Soviet Invasion Threatens Jews

on several occasions circulated pe- what they called "the murder of
titions on street-corners asking the freedom in Czechoslovakia." A stu-
government to renew its friendship dent protest meeting was schedul-
ed for the afternoon.
with Jerusalem.
Before the invasion, the Israeli
Following the Cierna and Bratis-
lava conferences, the Jewish Tele- Writers Association had announced
graphic Agency's Bonn correspon- that the Czech Writers Association
dent, Alfred Wolfmann, visited had accepted an invitation to send
Prague and was told by informed a delegation to see Israeli develop-
foreign ministry circles that in the ment at first hand. The Israeli
near future there was no chance Writers Association said that the
of such renewed diplomatic ties' delegation was expected to come
because such a step would anger during the second half of October.
Moscow and the other Eastern The visit is expected to be can-
celed.
European states.
Many of the leaders in the Dub- Israel Now May Get
cek regime regarded the question Phantom Planes from U.S.
of relations with Israel as one of
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
the nation's less important con-
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Im-
cerns in the face of the continuing proved chances of early supply of
Soviet pressure against the demo- Phantom jet fighter bombers to
cratization process in recent Israel and a tougher United States
months.
stand against Soviet-Arab collusion
A new government that is ex- were indicated here in the wake of
pected to be installed and spon- the Soviet invasion of Czecho-
sored by the Kremlin, reinforced slovakia.
by the presence of Soviet troops
It appeared that advocates of
and tanks in Prague and elsewhere detente were undermined by the
in Czechoslovakia, will probably be Russian reversion to the overt use
conservative and take the same line of force. State Department ele-
toward Israel as was manifested ments had been saying that sale
in the joint communique following of Phantoms to Israel might upset
the Bratislava meeting between the Soviet Union whose role in the
Czechoslovakia and her Warsaw Middle East it had minimized.
Pact allies.
Wednesday's awakening places
One passage of the communique, Israel and those Presidential can-
signed by all the participants, stat- didates taking a strong line against
ed: "We are . . . concerned over aggression in a good position. It
the fact that the situation in the shatters the stand of those who
Middle East continues tense as a saw support of Israel as a threat
result of the aggressive policy of to American-Soviet relations.
Israel's ruling circles. Our parties
Observers have, meanwhile, ex-
will do everything in their power pressed
concern lest the Soviet re-
to eliminate the consequences of version to a Stalinist heavy-handed
the Israeli aggression on the basis
policy affect the presently good re-
of the resolution of the United Na-
between Romania and Is-
tions Security Council of Nov. 22, lations
rael. Romania was the only East
1967, and the withdrawal of Israeli European Communist regime to re-
forces from the occupied Arab ter- tain relations with Israel after the
ritories . • ."
Six-Day War. There had also been
Many of the 6,000 delegates who indications that Yugoslavia and
participated in the Prague Com- Czechoslovakia, which severed ties,
munist Party Congress following were recently reconsidering their
the Bratislava parley expressed stands on Israel.
dissatisfaction in published inter-
But now new fears have emerged
views in the Prague Communist
paper Vecerni Praha about the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
joint position on Israel which they
Friday, August 23, 1968-9
thought should have been more
tolerant. _
President Tito of Yugoslavia was
apparently aware of the climate of
sympathy for Israel in Prague
when he visited there recently, if
his comments on a broadcast press
conference were any index of . his
thinking. He declared that Israel
was no longer in any danger of
destruction from its Arab neigh-
bors and said he told Arab leaders
that "the existence of Israel must
be accepted by them as a fact."
Another unresolved question of
Jewish concern — the facts sur-
rounding the mysterious death of
Charles H. Jordan, former Joint
Distribution Committee executive
vice chairman—may go unanswer-
ed now that the Soviet Union is
apparently back in control.
Mr. Jordan was found dead in
Prague's Vltava River four days
after he disappeared from his hotel
room on Aug. 16, 1967. According
to one story, he had been mur-
dered through the efforts of the
Soviet secret police.
Israel Stunned by News
of Soviet Invasion
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis
were stunned Wednesday by the
sudden invasion of Czechoslovakia
by troops of the Soviet Union and
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
other Warsaw Pact nations, but
NEW YORK — A half-century there was no comment, official or
old next Sunday, Leonard Bern- otherwise, from government circles.
The government, however, was
stein will celebrate by conducting
`he New York Philharmonic in known to be closely following the
events in Central Europe. Prime
russels.
- In a tribute to the famed "Peter Minister Levi Eshkol, who is vaca-
Pan of Music," as he was dubbed tioning at a seaside resort, was
by one critic, New York Times being kept informed of develop-
writer Thomas Cole- described the ments, and consultations were
many musical irons Bernstein has known to be going on at a minis-
terial level. Foreign Minister Abba
in the fire.
The "West Side Story" composer Eban was to spend the afternoon
Is working on a new musical for in conference with United Nations
Broadway, based on Berthold peace envoy Gunnar V. Jarring.
Brecht's "The Exception and the No official statement on the Czech
Rule." He is planning concerts, crisis was expected.
Hebrew University students
"teaching America music on CBS-
TV, giving political speeches for Wednesday hoisted a black flag
Eugene McCarthy, writing, talking, from the Student Union offices and
called on the public to protest
being."

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Another prominent Jewish figure
In the new government following
the ouster of former President
Antonin Novotny was the econo-
mist Dr. Ota Sik, who was vice
premier.
Many of the leading Jews, who
had lost their positions in Poland's-
institutions of higher learning dur-
ing the purge of that country's
Jews, had been invited, shortly
after being dismissed, by the Pra-
gue government to accept positions
at Prague University.
It was rumored here that Ladis-
lav Mnacko, the non-Jewish Czech
writer who exiled himself to Israel
following the Arab-Israel war in
protest against Prague's position
on the war, is again heading for
Israel. He returned home after the
Dubcek regime took over earlier
this year.
Two of the country's principal
Jewish spokesmen have never been
formally associated with any par-
ticular wing of the Czech Com-
unist Party. They are Frantisek
chs, president of the Federation
Jewish Communities of Bohemia
and Moravia, and Dr. Benjamin
Eichler, president of the Federa-
tion of Jewish Communities of
Slovakia.
Both officials had been permitted
by the government to attend
World Jewish Congress governing
council meetings in Geneva July 8-
11, 1968—the first time in 20 years
that such a relationship had been
permitted by a Prague regime.
Following an April 7, 1968, ses-
sion, the Council of Jewish Reli-
gious Communities in Bohemia and
Moravia published in May a dec-
laration demanding concessions
that would benefit the country's
Jews. Citing the death of 80,000
Czech and Moravian Jews during
the Hitler holocaust, and "the bit-
ter experience of the 1950s," it
nevertheless pledged support for
the reform regime.
Jews in Prague have been open-
ly sympathetic with Israel, al-
though the Dubcek regime, still
following the foreign policy line
emanating from the Kremlin, had
not taken steps to restore diplo-
matic ties in the months following
the Six-Day War. Many non-Jews
felt the same way, and students

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anti-Jewish and anti-Israel drives
launched in June 1967.

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