Vatican Reported Dropping 1974 Position
on Jerusalem Internationalization Issue
NEW YORK (JTA)—A re-
port that the press spokes-
man for the Vatican told a
press 'conference in Rome
last week that the Vatican
has dropped its 1947 position
calling for the internationali-
zation of Jerusalem was con-
firmed this week by Rabbi
Marc H. Tanenbaum, direc-
tor of interreligious affairs of
the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
Rabbi Tanenbaum told the
Je Telegraphic Agency
received a telephone
call over the weekend from
an official of the National
Conference of Catholic Bish-
ops, confirming that the
press conference had been
held and that the statement
on the Vatican's major shift
on the issue had been made
by Frederico Allesandrini,
the press spokesman.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said he
had been informed that Al-
lesandrini stated that the
Vatican is now interested "in
pursuing some arrangement
that will provide an interna-
tional statute or guarantee
for the holy plates" in Je-
rusalem.
Rabbi Tanenbaum said the
clarification was significant
because, in the past, Allesan-
drini has consistently fol-
lowed a pro-Arab line inter-
preting Vatican policy, "fre-
quently distorting actual posi-
tions held by the Pope and
the secretariat of state."
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The rabbi said that "this
statement makes it clear"
that Allesandrini "has been
called upon by higher author-
ities in the Vatican to make
his personal position conform
with the official policy of the
Vatican which has informed
us that they regard interna-
tionalization as unworkable
and untimely."
Rabbi Tanenbaum said that
view had been conveyed to
him in Antwerp last Decem-
ber at a meeting with Vati-
can officials.
Kollek Flays Government
for Neglecting Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (JTA)—May-
or Teddy Kollek has written
a sharply critical letter to
Premier Golda Meir upbraid-
ing her and her ministers for
once again disparaging Jerus-
alem's status as the capital.
He complained that David
Rockefeller, chairman of the
Chase Manhattan Bank, who
visited Israel on his way
back from Egypt over the
weekend, met with Mrs. Meir
and other top ministers in
Tel Aviv (See story).
Kollek noted that Rocke-
feller had said that the most
extreme expressions he had
heard during his travels
through Arab lands, and es-
pecially from King Faisal, re-
lated to Jerusalem.
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"We are no doubt giving
satisfaction to Israel's ene-
mies through the continuous
affront to the status of Je-
rusalem on the part of the
government and its minis-
ters," Kollek wrote.
He himself received Rocke-
feller in the capital--but the
banker went back to Tel Aviv
for his meeting with the min-
isters.
At a Zurich meeting of its
governing council, the World
Jewish Congress unanimous-
ly adopted a resolution in
which it called for the pres-
ervation of the unity of Je-
rusalem, praised Israel for
its provision of effective
guarantees of free access to
and the reverent safeguard-
ing of the holy places of
other faiths, and expressed
confidence that, in all circum-
stances, the freedom of wor-
ship for members of other
faiths and their right to ac-
cess to their holy places
would continue to be respect-
ed and implemented.
Fire Ruins Factory
HAIFA (JTA) — Carmel
Containers, the plant that
produced one-third of the
country's corrugated card-
board boxes, was. gutted by
a fire. Damage was estimated
at IL 30,000,000 ($7,500,000).
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