Wive la France, Shame
on de Gaulle,' . . . `Liberte,
Egalite, Fraternite Why
Not for Israel' .. 'de Gaulle
=Hero in 1945, Zero in 1969'
The Change of
the Guard in
Nation's Capital
Dangerous
Developments of
Genocide Moods
Editorials
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These and many other slogans were on the placards carried by several hundred who marched
Tuesday in front of the First National Building where the French Consulate is located,
protesting the French embargo on military aid to Israel. "Al Tignov" (Thou shalt not steal),
referring to the refusal by deGaulle to refund the $100,000,000 paid for planes by Israel was
the admonition on another placard. "Russia, Get Out of France" was the condemnation
on another placard.
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4-Power Peace Plan Dismissed;
Embargo Hurts French Economy;
Proposals for Boycott Deferred
Detroit Protest Is Registered
Against de Gaulle's Embargo
Headed by Federal Judge Lawrence Gubow, president of the
Jewish Community Council, a delegation of Detroiters representing
a cross-section of the Jewish community visited the French Consulate,
while hundreds paraded in front of the First National Building, pro-
testing the French embargo and the anti-Israel stand taken by French
President Charles de Gaulle.
The delegation was received by acting French Consul Georges
Rochiccioli, who promised to submit the protest to his government.
Judge Gubow stated in remarks supplementing the statement
in behalf of the Jewish community that "We consider this embargo
a very serious blow to any attempt for peace in the Mid-East, de-
signed to aid Russia's subversive aggressive policies in that area
and to weaken the security of Israel." He declared that if the policy
of Charles de Gaulle is "allowed to stand, it is certain to delay and
make more difficult the achievement of a solid peace and an orderly
and productive future for all residents of the Middle East."
Supplementing the statement of Judge Gubow and the prepared
appeal of the Jewish Community Council, Arnold Einhorn of the
Shaarit Haplaytah, the organization of survivors from the Nazi concen-
tration camps, addressed the acting consul on behalf of the sur-
vivors, reminded him that he and his fellow sufferers during the
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Israel has rejected the French offer to call a four-power meeting to deal with the
Middle East problem, and reports from Washington are that the U.S. State Department
saw little merit in the new plan.
Great Britain also was reported to be cool to the new proposal.
Thus, both the French and Soviet proposals have been rejected.
Reports from Paris are that France has been hurt more drastically by the embargo
on arms sales to Israel than has Israel, with many employes losing their jobs in the af-
fected armaments industries.
Jewish views generally do not favor a boycott of French-made goods in order that
the French people, whose friendship is highly respected, should not be affected by the
current crisis created by the embargo on shipment of the planes which have been paid
for by Israel.
The Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., however, has instituted a boycott, and a
strong appeal for a vast boycott has been issued in Toronto by Rabbi Stuart Rosenberg.
Elie Wiesel, world famous author, who found refuge in France after surviving
Auschwitz, and whose works are written in French and published in France before ap-
pearing in English translations in this country, speaking at the Shaarey Zedek Tuesday
night, accused Charles de Gaulle of being an anti-Semite. He joined in the Israeli senti-
ments not to penalize the friendly people of France with a boycott of goods from which
the French derive a livelihood (wine, perfume, soap, etc.) but he strongly favored a
limited and controlled boycott of all products that are owned and controlled by the
French government—such as airlines, railroads, etc.
A jury of writers for the international Remembrance Award to be given in Paris
next month canceled the meeting and will meet instead in London. Josef Rosensaft,
Liberals' Support of Israel Evaporating;
Fear of 'Another Vietnam' Causes Cool-Off
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
WASHINGTON—A mood is growing in Congress for limiting American involvement with Israel
_ because of fear of "another Vietnam," The intensificationof Arab terrorism, the Beirut reprisal and
frantic Soviet diplomatic activity have generated a new climate of caution. A Senate statement mildly
supporting Israel obtained only 16 signatories. (Senator Philip A. Hart of Michigan was one of the 16.)
This amounted to about one-fourth of the number of Senators who petitioned for Phantom jets for Israel
during last fall's election campaign.
Some of the 16 were so reluctant to sign that they insisted on watering down the original draft.
Among those who refused to sign were Senators Eugene McCarthy and Edward Kennedy—and an
eminent conservative, Senate Republican Leader Everett Dirksen.
The statement did not advocate a defense pact with Israel nor anything remotely like a Vietnam
commitment. It merely urged examination of Israel's Beirut action in the total context of unrelenting
Arab terrorism, provocation and hostility—against a background of Soviet support of the Arabs.
A survey of senators later disclosed that Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield spoke for many
when he indicated his view that the United States had no commitment to defend Israel and should
avoid such an undertaking with any country outside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Some other
Senators, from behind a curtain of off-the-record anonymity, commented "We can support Israel only
when it is in the American national interest ... it is not anti-Semitic to think of America first."
Additional comments pertained to the Phantom jet fighter-bombers recently sold to Israel but not
yet delivered. "Send the Phantoms only if it does not lead to an open-ended commitment," said one
Senator who last year advocated the sale. He has now decided that "Russia is trying to win the Arabs
. by linking us with Israel. We must avoid that trap. I sympathize with Israel, but . . ."
Israel's traditional support, especially- among liberals, is evaporating. University professors deplore
Israel's "neo-colonialism" while the American Legion urges Israel not to yield to the Russians and
- Arabs. The professors advocate consideration of Soviet "peace" proposals involving unilateral Israeli
- concessions: The Legion favors Phantom jets. The "hawks" are saying that "If Israel goes, NATO is
next." Right-wing elements are beginning to suggest that Israel is a misunderstood victim of the United
Nations and the West because it stands up for its rights and defies the hordes. Israel is likened, in this
• context, to Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. Some analogies also link Israel with South Vietnam,
- South Korea and Formosa. Israel is depicted as abulwark against leftist revolutionary movements.
• Such distortions of Israel's unique status as an embattled and isolated social democracy emerge
from quarters that showed little compassion for the plight of European Jewry during World War H. Now
they say that "The Jews have guts and are, at last, fighting the radicals."
- Intelligentsia of the peace movement resent hearing about Israeli aspirations for direct peace
negotiations and a lasting settlement. Their compassion is only for the underprivileged Arabs.
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New York Committee Exposes Vicious
Anti-White, Anti-Semitic Trends
Emerging From Racial Controversy
NEW YORK (JTA)= Anti-white prejudice manifested during the
New York City public school teachers strike and subsequently has
"a dangerous component of anti-Semitism," a special committee
named by Mayor John V. Lindsay reported this week. The special
committee, set up by the mayor to investigate anti-Semitism and
racism in the school dispute, told a press conference that it had
found "substantial basis for the Mayor's concern."
The committee report said that "an appalling amount of racial
prejudice—black and white—surfaced in and about the school contro-
versy." The clash pitted the predominantly Jewish United Federation
of Teachers against Negro exponents of community control of public
school policies in ghetto areas. The committee said it repeatedly
found evidence of "vicious anti-white attitudes on the part of some
black people and vicious anti-black attitudes on the part of some
white people."
The committee said that black leaders "sincerely tend to regard"
anti-Semitic aspects of the struggle as "relatively unimportant in the
school controversy since in their struggle for emergence, their preoc-
cupation is notably in education, employment and housing—and not
with defamation, oral or written." However, the report declared,
Jews were "outraged by anti-Semitic defamation itself, fearful that
such apparent indifference may spark violence and other forms of
anti-Semitism well beyond defamatory expressions."
The committee was headed by Bernard Botein, former presiding
justice of the appellate division of the State Supreme Court. Other
Jewish members were David Dubinsky, honorary president of the
International Ladies Garment Workers Union; Dr. David G. Salten,
executive vice president of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies
of Greater New York; Jack D. Weiler, realtor and community
leader, and Arnold Forster, general counsel of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith, who served as committee counsel. Leroy
Clerk, law professor at New York University, was co-counsel. Other
members were Robert L. Carter, civil rights attorney; Rev. Leo
McLaughlin, former president of Fordham University; Prof. Joseph
Fitzpatrick of Fordham University, Matile Perez de Silva, social
services consultant to the migration division of the Puerto Rican
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