Friday, January 23, 1970-7
Israel Doesn't Want Biafra Agony, THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Seeks Arms to Survive, Bally Told George Pierrot Hailed for Plea

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Andrew Young of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference,
Prof. Franklin H. Littell of Temple
University and Hans J. Morgen-
thau, professor of political science
at City College.
Monday morning the delegates
will visit their senators and repre-
sentatives.
U.S. Asked to Aid Israel
at ZOA Solidarity Rally
NEW YORK — The president
of the Zionist Organization of
America told a ZOA "Solidarity
With Israel Rally" on Jan. 15 that
the surrender and massacre of the
Biafrans is a holocaust which re-
Minded Jews of the not-too-distant
past in World War II when 6,000,-
000 Jews were murdered by the
Nazis.
"American Jewry will stand by
Israel not only because we want
it to survive, but because we know
that its strength is a guarantee
of peace in the Middle East and
serves the best interest of the
U.S.," declared Jacques Torczyn-
er, ZOA president.
The ZOA rally held at the Bilt-
more Hotel was attended by about
1,000 persons and featured as the
principal speaker Mayor John V.
Lindsay of New York.
"Israel is strong and powerful
and determined because it has
seen how the world reacts in the
last few days to the surrender
and massacre of the Biafrans,"
declared Torczyner. He added
that "the total and complete im-
potence of the United Nations,
the hypocrisy of the Soviet
Union and their Egyptian friends,
who, together with the British,
supplied Nigeria with arms and
weapons in order to destroy mil-
lions of people, or starve them
to death, while the free world
looked on. This is a holocaust
which reminds Jews of the not-
too-distant past."
"There are nations in the world,"
said Torczyner, "who would like to
see Israel in the same position as
Biafra and later shed crocodile
tears about the resultant hunger
and starvation."
Both Torczyner and Herman L.
Weisman, chairman of the ZOA
administrative board, called on the
U.S. government to give an imme-
diate positive answer to supply
Israel with additional arms.
A major reason for calling the
public rally was to refute Secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers'
recent statements on the Middle
East. Both ZOA leaders said that
the State Department policy en-
dangered genuine U.S. interests in
the Middle East.
A sharp attack on alleged
American oil diplomacy which
may be "impeding peace" in the
Middle East "by encouraging
the intransigence of Israel's ad-
versaries," was made by Mayor
Lindsay.
Declaring that "once again Is-
rael's neighbors call for armed at-
tack to destroy that nation," Mayor
Lindsay said that the greatest
danger for Israel did not stem
from the hostility of the Arab
states but from "the indifference
of her friends, specifically the dan-
ger of a misguided shift in the
position of the United States."
Mayor Lindsay said, "If this gov-
ernment at this time aligns itself
with Israel's adversaries, how will
that promote peace? How will that
end the threats and aggressions of
the last 22 years? At a time when
the Soviet Union is actively on the
side of the Arab states—at a time
' when France embargoes arms to
Israel and sells them to Arab con-
duits in the ?Middle East—what
will happen if our government now
leaves Israel to face the combined
might of her adversaries alone?"
The mayor said he was not con-
cerned over Israel's ability to take
care of itself but over policies that
would delay the genuine moves to-
ward peace and encourage terror
and violence in the Mid East. "We
know the temptations of diplomacy.
We know the economics of oil and

That U.S. Aid Israelis' Security

the temptations of strategic cal-
culations," Mayor Lindsay said.
"But our nation has always pro-
claimed that its policy is based on
something more than these temp-
tations. We proclaim the right of
self-determination and political in-
dependence . .. The least we can
do—for a nation that asks neither
our blood nor our treasure, but
only for a chance to live in peace
—the least we can do is stand with
Israel in her time of need."
Seven Professors Score
Imposed M.E. Peace Plan
NEW YORK (JTA)—Seven Har-
vard University professors said in
a letter published in the New York
Times Sunday that the aim of
United States policy in the Middle
East should be "to continue pa-
tiently and firmly trying to persu-
ade the two sides to come to terms
with each other in the world of
practical reality, rather than to
attempt by ourselves, or jointly
with the USSR, to impose a de-
tailed plan from outside."
The writers, all senior profes-
sors in various faculties at Har-
vard, said they were "distressed
by the shift in United States policy
on the Middle East, as revealed in
the recent public statements by
Secretary of State William P. Rog-
ers." They agreed with Rogers
that American interests demanded
a stable peace in the area. "But
his detailed proposals in advance
of negotiations between the parties
concerned, and in the face of an
unyielding Soviet position that de-
mands complete Israeli withdraw-
al without a peace settlement, can
only encourage Soviet and Arab
intransigence," they said.
The letter was signed by Profs.
Frank M. Cross, Merle Fainsoci,
Talcott Parsons, Charles P. Price,
George H. Williams, Abram Berg-
son and Gerald Caplan. They con-
tended that the Arabs viewed
Rogers' policy shifts "as the be-
ginnings of surrender to their bel-
licosity" and neither they nor their
Soviet allies have responded with
any conciliatory gestures. "It seems
that Rogers' new initiative was, at
least in part, a reaction to the an-
ticipation of a united Arab front
against us at the Rabat conference,
and to an overestimation of the ad-
verse consequences of such an
eventuality," the letter said. It ob-
served that the policies enunciated
by the secretary of state "wins us
hardly any friends among either
the Arabs or Israelis and can only
postpone the peace we seek."
Roger's Mid-East Policy
Assailed as Appeasement
ZOA by Massachusetts Lawmaker
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep.
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr., a Massa-
chusetts Democrat, has made pub-

lie the text of a letter to Secre-
tary of State William P. Rogers
in which he caracterized the new
George Pierrot, director of the quent comments upon the Hasidic
American policy on the Middle World Adventure Series, received elements in Israel.
East as "appeasement" and warned hearty acclaim from his large audi-
that its only effect was to make ence at the Art Institute Sunday
war "profitable" for the Arabs when he urged that the United
and to facilitate a Soviet takeover States should make it a major
of the area.
INCORPORATED
policy to assure Israel's security.
Rep. O'Neill asserted that since
Pierrot made his comments
Israel's establishment in 1948, "the prior to the illustrated lecture by
fundamental issue between Israel Wiliam Stockdale on "The Miracle
and the Arab states has been the of Israel," Sunday.
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right of Israel to exist as a sover-
In his explanatory comments on
rt IStrY
eign nation."
his trip through Israel, Stockdale
American opinion, he said, had emphasized the progress attained
been "overwhelmingly" in support by Israel, the country's high stan-
of Israel's right to exist. Present dards, the people's dedication.
American policy, he said, would
Much of his pictorial presenta-
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condemn Israel to continue to
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tion was on the holy places. He
suffer a major war every 10 years showed the reacquisition by Jews
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and daily terrorist attacks.
of the Wailing Wall and the
Detroit 35, Michigan
"Your position of appeasement praying at the Wall. He made fre-
makes war profitable for the Arab
Coesspate
states and allows the Soviet Union
Punctuality is the thief of time.
to use the Arabs in its plan to
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take over the Middle East," Rep.
Neill declared. "Enough of our
unilateral concessions to the Soviet
Union."
Sen. Stephen M. Young, veteran
Ohio Democrat, told the Cleveland
Section of the National Council of
Jewish Women that he was "in
complete agreement that our gov-
ernment should continue to give
complete support to Israel in order
to assure direct negotiations and
hopefully to secure peace and
tranquility in the Near East."
Sen. Young declared that the
United States "must oppose all
pressures upon Israel to withdraw
unconditionally from any of the
terrorities taken over by this
valiant little nation during the
Six-Day War." He said this was
important "in view of the massive
shipment of arms, tanks and
planes by the Soviet Union to
Arab nations."
Connecticut Democrat Thomas
J. Dodd told the New Haven
Jewish Community Council that
the Western nations should step
up delivery of modern arms to
Israel to offset the 150 per cent
increase in strength provided to
the Arabs by the Russians since
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NY Day Schools Close
ticing Arab nations to negotiate
directly with Israel." He said the
on Dr. King's Birthday
NEW YORK (JTA)—A number United States should "play down
the
oil factor" in the Mid East.
of Hebrew day schools in New
York were closed on Dr. Martin
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avoid trouble that might arise from
people who would be offended if
they were open.
"The schools did not close be-
cause of direct threats," he told
the JTA. "They closed because of
anticipated difficulties." There
are no figures available on exact-
ly how many schools did close.
Rabbi Jacob Spiegel, an ad-
Schoenfeld High School on the
lower East Side, said that his
school decided to close not be-
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