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Pace Four
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Gustav Oppcnhelmer, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Klctzky
Karen Schlftan, Kathleen Neasc
Dress Rehearsal for War or Peace
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This is the way the hi# w.'ir so many fear could start, first
one conflagration flaring into bloodshed and spreading across
border to border.
The incendiaries of the last fortnight could very well be
lying dormant, waiting to break out afresh and in greater
ferocity.
Meanwhile, the danger seems momentarily to have been
confined. If so, it is at once a tribute t<> the caution of world
opinion and the nations who met almost simultaneously at
the sessions of the United Nations and applied the stops where-
cver possible.
Never, in our knowledge, do we recall such a formal dress
rehearsal of any conflict with representatives sitting together,
so sensitively attune to daily developments. The balance sev
eral time shifted from one sore spot to another, first in one
direction and then another.
An unsteady, dizzy and confused world sat on the side
lines waiting breathlessly for the latest development.
While the sobering influence at the United Nations did
not bring an immediate stoppage of the Middle Eastern
trouble, the best councils did crystalize the potential of the
police force which seemed satisfactory to most of the nations
involved in the troubled spot and to the other countries as
well.
This denouement could indeed furnish the proper stab-
alizing influence for this spot, which after all has always
held the elements of an amicable solution.
Not so for Hungary where the United Nations voice sound
ed an empty solace for the gallant rebels who rose up and
risked life and limb in a frantic bid for freedom. Even from
the start this seemed futile, for notwithstanding the initial
success none rightfully expected the Soviets to yield one iota
in its finality of control over its satellites.
Yet, throughout, the clarion call of men who refuse to
yield to tyranny though held in the death grip by subju
gators is an indication that conquest and domination does not
always crush the spirit of man or his imperative to forge his
own destiny. In Poland too brave men had stood up within
recent weeks to decry the Russian yoke and they had been
preemptorily quelled.
How extensive is this revolt among the Red satellites?
How close to the surface is the discontent within Russia it
self?
We may not know for years, but through the Iron Curtain
we have glimpsed several frayed spots which offer hopeful
omens for the future.
The heart rending fact still remains that civilization has
not yet progressed to the point where the difficulties between
man and nations can be settled with reason and saneness,
that armed force must still be utilized to win points and
conclusions.
As of this instant, Israel’s calculated risk seems to have
brought about the kind of results which can lay permanent
foundation to the peace which would so benefit her and the
lands around her.
Israel seems destined to sit at the peace table with Egypt
and the other Arab countries and the pillage and plunder
within her borders halted once and for all. She seems too
to be on the verge of winning the right of passage of her
ships through the Suez canal. And she appears to have
emerged stronger in the eyes of the civilized world for her
determination to fight for her rights rather than surrender
them, and for her valor in standing up to a rising dictator
whose avowed objective was her destruction and the man
euvering of free nations to her whim and will.
But the smoldering incendiaries in that area may not
after all have been put out. They may yet get out of hand.
rhe Mid-East Crisis
Atlanta USO to Fete
Army Hero Nov. 10-12
Major Jack L. Treadwell, re
ported to be the most decorated
soldier in the Army today, will
be guest of honor of Atlanta USO
this weekend as a preliminary to
occupying a place of honor in a
Veteran's Day parade on No
vember 12.
Leon Goldberg, USO-JWB area
director, and Sam Rothberg,
chairman of the reception com
mittee are making arrangements
for the hospitality for Treadwell
which will include a dinner No
vember 10 at the Biltmore Hotel
and a dance later at the USO
Center.
Serving with the men the hos
pitality committee are Miss Jean
Angas, USO Center director;
Clark Tucker, chairman of the
Atlanta USO committee; Col.
Eugene Oberdorfer, chairman.
Third Army Area for JWB- Arm
ed Services Committee; and Leo
C. Richard, Atlanta USO program
chairman.
Major Treadwell, an instructor
at the Infantry School’s Tactical
Department at Fort Benning, won
the Medal of Honor and numer
ous other awards for heroism un
der fire in the European Theatre
during World War II.
Kaye-Sicro
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Kaye of Los
Angeles. Calif., announce the en
gagement of their daughter, Ellen
Kaye, to Ralph Sicro, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Mose Sicro of Atlanta.
Miss Kaye is a graduate of
Fairfax High School, Los Angeles,
and is asociated with the Pru
dential Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Sicro is a graduate of Ad
miral Farragut Naval Academy,
and is now Naval Airman aboard
the aircraft carrier U. S. S.
Shangri-La.
By David Horowitz
Reporting from Cyprus, the
N. Y. Times military expert
Hanson W. Baldwin, who had
been in Egypt just before the in
vasion, declared that “there were
many of the elements of a Greek
tragedy in the new martial drama
that was staged with stunning un-
expectness in the ampitheatre of
the eastern Mediterranean. On
the side was Britain, headed by
Eden, who was once known as
a great friend of the Arabs; France
fighting for Algeria, and Israel
fighting for herself. On the
other, like a fly facing an ele
phant gun, was Egypt and Nas
ser. By the weekend President
Nasser's position was hopeless,
and he knew it. Egypt had lost
all the Gaza strip and the Sinai
peninsula, and with it probably
the better part of two divisions.
Her air force had been bombed
out of existence, most of her air
fields cratered; her powerful
broadcasting station, ‘The Voice
of the Arabs,' had been, as the
British put it, ‘clobbered’ and si
lenced. Egypt lay under the guns
of tiie British and French fleets.
She was no longer the leader of
the Arab world. What could
Nasser do? The Middle East
countries are aflame; the Arabs'
irreconcilable conflict with Is
rael has now entered a new chap
ter, in which Britain and France,
and probably the West as a
whole, will be equated, whether
rightly or wrongly, with Zion
ism."
Meanwhiks as the mood of all
Israel is one of confidence —
since the Egyptian border has
been made secure — officials in
Jerusalem are determined to hold
Sinai and Gaza until Egypt and
the Arab states meet the Jewish
State’s peace demands under in
ternational guarantees. Gaza
must remain in Israel’s possess
ion under any circumstances,
some hold, and the Siriai penin
sula neutralized.
In the event Jordan, Syria and
Iraq deride to rarry through their
plan against Israel, another Is
raeli plan will take effect im
mediately — the ruttng off of
the two threatening Jordanian
bulges. Britain and France might
be forced to move into the east
ern half of Jordan and hold Am
man. Iraqi and Syrian troops are
known to have entered Jordan.
The Baghdad pact is now dead
and so appears the British Treaty
of Alliance with Jordan.
It is now known that Sir An
thony Eden has been in consul
tation with Winston Churchill
throughout the crisis and that
Churchill himself gave him the
go-ahead sign for the attack on
Egypt. In an open statement,
Churchill declared that “in spite
of our efforts, the frontiers of
Israel have flickered with mur
der and armed raids. Egypt, the
principal instigator of these in
cidents, had openly rejected and
derided the Tripartite Declara
tion. Israel, under the gravest
provocation, erupted against
Egypt. In this country, we had
the choice of taking decisive ac
tion or admitting once and for
all our inability to put an end
to the strife.
Prime Minister Eden’s state
ment to the effect that "Her
Majesty’s Government will insure
that the Israeli forces withdraw
from Egyptian territory once
British and French forces have
occupied the key points on the
Canal," must be understood in
his later remark that “They will
not do so unless we are there
to keep the peace: to give the
necessary guarantees and prevent
a repetition of these events.”
Eden added: “Until a UN force
is there, ready to take over, we
and the French must go on with
the job until the job is done.”
Reports from Lebanon declare
that the vital pipelines carrying
more than half a million barrels
of oil daily from Iraq to the
Mediterranean coast have been
blown up in response to pleas
from Nasser.
At UN headquarters, the Gen
eral Assembly and the Security
Council have been meeting in
all-day and all-night sessions
without surcease on both the
Mideast crisis and the Hungarian
invasion by the Soviets. Despite
drastic efforts to bring about a
cease-fire, many delegates now
view both situations as being out
of hand. They seem unable to
stern the tide. Some hold that
the creation of a UN “P o li c e
force” may complicate matters
further, since there is a difference
of opinion between the West and
East as to who and what nations
should constitute this “Police
force.”
Ambassador Abba Eban, pre
sent at all the meetings, appeared
in high spirits. Having lost a
goodly number of pounds in
weight to the good, he looked
his old military self again. His
main speech before the General
Assembly, it was generally
agreed, was the best he had ever
delivered since he had taken
over the post as head of the Is
raeli delegation to the UN.
On the Washington scene, some
of America’s leading political an
alysts — Walter Lippman, David
Lawrence and Joseph and Stewart
AIsop :— rame all-out in de
fense of Israel's position. Said
David Lawrence: “Who really is
the aggressor in the Middle East?
The average person w h o only
reads the headlines can easily
be misled if he doesn't acquaint
himself with the full record."
After citing the provocations
which led to the crisis, Mr. Law
rence adds: "So, all in all. it's
now more than a matter of who
is or is not the aggressor. It’s a
question whether Israel, w hich de
pends for its life on shipments
to and from the rest of the world,
can be strangled by Egypt just
because the latter had arbitarily
seized the Suez Canal. Israel’s
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tion lines, established in the ar
mistice agreement betw’een Egypt
and Israel.”
In another section of his report,
however, Mr. Hammarskjold de
clared: “There is an obvious dif
ference between establishing the
force in order to secure the ces
sation of hostilities with a with
drawal of forces, and establish
ing such a force with a view to
enforcing a withdrawal of forces.
It follows that while the force
is different in that, as in many
other respects, from the observ
ers of the truce supervision or
ganization it is although para
military in nature, not a force
with military objectives.”
Thus Mr. Hammarskjold seem
ed to leave to further interpre
tation the real functions of the
police force as a possible mil
itary arm which could be em
ployed physically to press Israel’s
armies back to the old armistice
lines.
Mr. Hammarskjold made it clear
in his report that Egypt has al
ready given consent to permit the
forces of the UN command in its
territory. But again the question
Friday, November 9, 1956
decision to wipe out military
units inside Egypt that threaten
her territory from points near
the border is much more a case
of self-defense than it’s an act
of aggression.”
As the debates in the UN pro-
ceded, news came from Wash
ington that the State Depart
ment had stopped all shipments
of military supplies to Israel.
And on the whole crisis, the
N. Y. Times commented in its
leading editorial Saturday: ‘We
stand today at one of those de
cisive moments in history when
we begin to see what the late
H. G. Wells calls The Shape of
Things to (Home.’ The clouds
thin, the mist rises and we see
heaven or hell — we cannot yet
know which. As we look at the
civilized world in the morning’s
news we can scarcely put a fing
er on any point that is not some
how troubled. Within the past
few days conflict and uncertain
ty have revealed themselves,
first in one spot, then in another.
Poland, Hungary, Egypt — there
the spotlight has concentrated
and moved. We do not know
what the next day’s news may be
from the Far East or the heart
of Africa. This is not alone a
political crisis. It is also, above
all and beyond all, a philosophi
cal crisis. By what and for what
do men live? Shall they move
toward freedom or away from
it? Where is the boundary, where
is the truce line, between an
archy and tyranny?”
A Hassidic Rabbi from Brook
lyn, sitting in the gallery of the
General Assembly as one dele
gate after another came forward
to the dais to speak, was heard
muttering: Chevlai Leda, Mesch-
iach zieten, Mesqhiach zieten! —
The birthpangs of the Messiah!
of withdrawal figured when the
Secretary General added in that
same context that Egyptian con
sent was given ‘in order to main
tain quiet during and after the
withdrawal of non-Egyptian
troops.”
Ford Fund Grants
SI15.000 To New York
Jewish Institution
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Ford Foundation has made a
$115,000 grant for the erection
of a day-care center adjoining
the Hebrew Home and Hospital
for the Chronic Sick, the insti
tution announced here. The three-
story structure will be designed
for chronically ill people who
are not bedridden and who will
be transported daily between
their homes and the center in
special buses.
Motor Club Elects
Arthur I. Harris and Max Kor-
man of Atlanta have been re
elected directors of the Georgia
Motor Club. C. C. Hubert of
Marietta was reelected president..
ATLANTA COMMUNITY CALENDAR
TUESDAY—12:30 P.M.— is the deadline for items in next
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organizations:
NOVEMBER 9. Friday:
8:15 PM.—Armistice Day Service, Ahavath Achim Synagogue.
Commander Irving A. Singer, Speaker.
NOVEMBER 10. Saturday:
8:00 P.M.—United Synagogue Youth, “Night in Tel Aviv,” A.A. Ed
ucational Center.
NOVEMBER 11, Sunday:
10:30 A.M.—Armistice Day Service, Shearith Israel Educational
Building. Irving Libowsky, Speaker.
NOVEMBER 12, Monday:
12:30 P.M.—Atlanta B’nai B’rith Women Luncheon Meeting. AJCC.
8:30 P.M.—Atlanta Zionist District Meeting. "Israel’s Crisis., AJCC.
NOVEMBER 13, Tuesday:
10:00 A.M.—Henrietta Szold Group. Open Board Meeting. A.J.C.C.
NOVEMBER 15, Thursday:
7:00 P.M.—Dinner Honoring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Sponsored by
Atlanta Men’s and Women’s Jewish Organizations of
Atlanta Israel Bond Committee. Progressive Club.
NOVEMBER 16. Friday:
8:00 P.M.—BBYO Services. Shearith Israel Educational Building.
NOVEMBER 18. Sunday:
2-5 P.M.—Fifth Annual Open House, Jewish Home.
NOVEMBER 29, Thursday:
5:30 P.M.—Hanukah Carnival. Beth Jaccob Synagogue Reception
Hall.