UN Drags Mankind
Back Into Jungle!

Recognition to Terrorists and Terrorism
Marks Oct. 14 Action as Blackest Day
on Calendar of United Nations Assembly

U. S., Israel, Bolivia,
Dominican Republic on
Honor Roll for Justice

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October 18, 1974

Murderers Allowed in UN

Israel's Reply: No Comfort for Terrorists

Interfaith Protest Sounded in New York;
PLO Threat to Liquidate Israel Condemned

By WILLIAM SAPHIRE:
The United- Nations General Assembly voted 105-4-Monday, with 20
NEW YORK (JTA) — Anger swept through the Jewish community., and among abstentions, to allow the non-member Palestine Liberation Organization to
many non-Jews here Tuesday in the wake of the United Nations vote inviting the Pales-
address the UN on the "Palestine question." Israel, the United States,
tine Liberation Organization-to speak on the Palestinian question.
Bolivia and the Dominican Republic voted against the resolution.
"Israel will survive the vote but the UN may not," declared •Rabbi Israel Miller,
The countries that abstained were: Australia, Barbados, Belgium,
chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. "By
Burma, Canada, Colunibia, Costa Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, West Germany,
permitting the PLO terrorists to shoot their way into the General Assembly, the . UN has Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Laos, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Nicaragua,
destroyed whatever pretensions remained that it was a forum of adjudication of interna-
Paraguay, the United Kingdom and Uruguay. No votes were cast by Chile
tional peace," Rabbi Miller said.
and Honduras.
An equally bitter statement was issued by Sen. Jacob K. Javits CR.NY) who brand-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Israel Foreign Ministry issued a blis-
ed the General Assembly's action "an unwarranted and dangerous precedent. I con-
tering condemnation of the General Assembly's action. The ministry's state-
demn this action and I urge the President to do so," Javits said.
ment said the resolution was "illegal" and would not bind Israel in any way."
The lopsided majority given the PLO and the realization that for the first time in
It contained especially sharp criticism of the Western European countries
UN history such,a group was being accorded a privilege and prestige granted no other
non-governmental body, sent waves of shock and anger through veteran newsmen cover -- that had supported the measure, particularly France and Italy, which have
ing the world organization.
suffered Arab terrorist outrages on their own
Several correspondents were brusque and severe in
soil or in-their embassies abroad.
their questioning of PLO representatives at a press con-
The statement reiterated Israel's characteri-
ference called by the Libyan delegation shortly after the
zation
of the PLO as "not a liberation movement
vote was taken.
but the roof organization of terror groups whose
At the same time, Bayard Rustin, the civil rights
members have carried out murderous attacks in
advocate, announced a _protest demonstration Wednesday
Israel and abroad."
of young people, composed largely of minority groups
By DAVID LANDAU
The statement attribUted the lopsided major-
including blacks, Puerto Ricans and Jews, outside the UN.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli observers say. U.S.
i.ty in favor of recognition of the PLO to the present
Rustin referred to the PLO as "a blood-stained terror-
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's latest Mideast tour
ist gang whose leaders should be in jail, not addressing
parliamentary situation in the UN.
seemed aimed as much at easing inter-Arab differences
the UN."
It warned that the resolution could "disrupt
He said that "the Arab states who claim to be so as to draw the Arabs and Israelis closer to negotiations.
peace- moves in the Middle East and contravened
Well-founded reports of his talks in Cairo, Damascus,
concerned with the plight of the Palestinians have never
the United Nations charter because the PLO's
Riyadh, Amman and here in Jerusalem all point to their
given a single cent out of their vast oikse venues to help
covenant negates the existence of Israel, a UN
tentative and exploratory nature — with the political
the miserable Palestinian refugees."
member
state. "Every state would reject a resolu-
future
of
the
region
poised
in
the
balance
until
the
Arab
Rabbi Miller said that the presidents' conference was
tion
which
attacked the very- foundations of its
summit conference set to begin in Rabat, Morocco Oct. 26.
"gratified" that the United States which voted against
In this context, Kissinger is seen as intent on creating existence," the foreign ministry said.
the PLO resolution "has once again taken a stand for
The statement noted the votes of France and
a more favorable atmosphere in the Arab world towards
humanity and decency and against the cynical acceptance
further political talks with Israel. His mission is a "lobby-
Italy contradicted their. declared positions to not
of murder as the common currency of international
ing" effort in advance of the Arab summit.
undermine the continuing peace efforts - in the
politics."
Mideast observers feel that the general Arab climate
Ambassador John Scali, the -U.S. representative to
Middle East. Only a few weeks ago the French
discourages Egyptian . President 'Anwar Sadat from em- embassy at The Hague was seized and its ambassa-
the UN, did not participate in the debate that preceded
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Issinger M E. Trip
Results Still Vague

A documentary film about French collaboration in the Holocaust
is sweeping through a guilty populace in 'France.
According to New York Times correspondent Nan Robertson,
only 30 adults survived "The Great Roundup" of. 13,000 Jews by
Paris police 'on July 16, 1942.
Now the French are seeing it happen again, with themselves
as the villains.
That day is the subject of Michel Mitrani's latest creation,
"Les Guichets du Louvre" ,("The Gates of the Louvre"), the most
painful film of 1974 for the French.
Not fiction but reconstructed history, it is part of the tardy.
wave of films, books and articles through which this nation is con-
fronting—or papering over—its role in World War II. One such is
"Lacombe Lucien," the Louis Malle film that recently opened in
New York.
What has chilled French movie-goers about Mitrani's film
is that the Germans play no direct part. Nor did -they in reality.
The persecutors who carried out the Germans' orders were
Parisians, as were the mainly indifferent onlookers and neighbors.
The true story took place in the streets, courtyards and apart-
rrients of their own capital, with on-the-scene- footage used as docu-
mentation.
Francoise Giroud, the powerful columnist and new (. 5-Ninet min-
ister for the condition of women, said the "French talent for life"
has managed to conceal the "unpleasant realities" of the- Nazi
occupation. She said Charles de Gaulle, who evoked the glory and
the martyrdom of his wounded nation, "enabled us to erase it" and
"bury it beneath the sands of memory."

The realities became even more unpleasant, she said, by not
having been perceived, discussed and faced up to in time.
She has spoken and written that "there wasn't 1 per- cent of
the population that joined the resistance but I swear there were
50 per cent who would have risked their necks for a pound or two
of butter."
Complicating all this in the French psyche is the cur-rent trend
called the "retro" vogue that romanticizes the occupation years,
and other eras.
, Young Parisians are buying second-hand German leather coats
and wartime-era GestapO-style raincoats.
Interviews disclosed a kind of nostalgia. among young people
who had never lived, through the war, wh6 are bored by today and
feel they have been somehow cheated of a fascinating and demand-
ing adventure through which their parents lived.
It can reach bizarre limits. For example, Paris-Match recently
carried an article with new=found photos of daily life under- the
Nazis headlined: "The Retro Mode Discovers Occupied Paris in
Color."
-
The article said Europe was delving into its past, including
"the nineteen-forties with the mode of yellow stars for Jews and
gray-green tunics and cleated boots for men." -
Fashions and hit songs from the occupation have been revived.
And, at the same time there has" been desecration of French syna-
gogues, cemeteries and the postwar Paris monument to the "Un-
known Jewish Martyr," representing millions of those murdered
by the Nazis.
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