THE JEWISH NEWS The Latest UN Prejudicial Act Against Israel, and the Lame Ducks Editorials Page 4 A Weekly Review of Jewish Events VOL. LXX, No. 12 41,D 9 17515 W. Nine Mile, Suite 865, Southfield, Mich. 48075 424-8833 $10.00 Per Year ; This Issue Social Barriers and 5 O'Clock Anti-Semitism • Saul Bellow and the Glory of Jerusalem Commentary Page 2 November 26, 1976 'Talk With Me Personally' Rabin Replies to Sadat 'Peace Gesture' 1948 Officials' Rift in U.S. Recognition of Israel Revealed By JOSEPH POLAKOFF WASHINGTON (JTA) — Previously unpublished documents on American government policy related to the Middle East in 1948 appear to establish Clark M. Clifford, then President Truman's special counsel, as a strong man in the White House who persuaded the President not to relax his determination to uphold the United Nations partition of Palestine and recognize Israel as a sovereign Jewish state despite the virtu- ally unanimous opposition of the American toreign affairs establishment. The documents covering 1,197 pages were re- leased Saturday by the State Department as part of its Foreign Relations Series that has been published con- tinuously since 1861 as the official record of U.S. foreign policy. The volume of memoranda, messages, reports and instruction of the utmost secrecy begins in the aftermath of the partition resolution adopted by the UN General Assembly Nov. 29, 1947 and continues through the fol- lowing year that saw Israel born, but the attempts within the Administration to stifle it continue right up to Tru- man's astounding election victory in November, 1948. The publication includes material that the State Department said has only recently become available in the Truman Library in Indepen- dence, Missouri and "elsewhere." The bitterness of the opposition to Clifford may be measured by Secretary of State George C. Mar- shall's words to the President on May 12, 1948 — three days before Truman's recognition of Israel. In his top secret memorandum on the White House meeting that day, Marshall wrote he warned Truman that Clifford's counsel was TRUMAN "wrong." He added: "I- said bluntly that if the President was to follow Mr. Clifford's advice and if in the election I were to vote, I would vote against the President." Five months later, on Oct. 30, Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett in an "eyes only, personal" message to Marshall in London, forecast a "substantial" majority for New York Gov. Thomas Dewey against Truman in the impending election. MARSHALL (Continued on Page 6) JERUSALEM (JTA) — Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel made a personal appeal to President Anwar Sadat of Egypt Sunday for direct peace talks with Israel. "I have heard what you have had to say to others," he told Sadat, speaking at a closing dinner at the Knesset of the World Union for Progressive Judaism jubilee conference. "Now, what do you have to say to me?" "We are listening to them (the Arabs) very carefully," Rabin said, reacting to the Arab peace offensive of recent weeks. "We noted that the word 'peace' is mentioned quite a lot. This in itself is encouraging. What is not encouraging is that the word is never addressed to us." Rabin said (to Sadat), "You have explained your willingness to make peace with American Senators, Congressmen and other visitors, you have talked about peace with NBC, CBS and ABC — if you are serious about peace let us negotiate. Please, let me hear from you." Rabin said that no peace formula devised outside the region could take the place of the formula that must be devised inside the region. "On the contrary," he said, "outside initiative of this kind could prove fatal to the peace process itself." He said Israel was very willing to join in the renewal of the Geneva conference on an overall peace settlement. Rabin praised the Reform Movement for establishing the first Kibutz, Yahel, in the Arava. It is there along the almost empty Jordan Valley that the eastern line of Israel's development and defense must run, he said. At the United Nations last Thursday, Israeli Ambassador Chaim Herzog immediate) accepted a Jordan challenge to immediately begin peace negotiations. The Jordanian challenge, however, was conditioned on Israel's accpetance of the restoration of "the inalienable rights" of Palestinians. Rabin predicted over the weekend that Egypt would initiate a campaign next year for an overall settlement in the Middle East on Cairo's terms. Rabin said this will not pre- NEW YORK — In response to a protest by vent Israel from initiat- the American Jewish Congress, Alitalia Airlines ing her own proposals has agreed to discontinue a brochure promoting since the government its Middle East tour program that conspicuously has already adopted an YITZHAK RABIN avoids mention of Israel. overall concept for The airline acted after the AJCongress had achieving peace. Alitalia Will Correct Booklet 'Anomalies' charged that the brochure was "offensive" and that the omission of any reference to Israel was "deliberate." In a letter to Alitalia, associate executive director Phil Baum wrote: "We are distressed to note that nowhere in this booklet do you acknow- ledge the fact of the existence of the state of Israel, though indeed that country is the focal point of much of your touring in the area. "To underscore the deliberate nature of this offensive omission, the brochure includes a map naming all of the countries surrounding the Mediterranean — Italy, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt. And yet we are given to understand by your map that Jerusalem and Haifa are situated in an entity called `Holyland.' (Continued on Page 10) The Premier said he did not foresee "real" politi- cal moves in the Mideast before next spring. He said Sadat's "peace offen- sive" was primarily a propaganda and not a political move. But Rabin added that Egypt's peace initiative in 1977 would come with the passive and perhaps the active support of Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Rabin said Sadat ex- pressed his readiness for (Continued on Page 18) ANWAR SADAT Eban Upholds 'Freedom of Choice' Principle for Russian Jews By ABBA EBAN Zionism has an absolute obligation to the interests of every Jew, in rectitude or in error, for better or for worse. The obligation is transcen- dent and all-embracing. It springs to our conscience from the depths of our tragic history. And it is sustained by memories too poignant to discard. Aliya is a unique and translatable idea. But it is totally incompat- ible with any concept of coercion. If it lacks the voluntary impulse it becomes devoid of its nobility. Nor is there much prospect of durabil- ity in a sojourn in Israel engendered by the pressure of deprivation imposed by a docile but reluctant American Jewish decision. The moral implication is intolerable. Former Israel Foreign Minister JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis and American Jews alike believe that Jews who emigrate from the Soviet Union to the United States with Israeli visas do great disservice to the central interests of the Jewish people. They exchange the idea of a Jewish homeland for the opportunistic notion of individual welfare. They bring discredit on the powerful historic theme in the name.of which their deliverance was secured. They reward the state of Israel for their own redemption by reducing the dignity and authenticity of the very statehood which has served them in their ordeal. Every resource of persuasion and incentive should be put to work to bring this moral paradox to an end. Yet with all the severity of this judgment I hope that American Jewish organizations will reject any advice to withold aid and com- passion from Soviet Jews who reach a free haven anywhere in the world. The deepest issues of Jewish fraternity are here at issue. Since our Jewish relationship is fraternal it imposes an unconditional sol- idarity. ABBA EBAN American Jews who have shown an infinitely smaller tendency towards aliya than Soviet Jewry have no right to compel Soviet Jews to fulfill an obligation that American Jews ignore with such totality. The American Jewish kettle is not entitled to call the Soviet Jewish (Continued on Page 12)