2—Friday, Oct. 6, 1972

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Purely Commentary

A Happy Time for Detroit Provided bktathe
Conquering Tigers . . Sen. Jackson's Major
Role as Protector of Jewish Rights in USSR

Senator Jackson's Analysis of Human Rights Principles vis-a-vis the USSR Ransom

U.S. Senator Henry L. Jackson again has taken the lead to prevent injustice and to place the U.S.
on the side of those who need protection of their human rights with his proposed amendment to deny
most-favored-nation status to any country that imposes ransom taxes on those wishing to emigrate. The
first portion of his proposal reads:
To assure the continuel dedication of the United states to fundamental human rights, and not-
withstanding any other provision of this act or any other law, no nonmarket economy country, shall
be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment or to participate in any program of the govern-
ment of the United States which extends credits or credit guarantees or investment guarantees, di-
rectly or indirectly, during the period beginning with thedate on which the President of the United
States determines that such country —
(1) denies its citizens the right or opportunity to emigrate to the country of their choice;
(2) imposes more than a nominal tax on emigration or on the visas or other documents re-
quired for emigration, for any purpose or, cause whatsover or
(3) imposes more than nominal tax, levy, fine, fee, or other charge on any citizen as a
consequence of the desire of such citizen to emigrate to the country of his choice,
He delivered a notable speech defining his views. He pointed out that under his amendment
"no country would be eligible to receive most-favored-nation treatment or to participate in U.S. credit
and credit and investment guarantee programs unless that country permits its citizens the opportu-
nity to emigrate to the country of their choice. Moreover, the amendment would require the President
to judge any report in detail upon the compliance with this condition of any country wishing to obtain
most-favored-nation status or U.S. credits. Such a report, updated at regular intervals, would make avail-
able our best information as to the nature, content, application, implementation and effects on the
emigration laws and conditions in the countries concerned." Sen. Jackson made these interesting comments:
"Mr. President," the Nobel lecture of the great Russian writer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, was re-
cently published in the West. It is more than an eloquent defense of truth and justice. It is more than a
sharp condemnation of tyranny. It contains the profound message that "mankind's sole salvation lies in
everyone making everything his business, in the people in the East being vitally concerned with what
is thought in the West, the people of the West vitally concerned with what goes on in the East."
"Mr. Pres'dent, the thought in the West is contained in our amendment. I propose that this great
Senate concern itself with what goes on in the East.
"We have received numerous reports of late about the intensification of state repression in the
Soviet Union. Intellectuals and other dissidents have been arrested_ and sent to labor camps, hospi-
tals and mental institutions. In Lithuania demonstrations by Roman Catholics demanding religious
and cultural freedom have been brutally put down. And the Soviet regime has stepped up its campaign
against Jews seeking to emigrate to Israel.
"The most dramatic violation of basic human rights is the recent decision of the Politburo to
demand a ransom from Jews wishing to leave the Soviet Union. The reaction to this decision in the
West has been one of outrage and revulsion. It violates our most deeply held convictions about human
freedom and dignity. It recalls to us a dark age when human beings were enslaved and traded as
chattel. In our own land it took a civil war to blot out that disgrace and vindicate the principles of
our Constitution . . .
"The fact is, Mr. President, that a decision to pay the ransom demand would be to submit to
blackmail of the most ominous sort. Where would it stop? Would it spread to other countries as aerial
hijacking did when first attempted and then emulated? Would the remnant of scattered minorities, Jews
and others, become the new medium of international exchange? Would we organize the agencies, arrange
for the planes and ships, transfer the foreign, exchange, negotiate the prices — in short, would we institu-
tionalize the sale of a whole people? I say no — and I ask the Senate to join with me in saying, No!
There will be those who will say, even as Mr. Brezhnev must surely have said to the President in
Moscow, that the action we are proposing is an intrusion in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union. To
this I would quote Solzhenitsyn: . . there are no internal affairs left on our crowded Earth.'
"The fact is, of course, that the ransom — were it to be paid — would be paid out of funds raised
primarily in the United States. That surely gives us the right as a government, quite apart for the dedi-
cation to our own high principles, to be 'vitally concerned with what goes on in the East'
"Mr. President, we Americans are fortunate to have at our service the greatest economy the world
has ever known. It can do more than enrich our lives. It can be pressed into service as an instrument of
our commitment to individual liberty. We can deny our vast markets to the Soviet Union. We can reserve
participation in our credit and investment programs — our 'internal' matters — to those countries who
accord their citizens the fundamental human right to emigrate. We can, and we must, keep the faith of
our own highest traditions.
"We must not now, as we did once, acquiesce to tyrrany while there are those, at greater risk than
ourselves, who dare to resist."
These facts must be made available to all Americans so that the protests against the USSR attempt
at blackmail might be checked at the outset. Will Russia cancel its cruel impositions upon her Jewish
citizens? Is there hope for human aspects in the treatment accorded Jewish citizens by the Kremlin? Why
is the American people being forced to resort to trade pressures to compel justice?
If there is a way of preventing the blackmail ransom attempt, it should be encouraged. Sen.
Jackson's amendment certainly appears to be the most powerful weapon against the Kremlin injustices im-
posed upon Jews.
There is every indication that a majority of the members of Congress support the Jackson view.
The encouragement given Jewish leaders this week by the White. House and the State Department add
heartening notes that there may come an early relaxation from the tensions created for Jewish emigres
by the Kremlin. Where there is life there is hope—even for surcease from troubles caused by Communist
Russia.

Members of Service Group Mission in Israel

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Play Ball ... Keep the Spirit of Good
Sportsmanship Alive in Our Land

We join in the cheers, and we are elated—because good
sportsmanship predominates on the American scene.
We salute the Tiger victory and hope that their season
will end after the World Series in the fashion of the past Tues-
day when the Eastern Division title was earned so gloriously.
The 54,000 on the field on the night of the triumph should
be judged like the 18 on the field—as people in quest for
success through merit: the best team wins!
What is happening here in the Tiger uniform is the sym-
bol of our land—making sportsmanship attuned to its deepest
meaning, providing opportunities for all, refusing to draw lines
based on race or creed, demanding equality for participants
and success for the ablest on the field of action. So let it be!
This is the spirit of America.
For such success, we are among the cheering for a glorious
team in our great community.

They Are Counting Our Votes

Never before, in the memory of even the oldest in our genera-
tion, has there been such scrutiny of the Jewish constituents of this
land.
Everybody—but everybodv!—is counting our votes. We are being
labeled. The pollsters seem to know how the large percentage of
Democrats voted in 1968 how many of them will this year be in the
GOP column, what troub'es us, why it troubles us, how politicians
are garnering attitudes and amassing opinions.
Sure—there is Israel and the Soviet Union and the parochial
school and bussing.
Even Israel and the USSR could be applied to the general public's
state of mind in a world that no longer suffers from distances. But
the One World of Wendell Willkie is being relegated to partisanship
and the Jew is being counted!
Interestingly—in the latest poll reported in Time it is stated:
"However the American electorate is sliced, by age or income, occupa-
tion or ethnic group, party affiliation or religion, McGovern leads
the President only among blacks, Jews and college-educated youth.
With the exception of the Jews and Germans. Nixon has held or
gained ground in every group and on every major issue."
As compared with a previous poll, the accompanying Time tally
shows Jews to be 32 per cent for Nixon, 52 per cent for McGovern
and 16 per cent "not sure"—accounting for 'a Nixon loss of 13 per
cent.
If the poll-takers are correct, then we are among the politically
revealed in the new tally, and the counting continues.
Fellow Jews: we are in the political limelight!
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Beware of Misrepresentations . . Avoid Most Abusive
Deir Yassin Reference in Best Selling '0 Jerusalem' .

Two authors have been honored, their work ("O
already had a place among best seller. -
gain;
ing a platform in Jewish ranks, as s,
synagogue pro-
grams and as recipients of Jewish aware — there have been many
who, influenced by much of great merit in this book. were misled
into overlooking a very abusive factor in the best seller. The Deir
Yassin story as handled in it is quite bad, misleading, serving an

evil purpose.

There were warnings, especially by Robert St. John. former De-
troiter Sol Dann who now resides in San Diego, Dr. Jacob Rubin.
author of important works on Israel, that "0 Jerusalem" will
be used
as propaganda by Arabs at the United Nations and in the press. These
warnings unfortunately have come to fruition. The Arab League is
at it again with the Deir Yassin story which has been utilized out of
proportion to spread hate of Israel and Jews.
There are facts about the Deir Yassin incident that have indicated
that the village that was destroyed _by the Irgun force
in 1948 was a
hangout for Arab terrorists, that the population was warned to leave,
that it retained its position in embattled fashion in spite of the danger
signs. Naturally, Israel condemned the death of the villagers. But
it was an act committed during the most serious months of Israel's
war of independence. It followed a number of Arab massacres—
especially the Hadassab team of nurses and doctors. It is not being
condoned, but in view of the many Arab massacres for which there
has been not a single apology the condemnations for Deir Yassin
have
assumed an unending campaign role to malign Jewry.
Fortunately, it is the only such tragic event for which Jews are
held responsible. Since it is the isolated instance of injustice, authors
of books like "0 Jerusalem" owed their readers better explanations than
they had provided annotatively. They owe a better explanation for
having offered themselves as tools in the hands of Arab propagandists
and they should correct their story in forthcoming editions and
offer corrective explanations to the reading public and to the audi-
ences they will address in Detroit.

Will One of Them

WA ecrsar anon

Members of the Detroit Service Group Israel Survey Tour sponsored an-
nually by the Jewish Welfare Federation are shown about to depart for the
mission to Israel and the Joint Distribution Committee's facility in Vienna.
In the group are Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Myron I. Milgrom,
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Edelman, Dr. and Mrs. Morris Shoskes, Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Brose, Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Schwartz, Mrs. Harry Kay and Mr.
and Mrs. Max Brose. Not pictured are Dr. and Mrs. Peter G. Shifrin, Mr. and
Mrs. Jacob Wachler, Mr. and Mrs. Norman Wachler and Harold Berke.
While in Israel, the group met with government and military officials in addi-
tion to an extensive schedule of visitation and inspection of UJA-supported
social services and agencies.

By Philip
Slomovitz

Replace Rabin?

Dinitz

Gazit

Simha Dinitz, political sec-
retary to Premier Golda
Meir, and Mordechai Gazit,
director general of the Israeli
Foreign Ministry, are under
consideration for the post of
Israeli ambassador to the
United States, according to
diplomatic sources in Wash-
ington. The current am-
bassador, Itzhak Rabin, is
expected to leave Washington
early next year and become
active in politics in Israel.
Dinh: is Mrs. Meir's chief
aid and political adviser, and
Gazit is former minister of
the Israeli Embassy in Wash-
ington.

