Women's Phonogift Campaign Starts Sunday There are 10,000 women to be reached by phone as prospects for the Allied Jewish Campaign-Israel Fund . . . Several hundred women will be at the phones especially installed in the United Hebrew Schools Building on 12 Mile Road to contact the prospective contributors who are asked to increase their gifts this year and thus to help meet the great needs that face world Jewry in the fin& of defending Israel's position ... More volunteers are needed to make the telephone solicitations .. . Volunteers are asked to contact the women's division of the campaign at the Jewish Welfare Federa- ation, WO 5-3939, and those contacted are urged to become partners in the great campaign in behalf of Israel and 50 other major causes. Leadership Put to-the Test With Fiasco at Brussels Conference 6 Editorial Page 4 Review of -Jewish -News Michigan Weekly Newsweek's Jewish Story, Documentation on Cohtacts With USSR Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. LVI II, No. 25 •011119. 27 17515 W. 9 Mile Rd., Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075, 356-8400 $8.00 Per Year; This Issue 25c March 5, 1971 Zero Hour on Banks of Suez; Face-Saving Aids Cease Fire U. S. Assails USSR Bias at UN Commissiow Brussels Decision Gains International Attention An appeal to the Soviet Union to abandon its policy of discrimination against Jews, adopted at the world conference held in Brussels, Belgium, last week, and the condemnation of Russian policies by the American delegate to the United Nations Human Rights Commission, at the ses- sions in Geneva, marked the worldwide attention that is being given to the appeals for justice in defense of the Jews of the USSR. Unity marked the concluding session of the Brussels conference attended by delegates from more than 40 countries. In Geneva, Mrs. Rita E. Hauser, the U. S. delegate to the UN Human Rights Commission, urged the Russian government to permit Jews wishing to emigrate to leave the USSR and protested against discrimina- tions practiced against Jews. An editorial in Pravda which termed anyone who advocated Zionism "an agent of international Zionism and hence an enemy of the Soviet people" was condemned by Mrs. Hauser and by an Israeli observer, Mordecai Kidron. But the Russian representative, Nilriilai IC. Tarassov, called Zionism a "racial organization" and denied any bias exists. An appeal to the UN commission that the "Brussels Declaration" be read to the UN commission was deferred by the commission chairman, Dr. Andres Aguilar of Venezuela, because only nongovernment agencies are permitted to participate in commission sessions. But the resolution adopted at the Brussels conference on Soviet Jewry was sent to UN Secretary General U Thant for distribution among UN members. Mrs. Hauser said that her protest against discrimination of Jews in the USSR was not "politically motivated" but dealt with "a basic human right universally recognized." . • Conference Affirms Solidarity With Soviet Jews; but Kahane Episode Leaves a Bitter Residue BRUSSELS (JTA)—The world conference on Soviet JeWry got back to normal business on its final day.. At the closing session late Feb. 25, ration affirming their solidarity the 800 delegates adopted a decla "with our Jewish brothers in the Soviet Union" and urged Soviet authori- (Continued on Page 38) JERUSALEM (JTA)—Highly placed political sources maintained Tuesday that the Egyptian government would readily agree to continue the Jarring- talks and the cease fire on the basis of Israel's reply to its latest note, provided they can find a face- saving formula. But the sources noted that the Russians were intervening to apply Big Four pressure on Israel to make concessions before the cease fire expiration on March 7. The Israeli note expressed readiness to negotiate with Egypt on all points in dispute, including territories, but made it clear that Israel will not return to its pre- June 1967 boundaries. The Kremlin has been insisting on an immediate Big Four meet- ing apparently to' draft a statement demanding that Israel backtrack from its stand on the 1967 borders. The United States rejected a Soviet attempt to schedule a Four Power meeting Monday despite tacit support of the Russian move by Britain and France. The U. S. is said -to be dissatisfied with the Israeli note to Cairo but does not want to be yielding to Soviet pressure on the matter nor does Washington wish to publicize its differences with Israel at this time. Political circles here said that Moscow was "training its guns" on President Nixon to persuade him to exert more pressure on IsraeL According to. Israel analysts, the Kremlin is convinced that Israel could be forced into major concessions if Mr. Nixon applied more pressure. Most Israeli circles are sure that Egypt will not terminate the cease fiie on Sunday. They noted that there was much greater military tension during the week before the last cease-fire extension expired on Feb. 5 but they conceded that political tension_ is currently high. Rosenwasser Israel government circles made no attempt to conceal their disappointment with President Nixon's statement on Is Released the Middle East in his second annual foreign policy message to Congress last week. The disturbing aspects were his Shmuel Rosenwasser, reiterated backing of the Rogers Plan calling for no substan- the Metnilait watchman tial changes from Israel's pre-June 1967 boundaries and who Was kept prisoner the stress he placed on a solution of the Palestine refugee near Damascus, was re- leased by_ the Arabs last problem. On the positive side, from Israel's point of view, Friday in exchange for a was Nixon's firm statement that peace can be achieved only notorious terrorist whose by agreement between the parties to the conflict and his death sentence was com- rejection of a settlement imposed by the Big Powers. Israel muted to life imprison- also regarded as favorable Nixon's assertion that while the ment by Israel. Rosen- Big Powers were prepared to guarantee a peace settlement, wasser was held by his they would not intrude until such a settlement is achieved. captors for 424 days. His Mr. Nixon, in his address to Congress, reiterated that the sister, Mrs.- Herman Middle East continues to be the "most dangerous" trouble rger, resides . in Greenbe Detroit. spot in the world. Israel meanwhile will wait for Egypt's re- sponse to its latest note which was in the hands of United Na- Detailed Story on Page 3 (Continued on Page 16) `Brussels Declaration' on Russian Jewry Adopted at World Parley BRUSSELS—The World Conference of Jewish Communities on Soviet Jewry, in a "Brussels Declaration" adopted at its closing session Feb. 26, called on the So- viet government "To recognize the right of Jews who so desire to return to their historic homeland in Israel, and to ensure the unhindered exercise of this right; to enable the Jews in the USSR to exer- cise fully their right to live in accord with the Jewish cultural and religious heritage and freely to raise their children in this heritage; to put an end to the defamation of the Jewish people and of Zionism, reminiscent of the evil anti-Semitism which has caused so much suffering to the Jewish people and to the world." - "The Brussels Declaration" was read to the conference by Lord Janner of Lei- cester, former president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Its full text follows: - "We, the delegates of this conference, tenant front Jewish commas ties through- oat the World, solemnly declare our solidarity with our Jewish brothers ha thii Soviet Usdeni. "We want them to know—and they will take encouragement from this knowl- edge—that we are as one with them, totally identified with their heroic strug- gle for the safeguarding of their national Identity and for their natural and inalien- able - right to return to their historic home- land, the land of Israel. "Profoundly concerned for their fate and future, we denounce the policy pur- sued by the government of the Soviet Union of suppressing the historic Jewish cultural and religious heritage. This constitutes a flagrant violation of human rights which the Soviet Constitittlon pledges to uphold and which is enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To cut them off from the rest of the Jewish people, as the Soviet authorities are attempting to do, is a crime against humanity. "Soviet spokesmen claims that there Is no need fee Jewish culture and education, that there is no Jewish-Problem in_ the Soviet Union and liten_lthore mi said- Semitisar. These namithins :Rave . _limit proven false by thellanktAlewe thaw selTes. • The • entire world his beard *their • grigiet.. "Teas of thousands of Jews have peti- - timed the Soviet authorities for the right to settle in Israel and raise their children in the Jewish tradition and culture. Let- ters, messages wad petitions, sent at the signatories' peril from the Soviet Union to individuals, to governments, to the United Nations and other international organizations, all demand recognition of these rights. "The reaction of the Soviet authorities to the Jewish awakening has been to mount a campaign of harassznent, arrests and virulent anti-Jewish propaganda. The Leningrad trial, shocking to the world, was but one manifestation of such perse- cution. Far from being crashed by such in- timidation, Soviet Jews today demand their rights with ever greater courage and. determination. "This confereace urgently calls upon the dv ed world to join with us and with the Jews of the USSR in urging the - Soviet authorities: _ the right•s( Jews who '—To recognise • so dedrii to return to their historic bone- lead In Israel, and to etwore the imigor &red exereise,,oi this right. "—To enable the Jews in the USSR to exercise fully thdr right to live In accord with the JeWish\cultural and reli- gious heritage and freely to raise their children in this heritage. "—To put an end to the defamation of the Jewish people and of Zionism, remi- niscent of the evil anti-Semitism which has caused so much suffering to the Jewish people and to the world. "We assembled in this conference com- mit ourselves, by unceasing effort, to en- sure that the plight of Soviet Jewry is kept before the conscience of the world until the justice of their cause prevails. "We will continue to mobilize the energies of all Jewish communities. We will work through the parliaments and governments of our countries, through the United Nations and other international bodies and through every agency of pub- lic opinion. "We will not rest until the Jews of the Soviet Union are free to choose their own destiny. "Let my people Es."