UN Spokesman Denies Jarring Belonged to Nazi Party

UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — A United Nations spokesman has rejected as trivial
a charge by a Swedish newspaper that Dr. Gunnar V. Jarring, the UN's special Middle
East representative, was once a member of a Swedish Nazi Party. The spokesman
replied to a charge by the Aftenbladet (Evening Blade), one of Sweden's largest papers,
that Dr. Jarring was a parliamentary candidate of the National Unity Party in 1936,
when he was 29.
The paper said Dr. Jarring, now Sweden's ambassador to the Soviet Union, was

active in the party from 1926 to 1939, leaving it one year before entering the foreign
ministry. The party, according to the Aftenbladet, demanded that Jews be barred
from entering Sweden. The UN spokesman said Dr. Jarring joined the youth organiza-
tion of the Conservative Party in 1926 when it was considered respectable. Later the
}ouch unit broke from the party and formed a Nazi-oriented organization of its own, he
said, and Dr. Jarring left the group in 1937. "Somebody must be pretty hard up for
news," the spokesman said.

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Red Cross Accused of Aiding Terrorists

Eban, Dayan Reject IRC Complaint
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Against Israel s Anti-Hijack Act

Nixon Expected to liaise
l'SSII Jen- ry Issue During
Soviet Summit Sessions

NEW YORK (JTA) — Richard Maass, chairman of
the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and Jacob Stein.
chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major Amer-
ican Jewish Organizations, declared that "on the eve of
President Nixon's historic trip to Moscow, we wish to
emphatically stress that we expect the President to raise
the issue of Soviet Jewry on the highest level. We know
that at this time nothing short of the President's personal
intervention will be acceptable to Soviet Jews. This is
the message that many of them have conveyed to us and
to the White House."
This statement was issued following the morning
session of an emergency National Leadership Assembly
for Soviet Jews which drew top Jewish leaders from
across the nation. The assembly was sponsored by the
NCSJ and the Conference of Presidents. All sessions of the
assembly were closed to the public. Delegates discussed
tactics in response to recent reports of a deteriorating
situation with respect to Soviet Jews, including new trials
of Jewish activists. The expectations and implications of
Nixon's upcoming trip were of prime concern to the
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delegates.

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli officials sharply rejected a complaint by the Internatien:)]
Red Cross that it had been duped by the tactics Israel employed to liberate a hijacked Sabena jet
The Red Cross issued two different versions of of the complaint at its Geneva headquarters Friday
neither of which had reached Israel as of Monday morning. a foreign ministry spokesman told the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The complaints accused Israel of having exploited the presence of Red Cross delegates at the
airport when it employed a ruse to seize the aircraft from terrorist control by force. Although . Israel's
official reply awaits receipt of the text of the complaint, statements by Foreign Minister Abba
Eban and by Defense Minister Moshe Dayan made it clear that Israel categorically rejects the charges.
The Israeli ministers noted that the IRC representatives had been invited to the airport by
the terrorists who were holding the passengers and crew members of the Belgian jet at gunpoint
threatening to blow up the aircraft unelss their demands were met. The IRC mission, they said,
was solely to convey messages from the terrorists to Israeli authorities and the terrorists.
At no point did Israel promise the IRC representatives that it would not use force to
liberate the plane. In fact, the ministers reported, the IRC men were told that force would be used
if no other way could be found to save the lives of the hostages. The Red Cross-statement said its
representatives had been surprised when Israeli soldiers disguised as maintenance men boarded
the plane and opened fire.on the terrorists. The Israeli officials said that was understandable be-
cause the Red Cross was not at any stage a party to the planning of the military operation.
Dayan disclosed during a television appearance Friday night that the first thing the Red
Cross representatives demanded when they arrived at the airport last Tuesday night was that Israel
pull back the troops surrounding the hijacked jet. "I refused. - Dayan said. "When they said they
could not function like that I told them: Listen, inside the plane there are terrorists with explosives.
grenades and pistols and vou are asking us to withdraw the army as if this were a medical supply
plane. That is impossible."
Dayan said the IR(' representatives contacted Geneva.
Afterward, they asked him not to employ force as longs as the
IRC was operating in the area. "To this I again refused," the
defense minister said. "I gave a clear-cut negative reply. I
added that we were aware of the extent of the danger to the
passengers should we operate inside the aircraft and that un-
less it became essential N4 e would not use force. But if a situa-
tion arose where it was considered absolutely essential we

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Israel Gaining International

Support to Prevent Arab Move

Expelling Nation From WHO

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France has joined the U S., Canada
JERUSALEM tJTAI
and several European and Latin American nations in pledging
to support Israel against Arab attempts to hate it expelled from
the World Health Organization. it was learned here Mondi*.
An Arab-inspired resolution that would deprive Israel of
voting rights has been drafted but has not yet been submitted
to the plenum at the WHO World Conference which opened
last week in Geneva.
Israeli diplomats throughout the w orld have been trvieg
to mobilize support against the discriminatory move. They
have reportedly received pledges from several European coun-
tries which normally abstain when Middle East resolutions
come up at international forums. These countries have accepted
Israel's position that politics must he kept out of the delibera-
tions of the WHO. Hut the Arabs and their sympathizers can
usually muster about 15 votes and the outcome of their move
is still uncertain