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What The Press Is Saying
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Eleanor Rooserett Appraises
Shukairy Diatribe
There seems to be a rather broad feeling of
amusement, as well as a form of disgust, at the re
cent speech by an Arab delegate (Ahmad Shnkairy
of Saudi Arabia) in the UN which indicted so
many individuals and countries that it apparently
had the exact opposite effect from that which the
speaker intended. The extravagant accusations
brought about amusement instead of the indigna
tion which he apparently hoped to inspire. In one
place he announced that Zionism was worse than
Hitlerism, and this caused amusement both on the
floor and in the galleries. I hope our delegates are
able to turn such absurdities to good advantage,
for intemperance such as this is its own worst
enemy. The best way to handle it is to bring out
the untruths of the statements made, but always
with a tone of ridicule.
Eleanor Roosevelt, The New York Post
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BEHIND UN SCENES—by David Horowitz
A Blow to the Arabs
Sixty-Five Years of Achievement
The Zionist Organization of America enters the
65th year of its existence with an unmatched re
cord of epochal achievements for the cause of Jew
ish Statehood and the welfare of the Jewish peo
ple. As the foremost exponent and instrumentality
of the Zionist ideal — the survival of the Jewish
people — the ZOA, through its leadership and
membership, has played a dynamic and determin
ing role in the historic efforts leading to the estab
lishment of the State of IsraeL The passage of half
a century of travail, struggle and triumph prior to
the establishment of the State of Israel and the
years of trial and challenge that followed bear
witness to the decisive role played by the ZOA in
every major endeavor for the cause of Zion Reborn.
Israel is our living testimonial to the devotion, ten
acity and determination of all Zionists. With the
creation of the Jewish State, Zionism only partially
fulfilled its goal. Our job is far from finished. The
child of our ideal — the State of Israel — is yet to
live on firm foundations. The ultimate goal of
Zionism — the regeneration of the Jewish people,
the countering of the corrosive forces of assimila
tion endangering the very existence of Jewish life
in the diaspora, remains a vital and urgent objec
tive yet to be realized. Zionism is a movement of
emancipation, and rehabilitation at the homeless,
and oppressed. It is a credo of Jewish living. . . .
Ernest E. Barbarash, from “A Guide to Fulfillment
Christian Soul-Searching
At this season of the year . . . our Christian
neighbors take joy in their holiday and re-examine
their conscience and behavior to bring them into
consistency with the precepts they profess . . . The
past decade has seen considerable soul-searching
in all major Christian Churches, undoubtedly
prompted by the realization that many tribulations
undergone by mankind can be traced in part to
the failure by Christians to practice their own
moral pronouncements. Remissness in establish
ing social justice undoubtedly bears some respon
sibility for the spread of communism; willingness
to tolerate color prejudice or at least unwilling
ness to fight it wholeheartedly, has played its part
in generating the extreme type of Afro-Asian
nationalism which is doing so much harm to the
nations concerned and the Western cause alike . .
Unfortunately, anti-Semitism has in the past been
tolerated and sometimes even encouraged by
Chrisjjan Churches. Though Jews were its main
victims they were by no means the only victims:
the whole fabric of Christian civilization suffered
and untold spiritual, moral and political harm was
done to Christians and Christianity . . .
THE JEWISH ADVOCATE,
Beetou, from an Editorial
War Criminals
Moscow’s demand that Gen. Adolf Heusinger
be turned over for trial as a war criminal did not
exactly draw a laugh in the West, but it was not
taken very seriously, either. It was not so long
ago that General Heusinger, the “father” of the
new West German Army and now Chairman of
the Military Standing Committee of NATO, was
being invited to Moscow as an honored guest of
the Soviet Army leaders . . . The State Depart
ment dismissed the Soviet demand for Gen. Heus
inger as a “crude and ludicrous propaganda ex
ercise’’ ... So ter as Is known, Gen. Heusinger
was never on any of the many lists of war crim
inals compiled by the Allied and associated powers
of World War IJ, including the Soviet Union, al
though he was Hitler’s chief of operations for
several years ... No one now considers that the
de-Nazification was succesafuL Too many Mg tUk
got away and too many little ones took the brunt
of the punishment tor the prone* to be remem-
with anything but cytuetaoi in Germeny ,. •
sixteen yean after the WK It fe too fete to
atiy strong public dan* teal
trial of war criminals.
Bygaey Greses, New Yerk 1
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
The hopes of the Arabs to gain a
majority in their uncompromis
ing battle against Israel were
shattered here this week when a
number of the newly-indepen-
dent African states — the very
ones they felt certain would join
their cause — defended the Is
raeli position not only on-the is
sue of the refugees but on the
overall question of Palestine.
This new, unexpected develop
ment came as a severe blow to
the Arab delegates who had
launched their all-out attack
earlier in the debate in the cer
tain expectation that all the Afri
cans would be won oyer.
The exact opposite happened.
For the first time in UN his
tory Israel found herself not
alone in her fight against the
vehement Arab delegates who, as
Golda Meir pointed out in her
masterful speech, had demanded
the undoing of Israel as a sover
eign state.
It is true, of course, that such
states as France, Uruguay, etc.,
have in the past stood by and
are today supporting IsraeL But
never has any delegate among
the friendly countries come forth
so strongly and attack the Arab
mount to “genocide.” At one
point he inferred that a repre
sentative of a state that sanctions
slave-trading should not come
and teach morality to the UN.
Replying to Shukairy’s charge
that the Africans had “sold out,”
Arsene Assouan Usher of the
Ivory Coast — joining Mr. Guir-
ma and the others in the anti-
Arab onslaught — declared that
“the delegate of Saudi Arabia
may be used to buying Negroes,
but he can never buy us.”
Thus the battle raged as his
tory was being made in the world
organization.
A word about Golda Meir. Is
rael’s Foreign Minister had come
to the UN specially for this de
bate — and for good reason. Her
presence in the Conference Room
together with Ambassador Mi
chael Comay certainly enhanced
Israel’s position. Golda in the
past several years had paid cour
tesy visits to most of the new
African states and a number of
Friendship treaties had been en
tered into as a result Her speech
before the Committee on Friday
the 15th, a masterpiece, went un
challenged. The delegates were
deeply impressed. Within the
span of an hour, she summed up
the whole Palestine case in a
stand as did Upper Volta, the ibanner whirh lpft no doubt as
Ivory Coast, Sierre Leone ancT—to wl
others this past week in the Spe-
who was right and who wrong.
cial Political Committee.
The Arab-African battle start
ed when fifteen states — the
Central African Republic, Congo-
Brazzaville, the Ivory Coast,
Sierra Leone, Togo, Upper Volta,
Liberia, Madagascar, Chile, Costa
Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala,
Haiti, the Netherlands and Uru
guay — submitted a resolution
which called upon the Assembly
to renew its appeal to the Arabs
and Israel “to undertake direct
negotiations with the assistance
of the Palestine Conciliation
Commission with a view of find
ing a solution for all the ques
tions in dispute between them
including the question of the
Arab refugees.”
This resolution so angered the
embittered Ahmad Shukairy of
Saudi Arabia and the other Arabs
— since it covered exactly what
the Israelis wanted — that a new
attack was launched by them,
not so much against Israel as
against the African states spon
soring the resolution.
Flabbergasted at this turn of
events, Shukairy hurled his in
vectives on the delegate of Upper
Vola, M. Frederic G u i r m a ,
charging his state with being
“bought,” bribed, by Israel. He
further termed the African action
as “traitorous.” Delegates of Jor
dan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Syria
charged similarly.
This led to a battle royal
between the Arficans and the
Arabs. Mr. Guirma jumped right
back at Shukairy and threw the
book at him. He pointed to Arab
violations of UN resolutions since
Partition days, stressing that the
Arabs predipitated the refugee
problem by having rejected the
UN resolution of November 29,
1947, sanctioning the establish
ment of IsraeL He termed the
Arab milljpn vis-a-vis Israel as
one of MB-wiir and "ha Jed”
and that their demand for the
destruction of Israel was tanta-
JEWISH CALENDAR
•FURIM
Wednesday, March 29, IMS
•PASSOVER
Thursday, April 19, 1992
•SHAVUOT
Friday. Jane 8, 1992
•ROSH HASHONAH
Saturday, Sept 29, 1992
•YOM KIPP UR
Tuesday, Oct 9, 1992
•SUKKOT
Saturday, Oct 13, 1992
•8IMHAT TORAH
Sunday, Oct 21, 1992
•Holiday begins
preceding evenings
LETTER
. . . to the editor
Kind Sir:
Being deeply interested in
Judaie matters, I will deeply
appreciate your sending me a
copy of your latest edition.
Young people need and de
serve:
1— LEADERSHIP—real, dedi
cated leadership.
2— A set of values—something
substantial, something that has
eternal value. I’m thinking now
of love of home; reverence for
God, Almighty; courtesy; faith
fulness to high ideals; cleanness
of thought, word and deed; a de
sire to associate with other young
people with similar high ideals;
a devotion to our public schools;
a belief in the dignity of man
and a DIVINE CREATOR.
3— They need to be encouraged
to develop themselves physical
ly, mentally, morally and spirit
ually. They must be inspired to
achieve their highest capabili
ties, to raise themselves to their
full stature.
Don’t you think so, dear Edi
tor? j jl i -l! •!
Maurice S. Cohen
We certainly del
—THE EDITOR
Comment...
“Crackpot ‘Superpatriots’
Are Not Needed”
President Kennedy recently denounced the
“counsels of fear and suspicion” emanating from
various far-right fringe groups that are springing
up acroas the land. He warned against hunting trea
son in our courts and churches (as the Birchers do)
and of joining movements (like the Minutemen)
that are “more likely to supply local vigilantes
than national vigilance.” Dwight Eisenhower has
added that the U S. needs no “superpatriots” —
ordinary commonsensical patriotism will do. Life
welcomes these warnings. We have always opposed
such irrational political behavior as Senator Mc
Carthy’s, the Birchers’ and the unilateral disarmers.
We don’t think the American people are so asleep
to the danger of Communism that they need a na
tionwide posse of Paul Reveres to arouse them.
Everybody in his right mind is against Communism
. . . the late Sen. McCarthy and his friends, as
Richard Nixon said in 1954, “by reckless talk and
questionable method, made themselves the issue.
. . . They diverted attention from the danger of
Communism ... to themselves. Unfortunately the
polarizing process is again at work. Take the case
of General Walker. We have already recorded our
opinion that he was badly used by the Pentagon.
But that doesn’t mean one must line up with the
so-called “Friends of General Walker,” a group of
radical rightists who seem resolved to make Com
munist plotters responsible for the General’s fall.
. . . In our judgment the chief internal danger as
far as Communism is concerned is that the quest
for the best ways to combat it may start fights on
side issues.
Life Magazine, from an Editorial
Topic of the Day
By DAVID BENARONE
Eichmann Verdict and Heusinger
Significantly, the week in which the three Is
raeli judges passed their judgment on Adolf Eich
mann in Jerusalem, the Soviets created a world stir
with the charge that General Adolf Ernst Heu
singer, Chairman of the Military Committee of
NATO, should be brought to justice for having
served under Hitler four years as Chief of the
Nazi Land Forces.
The judges who read the opinion and verdict
on Eichmann gave the first broad expression to
what is termed in the UN the Genocide Convention.
Eichmann was not — and could not — be tried
under that Convention which had been adopted
after the perpetration of his crimes. But the Court
nevertheless held that the crimes against humanity^
expressed in the Convention had in fact received af
firmation in the Nurenberg trials.
The UN Genocide Convention, unanimously
adopted in 1948, was an almost forgotten document
until the Eichmann verdict.
Now, Eichmann’s plea, in effect, is that he, a
small man, is paying for his crime while others,
bigger than he, are abroad — free, loose and un
accused.
The question arises; What does Eichmann know?
Could it be possible that even Hitler is alive some
where? Such a thing is possible. It is known that
Bormann and Dr. Mengele have been seen. If some
who ,were with Hitler in the bunker managed to
escape and are alive today, then Hitler may also
have escaped. Paranoics never commit suicide.
The Soviet charges against Gen. Heusinger —
as their previous charges against Dr. Globke —
should not be passed by lightly. Now it might be
said that, in making their charge, the Soviets seek
only to strike at NATO. But, if Heusinger is inno
cent — and it is difficult to see how any general
under Hitler who plowed through the genocidal
campaign in Russia could be — then he should be
able to establish his case even before a trial. If he
is tainted with guilt, then NATO would do well to
get rid of him.
What is interesting about this is the fact that
Moscow had taken the step apparently in emula
tion of the Israeli initiative.
The USSR move thus accomplishes what the
Eichmann trial must of a necessity accomplish —
the beginning of a purge of the many “Eichmanns”
now in hiding all through the globe.
It is the opinion of this writer that Eichmann
has much to say and reveal before he goes to the
gallows — if to the gallows he goes. He may even
have something revealing to say about General
Heusinger.
In the meantime, knowing that death lies be
fore him, Eichmann will die "many deaths” daily
in his Israeli cell, and the hundreds, of other “Eich
manns” — wherever they may be — will live the
k life of the mice that they are until trapped: In
Egypt, Argentina, Mexico, New Mexico, Arizona,
etc.
This Is a judgment day!