EDITORIAL:
Mankind's
Conscience:
Surrender
to Terror?
Mankind's conscience is on trial!
For nearly three years, planes have been hijacked, attacked, blown up, innocent men, women and children
murdered in a spreading campaign of terror imposed on an international community—and the world was silent!
Innocent people were attacked in a Munich airport, and there was silence!
Seven aged survivors from Nazism perished in a fire in a German home for the aged—a fire ignited by Arab
saboteurs—and the world was silent!
A Swissair plane was blown up, 47 innocent people were killed, yet there was hesitancy to act, to make it
known to the source of the trouble that these acts will not be tolerated!
Responsible newspapers—Detroit's among them— urged a boycott of Arab countries by the world's air-
lines until there is an end to the terror imposed upon the international community. Would it be too much for
the world's airlines to say that no planes will touch soil when terror emanates, or would that be too much of
a gesture of decency to the maligned Israelis?
The State Department was quick to condemn Israel for an unfortunate accident in the bombing of a civil-
ian plant near Cairo, but there was silence after the destructioh of the Swiss plane. The Pope is quick to con-
demn outrages. Why the silence during the last weekend, Your Holiness? Our New Leftists are quick to criticize
their kinsmen in Israel. Where are you now, Noam Chomsky and I. F. Stone and your cohorts?
The honor of a world put to shame by terrorism is being tested at this very hour. How will mankind react
to the horror that has assumed an international aspect of hatred and inhumanity?
Russia's Cowed
JEWISH NEWS
Communications
Apparatus
Elie Wiesel's
Jerusalem Epic
An SS Boast Merged
With Arab Terror
Commentary
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Vol. LVI, No. 24
Michigan Weekly
An Eternal
SILENCE
That Dooms
Conscience
of Mankind
Review of Jewish News
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Terrorism Challenges World Public Opinion
Israel Condemns International
'Capitulation to Intimidation'
Pilots Fail to Get Action in the UN
LONDON (JTA)—British ground crews at London airport who halted
their work stoppage against El Al and eight Arab airlines on Wednesday
resumed servicing the liners. The crews had stopped work on the planes
for "security reasons" after the destruction by a bomb of a Swiss airliner
bound for Tel Aviv last Saturday with the loss of 47 lives and the attempted
bomb destruction of another Tel Aviv-bound airliner.
The ground crews are employed by British Overseas Airways Corp.
Their services to El Al planes have been restricted to "push and start" with
El Al technicians doing all the necessary servicing. The Arab lines, how-
ever, have been dependent on the British
Judeo-Christian
crews for full service.
An El Al spokesman said Wednesday
afternoon that all El Al flights were leav-
ing London on schedule.
The executive board of the Interna-
tional Federation of Airline Pilots Asso-
ciations met in London Wednesday to con-
sider what action the pilots could take to
prevent attacks on civilian aircraft. They
beard a report from their president, Capt.
Ola Forsberg, on his unsuccessful efforts
to obtain United Nations action. Capt.
Forsberg flew to New York for a 50-min-
ute meeting Tuesday with UN Under-sec-
retary General Ralph Bunche. He reported
after the meeting that he saw little hope
Of UN action.
Capt. Forsberg said the pilots would
consider a strike unless there was consider-
able improvement in the security situation.
His board, meeting in secret here, was ex-
pected to reach a decision on action by the
federation's 46,000 members Thursday.
In the Middle East must include a solution to the problem of the Palestinian Arab
refugees and a renunciation of force by Israel and her Arab neighbors.
"Who does not understand that there is no assured future for Israel outside a
entente with the world which surrounds it," Pompidou told the senators and
The entente, he
—
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (JTA)—The Institute Of Judeo-Christian
Studies at Seton Hall University responded to the explosion of the
Swiss jet airliner by condemning the Arab terrorists for their "das-
tardly conduct" and called upon "all welfare organizations that sup-
port Arab refugee camps to withdraw support unless firm guarantees
are given that the camps will not be used for training in hatred
and violence."
In a statement issued by Monsignor John Oesterreicher, director
of the institute, Father John Flannery, co-director, and the entire staff
of the institute, expressed "pain and horror in our hearts" at the
"brutal deeds of Arab terrorists against civilians in no way involved
in the Arab-Israel conflict."
The statement continued: "The fact that one terrorist organiza-
tion first claimed credit for the blowing up of a Swiss airliner and
then denied it, shows the irresponsibility of this so-called liberation
movement. In our opinion, the dastardly conduct of the terrorists has
disproved their cause of any claim to justice and, thus, to serious
consideration. Arab governments that harbor the terrorist organiza-
tions must be held responsible for all loss of life." The statement con-
cluded by "imploring all Christians to come to Israel's defense" in
the face of mounting terrorism.
WASHINGTON—President Georges Pompidou of France was welcomed to Con-
gress with a standing ovation, as is customary for visiting heads of state, but many
Congressmen were missing from the chamber and there was silence when Pompidou
commented on the situation in the Middle East.
It was estimated that almost half of the House and 40 per cent of the Senate
boycotted Pompidou's speech Wednesday, but Rep. Lester Wolff of New York was the
only one to leave during the actual course of the French president's speech. Rep.
Bertram Podell, his colleague from New York, described Wolff's behavior as "dis-
Courteous" although Podell has been vocal in his opposition to Pompidou's policy.
Pompidou said France reaffirms "the right of the state of Israel not only to exist
but also to security" from the Arab nations. He emphasized that a peace settlement
Rouse members.
gate to the International Civil Air Organization ICAO an agency of the
United Nations, to seek an urgent meeting of the organization's committee
on unlawful interference. Earlier, a State Department spokesman had stress-
ed that the Arab governments had an obligation to control the terrorists
responsible for the attacks on aircraft.)
Institute Demands
Withdrawal of Support for Refugee
Camps Until Terrorism Terminates
Congress Cool to Pompidou's Remarks
on M.E.; Admits Israel's `Right to Exist'
tasting
A spokesman for the International Air Transport Association (IATA)
demanded that governments take stern action against politically motivated
attacks on civilian aircraft. He said that in countries where the death pen-
alty existed, it should be imposed for such attacks.
(In Washington, the United States government instructed is dele-
said "implies renunciation of military conquest." This, along
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The work stoppage on Tuesday was a
development in the mounting air transport
crisis stemming from Saturday's crash.
An Austrian airliner, carrying mail to
Israel, was ripped by an explosion in mid-
air at the same time but landed safely.
Both planes were presumed to have been
the victims of Arab terrorists.
The British Airline Pilots Association
retorted sharply to Israeli charges that air-
lines were giving in to Arab blackmail
by refusing to carry cargo and mail to
Israel. About a dozen international airlines
imposed a ban on freight and mail service
to Israel after the Swissair crash. A num-
ber have since removed the restrictions.
But others, including the main British car-
riers, BOAC and British European Air-
ways (BEA) continue the ban.
Gordon Hurley, a spokesman for the
British pilots association, disputed the
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Detroit Community Turns Out to Protest
French Governments Role in Middle East
Housewives in fun furs and high school students wearing levis and peace buttons
rubbed elbows with rabbis and attorneys between court cases—in all, almost 1,000
strong at the peak—to express Detroit Jewry's dismay at the French government's sale
of arms and jets to Libya and her irresponsible role in the Middle East.
While President Georges Pompidou was visiting with President Nixon in Wash-
ington, the demonstration was staged here Tuesday morning in front of the French
Consolate, at the corner of Cadillac Square and Woodward. The consul himself wasn't
there, but the message got across.
At the height of the protest, around noon, marchers covered the entire long block
and around the corner.
Fewer than half of the participants were young people, representing high school
and college organizations which support Israel. But it was generally agreed that their
songs and high spirits gave the extra oomph to a march that drew a cross-section
of Detroit Jewry.
The Jewish Community Council, which coordinated the demonstration, credited
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