Max Fisher Rallies Important Leaders to Nixon Camp

More importantly: members of
rael Ambassador Itzhak Rabin is and what would they be willing pleasant fact. Almost all the bases
and staging areas that used to be both houses of Congress are correct
that year of Nixon's successful bid believed to have spoken out of to do? Rabin replied that he
open to American forces, in the in their insistence that it is Con-
for the Presidency, he was a lone turn in that regard and there was thought he knew the answer to
both questions, but that he would 1958 Lebanon crisis, for example, gress that makes policies and Con-
wolf as Nixon's friend in Jewish a brief scandal over the issue.
are now closed — Turkey, Malta, gress is pro-Israel. This is the most
(Speaking at Congo Bnai Moshe in check to make sure, and call back.
ranks).
Libya, Spain, Lebanon itself. The significant aspect of the new iy-
DEEDS, NOT WORDS
Today the Fisher role is the Detroit some months ago, Ambas-
might have been developing situation affecting both
Ile did so shortly, with both an- Italian ports
most successful in political ranks. sador Rabin said, implying the
I used, but only in extremis, without
parties: that it is the American
Ile has a team! Some of Ameri- Nixon friendship for Israel: "We— swers. The Israelis were absolutely
the permission and against the needs and concerns in the Middle
meaning Israel — never had it so confident that their own forces,
can's Jewry's most prominent Jew-
Italian
government.
East—and in the ranks of justice
good"
operating from the Golan Heights, wishes a the
ish personalities are in his corner.
"Greece is our last filling station." affecting the Russian-Jewish sit-
Israel Prime Minister Golda could capture or destroy the entire
The Jewish team for Nixon is as
Meir is believed to be sharing Syrian invading force. As for the one policymaker has remarked. uation—that matter.
impressive as Humphrey's was in
Sen. McGovern would close the
In the meantime there is no
1968 Former International Presi- Rabin's views. Fisher. Boyar. second question, the Israelis were
Rothberg are among Golda's entirely willing to take the risks last filling station. He has said overlooking a major factor in poli-
dent of Bnai Brith William A. Wex-
that
he
would
immediately
with•
closest
friends,
and
the
connota-
tics:
the team mobilized by Max
involved, on condition only that the
ler is wearing the Nixon button.
it draw- all aid from the present re- M. Fisher, Detroit industrialist and
government make
So is Louis Boyer, one of the lead- tions are clear: a pro-Nixon via American
regime. The national Jewish leader (he is chair-
Israel image has been created, and clear to the Soviets that the U. S. . actionary Greek
ing figures in Los Angeles and a
Greeks would, of course, retaliate. man of the world executive of the
top man in the ranks of Israel the result is that many Jewish would vigorously oppose any So-
Bonds. Samuel Rothberg, who personalities, especially those who viet-sponsored counteraction, at the I Under the McGovern defense Jewish Agency for Israel and
program, there would be, not five, president of the Council of Jewish
heads Israel Investors and Israel can make handsome contributions Suez Canal or elsewhere.
Bonds in major positions, is how' to the campaign funds of the GOP,
President Nixon unhesitatingly but two U S. divisions left in Eu- Federations and Welfare Funds)
obviating the need for a telethon- made this commitment. It was rope, with only eight divisions at has begun to function. He is now
on the Fisher team.
Except for Fisher, these are men s compulsion for the Democrats to then mutually agreed that, if the home. Moreover, McGovern plans an active quarterback. His dream
reach out among the masses — Syrian invading force crossed a to reduce the U. S. carrier task of many years has come true. He
who had been staunch Democrats.
14 to six. Only has gained support for his friend
They helped finance Democratic have turned to Republicanism. It line between Irbid and Amman, forces from
is a reversion to the attitudes of thus threatening the
candidates and labored for them.
Jordanian half the carriers are on station at Richard M. Nixon by creating a
the
1890s
and
1910s
in
Jewish
in-
The revolution seems to have suc-
capital, the Israelis would move. any one time, so a President Mc- new Jewish team for him. He has
terests in politics.
ceeded. and the consistency of the
At this point a nervous State Govern could not possibly put five already given the order: play hall!
•
• •
—P.S.
Max Fisher political aims is im-
Department urged immediate I task forces into the Mediterranean
riot it isn't the Israel issue alone, diplomatic approaches to Moscow, on short notice. Under the Mc- ZOA President Predicts
pressive.
or the fact that a very cooperative the major NATO powers, and Govern naval program, in fact. Heavy Jewish Vote for .
The revolution in Jewish ranks spirit exists in the White House
Cairo. The President issued a stern 1 the Soviet Mediterranean fleet, al- ' Nixon in '72 Elections
is historically noteworthy. In the in defense of Jewish rights in the
order — absolutely no communi- ; ready challenging the Sixth Fleet,
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Herman
early years of this century Jews , USSR. that a drastic change cation with Moscow or any other would unquestionably become the L. Weisman, president of the Zion-
were admirers of Teddy Roosevelt politically is noticeable in Jewish
capital. There would be, not words, dominant force in the Mediter• ist Organization of A m e r i c a,
ranean, In such circumstances—as
ranks.
but deeds.
and they were mostly in the GOP.
claimed on Tuesday that President
r Democrats have a good ex-
The Yiddish press — Tageblatt, •
One of the use U. S. divisions 1 the Israelis are well aware—the Nixon "stands an excellent
Mor sten Journal and related week- planation for the pro-Israel and
stationed in Germany was ordered United States would be capable of chance" of doubling the Jewish
lies - - were pro-Republican. Then defense - for - Russian - Jewry atti• on full alert, and so was the elite words. but precious few. deeds.
vote he received in 1968 in No-
tudes - they point out — correctly
THE ISSUE OF EXISTENCE
82nd Airborne Division in the
came the era of Woodrow Wilson.
vember's presidential elections.
President Nixon certainly took a
United States. Secret arrange-
his hackers the Yiddish newspapers • — that it is Congress that votes
Weisman, who arrived here for
hair-raising risk in 1970, and it is
Der Tag and Die Zeit — and with these funds, and Congress is Demo-
ments were made with the Greek
the ZOA's 75th jubilee convention
cratic, friendly to Israel, no matter government to provide
the rise of power of Franklin D.
staging at least debatable whether the risk which opened on Wednesday, pre-
what Nixon claims, and Congress areas and base support in case of was worth taking in the coldly
Roosevelt and especially the friend-
dicted a strong Jewish vote for
aids Russian Jewry as a matter of
;calculated U. S. national interest.
a move by U, S. troops.
ship of Harrs S Truman — Jews
Nixon on the basis of three "prin-
principle )
Mr.
Nixon
made
an
enormous
became almost a one party people
A FLEET MOVES EAST
cipal
accomplishments" of
the
There is that major national
commitment to Israel and gained
It was not necessarily a Jewish
At the same time, the U. S. Sixth
Nixon administration in the Middle
vote: it was a trend toward ultra- concern: the domestic educational
Fleet in the Mediterranean was no comparable commitment in re- East.
turn. But it does not require much
liberal's/it. pro-labor, strongly fav- and the busing issues! Jews share
heavily reinforced with aircraft
Ile said these were the initia-
many fears that have been instilled
oring civil rights and the neces-
tion and extension of the August
carriers and their attendant task perception to see why the Israelis
sary legislation to eliminate preju- in the hearts of Americans in
forces. The Sixth Fleet was rapidly would much prefer a re-elected
1970 cease fire: the President's
dice against Negroes and to assure many states. They are concerned
public expressions and actions
built up from its normal on-station President Nixon to a President
about law and order: the flight to strength to no less than five car- McGovern.
equal rights for the Blacks.
- in support of Israel; and Mr.
The Israelis have one single-
Especially in the last few years, the suburbs is viewed as part of rier task forces. This very for-
Nixon's policy of maintaining a
the American tragedy of the last midable naval force began to re-
minded preoccupation — the con-
something new has developed. Thu
balance of military potential be-
tinued existence of Israel. To that
concern for Israel's security and decade. The fear in the hearts of , deploy toward the eastern Mediter-
tween Israel and the Arab states.
many
Americans
is
in
evidence
end,
as
Rabin
said,
American
the urgency of American aid to
ranean.
Weisman stressed th a t the
in the panic that has infected Jew-
deeds
are
much
to
be
preferred
to
Israel gave new imps-las to Jewish
American
presidential elections
The eyes of Soviet intelligence.
ish communities. Any attempt to watching from Tangiers and Gib-
American words. This understand- would not be an agenda item at
interests. There was admiration
for President Truman's friendship minimize this as a condition in
raltar, saw the ships funneling able preoccupation may be one the ZOA convention.
political occurrences wit prove a through the Straits. Ambassador reason — and a not unimportant
for Zionism and Israel. It was
Republican Sen. Jacob K. Javits
believed that President John Ken- social blunder.
Dobrynin, being absent, Soviet one — for the last-minute revolt of New York, who differs with the
nedy was friendly. President •
•
minister counselor Vorontsov hur- against the nomination of George Nixon administration on some is-
sues but is close to the President,
Dwight I) Eisenhower's role in
Nevertheless, the Israel issue is ried round to the State Depart- McGovern. -
said here that he believes Nixon
the 1956 Sinai Campaign did not
major, no matter how' the situation • ment. On White House orders, he
Now there is no doubt about a will soon instruct that the United
our him the love and affection of is studied. Stewart Alsop had an
was cooly informed that the Syrian
new
condition
in
political
ranks:
States Mission be transferred from
either the Jewish masses or the explanation for it in last week's
invasion endangered world peace,
for the first time since FDR a Tel Avis- to Jerusalem as a friend-
objecti,, non-Jewish students of Newsweek in which, writing under
and that if the Syrian tank force
great number of Jews may vote ly gesture to Israel and to improve
Middle Eastern affairs President
the heading "Why Is Israel for failed to turn back, the danger
Republican. -
the already good U.S.-Israeli rela-
L yndon Johnson's handling of Nixon?', in which he commented
would become acute.
But there is a youth vote, and a
tions.
Middle East problems in 1967, dui-- on two matters — that Golda Meir
On Sept. 22, after a Jordanian
prevailing
liberal
sentiment,
and
Javits said there would he no
In,: and after the Six-Day Wars
favors Nixon's re-election and that counterattack, the lead tanks in
a concern for retention of the two-
advance announcement of the
ertamls enlisted hint among the Israelis' pro-Nixon views have the Syrian force made a 180-degree
party system: many pleaded that move, as it could disrupt the del.
strung defenders of the Israel been conveyed to Jewish leaders
turn, Within the next few days. the
ideal American cause convincingly , icate situation in which the U.S.
democracy in a world crisis
in the U. S — that both points whole Syrian invading force
during
the telethon. I is a potential mediator.
During the past 12 years, while have been denied but, Alsop•• scuttled hack across the border.
the speculations were in progress claims, both are true. Ile asks
Thus ended the most dangerous
regarding diplomatic atitudes to
Why? And to answer it he goes
crisis of recent sears. Like the
wards Israel, while the Jewish back to September 197s ■ and re
Cuban missile crisis, it involved
state was in grave danger from , seals the following
the risk of direct confrontation
/lo b ar :: 11.1'.
Impotence at the United Nations,
between the nuclear giants. But
Th• hair •nis Oak c ill c
bark id.
haunt
threats of destruction from Arab
the
decisions were made in total
In that month, though very few
it I.,•
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ninn iir
ma
i
-
nations and terrorists and indiffer-
ttttt ann.
Americans were aware of it, there secrecy, and there was no public
fn.,.
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for, ,
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ence regarding an impending holo- occurred the most dangerous crisis drama like President Kennedy's
out Inn, I lc- nit ill
of his man hair:
caust from international diplo- of the Nixon Presidency. On Satur-
"Phial. Ina
rim::
nu.
address to the nation. So most
hair.
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macy, Richard Milhaus Nixon was
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ihe
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day and Sunday, Sept. 19 and 20, Americans were — and still are —
penal
Inc
linicol
pluck nit can
in a special spot - from 1960 on he •
blissfully
unaware
that
an
im•
a Syrian force of 250 Soviet-made
••• • ■ •• fr:
was viewed by Israelis as one of tanks poured across the border mensely dangerous crisis had
1 . You may stimulate the
now
that
Air-cooled
let
the nation's best friends. He
taken place.
into Jordan.
growth of additional hairs
Stream Electrolysisis avail-
visited Israel, he spoke in Israel's
around the one you pull
The Israeli leaders. of course,
able to you. This is the first
There was no doubt at all that
defense at a national Final Brith
out.
method of permanent hair
the invasion was masterminded by were very much aware of the
convention I Max Fisher accom •
2.
You may cause succes-
removal with everything to
the Russians — Russian advisers crisis, and of how' President Nixon
parried hint and introduced him).
sive generations of hair from
commend it Air-cooled Jet
controlled the Syrian army down had responded to it. That aware-
and the impression was given
the abused follicle to grow
Stream is faster, more com-
to battalion level, though the ad- ness largely explains Ambassador
everywhere that "Nixon is Israel's
coarser. longer, darker.
fortable.
visers . prudently left the tank force Rabin's recent undiplomatic state•
best friend "
3.
You may cause skin irri-
Electrolysis is the only
ment
on
Israeli
radio:
"While
we
at the border. There was no doubt,
tations, pits, scars.
Democratic politicians challenge
medically approved method
appreciate support in the form of
either, about the object of the in-
4.
You may make eventual
this contention They say it is in
to remove hair permanently.
vasion. It was to dethrone Jordan's words we are getting from one
permanent removal slower
America's interest that this coun-
Investigate this suprior spe-
moderate King Hussein, and re- I camp, we must prefer the support
and costlier by pulling the
nalixed service for the per-
try follow a line for which Presi-
place him with a fedayeen•dom- in the form of deeds we are get-
root
and
follicle
out
of
manent
improvement and
dent Nixon now gets major credit.
Mated, pro-Soviet regime dedicated ting from the other camp.•' ('on-
place -
confidence. You
we it to
Vet then• are Israelis who speak
sider the lessons of the crisis, as
to the destruction of Israel.
Such risks are needless
yourself to look your best .
of Nixon as the chief friend Is
On Monday, Sept. 21, Israel s they must appear through Israeli
ANNOUNCING NEW LOCATION
eyes, and it is not hard to see
Ambassador Rabin got a call from
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Israelis do to halt the invasion,
The 1970 crisis underlined an un-
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