Fallacious Arab Claims Exposed by Israel (Continued from Page 1) the Big Four meetings would fail, that neither side would be politic- ally able to accept a Big Four-pro- posed settlement or able to enforce it, and that the United Nations and the U.S. would suffer another blow "they can ill afford" while "an atmosphere of- frustration and gloom will heighten the tension and the prospects of war through- out the Mid East." Rogers Told Jews Fear U.S. Policy Drift Is Away From Negotiated Peace WASHINGTON (JTA) — The chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations told Secre- tary of State William P. Rogers Monday that American Jews were "deeply worried" about "the ap- parent drift in United States policy on the Middle East away from an insistence on a negotiated peace between the Arab states and Is- rael." Rabbi Herschel Schacter of New York, heading a delegation of 22 Jewish leaders meeting with Secretary Rogers, voiced "concern and agitation" over the, prospect that current Four Power talks would "absolve the Arab states from their responsibility to settle their differences directly with Israel." Rabbi Schacter told Rogers: "If King Hussein is serious about his six-point plan (proposed last week), let him call a halt to terror- ism and immediately enter into talks with Israel. This is the only true way of effectively implement- ing the United Nations Nov. 22, 1967 resolution. "The test of the Arab desire for peace with Israel is a willingness to talk peace with Israel," he , added. "Such direct talks should be the direction and goal of American policy in the Mid East. Anything else will en- courage the intransigence of the Arab governments in rejecting all constructive proposals for negotia- tions leading to an agreed and lasting peace." The meeting, held at Secretary Rogers' invitation, was an out- growth of the National Leadership Conference on Peace in the Middle East held in New York in March. Rabbi Schacter gave Rogers a copy of a resolution unanimously adopted at the parley which de- clared that U.S. Jews were "united and resolute as never before in support of Israel's determination to exercise the inalienable right of self-defense and to pursue a last- ing peace within secure and recog- nized boundaries." Rabbi Schacter said that U.S. Jews were "worried" about the Nixon administration's entry into Four Power talks with Britain, France and the Soviet Union. This uneasiness, he said, had been "deepened" by Rogers' press conference statement last week that "the force of public opinion" would be used to bring about a Mid East settlement and by the "failure to condemn ter- rorist activity in the joint state- ment issued by President Nixon and King Hussein" following the monarch's visit here last week. week that the governments of the Mid East "would want to think long and hard before they turned (a Big Four agreement on a for- mula for a settlement) down." He also said that the U.S. does "not intend and will not seek to impose a settlement on Israel." The sec- retary had been questioned about the differences between an im- posed and "recommended" peace. He said that "there are lots of ways to influence people" without forcing them to comply. He point- ed out that the international com- munity exercises influences so powerful that the Mid East gov- ernments cannot ignore them.) Rabbi Schacter told Secretary Rogers that the "Arab govern- ments are seeking to conjure up a false threat of immediate confla- gration in the Mid East. They hope and expect that the Big Four, ap- palled by such a prospect, will join forces in an effort to bring about Israel's withdrawal from the areas which have come under its admin- istration since the Six-Day War." He added, "Only a full and final peace, freely arrived at by the parties themselves, can open a new chapter between the belliger- ents and be a blessing to the Mid- dle East and the world." Secretary Rogers reassured the delegation that there was "no sub- stantive change" in the American Middle East policy involving Is- rael, Rabbi Schacter reported after the meeting. He quoted the secretary as declaring that any peace must be "juridically defin- ed" and "contractually binding." Rogers stressed, Rabbi Schac- ter said, that there would be no phased withdrawal without a total package settlement. In the meeting, which Rabbi Schacter described as "a cordial exchange of ideas," the secretary of state reiterated his statement on Middle East policy which he had made to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and assured the delegation that there had been no ch • Eban Rejects Arab Plan JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign Eban disclosed that Israel was Kollek Says Two Jerusalems Could Function Side by Side 40 Friday, April 18, 1969 — Referring to King Hussein's peace plan enunciated in Washing- ton last week, Eban questioned the king's credentials as a spokesman for President Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt. He asked whether Has- sanein Heikal, editor of the Cairo newspaper Al Ahram and a close confidant of Col. Nasser, was not more qualified as a spokesman. Al Ahram objected to King Hus- sein's offer to open the canal to Israeli shipping as part of a set- tlement. The paper, which general- ly reflects the Nasser regime's views insisted that Israeli ships would be granted use of the water- way only after all the demands of a million Palestinian refugees had been met. The paper refrained from direct criticism of King Hus- sein by said the issue of Suez pas- sage rights for Israel "bears no relation to the 1967 war or the liquidation of its consequences." Eban said his government would remain alert to any sign of peace but insisted that peace must be negotiated. He said he had no in- formation that would indicate a U.S. drift from Israel's position since he discussed the Mid East situation in Washington last month. He said that the U.S. and Israel never held exactly the same views but were always against the same concepts—a return to the 1949 arm- istice lines or confusion of an arm- istice or other temporary arrange- ment with peace. Both countries, he said, favored a contractual agreement between the parties to the conflict but still disagreed on holding Four Power talks. Minister Abba Eban told the press Sunday that Egypt and Jordan had replied to a questionnaire on peace from United Nations special envoy Gunnar V. Jarring by demanding Israel's return to the borders en- Eban defined Israel's concept visioned for a Jewish state by the United Nations' 1947 Palestine of non-belligerency, which King partition plan—a plan rejected at Hussein had advocated. He said it must include all maritime the time by all Arab states. He interference and economic boy- dismissed the demand as "quite cott measures and that there frivolous" and reiterated Israeli must be no alliances between resistance to any efforts to force its withdrawal even to the boun- states declaring themselves non- belligerent and those that are daries that existed before the belligerent. The latter must not 1967 war. be permitted to station troops on Eban did not divulge the con- the soil of non-belligerent states tents of the Arab replies to Dr. nor should any terrorist groups Jarring. Jordan's Ambassador to be allowed to operate from the the UN, Mohammed H. el-Farra, territory of non-belligerents, he said in New York last week that said. the 1947 partition boundaries had Eban rejected the linking of free- been mentioned in Amman's reply. He added that there was not "one dom on navigation through Suez iota of difference betwen Cairo and Amman" on such questions. Teachers to Learn Hebrew (Rogers also told the press last investigating reports that Amer- JERUSALEM (JTA) — Mayor Teddy Kollek expressed the "pure- ly private" opinion here Monday that "an independent Arab Jerusa- lem and an independent Jewish Jerusalem could exist side by side if peace came." Mayor Kollek spoke at a press luncheon at which he also said he did not believe he would be a can- didate for re-election to the office of mayor, a post he has held since 1965. He said that when all other re- ican oil companies operating in _ the Mid East bad provided finan- cial aid to Arab terrorists. He said it was well known that the oil producing Arab countries were the terrorists' main finan- cial source. (Syndicated column. ists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson reported that there were indications that U.S. oil companies have con tributed heavily to the support of guer- rillas despite their denials. The columnists claimed that oil com- pany employes who contributed had been reimbursed from cor- porate funds, and said the oil companies had been under heavy pressure from Arab govern- ments and from terrorist organ- izations to render financial aid.) NEW YORK (JTA)—A six-week accelerated course In conversation- al Hebrew for teachers will be offered for the 13th time this sum- mer by the Jewish Education As- sociation of New York and the Ferkauf graduate school of educa- tion of Yeshiva University. The course is being offered in coopera- tion with the department of educa- tion and culture of the Jewish Agency and Ivriah. Classes will meet daily June 26 to Aug. 8 in the university build- ing. Qua lif i e d students may register for credit at the Ferkauf graduate school of humanities and social sciences, the JEC said. Last year, more than 100 teachers par- ticipated in the program. The gional problems have been solved, "the problem of finding expression for Arab sovereignty within a greater Jerusalem should not be a stumbling block to peace." Mayor Kollek's candidacy has been in doubt because the Israel Labor Party so far has not agreed to the conditions on which he said he would run. These included di- rect election of the mayor by the city's population and the inclusion of experts in addition to poli- course is open to Jewish school teachers and to senior students in ticans on the city council. yeshivas and schools of higher THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Jewish learning. with any long-term problem such as that of the Palestinian refugees. Asked on what points King Hus- sein's Washington proposals differ- ed from the UN Security Council's Nov. 22, 1967, Mid East resolution, Eban said the resolution's opera- tive clauses demanded a negotiated agreement between the sides. He said the Security Council had ex- pressly dissociated itself from con- sideration of the 1949 armistice lines as frontiers and had used a new term"secure and agreed fron- tiers." Addressing a Labor Party rally in Tel Aviv, earlier, Premier Golda Heir sharply rejected the Big Four efforts to find a Mid East solution because, she main. tained, the cards were stacked against Israel. "While Moscow as well as President Charles de Gaulle and his government—I do not say the French people—are pro-Arab. . . the United States and Great Britain, though friends of the Arabs and take into account Arab interests," Mrs. Melr said. She dismissed King Hussein's six-point peace proposals enunciated in Washing- ton last week saying that if the king "genuinely wanted to have peace, he would have little dif- ficulty in getting it Other officials say there is noth- ing new in the Hussein proposals and have dismissed them as a pro- paganda ploy. They say that, under the guise of a new peace plan, he reiterated his old demand for with- drawal from the territories occupi- ed in the 1967 war to the old 1949 armistice lines. Foreign ministry circles commented that the place to offer peace settlements was not the rostrum of the National Press Club but the negotiating table. (State Department officials have welcomed the king's Suez proposal and regard it as a new element in the diplomatic picture. Presiden- tial spokesman Herbert Klein said Friday that President Richard M. Nixon was pleased by the king's "peace plan." White House spokes. man Ronald Ziegler disclosed that when Nixon met Friday with Mahmoud Fawzi, personal diplom- atic representative of Col. Nasser, they discussed a mutual "desire to improve relations.") The Washington Post reported that France was said to have of- fered a settlement plan that "in effect complements the Soviet pro- posal of Dec. 30 and the U.S. talk- ing paper of March 24." The Paris plan was said to envisage a peace treaty at the end of a period of Israeli withdrawal and establish- ment of secure borders, and would reserve the Jerusalem and Pales- tine refugee settlement issues until last. The plan was also said to call for establishment of freedom on navigation through the Suez Canal simultaneously with withdrawal of troops from occupied territories. (In Philadelphia, Assistant Sec- retary of State for Near Eastern Affairs Joseph Sisco said the Big Four sessions have shown "con- siderable concern over the con- tinuing wide gulf" between Israel and the Arabs. Addressing the an- nual meeting of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Sisco said that "only further time and exploration will tell" whether "this concern can be translated into parallel positions" that Dr. Jarring could present to the disputing parties. Replying to Israeli objections to the Big Four sessions, he said the talks were not intended as a substitute for the Jarring mission, now temporarily suspended, and that "we do not see a Four Power solution as a sub- stitute for agreement between the parties.") Israel's UN Ambassador Yosef Tekoah reportedly told Secretary- General U Thant during a private meeting last Thursday that Israel believes the Big Four meetings have already paralyzed Dr. Jar- ring's mission. He was said to have argued that the Arabs, sens- ing new possibilities for a victory for their diplomatic posture, have stiffened their position and have halted the small progress that the Jarring mission seemed to be mak- ing. Tekoah also reportedly said that tough Arab replies to a questionnaire circulated by Dr. Jarring had thwarted his mission, and that Egypt and Jordan had escalated military activities to create the impression that a crisis exists. Tekoah visited Thant after that U Thant believed the Four that Mr. Thant believed the Four Power talks were "necessary and vital" and were "designed to re- inforce the Jarring mission, and not at all obstruct or weaken it." The Israel foreign ministry said that the intention of Dr. Jarring to return to Moscow as Sweden's am- bassador after his round of March talks in Mid East capitals had been known in Jerusalem and was not considered here as indicating an end to his mission. Spokesman David Rivlin said Israel had every intention of continuing to use Dr. Jarring's good offices and that this was made clear to him. American Jewry Indicted By Goldmann for Their Silence During Holocaust By ITZHAK SHARGIL (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewlsk News) TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Goldmann said Tuesday that the apathy and indifference of world Jewry at the time that catastrophe was overtaking the Jews of Europe during World War II cost count- less thousands of Jewish lives. Dr. Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress and for- mer president of the World Zion- ist Organization, spoke in Haifa on the occasion of Holocaust Day, a memorial for the Six Million Jews who perished at Nazi hands during the war. He said American Jewry deserved most of the blame because it failed to call for strikes and demonstrations near the White House when it learned what was happening to the Jews of Europe. But Dr. Goldmann indicted vir- tually all Jewish communities' and their leaders, even those in Europe. He said they did not lis- ten to pre-war warnings about what was likely to happen. He re- called a meeting in Paris with Jewish leaders six months before the war at which they rejected warnings and observed that a few months later many of these same leaders were refugees seeking haven in other countries. Dr. Gold- mann said that even today, with the knowledge of the Holocaust, Jews have not tried to learn the lessons it taught. A mass memorial meeting at the Mann Auditorium here was ad- dressed by Deputy Prime Minister Yigal. Allon who declared that one lesson of the Holocaust was that Jews "can trust no one but our- selves." He said, "We learned that we have to be strong so that others should not pity us. We are no long- er passive objects of the whims or mercy of those who only 25 years ago stood by in silence as Jews were slaughtered in Europe." Al- Ion said that Soviet arms, once used to fight the Nazis, were now in the hands of "those pursuing Hitler's final solution from the banks of the Nile." .