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King of Jdrdan Bans Recruitment
Of Refugees Into Separate Army
LONDON (JTA)—Jordan’s Min
ister of the Interior, Abdul al
Majali, left his capital, Amman,
for Cairo to discuss with the
Arab summit conference under
way there the deepening crisis
resulting from King Hussein’s ban
against the recruitment of Arab
refugees living in Jordan into the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion, according to reports from
Beirut received here.
The Jordanian Government an
nounced recently it would bar the
PLO’s call for refugees *to enter
its forces, which are being or
ganized by Ahmad Shukairy,
chairman of the PLO and top re
cruitment representative of the
Unified Arab Command. The
PLO’s objective is to heat up
open warfare against Israel. In
addition to recruiting refugees
for the PLO, the organization is
also imposing a tax on refugees
who do not enlist. King Hussein
has banned the tax also.
The King has stated openly
that the move to organize the ref
ugees into a fighting force would
“disrupt the stability of Jordan
and destroy Arab solidarity.”
Calling the Shukairy drive a
“treasonable” move that would
“play into the hands of Zionism,”
the King had said there was no
room in Jordan for any military
organization other than the Jor-
anian army “to represent the Pal
estinians.” The so-called Pales
tinians make up about half of
Jordan’s total population. (The
latest United Nations report gave
the number of Arab refugees in
Jordan as 637,493.) ,
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XU
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1966
NO. 2
jwv Commander Urges State Dept. Evasive on Americans
Bombing VN If Peace Try Fails \a/ | • iif, r% i , • «-. ,
MIAMI BEACH (JTA)— The ^ ss Ihe aL„ Hoop, WOf* 111 Q O fl Mill ^ ROCKetS I fl pt
national commander of the Jew- there.
ish War Veterans of America
praised President Johnson’s peace
offensive Sunday as evidence to
the world of the American desire
for peace but asserted that if it
failed to achieve its end, the
United States should resume full-
scale bombing of North Viet
Nam.
Addressing an Americanism
Day rally sponsored by the Flor
ida Department of the Jewish
War Veterans, Milton A. Waldor,
the JWV national commander,
described his experiences on his
recent visit to Viet Nam and tola
the audience of 800 that he had
never seen men so dedicated and
In a joint statement issued
by the presidents of the Union of
American Hebrew Congregations
and the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the national
commander of the Jewish War
Veterans was strongly criticized
for “bomb-rattling jingoism.” A
statement on the Viet Nam issue
will be issued this week by the
Synagogue Council of America,
representing the views of all
branches of religion in iAmerican
Judaism.)
The Jewish War Veterans meet
ing was also addressed by Rep.
Claude Pepper, State Attorney
General Earl Faircloth and Mayor
Elliot Roosevelt of Miami.
Reform Leaders Denounce
VN Statement by JWV Head
NEW YORK (JTA)—The pres
idents of the lay and rabbinic
arms of American Reform Juda
ism Sunday sharply denounced
as “callous irresponsibility” the
Viet Nam statement of the head
of the Jewish War Veterans after
a recent government approved
trip to Southeastern Asia.
At the same time, Rabbi Maur
ice N. Eisendrath, president of
the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations and Rabbi Jacob J.
Weinstein, president of the Cen-
ADL Urges Ban
On Subsidies for
President Lines
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai B’rith
suggested to the State Department
that federal subsidies be with
drawn from the American Presi
dent Lines, a big West Coast ship
ping company, for canceling a
scheduled stop by one of its ves
sels in Haifa, Israel, under Arab
pressure.
The firm announced last week
that it had promised Egypt not
to let one of its cruising ships
visit Haifa, after the Cairo Gov
ernment had threatened to bar
the vessel when it would try to
pass through the Suez Canal.
Arnold Forster, general coun
sel for the ADL, said that there
is “no evidence that the United
Arab Republic had threatened
such action nor that the Amer
ican President Lines had asked
our Government’s help in the face
of such a threat.” According to
Mr. Forster, the State Department
had pointed out that “denial of
such passage would be a viola
tion of the convention under
which the UAR operates the
Canal." The ADL official called
the promised action by the Amer
ican President Lines “contrary to
United States policy” and a vio
lation of U. S. laws
tral Conference of American Rab
bis expressed “shock and dismay”
that the president of the Jewish
War Veterans, Milton A. Waldor,
should term as ‘disgusting’
statements by rabbis and United
States Jewish organizations urg
ing cessation of bombings and
commencement of peace negotia
tion with North Viet Nam.
After a recent return from a
government approved tour of
South Viet Nam, Mr. Waldor, in
a statement and interview, said
that he was “disgusted by those
groups, Jewish or non-Jewish, so
concerned about the right to dis
sent, about the rights of the
peaceniks, that they seem not to
recognize that freedom requires
responsibilities. They are less
articulate about our country’s
right and need to wage a vigorous
war against Communism in Viet
Nam.”
He is also quoted as saying that
his group will seek “to mobilize
and activiate the American Jew
ish community to eradicate any
doubts about the vital necessity
for a decisive victory by what
ever means required in Viet Nam.
We will challenge the appeasers,
the naive and the confused.”
In their reply, Rabbis Eisen
drath and Weinstein said: “These
statements by the national com
mander of the JWV are profound
ly disturbing. Bomb-rattling jin
goism is no more tolerable from
a Jewish source than from a mil
itaristic general demanding that
we bomb the ‘enemy back to the
stone age.’ The bellicosity cries of
the JWV fall somewhere to the
right of the Pentagon and are
totally inconsistent with the pro
claimed policy of President John
son and the vigorous American
efforts to achieve negotiations
and a settlement of the conflict.
To demand ‘a decisive victory by
whatever means’ is an outrageous
statement of callous irresponsi
bility.”
WASHINGTON — (JTA) — A
State Department spokesman
Monday declined to state the
present United States policy
toward American citizens work
ing in the Egyptian military
rocket industry but said that the
Department was looking into
reports of the employment of
Americans in such work.
He was asked to define U.S.
policy toward such activity by
American scientists, in connec
tion with a report today from
Cairo that two Americans have
been working there secretly for
the Egyptian rocket system, and
that the two have worked in
American space industry before
accepting the engagements in
Egypt. The Cairo report also said
that U. S. Embassy officials in
Egypt have acknowledge that
they had “heard” of the activi
ties by the two men for some
time, but declined to say whether
the reports were correct.
The two American rocket ex
perts were reported to have
taken up further development of
the Egyptian rocket program af
ter the chief West German
scientist in charge of the pro
gram, Prof. Wolfgang Pilz, had
returned to Germany. The West
German rocket teams had de
veloped three rockets with esti
mated ranges of 180 to 370 miles.
Each of the rockets could hit
Israeli targets from bases in the
Sinai.
Robert McClosk^y, State De
partment spokesman, said the
Department had no information
on the situation and could neither
Jordan Buys
British Jets
LONDON (JTA)—The Jordan
ian Government has decided to
order from Britain some 30,000,-
000 pounds sterling ($84,000,000)
worth of supersonic Lightning
jet interceptor fighter planes
subject to financial arrangements
between the two countries, it was
reported here. An official an
nouncement is expected within
week.
confirm nor deny the engage
ment of Americans in the Egyp
tian rocket program. Other U. S.
officials said they knew of no
legal barrier that would prevent
American scientists who so de
sired from working for Egypt. It
was pointed out that they would
not be violating United States
laws unless they were former
Federal employes or had worked
on Government contracts and
had revealed secret information
to a foreign employer.
WASHINGTON — (JTA) —
Rep. Seymour Halpem, in a
speech on the House floor, an
nounced Monday that he has
asked the United States Attorney
General to investigate possible
violations of Federal law by
American scientists employed in
Egypt’s military rocket industry.
The New York Republican told
the House that he has also made
a formal request for a Depart
ment of State investigation and
public report on the matter. He
termed the work by Americans
in Egypt on rockets as “deplor
able.” He said that a full dis
closure of facts is necessary “so
that we in the Congress may take
appropriate legislative action to
ensure that these abuses do not
recur.”
Rep. Halpern pointed out that
“there is a distinct possibility
WORLD JEWISH
POPULATION SET
AT 13,887,000
NEW YORK (JTA)—A sur
vey of Jewish communities
made public here by the World
Jewish Congress put the global
total of Jews at 13,887,000.
The survey, carried out by
the WJC’s Institute of Jewish
Affairs, noted that the vast ma
jority, 10,885,000, reside in
three countries: USA, 5,612,000;
three countries: USA, 5,612,000;
USSR, 3,000,000; Israel, 2,273,-
000. The remaining 3,000,000
are scattered in almost 100
lands around the world.
that the two Americans named
in reports may be former Fed
eral employees who, in the course
of their work, may be marketing
their nation’s secrets for private
gain in violation of Federal law.”
Accordingly, he said, the U. S.
Department of Justice has been
asked “to ascertain if such viola
tions are taking place.”
Rap. Leonard Farbstein, New
York Democrat, a member of the
Near Eastern Subcommittee of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee, made known that he has
asked Secretary of State Dean
Rusk for a report on the extent
of American military assistance
of all kinds to the Arab states.
He made the request in a letter
to the Secretary of State.
TEL AVIV — (JTA) — Egypt
has established missile launching
bases in the Sinai Desert from
which the Egyptian Government
could fire toward Israel its El
Kaher and El Zaffr rockets, de
veloped by West German scien
tists and aided toward perfection
by at least two Americans, the
Lebanese press in Beirut report
ed today.
The Beirut newspaper El
Hayat also reported that an
American spokesman had ex
plained that United States ship
ments of arms to the Arab states
resulted from Israel’s refusal to
accept Washington advice against
Israeli retaliations to counter
Arab border raids. The spokes
man was quoted as giving the
following three reasons for the
American arms shipments to the
Arab states: 1. United States de
sire to achieve a balance between
Israeli and Arab armaments; 2.
an effort to balance Soviet arms
shipments and armaments ship
ped from the West; 3. an at-
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If reports of the sale are con
firmed, it will bring the value of
.exports of British arms to Middle
Eastern countries during the last
month to a record 124,000,000
pounds sterling ($347,200,000).
At the same time, it was re
ported here that Egypt and the
Soviet Union have signed a five-
year trade payments agreement,
boosting the volume of trade be
tween the two countries. Under
the pact, which will run until
1970, trade between Egypt and
the USSR will be increased from
$182,000,000 to $280,000,000. The
Soviet Union will export to Egypt
various types of machinery and
equipment, as well as oil and
coal.
Editor of ‘Aufbau’
Dies at 72
NEW YORK (JTA)—Dr. Man
fred George, editor of the Ger
man language Jewish weekly
Aufbau died here. He was 72.
Dr. George who was also a bio
grapher and novelist, was known
as a liberal editor in Germany
before the advent of Nazism. He
became editor of Aufbau after ar
riving here in 1939. Under his di
rection, the weekly grew frorr) a
small monthly newsletter to an
influential publication with a cir
culation of 30,000. Dr. George was
the author of a popular biography
of Theodor Herzl with introduc
tions by Thomas Mann and Al
bert Einstein.
After 17 Years,
Golda Meir Takes
Leave of Cabinet
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Israel’s
caretaker Cabinet Sunday held its
last session, which was featured
by a warm leave-taking of For
eign Minister Golda Meir. She an
nounced two weeks ago that she
is retiring from her post. Her re
tirement is believed to be due
to her health.
In saying farewell to the mem
bers of the Cabinet, Mrs. Meir
thanked the members of the Gov
ernment, noting that she had first
joined the Israeli Cabinet — as
Minister of Labor—17 years ago.
Minister Of the Interior Moshe
Shapiro, one of the two Ministers
in the body senior to Mrs. Meir
in point of permanent service,
lauded her contributions to the
State on behalf of his colleagues.
He said she was the “archtype of
the Yiddishe Mama; always wor
ried about the State."