and unprotected from the very moment they
submit their applications.
Despite these barriers, several thousand Jews are reported to have
registered at the Dutch consulate in Warsaw for visas to Israel, which
the consulate is issuing on behalf of the State of Israel. Holland has been
representing the interests of Israel since Poland broke diplomatic rela-
tions with Israel last year. Jews are also going to the American consul-
ate in Warsaw for visas to the U.S. and find much sympathy there. It
is only after the Jews secure visas to Israel or to any other country that
the Polish authorities are wining to consider their applications to leave
the country. And so far, they have been in no great hurry to act.

Jordan, Israel Charge Violations

UNITED NATIONS (JTA) —
Israel and Jordan exchanged alle-
gations of cease-fire violations.
Israel's charges were contained in
a letter to Ambassador Arthur
Goldberg, this month's Security
Council president. The Jordanian
accusations appeared in a letter
sent June 21 to Secretary General
U Thant.
The letter sent by Israeli Am-
bassador Yosef Tekoah said that
between May 26 and June 23 there
have been 68 Jordanian cease-fire
violations of which 49 have been
attacks from military positions em-
ploying artillery, mortars, bazooka
and machine guns. He said there
had been 11 mining raids and
eight attacks by armed com-
mandos who entered Israel.
Tekoah said three civilians and
one soldier were killed and 15
civilians and 22 soldiers wounded
in the period cited.
"The casualties would have been
much higher if not for the shelter
used in Israeli border villages that

are the primary targets of Jor-
danian attacks," he said, charging
that "in these attacks heavy mor-
tars are employed frequently by
El Fatha units receiving aid from
Jordan." He said, "the continua-
tion of such acts of aggression
would aggravate the situation"
and that Israeli forces are under
strict instruction to open fire only
in self defense when protecting
citizens and military forces from
armed attack."
Jordan's ambassador Muham-
mad H. El-Farra said in his mes-
sage that Israeli forces had en-
gaged in a concerted wide range
of attacks on the Jordan river
east bank during April, May and
the first week in June. He alleged
that the attacks are aimed mainly
at Jordanian farmers and civilians
living and working in the Jordan
Valley, and said that Israeli troops
attempted to cross the river sev-
eral times, succeeding in planting
mines in fields and roads, causing
death and injury to civilians.

8—Friday, June 28, 1968

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Egyptian Commander Blamed for False
Claim of U. S. Role in Six-Day War

LONDON (JTA) — The editor
of the semi-official Cairo news-
paper, Al Ahram, has blamed the
former commanders of Egypt's
Air Force for making a claim
"without evidence" that the United
States Air Force had helped Is-
rael during last June's Six-Day
War. According to a London
Times dispatch from Cairo, Mo-
hammed Heykal charged, in his
weekly article, that the claim was
made by the Air Force command-
ers in order to cover up their own
miscalculations and mistal=es. He
said they had estimated Egyptian
air superiority over Israel at
three-to-one while in reality the
exact opposite was the case.
(The charge that American and
British aircraft, operating from
carriers in the eastern Mediter-
ranean, had aided Israel was
broadcast by President Nasser of
Egypt to account for the shatter-
ing defeat suffered by Egypt's
armed forces in the Sinai. The
charge, which was never fully re-
tracted by Nasser, preceded his
severance of diplomatic relations
with the United States and Britain.
Relations have since been restored
with Britain but not with the U.S.)

According to the Times dispatch,
Heykal also accused the former
commanders of Egypt's ground
forces of ordering a premature
withdrawal from the Sinai in the
face of advancing Israeli forces
last June. He said that Egyptian
losses during the first three days
of war were no more than 250
killed and that all the remaining
losses were suffered after the
withdrawal order "in that horrify-
ing nightmare atmosphere." Hey-
kal maintained that while an
Egyptian withdrawal had been
necessary in 1956 (during Israel's
Sinai campaign) "it was the last
strategy called for in 1967."

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