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State Department Attitude
on 'Zionist Treaty' Attacked
Editor, The Jewish News:
The "foundations for a
Jewish commonwealth" (to
e President Woodrow
ilson's phrase, less ambig-
-uous than the "national
home" of the Balfour Decla-
ration) did not start with
the League of Nations
(miscalled "British") Man-
-? ;ate adopted by the Council
Is July 24, 1922.
j r On July 7; 1920, when
"Palestine" as a political
entity was created, with the
appointment of the first
high commissioner, King
George V's "Proclamation to
the People of Palestine,
"gave as his "mandate" that
of "the Allied Powers," in-
cluding the United States.
It took President Harry
Truman's Oct. 28, 1946 let-
ter "To the King of Saudi
Arabia concerning Pales-
tine" to claim responsibility,
independent of Britain, for
the disposition of Palestine,
because of U. S. contribu-
tion to its liberation from
Turkish rule.
Before this time, partly
due to the prevailing anti-
Zionist bias in the State
Department, it was called
a "British responsibility,"
in the words of Cordell
Hull, Secretary of State
under President Roosev-
elt.
Now that President
Truman's statue at Inde-
pendence, Missouri, has
been unveiled, I would like
to see unveiled his letter,
denying the official Zionist
"position" of the U.S.,
based upon a treaty, which
his representative to the
U.N. cited.
In response to my in-
quiry, as to the meaning of
the Anglo-American
Treaty of Dec. 3, 1924,
which they keep calling a
"convention" as if, ac-
cording to Art. VI of the
Constitution, it were not
as much "the supreme law
of the land" as any other
treaty, I get from the State
Department the claim, in
effect, that President
Truman's interpretation
was wrung.
An official of the U.S.
Embassy in Israel cau-
tioned me not to regard
him as "infallible."
"There are people on the
third and fourth levels of
the State Department who
have always wanted to cut
my throat," wrote Tru-
man on his March 19, 1948
calendar.
Sidney Koretz
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Kissinger Defense
Editor, The Jewish News:
I read about a group of
Orthodox rabbis threaten-
ing to excommunicate
Henry Kissinger for coerc-
ing Israel into giving up lib-
erated areas.
Kissinger has to do what
the U.S government tells
him. I don't think he likes it
. . . but he must do what
the boss tells him.
As for eating non-kosher
food, it is a shame. This is
the U.S., not Krisilwka in
Russia.
Hyman Rotman
Sales Reported Up for Israel
Medical Diagnostic Machines
JERUSALEM — "De- -
spite stiff competition, sales
are going well and potential
builds up as more and more
people in the medical field
learn about the work now
under way at Ames-Yissum
in Jerusalem," said Dr. Mar-
tin Preuveneers, of London,
at the end of a week long
visit to Israel by a group of
5 technical sales managers
for highly specialized diag-
ostic systems.
Dr. Preuveneers is the
marketing development
manager for the U.S. Ames
o. European Headquart-
ers. Accompanied by sales
managers for Africa, Scan-
dinavia, East Europe and
Asia, he attended a "Radio
Immunoassay Training
Program," sponsored by
Amers-Yissum Ltd. of Jeru-
salem, a science-based in-
dustry jointly owned by the
Amees Division of Miles
Laboratories of Elkhart,
Ind., and the Hebrew Uni-
versity's Yissum Research
Development Co.
Ames-Yissum develops,
manufactures and sells
kits to monitor the thyroid
function in patients under
treatment for disorders of
this vital gland.
Guided by Amers-Yissum
research chief Dr. Amiram
Bar-Ilan and other staff, the
sales managers learned de-
tails of completed projects
soon to appear on the mar-
ket as ready-to-use prod-
ucts. These include two new
kits to monitor the health of
the fetus and placenta in
pregnant women, a new kit
to assist physicians in keep-
ing a watch on the body's vi-
tamin B-12 level, and a kit
that will warn doctors
against imminent side ef-
fects of digoxin, a widely
used drug administered to
cardiac patients.
Divorce Rate Up
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
The newly elected president
of the Rabbinical Council of
America, Rabbi Wurzber-
ger, says four , out of every
10 Jewish marriages in the
U.S. end in divorce.
He said the incidence of
mixed marriages on college
campuses has reached 50%.
Friday, July 2, 1976 41
Affirmative Action Pamphlet Published by Agudath Israel
NEW YORK — A new
brochure. "Affirmative Ac-
tion," which provides an or-
ganized overview of the af-
firmative action and equal
opportunity laws and their
effects of the past decade,
was issued by the Commis-
sion on Legislation and Civic
Action of Agudath Israel of
America. Written by Dr.
Bernard Fryshman, chair-
man of the commission, the
booklet is designed to pro-
vide insight in all aspects of
the reverse discrimination
Gifts to Budapest's
Jewish Museum
BUDAPEST (JTA) — The
Jewish Museum in Buda-
pest continues to receive
presents, often anony-
mously, from Jews in East-
ern Europe who want to
preserve the traditions and
mementos of Jewish life,
said the museum's director,
Ilona Beneshovsky last
week.
She cited the donation of
a pair of candlesticks which
had been used for the first
time 100 years ago at a
seder by one of Hungary's
best known rabbis, Reich
Koppel. She said the mu-
seum often received valua-
ble documents by mail per-
taining to the various anti-
Jewish persecutions Hun-
gary had known
The museum is one of the
largest in central or Eastern
Europe. It is regularly vis-
ited by guided tours from
Eastern Europe including
Soviet tourists. A large por-
trait of Theodor Herzl
hangs in the central Lobby.
problem arising out of the
manner in which affirma-
tive action programs are
applied.
"It is our intention to
help the average citizen de-
velop an understanding of
the total problem and its
effects upon him/her,"
stated Dr. Fryshman.
A special section of the
brochure deals with what
Fryshman terms the "ov-
erzealous and unique dis-
criminatory practices lev-
eled against Orthodox Jews.
More than any other
group, Orthodox Jews
have been discriminated
against. Until very re-
cently, there have been
entire industries (let alone
firms) without a single
Orthodox Jewish em-
Honorary Degree Pleases Sakharov
JERUSALEM — "Nat-
urally I accept this honor
with gratitude. I think this
honor is intended not only
for me but for those who
stand with me." This was
the reaction of Prof Andre
Sakharov upon learning
that the Hebrew University
of Jerusalem had decided to
award him an honorary doc-
toral degree.
News of the decision was
told to Prof. Sakharov in a
telephone call from Israel to
his Moscow home. The call
was cut off immediately
after this conversation, and
further efforts to make con- .
tact have failed.
ployee. What other groups
would consider 'tokenism'
would represent a major
step forward as far as this
community is concerned."
Fryshman has serious
reservation whether the des-
ignation of Orthodox Jews
as a minority would solve
this problem. To receive rec-
ognition as a minority,
would necessitate introduc-
ing religion as a factor in de-
termining status. In a coun-
try polarized on the basis of
race, ethnic origin, and sex,
further divisions on the ba-
sis of religion can be disas-
trous."
"We feel there is a need
for clarifying legislation
and hope that this docu-
ment will help stimulate
movement in that direc-
tion," said Fryshman.
WORRIED 77
Israel Can't Seek
`Algeria Solution'
NEW YORK (ZINS) —
Jacques Soustelle, the last
French governor of Algeria,
has written an article in
"Foreign Policy" stating the
French experience in Al-
geria cannot serve as the ba-
sis for a comparable resolu-
tion of the problem between
the state of Israel and the
Palestinians.
writes
Furthermore,
Soustelle, the Algerian reb-
els who took over the coun-
try have not honored a sin-
gle paragraph of their
agreement with France.
More than 1,200,000 Chris-
tians and Jews had to flee
from Algeria. Some 5,000 of
them simply disappeared
without a trace.
How you ' re going to say .
To your family and friends?
There's no need to buy cards,
stamps, envelopes and get
tired addressing them.
Manger Awards
Given in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The
Itzik Manger Award for
Yiddish Creativity was pre-
sented to four recipients in
ceremonies at the Habima
Theater here last night at-
tended by President
Ephraim Katzir. This year's
winners were the Israeli
poet Aryeh Shamri, the
Swiss poet Leiser Eichen-
rand, writer Eliezer Rubin-
stein and the Yiddish stage
actor Shimon Djigan.
Mayor Shlomo Lehat of
Tel Aviv surprised the audi-
ence by delivering his greet-
ings in Yiddish. He said that
the evening might mark the
end of the 70 year-old
"kulturkampf" between
Yiddish and Hebrew.
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