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36—Friday, August 2, 1974

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

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Palestine Was Never Arab State

Editor, The Jewish News:
Will the cause of peace be
served by again partitioning
Palestine into a 19th Arab
state? Is the Arab claim of
"self determination" legiti-
mate, or is it being merely
used as a subterfuge?
Palestine was never in all
history an Arab state! Never-
theless, the "P alestine
Arabs" are still entitled to
"self determination," but
limited to one or more of the
five Arab states provided for
them for that very purpose
by the League of Nations, or
by Britain in "Jordan."
The "Palestine Arab s"
never requested Turkey dur-
ing its 400-year control to
establish Palestine as an
Arab state, nor did they so
request of Britain before
1948. They limited their ac-
tivities to acts of terrorism
against "Zionists."
Nor did these same "Pales-
tine Arabs" ever request
Egypt or Jordan to establish

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the areas of the Cis-Jordan
they occupied after 1948 to
1967 as a Palestine Arab state
as they now request, nor did
Egypt or Jordan do that of
their own volition.
Palestine was re-establish-
ed as a Jewish state to solve
a Jewish, not any Arab
problem ! Five Arab states
and Jordan were established
as very ample areas of land
to solve any Arab problem.
After establishing those five
Arab states, and removing
three-quarters of Palestine in
1922, and after failing to
establish an Arab state in
the tiny remainder of the Cis-
Jordan, now Israel, it clearly
appears that there is no
legitimate basis for their
present claims. Even if Is-
rael completely withdraws
as they request, the West
Bank will be occupied by
Jordan, and Egypt the other
parts, as they previously did
from 1948 to 1967.
Israel as well as the Jews
of the world are guilty of
keeping these false issues
alive by their failure to refer
to Jordan by its real name,
to wit Transjordanian Pales-
tine, regardless of what Hus-
sein calls this area.
SOL A. DANN
16 Sokolov
Jerusalem

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For thus says the Lord:
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Jacob, and shout on the top
of the mountains; publish,
praise, and say, 'The Lord
has saved his people, the
remnant of Israel.' — Jere-
miah 31:7.

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Defense of Rosenberg Verdict by Rifkind Draws Disagreement

Editor, The Jewish News:
The Rosenberg electrocu-
tion, discussed by the Hon.
Simon H. Rifkind, in an ex-
cellent law brief for laymen,
(JN, July 19) merits some
observations.
This was a time, it should
be remembered, when the
Justice Department was busy
hunting down subversives;
and, guilty or not, it was the
tragic misfortune of the
Rosenbergs that they had to
be tried at a time such as
it was, by a jury that was
undoubtedly influenced by the
cold-war public psychosis
then prevalent and by a
judge, upon whom the eyes
of the nation were riveted,

`Noninterference'
Demand by Russia
Hit by Ex-Envoy

Editor, The Jewish News:
The cutting off of the inter-
national transmission of news
in Moscow when the repre-
sentatives of CBS, NBC and
ABC were reporting events
relating to the dissidents —
dissidents who lost their sci-
entific and other jobs because
they wish to go to Israel —
was referred to as a viola-
tion of human rights and in-
terference in our freedom of
information.
This accusation was raised
by a spokesman of one of
the largest U. S. syndicates.
Does not Russia frequently
disregard human rights and
likewise interfere in our af-
fairs and that of other na-
tions?
President Nixon said in his
commencement address at
Annapolis last month, "We
don't expect them (the Rus-
sians) to interfere in our in-
ternal affairs and we should
not therefore interfere in
their internal affairs." But
the fast is the Russians are
constantly interfering in our
internal affairs.
Did the Soviet Union not
interfere in ours and other
Western nations' affairs and
even those of poor develop-
ing countries by encouraging
Arabs in their recent oil boy-
cott and the increases in
prices of oil? And isn't Rus-
sia putting pressure on us by
continuing military supplies
to North Vietnam and Cam-
bodia, and be approving the
Communist walk-out from
peace talks with Americans
and North Vietnamese — the
last time during the week of
June 18?
And is Russia really inter-
ested in peace in the Middle
East by continuing her sup-
ply of military equipment
there and by insisting the Is-
raelis give up every inch of
territory conquered in the
1967 war? Would the Soviet
Union give up any Japanese
territory she got as a result
of World War II?
And why does the UN be-
cause of Russian influence
sponsor aid to liberation
groups, operating under Rus-
sian and Chinese domination
throughout the world, includ-
ing the U. S., whose purpose
is violence and revolution to
change governments?
Isn't that interference in
many nations' affairs includ-
ing our own?
PHELPS PHELPS
Former U. S. Ambassador
to the Dominican Republic
and Governor U.S. Samoa

lest he show partiality to
Jewish accused.
Human nature being what
it is, the minds of the jurors
were not free from preju-
dice; and this should have
had a bearing upon the dis-
cretionary power of the pre-
siding judge with respect to
the sentence.
It is generally held that
the trial judge and the trial
judge alone makes the deci-
sion as to what the sentence
shall be, and that discretion
will not be reviewed if within
the limits of the lawful
penalty.
Granted that the supreme
penalty was within those
limits, there is no law in the
land that does not permit
the judge to administer a
lesser penalty; or once the
sentence has been pro-
nounced, for the trial judge
to reduce it.
Judge Rifkind cites the ap-
proval of the verdict by the
noted appeallate Judge
Jerome N. Frank. T h i s,
again, is not correct.
An appellate court cannot
approve a verdict by a jury.
It can only determine whether
the accused have had at all
times the scrupulous observ-
ance of their constitutional
rights of due process, and
whether there was some tes-
timony to support the verdict.
Judge Rifkind states that
the Supreme Court refused
to review the case, after
most painstaking care by
each of the justices.
This is absolutely true. But
if thereby is created the im-
pression that the justices
found the verdict and sen-
tence justifiable, that is not
true. For there must have
been applications only for

leave to appeal, and the
Supreme Court merely ruled
that there was no irregularity
in the proceedings below to
justify review.
In all fairness, Judge Rif-
kind should have touched
upon two other cases trans-
piring about that time. One
was in Detroit, when an
American citizen of enemy
extraction, harbored an
enemy fugitive POW who

Radomer Installs
Wolok as President

Nathan Wolok was installed
as president of the Radomer
Aid Society at its annual in-
stallation dinner at Cong.
Beth Achim.
Installed with Wolok were
Rita Ager and Helen Green-
berg, vice presidents; Mae
Weintraub and Liliann Katz,.
secretaries; Ray Weinman
and Esther Wolok, sunshine
chairmen; and Sylvia Edel-
stein, publicity.
The society will have a
meeting 8:30 p.m. Tuesday
at the Workmen's Circle Cen-
ter. Plans for the August
rummage sale will be made.
Refreshments and a social
will follow.

escaped from a prison cam,
in Canada. He was charge('
with treason in war time
and, if still around, is prob e.
ably serving out his life se:\z
tence.
Another was the case
Alger Hiss, an officer of
Department of State, whz
stood at the right hand ()
President Roosevelt Burin;
the famous, or infamou
Yalta conference.
He was also charged wit]
spying for the Soviets a
found guilty. It is belie'
that he received a sentL
of five years in jail. He ha
recently written a book abou
his case.
This case because of U.
position of the accused wa
even more aggravated tha
the Rosenberg case.
MANUEL MERZOD

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