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Israel JERUSALEM (JTA)— Premier Golda Meir called a special Cabinet meeting this week to consider the latest developments in relations*betwecn Israel and the United States. Mrs. Meir called the meeting after reportedly urgent consultations with other ministers on what Israelis regard as a serious deterioration of tha . U.S. position in the Middle East conflict. The Israeli Government has been increasingly • concerned over the drift of American Mideast policy since Secretary Rogers' Dec. 9 speech in . which he proposed an Israeli withdrawal from . virtually all occupied Arab territory in return for • fin Arab commitment to a binding peace. The Israelis believe that U.S. proposals undercut their bargaining position in any future negotiations with the Arabs. Even more serious* they fear that Mr. Rogers' speech indicated t h a t America's stand is softening and edging closer to that of the Soviet Union. Israeli concern has been fed by the uncertain. ty about when the U.S. will respond to Israel's request for additional military equipment and economic aid. Mrs. Meir made the request when she met with President Richard M. Nixon.in .Washington recently. She reportedly returned
home- with the- impression that the President would make his decision by the end of the year. The State Department said last week that it would be made in 1970. Israelis fear that their request for American aid will be made contingent on Israel's acquiescence to a Four Power formula for a Mideast settlement. Nixon 'Disappointed' Dr. Henry Kissinger, President Nixon's top adviser on international affairs, has reportedly disclosed that the President is deeply disappointed and pessimistic over the chances of a peaceful Middle East settlement as the year ends,Dr. Kissinger told a selected group of journalists that the President was disappointed most, after a year in office, over his failure to obtain peace in the Middle East and Vietnam but wa3 more discouraged about |he Middle East than about Southeast Asia. Dr. Kissinger reportedly said the President placed most of the blame for the continuing Arab-Israel violence on the "unyielding attitude" of Soviet Russia. Nevertheless, the President is still striving to replace confrontation with negotiation, Dr. Kissinger reportedly said. He was quoted as saying that the passions of the Arab states and Israel have dampened
hopes that the Big Four can resolve the Mideast crisis.
Eban Voices Peace Terms London (JTA)—Abba Eban, Israel's Foreign Minister, told a press conference here that events had confirmed Israel's prediction that the Four Power talks on the'Middle East would be fruitless. He said that international policy for the area should have the goal of bringing tha two sides together for a settlement. He also indicated again that Israel had softened its demand for direct talks with the Arabs,, saying that Israel's policy was not "direct talks" but "peace" and that talks, whether direct or ot the "Rhodes" type—under an objective chairman—were considered only a matter of techniques once the principle of negotiation was accepted by the Arabs. He said he agreed that his talks in Washington last week with Secretary of State Rogers were cordial but emphasized that Israel was worried about "contradictions" in the U.S. attitude, particularly on A m e r i c a n .suggestions about Israel-Egyptian boundaries.
Heroism Honored Plelur* •) fl9ht. * - their; lives. The "Maison du VI- Four Christians who risked caire" became known as the - their lives to save hundreds of "Angel'Mome," and when the -Jews during the Nazi holocaust Gestapo conducted searches, •Were honored December 13, at Father Andre's vigilance avertthe Annual National Confer- ed disaster.•>. ' • ence of the, United Jewish' Ap-1 In 1944, after being warned > peal. The honoreea included that the Nazis were about to •Father:Joseph Andre of Bel- : arrest him,.he disappeared but gium; "Herman Graebe, for- continued to run his home from merly of Germany and now living in the United States; Dr. a distance. For two years prior Adelaide Hautval of France, to his departure, Father Andre and Dr. Willem Sandberg of did not sleep in a bed; lie had given this up to those he- had Holland. -decided to save. When the Nazis began to' When the Nazi holocaust was round up thousands of Jews in . Belgium in 1942, Father Andre in full swing, Herman Graebe was priest of the parish of St. was a director "of a German John the Baptist. Sheltered by construction company. In this him, scores of Jews owe him capacity, he saw to it that Jewish employees escaped' arrest by the Nazis. Graebe was the only German to testify for the prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials. Now a resident of San Francisco; he continues to'hunt ~ Holiday Inn, Inc. will build down Nazis still at large. Shortly after the Nazis octwo luxury hotels .of 500 to 600 cupied France, Dr. Adelaide rooms each, in Israel. The hotels will be wholly Hautval, then a young psychiaowned by a local company set : trist, was arrested for, travelup by the corporation. The to- ing without proper documents tal investment has been esti- and sent to a French prison. After protesting the treatment mated at $22 million. Holiday Inn is a new major of Jewish prisoners there, she international hotel chain to be was transferred to Auschwitz. Four times at Auschwitz, Dr. active in Israel, joining Hilton Hautval.wa,i ordered to conduct and Sheraton. "medical" experiments on Jewish Inmates. Four times she re-s fused. When the Nazis occupied France, Dr. Willem"Sandberg,'" then director of Amsterdam's City Museum, helped print .Jerusalem (JTA) — The thousands of forged identificaKnesset " has voted unanition cards and distribute them mously to extend the age of to Jews who could then pass eligibility for military draft as Aryans. to persons aged 45-51. The Despite the excellent forbill, which passed its first geries, he and his colleagues reading, also extended the realized that the cards could validity of emergency regus still be checked against the lations governing draft age files in the Nazi registry office. to the end of 1970, . They therefore formed a small Defense Minister Moshe band and, in a daring raid,' Dayan said the older age blew up the office and degroup would serve in civil stroyed the files. Of the 22 who defense and that the bill was launched tha attack, only Dr. intended p r i m a r i l y to Sandberg and one" colleague strengthen the civil defense escaped arrest and execution
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Four Christians who helped save hundreds of Jews from death during the Nazi holocaust were honored by the United Jewish Appeal. Shown here are, left to right: Edward Ginsberg of Cleveland, general chairman of the UJA; Father Joseph Andre of Belgium; Dr. Adelaide Hautval of France; Mrs. Bernard Schaenen of Dallas, chairman of the UJA Women's Division; Herman Graebe, formerly of Qermany and now living In San Francisco; and Dr. \ViIlcm Sandberg of Holland. The presentation, called "Righteous Among The Notions," was part of the special UJA Women's Division 25th Anniversary program. • _ ' •;.,.' '. : '
Cornell Waits for Ydtlcflu D'eeument Text^ P New York (JTA)—The Syna- scribed as "unprecedented ish Committee's inter-religious gogue Council of America re- steps" to i m p r o v e Catholic-• affairs department;-said that ported this week that the new Jewish relations, was revealed he had been in . 16 u c h with Vatican document on Catholic- Dec. 10 by Lawrence Cardinal members of the JNational ConJewish relations, which was Shehan, Archbishop of Balti- ference of Bishops who were in Rome when the final text was widely hailed by Jewish or- more. ganizations as a milestone, was An ADL spokesman said that drafted. He; said that, accordnot the final text. The Council Cardinal Shehan had made it ing to his informants, the final said it would not issue any clear that the document he re- text adheres c l o s e l y to the statement on the document for leased was « "working paper" working jiaper except for some that reason. . of tho Vatican Secretariat on modifications of; 1 a n g u a g e The Synagogue Council is the Christian Unity and not the which w e r e not ^significant representative organization of final v e r s i o n . However, ho enough to cause concern. Rabbi Tannebaum said how-, the lay and rabbinical branch- said, the final text is "very es of R e f o r m , Conservative likely" to contain, : ho signifi- ever that he "shared the hesitation", of the Synagogue Councant changes. and Orthodox Judasim. was Rabbi Marc-Tarinenbaum, cil until the final language The Vatican d o c u m e n t , :: which: proposed what were de- director of the American Jew-. •; available.; v...w;v <',".::• :<""'-;l,fe'