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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1966
Arab Boycott Threatens
Ford, Coca-Cola and Others
NEW YORK (JTA)—Three of
America’s largest industrial firms
have been placed on the agenda
of the Arab Boycott Committee
currently meeting in Kuwait, and
face possible boycott action by
the Arab League, according to a
New York Times report from
Cairo.
Two of the American firms, the
Ford Motor Company along with
its subsidiary, the Philco Corp
oration, and Coca-Cola Interna
tional Corporation, have been
threatened with boycott action by
the Arabs for planning expan
sion of their operations in Israel.
The third company, Radio Corp
oration of America, has also been
placed on the blacklist agenda,
although no Arab official has yet
publicly disclosed that company’s
alleged “offense.” The Times re
port suggested that it might in
volve the pressing of phonograph
records in Israel.
According to the report, both
Ford and Coca-Cola have “dis
creetly” approached Arab offic
ials with offers to increase their
First Meeting In
Toledo Synagogue
Since 1492
MADRID (JTA)—For the first
time since King Ferdinand and
Queen Isabella expelled the Jews
from Spain in 1492 Spanish Jews
assembled openly in ck synagogue
in Toledo. The Samuel Levy
Synagogue, in ToledOj where the
meeting was held, is not used
for religious services which aie
permitted in Spain, under a 1945
“statement of tolerance,” only in
unmarked buildings.
Max Mazin, president of the
2.500-member Madrid Jewish
community, said it had been de
cided to arrange a meeting in
connection with the visit to Spain
of Philip E. Hoffman, chairman
of the board of governors of the
American Jewish Committee, and
the Toledo synagogue was chosen
as the site for the occasion. Some
200 persons, including five priests
and two Capuchin monks, were
among the guests who heard the
provincial governor Enrique
Thomas de Carranza, discuss the
glories of ancient Jewish history
in Toledo and the city’s toler
ance for non-Catholic faiths. His
appearance was belived to be the
first by a ranking Spanish Gov
ernment official at a Jewish cer
emony.
operations in Arab countries to
offset planned expansion in Is
rael. Ford is reported to have
made “an attractive offer” to
comply with a request by Egyp
tian authorities to manufacture
trucks and cars for reexport, to
offset import costs and to help
Egypt earn hard currency.
Coca-Cola has recently taken
large advertisements in Egyptian
newspapers to emphasize its con
tribution to the Egyptian econ
omy and to disclose plans for
building a concentrate plant, its
first in the Middle East, at Port
Said.
Two other large American
firms that have already been
blacklisted by the Arab League
are Zenith, radio and television
manufacturers, and Sears, Roe
buck and Co., the large mail
order merchandiser. While Zenith
was placed on the blacklist for
dealing with Israel, Sears is being
boycotted apparently out of con
fusion with an unrelated British
firm named Sears. The American
mail-order company has not even
bothered to explain its “inno
cence” the Times report stated.
The report cited claims by
Arab officials that, of the 8,000
to 9,000 companies contacted by
the Arab Boycott Committee,
about 90 percent have complied
with boycott demands. The boy
cott officials said that the re
maining 800 companies refuse to
comply because they are “Zionist
controlled.” Israeli officials, ac
cording to the report, are said to
consider the boycott more of a
nuisance than a serious deterrent
to economic development or mil
itary security.
Jewish Children’s
Service Meeting
Set for Oct. 23
The 90th annual meeting
of the Jewish Children’s
Service will begin with a
business session at 10:00 a. m.
Sunday Oct. 23 at the Stand
ard Club.
Alfred E. Garber, presi
dent of the Atlanta based re
gional agency, announced
that Dr William Granitir
of Washington and Dr. Allan
A. Lipton of Miami will
evaluate two of the major
demonstration projects of
the Jewish Children’s Serv
ice.
Committee reports and
election of board members
and officers will also high
light the session.
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UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
In his eloquence for which he is
renowned and admired, Foreign
Minister Abba Eban confronted
the 15-member Security Council
in a night session last Friday
with incontestable facts and fig
ures proving that the Syrian reg
ime is directly linked to and re
sponsible for the series of guer
rilla inroads into Israel during
the past year.
“The facts are clear,” he told
the Council. “There is no am
biguity about them. The facts
are that Syria mobilizes and sup
ports groups of saboteurs, trains
them on Syrian territory in two
large camps at Kaboun and Ku-
neitra; organizes secondary train
ing facilities in Damascus, Dera’s
of men in their service, and pub
licly formulates their political
aim in terms of ‘destroying’ a
sovereign state, a member of the
UN."
Dynamic as ever and militant
in demeanor, Eban continued to
let the world know. “No other
State in the modern internation
al community and few in recent
history have ever been as pro
fuse as Syria in glorifying, ad
vocating and upholding the am
bition of launching war, causing
havoc and destroying an estab
lished and legal international sit
uation in a wave of illicit vio
lence . . . There is no doubt of
Syria’s direct complicity in these
guerrilla activities ...”
Turning to the delegates
and Banyas; sends these guerrilla ... , . ., _.
groups into Israel either directly , around the horseshoe table, Eban
or through Jordan and Lebanese said: In “order to understand Is-
territory; gloats over their sue- rael’s view and position, mem-
cess, both real and imagined; ac- ber-States here represented can
tively sponsors the mobilization do no better than put themselves
Interfaith Group
Meet8 at Harvard
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) —
More than 100 scholars and theo
logians assembeld here for an
international colloquium on Ju
daism and Christianity, as one of
the highlights of the celebration
by Harvard University of its
150th anniversary. The four-day
colloquium was organized by the
University in cooperation with
the American Jewish Committee,
whose president Morris B. Abram,
extended greetings on behalf of
the organization, at the opening
public lecture of the event.
Dean Samuel R. Miller, of the
Harvard Divinity School, said
the purpose of the gathering was
to bring together the theological
scholars to analyze the historical,
theological and sociological forces
that have shaped relations be
tween the two religions.
Isadore Twersky, Littauer Pro
fessor of Hebrew Literature and
Philosophy at Harvard, is chair
man of the seminar on the his
tory of the encounter between Ju
daism and Christianity. Speakers
will include Dr. Haim H. Ben-
Sasson of the Hebrew University.
Syria Warned
In Sharp Term?
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Premier
Levi Eshkol has said that Israel
was ready to sign immediately
a nonaggression pact with Syria.
But he warned at the same time
that, if “murderous attacks and
acts of sabotage continue” from
Syrian sources, “we will set to
halt them." He made these state
ments in s speech to the open
ing winter term of Israel’s Parl
iament reporting on Israels for
eign affairs and security situa
tion. His address lasted two
hours.
Mr. Eshkol made a direct ap
peal to Syria, declaring that
Israel was not concerned with the
nature of Syria’s regime or its
internal affairs. He added: “We
are ready for peace at once, but
our patience has a limit. If mur
derous attacks and acts of sab
otage continue, we will act to
end them, according to our views
and choosing our own time. We
are not preparing to attack
Syria,” he said, referring to
charges to that effect from both
Arabs and Soviet sources. “Our
policy is not dictated by any for
eign factor. Our only concern is
to protect the lives and security
of our citizens.”
in our place. You must Imagine
that armed units are sent into
your territory to murder your
citizens; to terrorize your coun
tryside; to destroy water supplies
and farm property; to blow up
buildings in rural and urban
areas; to disrupt the peaceful
rhythm of daily life ‘to set a
whole territory on fire’ in the
words of the Syrian Prime Min
ister. You must further Imagine
that all this activity is openly
proclaimed, sponsored, organized
and set in motion by a neighbor
ing government with the explicit
motive of preparing ‘a popular
war’ for the destruction of your
sovereignty and independence.
What would your governments
do after months and years of such
activity? Would not the cessa
tion of these outrageous en
croachments become a primary
national objective?”
The Israeli Foreign Minister
continued: “Let me state the
problem in all its simplicity. We
have strong, indeed irrefutable
evidence for our conviction that
the Syrian Government says to
itself: ‘We cannot attack or des
troy Israel by the direct con
frontation of our armies for va
rious military and political rea
sons. But we may try to secure
a similar result with less risk to
ourselves and with relatively
small effort by supporting and
encouraging infiltration of para
military bands which will con
vulse daily life, in M
her the possibility
existence within her
“Is this not Syrian potter?” h*
asked. “Everybody inside this
room and outside it knows that
it is.”
Abba Eban made it door that
“every government has the na
tional right and the international
duty to defend its territory and
population against aggression in
the exercise of its inherent right
of self-defense. What we seek
from the members of this Coun
cil is the achievement of these
aims by peaceful means includ
ing solemn and emphatic con
demnation of the hostile acts, the
illicit infiltrations, and the in
citement to war practiced and
supported by the Syrian Govern
ment. The bloodshed must stop.
The border must be respected as
a barrier against any arbitrary
crossing whether of troops or of
people calling themselves a pop
ular army.”
Democracy Menaced by Extreme Far Rightists
Because of the exigency facing Georgia voters in the November
election where both parties have put forward racist extremists as
gubernatorial candidates, we are reprinting this speech in Atlanta
made last weekend by a noted jurist, Judge Stanley Mosk of the
California Supreme Court. He was addressing the first Abe
Goldstein Award dinner of the Southeastern Anti-Defamation
League.
This is a memorable day.
Exactly 900 years ago, October
14-15, 1066, the Battle of Hast
ings was fought. The invading
Normans won, and being able
administrators and lawyers, wbve
their law with ancient Saxon
law to create the common
law that is the basis of modern
democratic procedure.
A century and a third ago,
DeTocqueville said, “The pro
gress of democracy seems irre
sistible, because it is the most
uniform, the most ancient, and
the most permanent tendency
which is to be found in history.”
There are many who find
democracy anything but irresist
ible, circa 1966, and fear deterior
ation in the future. There are
only 18 years ahead in which to
thwart Orwell’s 1984, and at
times the prospects seem mel
ancholy indeed.
At the threshold let me assure
you I am not here to lecture any
one. The Yankees finished last in
the American League this season
and we Yankees would probably
be last here in the Georgia lea
gue. I am certain you Atlantans
seek no advice from a fleeting
itinerant. And particularly will
you be unable to get sage advice
from a Californian whose fellow
citizens selected Shirley Temple’s
dancing partner for their United
States senator, and may pick the
star of "Bedtime for Bonzo,”
"Tugboat Annie Sails Again,”
and “Death Valley Days” for
their Governor. On the scale of
values, there is probably little to
choose between axe-handle res-
taurauteurs on the one hand and
greasy kid-stuff good-guy apolo
gists for the John Birch Society
on the other hand. I assure you
the pot will not call the kettle
black here tonight. This is one
nation, indivisible, and its prob
lems are one—and, may I add,
numerous.
I join you in commending Abe
Goldstein for establishing the an
nual Human Relations Award.
This act is typical of his sensitiv
ity for all that is good and decent
in our society, notice of which
has been taken far beyond the
confines of this capital city. I
also join you in congratulating
the distinguished recipient, first
to receive the award because he
is first in the hearts of his fellow
citizens, Mayor William B. Harts-
field. His ability to adjust prece
dent to principle, to bend tradi
tion to time, and to lead when
leadership was indispensable,
have won for Mayor Hartsfield
the admiration of countless mil
lions throughout our nation. I
have long been included among
them and am honored to be on
the same platform with this truly
noble human being.
Many years ago Edmund Burke
said, “All that is necessary for
the triumph of evil is for good
men to remain silent and do no
thing.” Mayor Hartsfield’s cons
cience and integrity prevented
him from remaining silent. I am
pleased that you here this even
ing also are doing something to
prevent the triumph of evil.
This, too, has been the rqle of
the Anti-Defamation League,
America’s oldest organization de
voted to the rights of all people
to be treated equally and with
dignity. The ADL believes, as I
do, that we individually have a
responsibility to do what we can
to make this world just a little
better, and to help give the peo
ple in it a greater opportunity to
enjoy the blessings of life. The
ADL path is not always easy; in
fact, it is often thorny and dif
ficult, with an ambush to avoid.
But even the difficulties can be
stimulating. Winston Churchill
once said, “Nothing in life is so
exhilarating as to be shot at
without result.”
There is a travel agency in Los
Angeles with a big sign over its
door reading, “See the World
Before You Leave IL” I believe
that sign, and I also believe in
another admonition to each of us:
"Do something for the worfel be
fore you leave it”
That is basically the concept
of our gTeat religions. Those of
us assembled here tonight share
a common interest in the funda
mental Judeo-Christian tradition.
Religion depends open faith, but
I submit that faith alone b not
enough. It must also depend upon
reason. ■,
Reason compels us to realise
that our freedom of religion la
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