Arms to Israel Shouldn't Be Issue for Campaign, Klutznick Tells Bnai Brith
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Philip
X. Klutznick, who served in the
U.S. delegation to the United Na-
tions and is a past president of
Bnai Brith, said in an address to
the triennial Bnai Brith convention
here that he appreciated the re-
marks of Presidential :candidates
on Israel but thought there was
something "abnormal in this rela-
tionship with Israel" in that the
issue of military needs "has to be
aired in a national election cam-
paign."
Klutznick asserted that with
other democratic nations, friendly
to America and resisting Soviet
pressures, "We would have acted
long ago or we would have long
ago united such a nation into a
mutual security pact so the other
Side would know our intentions
clearly and unmistakably."
He held that "after 20 years,
Israel's relationship with other na-
tions, including the United States,
should be normalized." He assert-
ed that "States are sovereign, not
Jewish, Catholic or Moslem."
Both Presidential candidates,
Vice President Hubert H. Humph-
rey and former Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, addressed -the
Bnai Brith convention and made
strong statements of support for
Israel. Both said the United States
should provide Israel with the
Phantom jet fighter planes Israel
seeks to maintain deterrent
strength.
(The New York Times, in an
editorial Sept. 10 sharply criti-
cized Nixon's demand that Israel
be given a technological military
margin. It said this was "a
promise to. scrap the existing
American policy of trying to
maintain a rough military bal•
ante between Israel and the
Arab states and apportioning
arms aid accordingly."
It warned of the danger of an
arms race with Moscow and the
danger of escalation of Soviet help
for the Arabs. "The American
commitment to Israel's security is
clear and outside political debate,"
the editorial concluded. "But Mr.
Nixon now seems ready to go well
beyond that basic pledge to pro-
ject a new, dangerous, open-ended
and ultimately self-defeating com-
mitment.")
Dr. William Wexler of Savannah
was re-elected to a second three-
year term as president of Bnai
Brith. Elected treasurer w a s
Eugene L. Sugarman, deputy con-
Goldberg Pleads:
End 'Fratricidal'
Arab-Israel War
NEW YORK (JTA) — Arthur J.
Goldberg, former United States
Athbassador to the United Nations,
stressed in an address here the
common heritage and religious
roots of the Arab and Jewish
peoples and called for an end to
the "fratricidal conflict" in the
Middle East: He told the National
Young Leadership Cabinet of the
United Jewish Appeal that the
8,000 Israelis killed in battle since
Israel's independence in 1948 ex-
ceeded the number of Americans
killed in World War II in propor-
tion to total population, and that
the Israeli toll in the 1967 Six-Day
War proportionately exceeded the
'American toll in Viet Nam.
He spoke at the closing banquet
of a two-day United Nations sem-
inar held by the leadership cabinet.
'Earlier in the day, the UJA mem-
'hers conferred at the. UN with
'several dignitaries, including Geo-
rge Ball, the United States Am-
bassador to the UN, and Am-
'bassador Shabtai Rosenne, Israel's
deputy permanent representative
to the UN.
Goldberg reiterated an earlier
proposal that the United States
should make it clear to the Soviet
Union that "we will not standby
and permit p Soviet 'Czechoslo-
vakia' in the Middle East" and
urged continued patient United
States efforts to convince the Arab
States that they should .seek to
void "the dubiously protective
cc_ of the Soviet bear."
troller of New York City, who won
a close contest with Myron E.
Herzog, a Chicago insurance ex-
ecutive.
The convention ended with the
adoption of a long series of reso-
lutions ranging from the condem-
nation of anti-Semitism in Poland
to a call for the enactment of fire-
arms registration laws on federal
and state levels.
The delegates called on the
United States and other democra-
tic nations to meet Israel's secur-
ity needs by immediately resum-
ing the shipment of arms to Is-
rael as the best guarantee to
maintain peace in the Middle
East.
They called on all governments
to make known to Poland their op-
position to the violation of the
proposing the establishment of an
international court to deal with
crimes against humanity, includ-
ing anti-Semitism.
IA merger of Bnai Brith's inter-
national council and commission
on Israel into a single, larger
council was effected to "accelerate
plans for a more comprehensive
Israel program that will also be
relevant to Bnai Brith members
in Jewish communities outside the
United States and Canada," Dr.
Wexler declared.
A bust of the late Dr. Raphael
Lemkin, author of the United Na-
tions Genocide Convention, was
presented to Bnai Brith during the
convention by Jack Morrison of
London, a Bnai Brith vice presi-
dent.
human rights of Polish Jews and
on the U.S. specifically to deprive
Poland of its most-favored-nation
status in view of the Warsaw re-
gime's continuing anti-Semitic
campaign.
Another resolution hailed "the
courageous stand of the Czech
people" against the Soviet occupa-
tion of their country and urged
men of good will everywhere to
use their moral influence to deter
suppression of Czechoslovakia's
small Jewish community.
Romania's treatment of its Jew-
ish citizens was lauded in a reso-
lution that expressed appreciation
to the Bucharest government. The
convention also adopted a resolu-
tion that expressed appreciation to
the Bucharest government. The
convention adopted a resolution THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Israel Offers Ghana Help
in Medical Training
(Di rec t JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
ACCRA, Ghana (JTA)—Israel
offered Wednesday to provide
Ghana with training facilities in
all branches of medicine. The of-
fer was made here by Dr. Eliza-
beth Podkaminer, medical ad-
viser to the Israel Foreign Min-
istry.
Dr. Podkaminer who has been
visiting Ghanian hospitals and clin-
ics, said that Histadrut, Israel's
labor federation, was ready to
help the Ghanian Trade Union
Congress develop its clinics. His-
tadrut runs all polyclinics in Jeru-
salem.
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