Rescue and
Rehabilitation

Nahum Sokolow
Zionist * History

Tribute to Nobel
Prize Winner Agnon
•
Pompidou's Anger
Over U.S. Voices
Commentary
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VOL. LVI, No. 25

In hundreds of communities through-
out the world, Joint Distribution Com-
mittee representatives provide assistance
to needy and assist in creating a spirit
of dignity in the difficult struggle for
life in Jewish communities. JDC's role
in behalf of Jews in Iran and Israel is
described in a series of photographs on
Page 48 of this issue. JDC is supported
by the United Jewish Appeal v&ith funds
received from the Detroit Allied Jewish
Campaign.

Allied Campaign
Opens March 25

Pursuant to the scores of prepara-
tory meetings already held in behalf
of the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel
Emergency Fund, the annual major
fund-raising drive will commence offi-
cially at a dinner meeting at the Jewish
Center, March 25. A number of ram-
paign division meetings are scheduled
for this week.

Detailed Story
on Page 6.

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Editorials
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Denigration of Jewish Protests
Against Pompidou's Anti-Israel
Policies Meets With Resentment

Israel's Request for Planes
Still Under Study by Nixon

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The 30-day deadline which Pres-
ident Nixon set for announcing a decision on Israel's re-
quest for additional Phantom jet aircraft came and passed
Monday with no word from the White House. There was no
indication that any decision had been reached. Authoritative
Sources said the various options available to the President were
Mill being studied. .
Nixon said at a press conference Jan. 30 that the U. S.
"Will consider the Israelis' arms requests based on the threats
to them from states -in the area," and a decision would be made
in 30 days. Five days earlier the President said in a message
to American-Jewish leaders that the U. S. was prepared to
supply military equipment to friendly governments, like Israel's,
"to defend the safety of their people."
The delay in announcing a decision on the Phantoms was
attributed by sources here to events in the Mid East since Jan.
30 and to technical and diplomatic analyses which have compli-
cated the President's decision-making task.
Congressman Leonard Farbstein said he was certain the
United States would accept Israel's order for additional Phantom
jets and other military equipment whenever there appears any
indication or livelihood that Israel's -deterrent strength in the
Middle East is endangered. The New York Democrat, asked
by the Jewish_ Telegraphic Agency to comment on the White
- House delay in announcing a decision on Israel's request for
more Phantoms, said the U. S. would sell more jets to Israel
because that country "is the West's only buffer against domina-
tion of the Middle East by the Soviet Union."

Widespread condemnation is being sounded of attempts to denigrate the actions of Amer-
ican. Jewish communities where protests were uttered against the pro-Arab policies of the
Pompidou government in France.
Charges in some quarters that the protesters were discourteous to a guest from a
foreign country and they harmed America's foreign relations with France were resented by
Jewish leaders, and there is general praise for the orderly conduct of the pickets at French
consulates and those who demonstrated wherever Georges Pompidou visited.
There was resentment against the excessive manner in which President Nixon apol-
ogized to Pompidou, the general feeling being in support of Americans' right to express their
views on human issues and especially one in this instance that involves the security of an
entire nation now threatened with extermination by those to whom Pompidou is selling war
planes.
Protests against the implied rebukes to the Jews of America have been issued by
individuals, communities and public officials.
In behalf of the city of Oak Park, the following telegram was sent to President Nixon

on Tuesday:
"The Mayor and Council of Oak Park, Michigan, resent your apology to President
Pompidou for conduct which was the exercise of every American's lawful right to peacefully
protest conduct harmful to the best interest of the United States. We, and the citizens we
represent, take offense at being characterized as part of a minority whose actions were incor-
rect when in fact American policy is aided by demonstrating popular support for your own
expressed desire for non-escalation of the arms race and peace in the Middle East."
The telegram was signed by Mayor Joseph Forbes and Councilmen David H. Shepherd,
Sidney L. Shayne, Merton Colburn and Bernard F. Cronk.
Among those expressing resentment over the developing situation and Pompidou's

cancellation of a scheduled meeting with heads of all American Jewish organizations was
the New York State Chapter of Jewish War Veterans of the United States. The chapter
stated it had "refused to knuckle under to White House pressure" and cancel a member-
(Continued on Pages 11, 12)

EDITORIAL: We Condemn Those Who Impugn Our Loyalties

Shameful Act of Local Newspaper Whose Biased Editorial
Undermines Basic American Principles of Free Expression

Rooted in American idealism is the right to protest, the freedom of speech and
assembly, rejection of domination by demagogues, potentates or dictators. Inherent
in such rights is the similar privilege to express views involving basic human rights
and to seek protection for the oppressed wherever they may be.
These principles have been in practice from the earliest times of our history.
This country protested against Romanian persecution of Jews in the 1870s. There were
condemnations of Russia's bigotries in the latter part of the 19th Century, during nearly
every decade of the 20th Century whether Russia was under Czarist or Communist rule.
Americans have protested against British rule in Ireland, and there is a long
record of this nation's plain speaking in defense of just rights for people wherever they
May have resided.
But because Americans had demonstrated in protest against French injustice
toward Israel, a local newspaper had the audacity to revive an old libel—implying
allegiance on the part of Zionists.
double This
is not the time to argue with a writer who may have been misled
ignorance
into such a charge, and to try to prove to him that there is no such
by
as Zionist guilt, to convince him that when there are actions by Jews they are
thing
as such and not by Zionists, or that protests against enemies of Israel arc
_ not
by Jews
limited to Jewish participation but have strong support from the Christian corn-
- fuunity. Involved at this time is the audacious, ignorant, outrageous, un-American and
Intl-American charge against a loyal element of the American population whose human
interests led them to picket lines against those who malign their kinsmen and thereby
- contribute toward the policies of elements seeking to destroy an entire nation and
late again to-impose genocide upon a large Jewish community.

We hold fast to the right to express these views, and we charge the Free Press
With having insulted an entire community and of having given credence to the most
inhuman and indecent charge ever perpetrated against the Jewish people.
We accuse the Free Press of the guilt of having incited to hatred, of having
revived an ancient canard and thereby having aligned itself with the criminality of
anti-Semitism.
What the Free Press did is tantamount to the terror that emanates from Arab
countries, with the support of the Kremlin, condoning mass murders of innocent people
on civilian airliners. What the Free Press did is worse: it introduced a note of hatred
resort to bigotry
toward fellow Americans by questioning their loyalty. and by such
and venom the writer or writers of the venom in their editorial columns have them-
selves lost the right to lecture fellow citizens.
We do not yield to any one in our loyalties to this country. It is because of
our basic American idealism that we reject anyone's right to rob us of the right
to speak out freely for justice, and against intolerance. When a newspaper has
the audacity to ask us which of our loyalties comes first—thereby implying dis-
the
loyalty—we class them immediately with the lunatic fringe that subscribes to
hatred that Pope Pius XI branded as "the crime of anti-Semitism." 11e charge
the Free Press with that crime !
We accuse the Free Press of publishing an un-American, anti-Semitic, venomous
charge that is more damaging to our American institutions than anything that has
happened in our midst in these critical times during which we seek to unite the people
in this land in support of every human movement.
There is indecency in what the Free Press wrote, and it calls for a public
apology to every Jew in our community.