THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 25, 1969-5 World Conference of Jewish Organizations Strikes Out at Eastern Bloc Bias BY S. J. GOLDSMITH (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) GENEVA—A pledge "to support Israel in its efforts to secure a just, honorable and genuine peace" was approved Monday at the clos- ing session of a plenary of the World Conference of Jewish Or- ganizations (COJO), which also expressed the "profound indigna- tion" of the participant organiza- tions over the "Soviet anti-Semitic campaign masquerading as anti- Zionism." The resolution added that COJO was "particularly disturbed by the effects of this propaganda on neighboring countries—of which Poland is the most outstanding example of the way in which anti- . Semitism has been used to under- mine and destroy organized Jew- ish life." The resolution singled out East Germany as having become "an instrument of anti-Jewish and anti-Israel propaganda, which is particularly repulsive, coming as it does from a place popu- lated by Germans so soon after the Holocaust." The delegates re-elected Dr. Nahum Goldmann as COJO chair- man and Yehuda Hellman as sec- retary-general. Louis A. Pincus, Jewish Agency chairman, and Dr. William Wexler, president of Bnai Brith, were re-elected co-chairmen. Michael Fidler, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, was re-elected COJO vice chair- man. Other COJO participant or- ganizations represented were the American Jewish Congress, Cana- dian Jewish Congress, the Conseil Representatif des Juives de France, the DAIA, central representative organization of Argentine Jews, the Executive Council of Austra- lian Jewry, American Jewish Labor Committee, South African Jewish Board of Deputies, World Jewish Congress and the World Zionist Organization. In another resolution, COJO noted "the campaign of misrepre- sentation and distortion unleashed in recent months against Israel" and called on its member groups "to redouble their efforts in the fields of information and educa- tion to ensure that Israel's just cause and the policy and record on which it is based shall be rightly known and understood." Another resolution noted the re- cent extension by West Germany of the effective date of the statute of limitations on proscutions of Nazi war criminals and expressed "deep disappointment" about re- cent interpretations of West Ger- man penal laws "which will pro- vide immunity for numerous per- sons guilty of murder and other crimes as administrators of the extermination machine during the Nazi era." One resolution ex- pressed concern about the plight of Jews in Arab countries. Rabbi Israel Miller, former chairman of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry, said that, after Israel, the situation of Soviet Jews war "the major prob- lem in Jewish life in our genera- tion," adding that in respect to the spiritual attrition of Russian Counter-Proposals Taken by Sisco to Moscow Talks, S ays State Dept. WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, Joseph J. Sisco, brought U.S. counter-proposals for a Mid East settlement to Moscow last week, State Department officials disclos- ed. The counter-proposals were said to be a reply to the terms set forth in Soviet proposals delivered in Washington June 17 which em- phasized Israel's withdrawal from all occupied Arab territories. The officials said that Sisco's three days of talks with Soviet of- ficials yielded no "breakthrough" but indicated "sufficient progress" to warrant a continuation of the talks when Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin returns to Washington. The- bilateral U.S.-Soviet talks on the Middle East have been go- ing on for several months, mainly between Sisco and Dobrynin. Sis- co's visit to Moscow was described by the State Department as a "brief round" in those discussions. American officials said that "points of disagreement" remain- ed between the U.S. and Soviet positions and that the latter have given no evidence yet of meaning- ful concessions. They said Israel was being kept informed of the progress of the talks. The absence of an Israeli diplo- matic mission in Moscow was dis- missed by officials who pointed out that Egypt is not formally or fully represented in Washington because of the absence of diplo- matic relations with Cairo. In Jerusalem Foreign Minister Abba Eban said that he did not discuss resumption of Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring's Mid East mission in his recent talk with the UN envoy in Switzerland. "It was clear to both of us that as long as the Big Four are dealing with the matter, this makes Jarring's mission im- possible and temporarily paralyzes any peace initiative," Eban de- clared. He said that it was impor- tant that Israel maintain contact with Dr. Jarring and keep him up to date on its position on the Mid- dle East conflict. (Since Israel has no diplomatic foothold in Moscow—Russia sever- ed relations after the Six-Day War—it is important that Dr. Jar- ring remain acquainted with Is- rael's position while he is in Mos- cow "where doors are open for him," Eban declared. Dr. Jarring, his mission temporarily suspended, has been back at his post as Swe- den's ambassador to the Soviet Union. At the Eban-Jarring talks, they reviewed the last consulta- tions they had had before Dr. Jar- ring left the Mid East.) Meanwhile the Soviet Union has agreed to resume arms shipments to Syria after a four-month sus- pension, the Lebanese magazine, "As-Sayyad," reported in Beirut. The resumption of shipments was arranged during the recent visit to Moscow of Syrian Presi- dent Norueddin Atassi, the maga- zine reported, adding that Chinese Communist weapons have been ar- riving in Syria in considerable quantities. Jews "time is never on our side." said Dr. Israel Goldstein there were now 25,000 Falasha Jews in Ethiopia, compared with the 50,000 when they were first discovered by Jewish leaders. He blamed conversion and as- similation for the drop and urg- ed that world Jewry not forget "this remote Jewish tribe." Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry, told the delegates that the term "alliance," often used to describe the relations between Israel and other Jewries was both "mislead- ing and inappropriate." He said the partnership was based on a common tradition and a common destiny and not "a mere alliance." Chaim Finkelstein, Jewish Agency Executive member, and Rabbi Jay Kaufman, executive vice president of Bnai Brith, who are co-chairmen of the COJO com- mission on Jewish education, pre- sented a series of commission pro- posals on Jewish education. Several speakers, including Dr. Goldmann, suggested that the com- mission might be placed under sponsorship of the Memorial Foun- dation for Jewish Culture. Several other speakers, including Pincus, argued against changing present arrangements. No resolution was adopted. Dr. Goldmann told one of the sessions that world Jewry was now "absolutely and irrevocably tied with Israel," and that "we are responsible for what Israel does." Hence, he asserted, "it seems justified to expect that Is- rael and the Diaspora should be thinking and discussing together the issues that affect the whole of the Jewish people, not only in days of crisis but at all times." Dr. Joachim Prinz, former president of the American Jew- ish Congress, said that solidarity with Israel did not necessarily imply unanimity on all prob- lems. He added that he was "severely strictured" by Pre- mier Golda Meir, "for having views of my own on certain problems, young people and their attitude toward Israel, for example, and for voicing them in public in Israel." He declared that non-Israeli Jewry "did not want to become the political counselors to Israel, but we are surely entitled to have our own views." Shmuel Divon, head of the de- partment for the diaspora at the See Shandels First! EXCITING NEW LILLI ANN SUITS 130 upwards In Harpers, Vogue Magazines Fox Trim LOU Ann Coats at $159 SHANDELS 154 So. 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