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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Establish'* 1 ^^raries
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
'NOV 29 1956
VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1956
AJP ROUND-UP
Nasser on Top Again?
By David Horowitz
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NO. 46
World Watches ***■ ^ or New
Lead on Mideast Crisis
It has never happened in the
history of the world, military ex
perts agree, that a defeated nat
ion should dictate terms of set
tlement. This, they say, is exactly
what is happening in the Middle
East today, thanks to the threats
of the Soviets, who have become
the new defenders of Islam, and
to the wavering attitude taken by
Washington. “The World is now
confronted with an Alice-in-Won-
derland situation in which a de
feated nation claims the right to
control the membership and acti
vities of the UN Emergency
Force that is to supervise a cease
fire,” writes Tom Hamilton of
the Times.
And Israel, which is being
charged as the main aggressor by
the Arabs and the Soviets and
therefore must be “uprooted,” is
quickly being made into a “scape
goat.” The N. Y. Post, editorially,
declared: “What is clear is that
the Russians are attempting to
make Israel the scapegoat and the
target of the world crisis. They
may even be hinting that we may
buy Middle Eastern stability by
agreeing to permit Israel’s des
truction. In this situation the
American position remains unhap
pily obscure. When the President
said that any movement of Rus
sian “volunteers” in the Middle
East would be protested at the
UN, he was not saying very much.
He was abdicating, not leading;
he knows full well that the Rus
sians could delay and obstruct
any UN action long enough to
permit a blitzkrieg against Is
rael.”
The Post then touched upon the
crux of the matter: “What he fail
ed to say is that the hour has
come for negotiation of an over
all Middle Eastern settlement;
that the U. S. stands with Israel
in its eight-year plea for such
negotiation; and that in the con
text of such a peace we are ready
to provide large-scale economic
help for the Arab nations. Only
such a declaration could give real
pause to the Moscow-Cairo axis.”
“If there ever was a time for
an ‘agonizing appraisal’ of Amer
ican foreign policy, this is it,” the
N. Y. Times warned.
And the Alsop brothers: “It will
take a long time to add up the
full cost of the disaster in the
Middle East, but its chief effect
is pretty clear. The most strate
gically vital region of the modern
world has been handed to the
Kremlin on a silver platter—with
the American government as a
rather conspicuous platter-bearer.
Or putting it another way, the
American government has energet
ically assisted in installing Egypt’s
President Gamal Abdel Nasser as
the Soviet viceroy of the Arab
lands. That is sure to be the prac
tical result of recent events.”
“The Eisenhower Administra
tion has failed to assess either
the full scope of the danger from
communism in the Middle East,
or the full extent of its vulner
ability in Middle Europe. It takes
a kind of genius to commit a
double blunder. But we must
reckon with the trained incapa
city of the President and Dulles.”
So wrote Max Lerner who warn
ed: “The Communist danger in
the Middle East is real enough
for anyone to see who is willing
to look. It lies in the fact that
the Soviets are establishing mili
tary positions in Syria, Egypt and
Jordan, and are using Nasser as
their outpost. The Russians sent
close to $500,000,000 worth of
arms to Egypt — far beyond
Egypt’s capacity to pay for them
or even to absorb them. The in
ference is clear: the arms were
not sent there for ignorant and
inept Egyptian soldiers to use,
but for an elite guard of Rus
sian technicians to use.”
In Jerusalem, Premier David
Ben Gurion told the Knesset that,
despite Israel’s acceptance of the
UN plea to withdraw from the oc
cupied Egyptian territories, there
would be no withdrawals from
the Sinai Peninsula before Egypt
had negotiated a peace. Accord
ing to this statement of his it ap
pears clear that until the UN has
compelled Egypt to enter into
peace negotiations with the Jew
ish State, Israel will not recog
nize the UN troops in the Peni
nsula. More particularly in the
event these troops be either Mos
lem or from the satellite coun
tries.
In this regard it is well to note
what the N. Y. Times had to say:
“The UN International Emergency
Force (UNEF), as it is called, can
put the moral weight of three
score countries behind law and
(Continued on Page 5)
At a dinner meeting called by
leaders as the largest ever held
in the community, Atlantans heard
Eleanor Roosevelt laud the State
of Israel and purchased $155,000
worth of development bonds.
The brilliant widow of the late
President Roosevelt who has
been carrying on in behalf of hu
manity and free peoples since his
passing declared to the 600 per
sons at the Progressive Club, “Is
rael acted in self defense.”
The arrival in Atlanta had been
BY DAVID HOROWITZ
NEW YORK, (AJP) — Leading
world scholars and scientists join
ed thousands of other eminent
heads in the Jewish scene in
honoring Dr. Hirsch Loeb Gordon
this week on the occasion of his
sixtieth birthday.
Dr. Gordon, recognized as an
outstanding psychiatrist and
physician and a humanitarian, is
the author of “The Maggid of
Caro,” a unique volume dealing
with the highly sensitive and in
tricate subject of Caballa and
mysticism in the light of mod
ern psychiatry. The work is based
on a secret diary of the noted
sage Joseph Caro and which came
to light 305 years ago.
Son of the illustrious Gaon R.
Elijah Gordon, Psychiatrist Gor
don is the holder of six doctorates
and four masters in ten different
fields, having studied medicine in
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
world watched Washington this
week for a firm lead, in the wake
of a series of Soviet moves evi
dently designed to prevent any
serious pacification of the tangl
ed and threatening Middle East
ern situation and to reaffirm in
the eyes of all Asia and Africa
the picture of the Soviet Union as
the sole protector of the interests
of the Arabs.
While the talk of Soviet “vol
unteers” coming to Egypt was ap
parently being soft-pedalled, Mos
cow made a simultaneous three
pronged move aimed at keeping
the West off balance. Letters from
Premier Nikolai Bulganin to
Prime Ministers Eden of Britain,
Mollet of France, and Ben Gurion
of Israel roundly berated the “ag
gressors” in the Middle East, de
manded immediate withdrawal of
troops, objective to the station-
delayed several hours by adverse
weather in Chicago and the plane
landed in time for a 15-minute
police-escorted dash to the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Massell for
a reception for large bond pur
chasers.
Even so, it was nearly an hour
before her evening clothes arrived
and .she had little time for pre
parations at the Massell home
where she was spending the night,
however none of this was evident
at the Progressive Club where
Rome, Berlin and New York. Dur
ing World War II, Commander
Gordon served as a Major, M. C.
on a neuropsychiatric assignment.
This was followed by similar as
signments in the Veterans Ad
ministration and in the Neuropsy
chiatric Consultant Division, Of
fice of the Surgeon General of the
U. S. Army.
During World War I, Dr. Gor
don volunteered in the Jewish
Legion, spending two years in Is
rael under Zev Jabotinsky.
Interviewed on his birthday,
Dr. Gordon declared: “I have al
ways believed in a militant Jud
aism; in a Judaism that steps out
to conquer the pagan world for
unity, peace and the true faith.”
In New York Hirsch Loeb Gor
don conducts a weekly radio pro
gram on medicine and psychia
try and he is also in great demand
for lectures.
ing of the newly organized UN
police force anywhere save on
both sides of the Israel-Egypt
armistice lines, demanded pay
ment of reparations to the Nas
ser government and—in at least
one version of the text—raised
serious questions about the “fu
ture existence of Israel as a
state.”
The Bulganin letter to Israel’s
Premier rejected Israel’s con
tentions out of hand and accused
Israel of a policy that “is actually
dangerous for peace and is most
perilous for Israel.” It added that
the Soviet Government 11 considers
it essential that measures be taken
to exclude the possibility of new
Israeli provocations against neigh
boring states.”
In Israel’s case, at least, the
Communist line envisaged more
than harsh words. Pressure was
now being applied in more direct
her arrival touched off a flurry
of excitement among the audience
which included representatives of
the high schools of the city
whose student scribes were on
hand to report her speech. She
graciously shook hands as long
as time permitted and passed out
autographs like the celebrity she
is.
Presiding at the meeting was
Dr. Irving Goldstein, co-chairman
of the dinner committee. Partici
pating were co-chairmen Mrs.
Frank Garson, Mr. Massell, Rab
bi Sydney Mossman, Rabbi Harry
H. Epstein, Abe Goldstein and
Mrs. Estelle Karp, accompanied
on the piano by Miss Frances
Wallace.
“Israel had to make up her
mind whether she would remain
still like a sitting duck on a pond,
or do something “about the mil
lions in armaments which the So
viet Union was pouring into
Egypt, Mrs. Roosevelt declared.
The Soviet Union, she asserted,
(Continued on Page 5)
ways. Until now, Israel has been
dependent on the Communist
bloc for much of her oil supply.
This week — with Israel’s other
principal supplier, Britain, unable
to provide additional fuel—Soviet
authorities appeared to have
scrapped a long-standing agree
ment and refused permission for
the Israel tanker “Yam Suf” to
load up at Odessa.
In the Administration and
around it here, the search was on
for a long range plan to halt
Soviet penetration of the Middle
East. It was generally recognized
that failure to find and imple
ment such a policy could lead
either to war with the Soviets
or surrender of the whole area
to Soviet hegemony. Experts
here were in agreement that any
such new policy must be based
on awareness of the mistakes of
the immediate past, must re-es
tablish as quickly as possible the
Western entente and must utilize
to hitherto uninvestigated degrees
the full potential moral strength
of the United Nations.
The first outlines of Adminis
tration policy were listed last week
by President Eisenhower at his
press conference. The U. S. he
indicated, would seek to counter
the Soviet “volunteers” threat
through the United Nations
which, he pointed out, was not
necessarily limited to the adopt
ion of resolutions. Once the
present conflict is ended, he add
ed, he intended to intensify ef
forts to bring about closer con
tacts between Israel and the
Arab states. And he renewed,
conditionally, an offer made last
year by Secretary of State Dulles
for a U.S. guarantee of Israel-
Arab frontiers.
Post 112, JWVy Taps
Balser “Man of Year”
Meyer Balser, president of the
Atlanta Jewish Community Cen
ter, has been chosen to receive
the 1956 Man of the Year Award
from Post 112, Jewish War Vet
erans.
He was selected this week by
members who elected A1 Schwartz
as their new commander to suc
ceed A1 Singer. The award will
be made during January.
HANUKAII AT THE CENTER—This poster, depicting the family
character of the Festival of Lights, which begins the evening of Nov
ember 28, will be part of the decorations brightening hundreds of
Jewish Community Centers and YM-YWHAs affiliated with and served
by the National Jewish Welfare Board throughout the country.
Israel Acted in Self Defense,
Mrs. F.D.R. Tells Bond Dinner
By ADOLPH ROSENBERG
Scholars and Scientists I lail
Hirsch Loeb Gordon’s 60th