Appeals to Save
Syrian Jewry
Noted world leaders have joined
in appeals to rescue the 4,000 Jews
still residing in Syria whose lives
are in great danger.
Mufti's Crimes
The Ethnic Political Issues
Current New York controversy recalls Louis Marshall's objections to
appeals for "the Jewish Vot e"
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Western Powers indicted
as appeasers of Arab instigator
of mass murders in
collaboration with Hitler
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C ommentary, Page 2
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July 12, 1974
Red China's M. E. Role Defined
Iensihie USSR Arrangement'
,nvisioned by Sen. Joikson
New Obstacle Surmised in Nixon Report
Moscow Chief Rabbi Joins
Nixon, Kissinger and Soviet
Officials at Kremlin Fete
By TRUDE B. FELDMAN
MOSCOW — It took the splendor of the great
Kremlin palace setting to bring together Moscow's
Chief Rabbi Jacob Fishman; U. S. President Nixon
and Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger; Commu-
nist Party General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev;
Nikolai Podgorny, president of the Presidium of the
USSR Supreme Soviet; Alexei Kosygin, chairman,
Council of Ministers of the USSR; and USSR Foreign
Affairs Minister Andrei Gromyko.
They all met and exchanged conversation at a
sumptuous farewell reception at the close of Mr.
Nixon's week-long visit to the Soviet Union.
It was an extraordinary sight in the Kremlin's
gilt and white St, George's Hall. Bearded Rabbi
Fishman, wearing a wide-brimmed black velvet
yarmulka nd long, black coat, talked with President
Nixon in halting English. A beaming Brezhnev and
other Soviet leaders bantered—in Russian—with the
rabbi.
Dr. Kissinger conversed with the rabbi in a "Ger-
manese" Yiddish. After a short time, Kissinger ap-
peared to be ill at ease and walked away . . • to join
aides.
Rabbi Fishman, whose health has been poor,
told me that he is very optimistic about the plight of
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WASHINGTON (JTA)—Sen. Henry M. Jackson said that the People's Republic of China was less
interested in the Arab-Israeli dispute than it was concerned about Soviet power in the Indian Ocean,
that he was prepared to reach a "sensible arrangement" with the Soviet Union on the emigration issue
but that the Russians would have to show more "give" if a compromise is to be
reached on the Jackson Amendment. The Washington Democrat's comments were
made at a press conference upon his return from an official visit to mainland
China.
He said that Soviet interference with American news media during the Nix-
on summit visit, when they tried to report on the situation of Jews seeking emigra-
tion, was a "setback" to any arrangement with regard to the Jackson Amendment.
"They are not going to get MFN (most favored nation) treatment until they show a
willingness" to abide by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Jackson said.
He said that on his trip he found the Chinese not willing to talk in detail
about the Middle East except in terms of the Indian Ocean and what they see as a
Soviet threat to Iran and Pakistan. He said this did not indicate a hands-off pol-
Senator Jackson
icy by China in the Middle East. Jackson said he had discussed the Middle East
with Chinese leaders, however.
Naval Action at Lebanese Seaports Aimed
"China formally supports the
PLO (Palestine Liberation Or-
to Prevent Terrorist Incursions Into Israel
ganization); China formally
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Israeli forces went into action against Lebanese
supports the Arab countries
seaports Monday night in order to prevent further attacks by seaborne Palestinian
against Israel," Jackson said,
terrorists emanating from those ports against Israeli civilian coastal settlements,
adding, "I said formally. How
Information Minister Aharon Yariv. said here Tuesday. The action had been de-
much it goes beyond that I
cided upon after several reports had been received by Israeli intelligence of ter-
was unable to ascertain."
rorist preparations for such further attacks, another highly placed official said.
Referring to his amendment
had
set
out
from
one
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Yariv said that the three Nahariya killers of June
of the three ports attacked Monday night. "The aim of the action was to disturb
to the trade reform bill that
preparations for similar raids. There was also an element of warning and deter-
would condition U. S. trade
them not to collaborate with the
rence aimed at the local populace—to urge
terrorists."
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aDL Exposes Prejudicial 'This Is Liberty Lobby'
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'Activities; Detroit Station Among 126 Involved
An Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith survey revealed that some 126 radio stations around the country are
carrying "This Is Liberty Lobby," a daily extremist program controlled by a professional organizer of anti-Jewish groups
and publications:In addition to the current outlets, ADL said, a recent contract signed with the Mutual Broadcasting Sys-
tem will make the program available to Mutual's network of more than 600 stations. In the Detroit area the program is
heard over radio station WLDM-FM.
In making the survey public, Lawrence Peirez, chairman of ADL's national civil rights committee, said Willis A.
Carto, "an outspoken anti-Semite," is "the unpublicized force" behind "This Is Liberty Lobby," a five-minute broadcast
carried by most of the stations on a paid basis but on some as a public service. Carta is the founder and boss of Liberty
Lobby, a 16-year old Washington-based propaganda and lobbying organization which has become one of the most
active and best financed groups on the American far right.
Commenting on the new Mutual Broadcasting System tie-in, Peirez said "the contract hardly came as a surprise
since Mutual's principal owners, Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Gilbert, have contributed thousands of dollars to Liberty
Lobby since 1966."
John L. Goldwater, chairman of ADL's national fact-finding committee which conducted the survey, cited "This Is
Liberty Lobby" broadcasts during and immediately following the Arabs' October aggression against Israel as "typical" of
the program's point of view. He noted "daily attacks" on Israel and American Jews during that period, including de-
scriptions of Israel by the program's commentator, Bob Bartell, as a "a bastard state," charges that American Jews are
subversive and disloyal, and use of terminology "scraped from the garbage cans of professional hatemongers." In one
program, Goldwater declared, "writings of the notorious anti-Semite, Robert H. Williams," were used to "prove" libelous
statements against the Anti-Defamation League itself. He identified Bartell, the commentator, as also being president of
Tax Action, another of Carto's outfits.
Pointing out that "America First, a blatantly anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby pamphlet,".is offered at the conclusion
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Pope Reportedly Eases
Critical View on Israel
on Status of Jerusalem
ROME (JTA) — Pope Paul VI has apparently
dropped the Vatican's long-held demand that Jerus-
alem be internationalized and instead is asking for
international guarantees of the rights of Christians
and Moslems in the ancient city.
The Pope reportedly made his request during a
70-minute meeting he had July 6 with Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger at the Vatican in which the
Pope was briefed on the American-Soviet summit
talks in Moscow and the Middle East situation.
According to Vatican sources, the Pope stressed
to Kissinger that Jerusalem represented supreme
values for Judaism, Christianity and Islam and that
this must be taken into account in the future status
of the city.
The Pope reportedly indicated that the Vatican
is no longer insisting that the city be a separate
entity from Israel, Jordan or any Palestinian state
that may be created on the West Bank but that it
was not enough for Israel alone to guarantee that all
faiths have access to the holy places.