mu oo ,n» JUN -» 1958
Vol. XLVI—39
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY Lincoln.
Pubiii-utifHi o r i i i T l o i N n , a n n s t . O m a h a . NclJ. USltW. P h o n e 3 S I
Egypt Denies U.N. Permission To Probe Treatment of Jews JERUSALEM (JTA) — Egyptian refusal to af;ree to permit It United Nations envoy to investigate the treatment ofs the remaining Jews in Egypt ' " i e reason ior Secretary-General U Hiant's delay in naming a special l eprcxentativa to report on the situation of the civilian population m •*!»{« ari>as held by Israel after the Six-Day War.'The appointment was to have been made under a Security Council 'resolution. Israel had agreed to give the UN representative facilities to study the situation in the occupied areas on the understanding that the e n v o y would also report on the situation of the Jewish minorities in the Arab lands involved in the war. Rcfess! Eijypt' according to information here, has refused to give
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the proposed UN envoy means to make a first-hand study. Syria, it'was learned, did not even answer the United Nations' request. Mr. Thant announced his intention to nominate a special representative almut>t on tha eve of the reconvening of the General Assembly last spring. He has not, however, announced the appointment. It wax recalled that a special envoy representing the Secretary-General, Nils GorenGussing, who had been similarly charged, completed his mission last December without having been ^remitted by either Egypt' or Syria to study the .Jewish situation in those countries. (According to a report in Paris tlje E g y p t i a n , Syrian and Jordanian Governments have also relused to allow Karl Brimnel. a Swiss, special representative of UNESCO, to inspect cultural properties belonging to the Jews now sequestered in these states. The Israel Government had asked UNESCO to inspect 97 such properties in t h e s e states and in Lebanon, but only Lebanon permitted the UNESCO delegate to make an inspection. The other three governments refused to give him access to the properties, M. Brimnel disclosed here.)
The first session of tha 1988 summer camping season t»t the Eslher K. Newman Camp will open, Monday, July I. Omaha campers attending the first session will depart from the parking lot of Temple Israel. Monday, July 1, at 9 a.m. C a m p R r» are urged to be prompt, so that the bus can leave on time. Baggage should be brought to the Temple Israel parking lot on Sunday, June 30, from 10 a.. m. till noon. Baggage will then be transported to camp by New York UTA)—A hostile truck and placed in each child's audience of 2,000 Jews booed cabin prior to his arrival on and hooted Chief Rabbi Yehuda Monday. Leib Levin of Moscow at a public meeting here last week in protest ftgainst his many- diiclaimers of anti-Semitism in th: Soviet Union. Repeatedly during his lengthy address, delivered in Yiddish, the highly TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli emotional audienca yelled "lies" forces killed 16 Arab marauders but an equal and possibly larger in two widely separated clashes, segment of Rabbi Levin's lissmashing what wan apparently teners showed mortification over »n attempt by saboteurs Mid the catcalls and tried to hush terrorist* to penetrate d « p into them. Israel territory. Ons Israeli solRabbi Levin and Cantor Dad>er was killed and another was vid Stiskin of Leningrad cants injured in one of the encounters, os guests of the anti-Zionist a military spokesman reported. American Council for Judaism He said the clash wets the fiero- for n visit which was marked est in weeks. by controversy from the time
Ssraeli and Arab Clashes Centime
LONDON (JTA) — Four Jor- held a p r e s s conference in danian lawyers designated to w h i c h he appealed to Pops come to tho United States to de- Paul VI and "the conscience of fend Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, ac- the world" to secure a fair trial cused slayer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, cancelled their pro- for his con. The elder Sirhan, according; posed trip thisVeek. The matter had been discussed in diplo- to Amman dispatches, told the matic contacts between Jordan newsmen that he regretted the *sd H>« United States, it was death of "Kennedy tho human being" bm thai ilre "Senator's reported in Washington. No explanation was given for "unbalanced" support of Israel the cancellation when it was in his presidential campaign announced in Amman following statements provoked the sensi• meeting that involved Pre- tive feelings of Sirhan who liad mier B a h j e t al-Talhouni. A suffered much from the Jew«." statement «aid that "after con- The alleged assassin's father sulting some fellow lawyers in dwelt at l e n g t h on what he neighboring Arab countries who claimed were his son's "painful will undertake to defend Sirhan memories" of the 1948 Palestine on behalf of tbe Arab Lawyers war. Federation" tho decision was The Washington Post carried t a k e n for the Jordanians to a d i s p a t c h from Jerusalem drop out of the case. quoting neighbors of the Sirhan Father Coming to U.S. family who said that the elder Meanwhile, Sirhan'a lather, Sirhan was a cruel father who Bishara Salameh Sithan, went "once beat one of his sons until to Amman to draw funds from the boy w u -unconscious and his bank account for his pro- chased away neighbors who jected trip to Los. Angeles and •sought to intervene."
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The J o h n s o n Administration has come u n d e r lire from some iueiiiberi of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee lor selling Phantom jet fighter-bombers to Iran but refusing to sell them to IarAel, Sen. John J. Sparkman, Alabama Democrat, pointed out at a Senate hearing with Department of Defense witnesses present that Iran wan sold Phantoms even though the Siah recently
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signed a $l">(l million agreement to buy Soviet arms and is receiving Russian technical assistance. Sen. Stuart Symington, Missouri Democrat who formerly served as Air Force Secretary, said that Israel i3 in far greater danger than Iran yet the Executive Department refuses to sell Israel the same Phantoms provided to Iran. He suggested that an Administration decision to keep the Shah "happy" may have been influenced by the oil companies with investments in Iran. Kiplanution Paul C. Warlike, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affair.), said that the decision was taken to sell Phantoms to Iran on easy credit terms to help Iran defend herself against Egypt, Iraq and Syria. The Senators insisted that Israel was in far greater danger from the radical Arab states than was Iran. Mr. Warlike said the Stale Department had recommended and approved the Iranian transaction. On the issue of VS. jet sales
the Council announced it. The Soviet Government had shut presence of the two Soviet Jew- down virtually all seminaries for ish leaders evoked expressions rabbis, he said that the Governof rgret from Jewish organiza- ment had allowed opening of a tions that Rabbi Levin was be- yeshiva in Moscow but that, being used by Soviet authorities cause of "rationalistic education." Jewish youth, "has comto glo«» o'er mistreatment of pletely removed itself from JuSoviet Jews. daism and students for the yeDefeese of U.S.U.R. shiva are very hard to find." In his speech at Hunter ColReactions lege, Rabbi Levin generally deThe American Conference on fended the Soviet Union's treat- Soviet Jewry issued a statement, ment of its Jewish minority and before Rabbi Levin speech, decited various areas of Soviet so- claring "we are saddened" that ciety -where Jews h»d risen to Rabbi Levin "has been obliged posts of distinction. Hs asserted to place a fine gloss over the that critic* of the Soviet Union real and tragic plight of Soviet •were "falsa prophets" who Jewry" and added that "we un"spread derogatory information derstand the difficulties under alx>ut the Jews in the name of which In is speaking and appretheir respective governments" ciate the sad rol» no must play." which had the aim of creating "strained relations among the governments." An apparently state-produced film on Jewish life in Moscow was shown during the program. It showed Rabbi Levin and his congregation at prayer, a ritual New York (JTAl—Thousands slaughterer at work, mateoh of Jewish young people, who baking, a ritual bath, and danc- have neither the desire nor aping In the streets outside the titude for advanced study are synagogue, apparently on Sim- attending college because of "irchat Torah. Rabbi Levin sleadi- rational fears" of "status-con\y denied any anti-Semitism in ecious" parents and that the his country, declaring that lack of college education will "fascism and anti-Semitism are create social and professional stringently punished" and that stigmas in tha children's adult "anti-Semitism is strongly pro- lives, a Jewish vocational exhibited," pert has charged here. Dr. S. Nonnan Fcingold, diHe conceded that the number of religious Jews was decreas- rector of the B'nal B'rlth Vocaing in Russia and asserted that tional Service, said also that Jewish schools had closed be- much Jewish parents must be cause parents did not send their educated not to push such chilchildren to them. On repeated dren toward ccrecrs requiring charges from the west that the college degree*. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Vocational Servico's ATTENTION NEWC0MEES professional staff. Dr. Feingold Newoomew-to tho commusaid that one result was that the Jewish 'Community "may hava nity, or those knowing of the arrival of newcomers, are many unhappy third-rate carpenter* or salesman." asked to call ths Jewish ComDr. Teinjold said that the tramunity Center, 3S2-13GB, ao ditional Jewish reverence for that th» mailing: list for the Jewish Press 3urd other mail- •ficholBrship was -one motivating factor among 'parents but added ings ot Jewish community interest can be kept current. <hat "there *ro to« many injstanoes where a Jewish young-
to Jordan, Mr. Warlike said that Israel Prime Minister Levi Eshkol had been consulted and had acquiesced in the Administration's decision to sell arms to Jordan. Mr. Warntke said tha Israeli Government'found U.S. arms sales to Jordan preferable to Soviet arms sales to the Hu»sein regime. Defense Department officials later explained that the defense establishment has no objection to selling Phantoms to Israel but that President Johnson has failed to ask the State Department to issue the necessary export licenses. They said that Johnson is apparently unconvinced that Israel really needs the Phantoms at this time.
On Israeli Ship Dover, England (JTA)—British police and harbor authorities are preparing to board the Isr a e l i freighter Avocadocore, when she arrives here in response to reports of an attempted mutiny aboard. The 5,955-ton motorship. owned by Maritime Fruit Carriers Ltd. of Haifa, in bound from Guatemala to Finland with a cargo of bananas. A company spokesman in London denied that there was a mutiny but admitted that there was u n r e s t on the ship over demands by some crew members for a ''free trada union." The Israel Seamen's Union is affiliated with Histadnlt, Israel's labor federation. The Israel Embassy in London confirmed that 11 member.* of the Avcesdosore'3 crew had "mutinied." but Israel Consul Raanan Si van told the press here that the crew members had "gone on strike" as tha vessel approached the English Channel. Ha said a company representative was due here from Israel with instructions to replace the 11 raen. A representative of the Israel Seamen's Union was also due here from Haifa. According to maritime law, a refusal to obey orders at sea is tantamount to mutiny.
I Sfnd!@nf§ ster, showing no desire w aptitude for advanced study, is made to attend college—any college—because his parents believe he will not be fully accepted by his Jewish peers without a college diploma."
Neo-lazi Parly Gains StogSh in Hermany Bonn (JTA)—Adolf von Thadden, chairman of the right-wing National Democratic Parly, predicted at a press conference this week that his party's membership would exceed 40,000 by July of this year and .would grow to 50,000 next year. Government sources have estimated the NPD membership now at about 28,000. The party, which .many Germans describe as neo-Nazi, has achieved substantial electoral successes in various provincial elections. It now holds seats in .seven of West Germany'* 11 Abater and expects to win atats in fli» Bundestag Slower foeuse) in next year'* national election*,