ff o n Adversity has the same effect to direct talks a man that severe training has on the New York police and the United Pompidou's press aide, the presi- with Israel. He reportedly replied the puilist—it reduces him to his Nations security guards. Police dent told the Jewish leaders that that as long as the current situa- fighting weight. —Josh Billings. be birders were placed alt around i "it was in the interests of Israel tion exists "such talks would (Continued from Page 11) Libya. According to Jean Beliard, the hotel, and the United Nations to become a state in the geo- was converted into a veritable graphical sense like all other fortress as thousands of demon. states and that as long as Israel strators, most of them school continued to be a religious state, youngsters, paraded across the it would be surrounded by hostile street or in Hammarskjold Plaza. people." Two Chicago newspapers Pompidou and his p a r t y were reported that Pompidou had smuggled into the UN through the told the Jewish leaders that Israel garage. Among the guests at the must stop using racial and reli- UN luncheon were Prof. Rene Cas- gious ties abroad to further its sin, Nobel Peace Prize winner. policies. But the Jewish leaders former president of the French who met with the President have Counci 1 of State and a leading categorically denied that he made figure in the French Jewish com. such a statement to them. Spokesmen for the group—Ray- munity. Thant and Pompidou spent an hour in private confer- mond Epstein, president of the ence before their luncheon. A UN Chicago Jewish Welfare Board, and spokesman said the entire conver- Rabbi Seymour J. Cohen, presi- sation was on the Middle East dent of the Chicago Board of Rab- situation. He termed the talks "cor- bis—told JTA that what President dial and fruitful." Later, when Pompidou said to them was that Pompidou came down to the Se- Israel is a state, and quarrels and curity Council chamber, he spent differences often arise between a few moments in separate conver- states but as far as France and sation with the ambassadors of Israel are concerned, these have nothing to do with religious issues. each of the Big Four powers. They said that Pompidou, who An estimated 5,000 persons accompanied by Schumann staged a protest demonstration was and the French ambassador to the at Westchester County Airport U. S., Charles Lucet, went out of Sunday when Pompidou arrived his way to stress that France's there from Chicago. Ile stayed current posture in the Mid East overnight at the White Plains was not affected by religious con- home of Emil Mossbacher, chief , siderations nor is Franc e, the of protocol of the U. S. State French government or its presi- Department. dent in any way anti-Semitic. The During Pompidou's visit to alleged warning to Israel was Chicago. an estimated 10.000 per- front-paged by the Chicago Trib- sons from that city and other Mid- one and also appeared in the Chi- western cities staged a massive cago Sun-Times. It was attributed but peaceful' demonstration outside to Beliard, who purportedly quoted of the Palmer House where a din- President Pompidou's remarks to ner in honor of the French leader the Jewish leders. The latter said was held. Prior to the dinner, they were not sure that Beliard President Pompidou met for a half was even present at their meeting hour with a delegation of Chicago with the French president. ‘s Jewish leaders who conveyed to Beliard also reported that the him their deep concern over Jewish leaders had asked President France's sale of Mirage jets to Pompidou why the Arab countries White House Aide Te!ls Attitude: Jewish Vote Is Not Written Off Kenneth Bronson, president of the Washtenaw County Jewish Community Council, has just re- leased an important statement he received from the White House with regard to the administration's attitude on Israel, the Jewish peo- ple and the voters' status in this country. In one of the frankest messages ever written regarding the role of the Jewish community, the mes- sage refutes charges that the ad- ministration is "writing off the Jewish vote." In the message from the White House to Bronson, Harry D. Dent, special counsel to the President. IA rote: ter has somewhat clarified the misimpressions that the media have created. I would like to assure you that this administration is by no means "writing off the Jewish vote," as you put it. Any mem- ber of the press who makes such a charge is totally irrespon- sible and doing a great disservice to the administration and to the American people. Again, I would like to thank you for having taken the time to write to the President, and on his behalf I would like to assure you of his appreciation. Bronson also released the text of INCOME TAX - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 12—Friday, March 6, 1970 Pompidou Adamant on Jet Embargo by PROFESSIONALS would not agree unacceptable" because they would be between "a conquering nation and a conquered nation." Epstein and Rabbi Cohen subsequently told JTA that M. Pompidou had told them that France's Mideast poli- cies were based on considerations larger than the immediate ques- tion of the sale of 110 jets to Libya. He said further that France had Low Rates—Free Pick-Up & Delivery Phone 342-8638 after 3:00 P.M. BUY or LEASE CHEVROLET A Call Will Save You Money taken precautions to prevent the use of the Libyan jets against Is- rael but if they proved inadequate, France would then reconsider its Mid East policies. Rabbi Cohen told JTA that the meeting with the French president was cordial but left the Jewish leaders "disappoint- SHORE CHEVROLET Harry Abram 891-2360 Res. LI 8-4119 ed" because he indicated no change in France's policies. The demonstration at West- chester Airport was organized by the Westchester Board of Rabbis and supported by major Jewish organizations in the area. It was termed a "very defiinte success" by Rabbi Ludwig Madelmann, chairman of the Westchester Board of Rabbis. "It exceeded all our expectations," he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. The demonstrators carried picket signs reading: "Water, Not Oil;" "We Work For Peace. What Does Pompi-do?"; a n d "Pompous Pompidou Pumps Pan-Arabian Petroleum." A number of signs were written in French. At a protest rally at Hunter Col- their consistent demand for the de- struction of the Jewish state, to control the terrorists who prey on civilian life in the air and on the ground, or to play their proper role in the solution of the refugee problem." Some 200 youths picketed the French Consulate in New York carrying signs reading "France Kills Freedom" and "Israel Must Live." After half an hour, they shifted to the French Cultural Serv- ices Center, five blocks away. 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Rabbi Meyer Cohen, execu- tive director of the Union of Ortho- dox Rabbis of the United States and Canada, in a telegram to President Pompidou, called French a message he received from Rog- The President has directed me ers C. B. Morton, chairman of the Mid East policy "hostile" and "one-sided" and said that "This to reply to your letter of Jan. 12 Republican National Committee, situation constitutes tragedy for addressed to him. 21990 GREENFIELD RD. who wrote to him: Israel and tragedy for France." Let me say that I certainly "This will acknowledge a copy share your concern for the total- ly inaccurate reports by various of your letter of Jan. 12 to members of the media which President Nixon expressing your would lead you to the conclusions concern relative to present rela- Pledged is Quallty—Buy with Oortt•i.neit which you have stated in your tions between the United States letter regarding any change of and the state of Israel. administration policy toward the ; "I, too, read a number of poli- 5 S. R . state of Israel. To a certain ex- tical columnists' interpretation of tent, I expect that Secretary our government's relation with EXQUISITE kirks le select from noosowk .4 Rogers' statement on this mat- Israel. I must say, after noting Ferrier Werdmis, Mekeln, Mellen Silk, Skarkskies, Terkmm Dave Fenton 548 - 1000 HONEKWIEN , these articles, one could be easily confused because each writer has his own interpretation of the problem. 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