Thant Urges Arab States, Israel Help Jarring Achieve
Mid-East Calm by 'Desire for Peace With Justice'
UNITED NATIONS — (JTA) —
Viewing the current situation in the
Middle East as one of the prin-
cipal factors that make for "a
bleak and gloomy" picture of the
world situation at present, Secre-
tary-General U Thant called upon
the Arab states and Israel to help
Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, his special
Middle East peace envoy, achieve
a peaceful settlement in the Middle
East.
Thant spoke at a luncheon tend-
ered by the United Nations Cor-
respondents Association in connect-
ion with the organization's Ham-
marskjold Memorial Scholarship
Fund. Without mentioning either
Israel or any of the Arab states,
he declared that "the crisis situa-
tion" in the Middle East, along
with the Vietnam war and the re-
cent Soviet action in Czechoslo-
vakia, cast a dark shadow over
the entire world.
"So far as the Middle East is
concerned," he said, "we have
witnessed a period of tension and
frustration, tension in the area
and frustration on the part of
the peacemakers. My special
representative, Ambassador Jar-
ring, has carried on his mission,
tenaciously and discretly. How-
ever, his tireless efforts within
the framework of the Security
Council resolution of Nov. 22,
1967 have so far not led to con-
crete results. Here again, the
UN can contribute to a peaceful
settlement only if there is a will
to peace with justice on the part
of the parties directly involved."
Ambassador Jarring's return
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LEADER .AT 50: Few men in this country can. catalogue with pride
at the age of 50 such impressive achievements in Jewish communal life
as can Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, the executive vice-chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal, who reached 50 this week.
When Rabbi Friedman came to New York from Denver in 1955, to
succeed Dr. Joseph Schwartz in the impOrtant position of the UJA's top
executive, he was a young rabbi known as a powerful speaker, who
during World War II served in the U.S. armed forces as assistant
adviser on Jewish affairs on the European front. It took him practically
no time to prove his ability as an excellent organizer, a tireless worker,
and a man with imagination.
Today, at 50, he is known as a dynamic Jewish leader throughout
all the communities in the United States and Canada, as well as in
Israel. Benefiting from his abilities is not only the Unied Jewish Appeal,
but the American Jewish community in general which is being, to a
great extent, Jewishly stimulated by the UJA campaigns. And it goes
without saying that Israel is the largest beneficiary of his dedicated
work in this country. Even Jewish communities in countries like Eng-
land, France and South Africa are gaining from his energetic efforts.
He gives them guidance and advice in their fund-raising campaigns in
Person and by correspondence.
Rabbi Friedman's achievements are many and varied. In addition
to bringing the UJA to its greatest heights, he conceived the idea of
developing young Jewish leadership to succeed the aging generation of
UJA leaders. This was and still remains one of his favorite projects.
Many of the younger people whom he attracted in various communities
to join the young leadership ranks now have leading roles in thelIJA,
having "graduated" from young leadership into national leadership in
the UJA Cabinet.
It was Rabbi Friedman also who initiated the Israel Education
Fund—an effort separate from the UJA annual campaign—to strengthen
high school education in Israel which is not being maintained by the
state. Established at the end of 1964, the Fund has brought millions of
dollars to Israel and has provided about 50 new high school buildings,
teachers' training programs, student scholarships and related centers,
equipment and facilities.
*
UJA AT 30: Rabbi Friedman's 50th birthday conicides with the
completion of 30 years existence of the United Jewish Appeal. During
these 30 years, the UJA raised over $1,920,000,000. Of this sum UJA
distributed $1,127,000,000 through the Jewish Agency and $648,000,000
through the Joint Distribution Committee. About $85,000,000 was allo-
cated to United Hias Service and other agencies.
The story of the UJA is the story of about 2,000,000 persons who
each year have made contributions on a per capita scale never equalled
by any other•present-day American voluntary effort. It is the story of
incomparable devotion by tens of thousands of men and women who
have given their time, energy and enthusiasm in immeasurable quantity
to serve as the leaders aild key workers of the yearly UJA campaigns.
Finally, it is the story of reclaiming 3,000,000 Jewish lives and building
for most of them a new life in Israel, while helping some 400,000 of
them to settle in other free lands.
The greatest emphasis in UJA operations since the establishment
of the State of Israel in 1948, has been on resettlement and absorption
in Israel of the tens of thousands of Jews from the DP camps and of
the hundreds of thousands of Jews residing in the Moslem countries in
North Africa and in the Middle East whose situation became perilous.
At the same time hundreds of thousands of Jews living in Europe and
in North Africa have had to be helped to repair their shattered lives,
to survive as communities and individuals in the face of post-war
economic hardships, poverty, disease and hostility. This task was under-
taken by the JDC which is still operating today on a global scale pro-
viding welfare, medical and educational services to many thousands
of needy Jews in more than • 20. countries.
SepiatAar -27, 1960
THE ZETRO717 JEVASN NE=
here Monday has generated, at
least in a few United Nations miss-
ions, an "atmosphere of guarded
expectation" that his presence and
that of Middle East foreign min-
isters may create the possibility
of moving peace forward.
There is "no feeling that Dr.
Jarring has reached a wall" in his
efforts to bring the Arabs and Is-
rael together, a well-informed
source said. There is no sign of
weakening of Egyptian or Jordani-
an support for the mission, it was
reported. The envoy has just com-
pleted another circuit of Middle
East capitals.
The Arab world is expected to
remain as actively anti-Israel in its
political behavior in the 23rd Gen-
eral Assembly as in the past.
Israel is preparing to combat
Arab political maneuvering—from
its usual power bloc disadvantage
in the Security Council and Gen-
eral Assembly — without certain
knowledge of what diplomatic
tactics the Arabs are planning.
The Security Council adopted
Sept. 18, a resolution calling for
"rigorous" respect of its cease-
fire order in the Middle East
and urging again full support by
alk parties for the peace mission
of -Dr. Jarring. Israel promptly
assailed the resolution as "an-
other expression of the double
standard" of the council on Mid-
dle East issues and said it would
"continue to initial its obliga-
tions to protect its citizens, mil-
itary and civilian, and the terri-
tories under its control."
Josef Tekoab, Israel's ambass.
ador, emphasized that the resolu-
tion had made no reference to
the Israeli complaint on which
Israel had asked for the council
meeting—an Egyptian ambush on
Aug. 26 in which commandos
crossed the Suez Canal and killed
two Israeli soldiers and kidnaped
a third.
Egypt disclaimed both knowl-
edge and responsibility for the
incident and, in previous debate,
charged Israel with faking the in-
cident, a stand supported by Soviet
delegate Yaakov Malik.
The Israeli envoy said that
Israel had cooperated and would
continue to cooperate with Ambas-
sador Jarring "toward attainment
of agreement on a just and last-
ing peace" and that Israel would
continue "to observe scrupulously
the cease fire with Egypt on the
basis of reciprocity."
But, he also said, "Israel will
continue to insist that Egypt pre-
vent any attacks in violation of the
cease fire."
Senegal and Pakistan asked
Thant to convene an urgent meet-
ing of the Security Council as
early as possible to report on prog-
ress of his efforts toward send-
ing a humanitarian mission to the
Middle East.
Identity With Israel
May Help 'Lost' Youth
HIGHTSTOWN, N. J. (JTA) —
Personal confrontation with Israel
was suggested at a seminar here
as a way to bring alienated and
indifferent Jewish college youth
closer to Judaism.
The seminar, sponsored by the
university service department of
the American Zionist Youth Foun-
dation, was attended by 40 gradu-
ate students representing 35
campuses in the United States and
Canada.
Speakers, who included Daniel
Isaacman, registrar of Gratz Col-
lege, and Mordecai Bar-On, head of
the Jewish Agency's youth depart-
ment, said that the young peoples'
interest in such causes as peace,
black nationalism and other issues
raised by the New Left, could be
related to Jewish values and
tradition.
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