McGovern Draws Support From Jewish Ranks

After McGovern hail triumphed,
Ribicoff and Mandel were an-
nounced as members of the party's
official delegation tkat will for-
mally inform McGovern of his
nomination. Mandel is one of three
Jewish governors, all of them
Democrats The others are Milton
Schaim of Pennsylvania and Frank
Licht of Rhode Island. Licht was
chairman of his state's delegation,
which cast all of its 32 votes for
McGovern Previously. it also up-
held the seating of the full Cali-
fornia delegation committed to
McGovern in the floor fight Mon-
dao night on its credentials. Man-
del
also personally headed the
Maryland delegation, but it failed
to deliver a majority for McGov-
ern. giving him 13 votes and 38
to Alabama Gov. George C. Wal-

lace

Pennsylvania's delegation gave
Sen . Jackson 86i-z votes and Mc-

Govern 81. Maryland and Penn-
sylvania have large Jewish com-
munities. California, whose Jew-
ish population is about 1,000,000,
half of them in Los Angeles,
started the McGovern triumph by
casting all of its 271 votes for Mc-
Govern. New York, which gave
McGovern '203 of its 274 delegates,
has more than 2,500,000 Jews.
Massachusetts and New Jersey.
both with large Jewish communi-
ties, went for McGovern, too,
the Bay State giving him all of its
102 votes and New Jersey a big
majority, R9.
Robert Abrams. Bronx borough
president, who joined in speaking
on behalf of a Jackson-sponsored
amendment to the platform's plank
on support of Israel against pos-
sible Soviet pressures, identified
himself in announcing New York's
big vote for McGovern. These two
actions also increased Jewish visi-
bility in McGovern's camp.
On the last afternoon of the,
convention. a "Jewish affairs semi-
nar - for Jewish delegates and al-
ternates was
conducted by the
Democratic National Committee.
The committee's press statement
reported that "300-plus Jewish
delegates" -were at the convention
but only a fourth of that number

appeared at the seminar.
The meeting was planned to
"quell the wide-spread effort to

use the question of American-Is-
raeli relations to cause polariza-
tion among Jewish voters "

"Nothing could be more disas-
trous for Israel and the 5.000.(00
Jews in the United States," Sen
Itilitcoff warned the seminar. - if
t he President of the United States
isire elected on what is good for
Israel

Then, speaking of Israeli
Lmerican relations, Ribicoff said
that not until Nixon's meeting at
the It bite House on Dec. 2 with
Premier Golda !Heir did Nixon
"discover that the Rogers plan
had to he changed."
Ribicud- f apparently was refer
ring to Secretary of State Rogers'
discussions of the Arab-Israeli dis
pule at the General Assembly t wo
months earlier in which he re
(erred to Israeli withdrawal from
territory occupied in the Six Day:
ar as one of the points barring
negotiations The United States
.;r , ‘ ern inent•s policy continues to
bo based on Si' urity Council Beso
luhn 2.1].! of November 19C:
Jewish officials prominent in
the party's administrative mach- I
Mery at the convent ion included

Harvard professor Richard Neu•
stadt, chairman of the 150-mem-
ber platform committee who led
the defense of the platform dur-
ing the all - night discussion. He
was the chief architect of the

platform.
Mrs. Patricia Roberts Barns. a
Washington lawyer who is a for-
mer ambassador and is on the
boards of several major business
corporations, was chairman of the
committee on credentials which
handled the all-important fights in-
volving principally the California
and Illinois delegations.
Also on the podium during the
long debate was the platform com-

mittee's executive director. Philip
F. Zeidman, who was born. in
Birmingham, Ala., and now prac-
tices law in Washington. The gen-
eral counsel of the party's legal
staff is David Ginsberg, a Wash-
ington, D.C. lawyer.
Since the Miami convention, the
pro-McGovern Jewish
faction is

gaining momentum.
Nationally, such prominent fig-
ures as Prof Abraham Deschel,
Rabbi Balfour Brickner and many
others have joined the McGovern
ranks.

In Detroit, Harold Berry. state
treasurer of the McGovern cam-
paign, and a group of his asso-
ciates have staunchly supported
McGovern's campaign or the nom-
ination and continue to work for
his election.

in?, his support for Israel and was
now working to satisfy the Ameri-
can industrial-military complex.
Lebanese newspapers complain-
ed that McGovern had made a
"last-minute switch" on Israel,
which, they said, resulted from a
meeting with Israeli Ambassador
to the U.S. Dilate Rabin.

Al Baath, the organ of Syria's
governing Socialist Baath Party,
said the Democratic platform was
"added proof that no American
government can adopt an even-
handed policy toward the Arab-Is-
raeli conflict.

Meanwhile, Soviet Communist
Party newspaper Pravda accused
McGovern of ' encouraging 'Nre
extremists in Tel Aviv."

The Moscow newspaper called
Sen. McGovern's policies inconsist-
ent in a dispatch from its corres-
pondent, who covered the Demo-
cratic National Convention.
According to Pravda, McGovern
"refrained from putting forward
any concrete ideas on his earlier
proposals to reduce military spend-
ing and military commitments by
the U.S. abroad."
The Pravda dispatch added,
"Like many other leaders of the
Democratic Party, the senator
favors continuing American mili-
tary aid to Israel, which urges
on the expansionist plots of the ex-
tremists in Tel Aviv."

Eban Sees New Pressures
on Israel in '73: Confident
of Continued U.S. Support
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Foreign
In his acceptance speech at the
Minister Abba Eban has warned
Democratic national convention
last week, - Sen. George McGovern that Israel could expect new poli-
gave a pledge for support of tical pressures and possibly mili-
Israel's security. His reference to •• tary action at the beginning of
Israel was included in the follow-
1973.
ing:
He said that any new American
It is necessary in an age of administration might be expected
nuclear power and hostile forces
to adopt a vigorous policy aimed
that we be militarily strong.
at getting results in ending the
America must never become a
Middle East impasse, But the for-
seccnd-rate nation. As one who eign minister added, "I have faith
has tasted the bitter fruits of our
that the principles on which the
weakness before Pearl Harbor in
American policy has been based
1941, 1 give you my pledge that
during the past five years will not
if I become the President of the
be disregarded."
United States, America will keep
Eban addressed the 150 mem-
its defenses alert and fully suf-
bers of the Labor Party Secre-
ficient to meet any danger.
tariat here.
Sen. Abraham Ribicoff (D.
"We will do that not only for our-
Conn.) warned in a taped televi-
selves but for those who deserve
and need the shield of our strength
sion Interview broadcast here
—our old ailies in Europe and
that President Nixon. if re-elect-
ed in November, could well make
elsewhere, including the people
a deal with the Russians to im-
of Israel who will always have
our help to hold their Promised
Land."

McGovern's Statement
on Israel in Acceptance

Rabbi Lehrman Recalls
McGovern's Positive
Attitudes on Israel

Recalling the address Senator
George 'McGovern delivered at
Cong. Bnai Moshe three years ago,
Rabbi Moses Lehrman debunked
charges that the Democratic nomi-
nee for President had ever wavered
on U.S. military and economic
assistance to Israel.
"In his address at our syna-
gogue," Rabbi Lehrman said,
"Sen. McGovern was emphatic
on America's role in the Middle

East
lie commended Israel as a
democracy and as the friend of

the United Slates and he favored
every possible effort to assure con-
tinuation of that friendship. I had
an intimate chat with the sena-
tor, and I never doubted his sin-
cerity in supporting the cause of

our embattled kinsmen "
Arabs l'nhappy With McGovern;
Soviets Not Too Pleased Either
LONDON—Arab newspapers are

displeased with the Democratic

Party•s choice for l S. President.
as well as its party platform_
Sen. George MGovern and the
Demmirats have become "a 171C re

poppet for Zionist anti Israeli poll-
cies. - stated the Cairo newspaper
Al Akhbar. It charged that the
Democratic 110111111Pe is as increas

pose a peace on the Middle East.

He said he did not know why the
Israelis were making "a great
hero" of Mr. Nixon since it was
only after December 1971 that his
record became favorable to Israel,

Ribicoff defended McGovern's
the Democratic vice presidential
nomination but declined it, said he
resented "the attempt to make
American Jews into political
pawns."
Ribicoff defended McGovern's
Middle East position as "the best
for Israel-U.S. relations."

Eagleton Staunch Supporter
of Israel, Near East Report Says
WASHINGTON — Sen. Thomas
F. Eagleton, the vice presidential

AI's

candidate on the Democratic ticket ,
is a staunch and outspoken sup-
porter of Israel, the Near East
Report writes in its July Issue,
A few days after assuming of-
fice in January 1969, the senator
declared in a letter to I. L. Kenen,
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14—Friday, Jody 21, 1972
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Before the balloting began on
the third night of the conven-
tion. Maryland Gov. Marvin Man-
del delivered a slashing 30-min-
ute attack on the Nixon admin-
istration's record. That Mandel
was selected for this role was
construed by some as a bid to
attract attention to direct op-
position to the President by a
leading Jewish politician.

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