THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 1! , Friday, June 10, 1977 39 New Book Reveals Pro-Arab Bias Rampant in British Foreign Office By MAURICE SAMUELSON (Copyright 1977, JTA, Inc.) LONDON-Steps by Prime Minister James Cal- laghan to check the tradi- tional pro-Arab bias of the Foreign Office are revealed in a new book published in London. The book, "The Diplo- mats," reveals that when he became foreign secre- tary shortly after the Yom Kippur War, Callaghan told the Foreign Office that the new Labor government would not repeat the policy stated in Sir Alec Douglas- Home's Harrogate speech during the preceding Con- servative administration, which had inclined • Britain heavily towards the Arabs. Author Geoffrey Moor- house writes that Callaghan was acting on the assump- tion that the Foreign Office was "pro-Arab, pro-Catho- lic and pro-Europe almost to a man." He was stiffly told that the Office deeply resented the rumor that it fostered an Arabist "Mafia." However, Moorhouse's book-based on a two-year authorized study of Brit- ain's Foreign Service- more than confirms Callag- han's suspicions about the extent of pro-Arab in- fluence. In 1975, more diplo- mats spoke Arabic than any other "hand language"-182 fluent Arabists compared with 159 Russian experts and 35 who could speak Chi- nese. Most of them were trained at the Foreign Of- fice's Middle East Center for Arabic Studies, based at Shemlan, near Beirut, until it was temporarily trans- ferred to Jordan during the Lebanese civil war. According to Moorhouse, graduates of MECAS are a special caste within the dip- lomatic service. At one point in 1975, Arabists were the private secretaries to the foreign secretary and to three of his four subordi- nate ministers. "Some people outside diplomacy see this Arabist influence as part of a Foreign Office plot to weigh policy against Israel." The author says that even the Shah of Iran com- plained that the British For- eign Office was populated by "White Arabs." Arabists, on the other hand, were likely to say that every British diplomat emerging from Israel had been "brainwashed into an excessive appreciation of the kibutz and Marks and Spencer" (the Anglo-Jew- ish-owned department store). Moorhouse, who sees noth- ing sinister in the proximity of so many Arabists to the Foreign Office politicians, defines their outlook as fol- lows: "No Arabist sees Brit- ain's interest being best served by friendship to Is- rael and hostility to Arab nations. This. is not by any means the same thing as an attitude of hostility to Is- rael, though it can include a feeling that if only Israel were not there, the Middle East would be a much sim- pler place." The book-published by Jonathan Cape-recalls that in contrast' with Callaghan's more pro-Israel stance, George Brown - (now Lord George Brown), foreign sec- retary in Harold Wilson's first Labor government, transferred an ambassador from Tel Aviv "because he decided the man was be- coming too much of an apol- ogist for his host country." Brown too held the view that, belonging to a party with strong traditional sym- pathies _ for Zionism, and being himself married to a Jew "he could very well do without the Israeli argu- ment being rammed down his throat in every dispatch coming from his man on the spot." The diplomat in question is assumed to have been Sir Michael Hadow, who, on re- tiring from the Foreign Of- fice, became director of the Anglo-Israel Association and married a member of Illegal Arms Deal Forces Resignation VIENNA (JTA)- Austri- an Defense Minister Karl Luetgendorf was forced to resign May 30 because of an illegal arms deal with Syria. Luetgendorf, 62, an- nounced his resignation after more than five months of resistance against mounting criticism. Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, who included the non-party member into his Socialist cabinet, said the resignation was necessary because Luetgendorf was guilty of misinforming Par- liament. The affair started last December, when cus- toms officials at Vienna air- port stopped a consignment of 600 Marksman rifles and half a million rounds of am- munition destined for Syria. The consignment had been dispatched by an Aus- trian arms dealer, who lat- er turned out to be a close personal friend of the min- ister. When the arms dealer failed to get the con- signment out of the country because of Austria's neutral status, the Ministry of De- fense claimed ownership, but customs officials re- mained adamant. When the affair became public, Luetgendorf first claimed the ammunition was destined for Tunisia and that he knew nothing of any shipment to Syria. But a Parliamentary in- vestigation disclosed that Luetgendorf was informed about all the details of the deal from the very begin- ning. He was found guilty of misinforming Parlia- ment. Luetgendorf said he did , not feel guilty in all points but admitted that he may have made some mis- takes. Austria, because of its neutral status, refrains from exporting arms to any zones of conflict, especially to the Middle East. 9 the Marks and Spencer "family." Later, the Foreign Office was also embarrassed by the pro-Israeli attitude of Prime Minister Harold Wil- son whose public embrace of Premier Golda Meir early in 1974 raised the "blood pressure of the Arab- ists" and provoked the Egyptian National Assem- bly to freezing a number of commercial contracts with Britain which were on the point of being signed. It did not, however, pre- vent Britain from winning further large contracts with both ' Egypt and Saudi Arabia the following year. Fortner !Boardwalk 8470 N. TELEGRAPH, 1/2 Blk. 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