The seventh annual GREATER
DETROIT GEM AND MINERAL
SHOW of the Michigan Mineralogi
consistent with the top-level U.S. cal Society will be held at the De-
bows in the direction of Cairo.
Guard Armory, Oct.
Use of the flag was no prob- troit Light
The show will be open from
lem to the French and British 23-25.
6
to
10
p.m.
that Friday; 9 a.m. to
consulates; their countries have 10 p.m. Saturday
and from 9 a.m.
diplomatic relations with Egypt. to 6 p.m. Sunday. The
show, which
But the American?
is both competitive and noncom-
After all, Israel is America's petitive, will offer many exhibits
only dependable ally in the Middle of educational value and hobby
East. On the day before the half-
staff incident the House of Repre-
sentatives had voted 341 to 11 to
give Israel special military credits
to help defend itself against Egypt
and its allies, and the Senate pre-
viously had voted 84 to 5 in favor
of the same legislation.
U.S. Flag at Half Staff in Jerusalem Creates a Problem
By JOSEPH POLAKOFF
(Copyright 1175, JTA. Me.)
(Editor's Note: With this article by
Joseph Polakoff the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency resumes the column Capita!
Spotlight on a regular basis. Polakoff
is the JTA's Washington Bureau
correspondent.
His knowledge of the
State Department here and overseas is
enhanced by the many years he worked
for the Department. From 1947 to last
April. Polakoff was an officer In
the foreign service of the State De-
partment and the United States In-
formation .4gency with diplomatic rank
of attache for information in London.
Belgrade, Lima and Gutemata. He was
also assistant chief and chief of the
Washington news section of the State
Department's information
service.)
Can anyone recall a precedent
for the Stars and Stripes to be
flown at half-staff at an American
official mission overseas in mourn-
ng for the dead leader of a coun-
try with which the United States
has no diplomatic relations?
No one in this history-conscious
capital seems able to remember a
similar event in the diplomatic
history of the United States.
But this happened Sept. 29 at
the American consulate in East
Jerusalem the day after Egypt's
President Nasser died. The U.S.
consul general there, Stephen J.
Campbell, ordered the flag lower-
ed in Nasser's memory and it
flew at half-staff all day.
Row could this have been done
without instructions or recommen-
dations from the White House or
the State Department?
State Department spokes man
John King, responding at a press
briefing, pointed out that Campbell
did not violate any order and the
State Department was not going
to criticize him for it.
Under U.S. regulations, King
said, only the President has the
authority to direct American in-
stallations abroad to fly the Amer-
ican flag at half-staff.
(Since the regulations went into
effect in 1954, under President
Eisenhower, only two non-Amer-
icans were so honored—Winston
Churchill, who was partly Amer-
ican, and Dag Hammarskjold in
his capacity as secretary gen-
eral of the United Nations. Even
India's Nehru did not receive
this tribute.)
However, King went on, where
it is a custom and a practice to fly
flags at half-staff, the principal
officer of the U.S. mission can in
his discretion take this action.
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(Thus on the occasion of the
death of a prime minister, for ex
ample, the U.S. Mission in that
country could lower its colors in
tribute to the fallen official.)
The consular corps of the various
nations represented in Jerusalem
reached a consensus, King said, to
fly the flags of their countries in
mourning for Nasser for one day.
Campbell, he said, acted in concert
with his diplomatic colleagues and,
exercising his discretion as a prin-
cipal officer, directed the consul-
ate's colors to be at half-staff, too.
How did the Israel Embassy re-
act to the incident? A spokesman
there said that it had voiced "sur-
prise and dismay" by telephone to
the State Department.
Several other elements enter into
this incident.
Among them is the fact that
the United States has consulates
in both East Jerusalem and In
West Jerusalem. It Is to be noted
that the East Jerusalem con-
sulate lowered its flag; the one
in West Jerusalem did not.
Israel regards Jerusalem its
capital. However, the United States
and most other countries maintain
their embassies in Tel Aviv.
Jerusalem actually is treated in
the State Department's directory
of its missions abroad as a "sepa-
rate country," as one of its press
officers put it. And so it appears.
The name Jerusalem is in bold
face type over the names and
grades of 11 American officials
stationed there with Campbell at
the top of the list.
Also, President Nixon and Sec-
retary of State William P. Rogers
while abroad spoke of Nasser in
friendly tones and so did American
Ambassador Charles Yost at the
United Nations. Furthermore, the
President appointed an official
delegation to represent the United
States at Nasser's funeral and Act-
ing Secretary of State John N.
Irwin 2nd, in Rogers' absence,
signed the Egyptian book of con-
dolences.
Campbell's flag decision, there-
fore, was seen by some as being
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TEL AVIV — (JTA) — Dr. Na-
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longer engage in political activi-
ties affecting Israel and promised
to resign from the presidency of
the World Jewish Congress should
he change his mind.
Dr. Goldmann made his pledge
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