Logo Symbolizes Federation, 'ELM Anniversaries This symbol is the logo for the celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit and the 75th year of the United Jewish Charities. The symbol will be used extensively by the joint anniversary committee throughout the year-long celebration. Plans for anniversaries detailed in story on Page 8. HE JEWISH NEWS ,Slurs on Jewry in Distortions, Exaggerations Regarding Press and [kinking Commentary Page 2 VOL. LXVI, No. 14 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events_ Hanuka Greefings to Jewish Communities Everywhere ° Michigan's Only English-Jewish -Newspaper oeilk: 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year; This Issue 30c December - 13, 1974 71 Senators Unite Behind Israel, Ask Allies to Back UN Charter Indictment by Robert St. John: "We Live in ...the Most Iniri-wral Era in -History By ROBERT ST. JOHN Special to The Jewish News It is beyond argument that we live in the most militaristic age in the history of mankind. The U.S. stockpile of - nuclear ex- plosives contains the equivalent of 615,300 bombs such as the one we dropped on Hiroshima, killing 70,000 Japanese and burning and injuring 70,000 more. Seventy thousand times 615,300 equals 43 billion, plus. The popu- lation of the world, as of December, 1974, is somewhat less than 4 billion. Yet the __manufacture of additional lethal devices goes on! Also, we live in the most ma- terialistic age in the history of man- kind. In our greed for ever greater profit from the export of the Ameri- can way, which, of course, enables us to keep on increasing our own per capita voltage, wattage, amper- age, horsepower and -other quanti- ROBERT ST. JOHN titative measures of happiness, we failed to anticipate what would happen when the non-American 94 percent of the world began using and wasting natural re- (Continued on Page 54) WASHINGTON (JTA)—Seventy-one senators urged President Ford Tuesday to reaffirm the U.S. commitment to the survival and integrity of Israel and . to mobilize the allies of the United States towards returning the United Nations to the principles of its charter. In a letter to the President, the biparisan bloc declared that the Senators were "deeply disturbed by the United Nations vote to give recognition to the Palestine Liberation Organization and by the spectacle of Western apathy and disunity." They also said that the UNESCO decision to withhold assistance to Israel is a "shame- ful example of the transformation of the international humanitarian organization into a political weapon." The letter said, "These recent events dramatized the need for the United States to take the lead in organizing our friends and allies to resist political and economic blackmail in the future." Michigan Senators Philip Hart and Robert Griffin were among the letter's signers. At a news conference of nine -of the senators, Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-N.Y.), a leader in the movement for the senate action, disclosed that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had told the Senate Foreign Relations committee on Dec. 4 that "we have never suggested to Israel that it negotiate with the PLO as long as the PLO has not accepted the legitimacy of the existence of Israel." Sen. Javits disclosed this statement when he was asked what the Administration's position was thus far towards the PLO and the UN's recognition of it. Sen. Hubert H.-Humph- rey (D-Minn.), another prime mover of the letter, told the news conference that he and his colleagues were not recom- mending that the United States withdraw from the UN but that they did not want the UN-to go the way of the League of Nations in the 1930s—powerless and useless. Humphrey said he United States should speak out to its allies and friends that the UN must relate to member sov- ereign states and not to political movements such as the PLO. Humphrey pointed out, as did Sen. Henry M. Jackson (Continued oll'Page 5) An Open Letter to Dr. Waldheim Cites Israeli Respect, Arab Abuse of Holy. Places By THE REV. CLAUDE DUVERNOY, D.D. JERUSALEM— Sir, may I ask you to spare a few moments to read this letter from an Israeli Christian theologian who has been living in Jerusalem since 1962 and for whom the recent happenings at the UN General Assembly have been even more appalling than the contemptible Munich diplomacy of 1938. It is quite clear that Arafat and Co. would not haVe enjoyed such a monstrous success had they not murdered women and children, hijacked and destroyed civi- lian aircraft, had they not practiced that most despicable of crimes: the murder of hostages. In short, crime does pay at the so- called United Nations. Anti-Semitism, too. For it is sheer anti-Semitism to proclaim, for instance, that the Jews are desecrating the beauty and character of Jerusalem, their biblical capital. It is sheer anti-Semitism to assert that they are harming Christian and Mos- lem institutions and interests. It is only since June 1967 that the three Abrahamic religions are for the first time enjoying equality of respect and rights, with free access to all the Holy Places. Look around this ancient city while you are here, sir and see for yourself. uty? The reconstruc- What mars her bea tion of the Jewish Quarter fully respects the character and beauty of the Old City. But when the Jewish Quarter was destroyed by the Arab Legion, after the 1948 fighting, not a single voice of pro- test was raised by diplomats, Church leaders or - UN personnel. All the syna- gogues of the quarter were razed and turned into stables for donkeys. No one protested. Who is•lesecrating the Old City today? I would ask you to go and look at the marvelous Golden Gate, which means so much to Jews and Christi, n.4 ;Ake, a-.3 see how the Moslem authorities have turned it into the junkyard of the Mosque. To suggest that archeological excava- tions along the Wall are being carried out in order to destroy the places holy to Islam is. lunacy. But that is what UNESCO has decided. There is in Jerusalem a beautiful gar- den, with a unique tomb—the Hill of Golgotha venerated by the entire Protes- . tant world. Under the Hashemite regime, this hallowed ground was desecrated by the construction of a bus station. Who cared? Who protested? A few days ago, some 40 nations had the elementary courage and dignity to refrain from supporting the murderous claims of the Arafat - Faisal - Qaddafi - Amin gang. May I humbly suggest that these same democracies quit the "Man- hattan Circus," establish themselves in less polluted surroundings and leave the murderers and their backers to them- selves. You could take the initiative in this, Dr. Waldheim, or at least resign. As an Austrian, you cannot possibly wish to remain with an institution which bows to -the orders and desires of the heirs of the Nazis.