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The Road Back
Arab refugees at left being helped by Israelis over a war-de
bridge to return to their former home abandoned during
conflict. Above, an Arab child helps rebuild his home in the
city of Jerusalem.
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE SR 1967
NO. 2«
Johnson and Kosygin End Talks
Without Reaching Agreement
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UNITED NATIONS,
(JTA)—Soviet Premier Alekse 1
Kosygin told a press conference
here before his departure for
Cuba that he reached no agree
ment with President Johnson on
the Arab-Israel situation during
their summit meeting in Glass-
boro, N. J., because he insisted
on the immedate withdrawal of
the Israeli forces from the con
quered Arab territories while
President Johnson -panted this
question to be considered a part .
of the entire complex of prob
lems relating to the situation in
the Middle East.
The Soviet Premier added,
however, that there was agree
ment between him and Presi
dent Johnson that, with regard
to further efforts and activities
on the Middle East issue, Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk and
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko would remain in con
tact to work on all the issues
relating to the situation in the
Middle East.
Mr. Kosygin expressed his
“belief” that the United Nations
is “duty-bound” to adopt decis
ions favoring the withdrawal of
the Israeli troops “because fur
ther procrastination in carrying
out tha step could only enhance
the risks of war breaking out
again.” He said that “if the Gen
eral Assembly decides in favor
of the withdrawal of forces,
every state, big or small, should
comply with that decision.”
Noting that the General As
sembly decision orvVroop with
drawal would be only a recom
mendation to the Security
Council, the Soviet * Premier
added that, should Israel then
fail to withdraw its troops after
a vote to that effect by the
Council, “sanctions” would have
to be imposed against Israel.
To the question whether the
Soviet Government would favor
discontinuation of arms sales to
countries in the Middle East, as
well as freedom of passage
through the Gulf of Akaba and.
the Suez Canal, Mr. Kosygin re
pled that, first, Israel must
withdraw its troops behind the
armistice lines, then the other
questions could be “considered.”
In replying to another ques
tion, Premier Kosygin reiterat
ed his stand outlined in his
speech at the General Assembly
asking for the condemnation of
Israel as an aggressor, with
drawal of Israeli troops and the
payment of compensation by Is-
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Eban Offers ‘Agenda for Peace’
After King Hussein’s UN Talk
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA) —Israel’s Foreign Mini
ster Abba E,ban spelled out be
fore the emergency special ses
sion of the General Assembly,
an “agenda for peace” which
looked toward full settlement of
all the problems arising from
this month’s Arab-Israeli war,
including the status of the holy
places in Jerusalem.
4 Mr. Eban addressed the As
sembly after it had heard Jor
dan’s King Hussein repeating
the familiar Arab charges of Is
raeli aggression. Irr his address,
the Jordanian monarch, whq
called for the “forthwith return”
of Jerusalem and other areas
captured from Jordan, asserted
that Jordan would learn to use
modem* weapons of war and
would rise again against Israel
when the time is ripe, unless Is
rael withdraws its forces im
mediately from territories it had
taken from Jordan.
Mr. Eban’s address was a re
ply to numerous statements
made previously, during the
current session, by the Soviet
Union, Britain, France, King
Hussein of Jordan and many
other Arab speakers. But the
North Carolina Group
Jewish Family Retreat at
Special to Southern Israelite
The fifth annual Jewish Family
Retreat, sponsored by the North
Carolina Association of Jewish
Men, with be held July 28-August
3, at Wildacres, the mountain
estate of 1,500 acres of the I. D.
Blumenthal’s, of Charlotte. Wild
acres is located in the mountains
of the Tar Heel State, at Little
Switzerland.
Eminently successful in its
previous sessions, the aims of the
Retreat are to restore the Jew
ish family and home to their
historic positions of primacy and
importance through a series of
carefully planned experiences.
The tools used involved li^ng,
studying, discussing, praying,
playing, singing together. This
undertaking, aware of the great
achievements of children’s edu
cational summer camps and adult
institutes and equally pware of
the reduction in yield within the
Jewish home when both genera
tions have not had the same ex
posure, strives to highlight com
mon experiences to both genera
tions.
At the Wildacres Retreat,
parents and children spend
mornings in class studying the
same subjects in groups arranged
according to the varying age
levels. In the evening, during a
period especially set aside, the
entire family together reviews
the day’s teaching and happen
ings. Parents and children learn
to communicate with each other.
Typical of camper reaction is this
quote from one of last year’s, “I
guess that the family spirit was
all-prevailing that week. As the
days went on, there was a real
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'Wildacres'
interest in discussion and conver
sation within the family group.”
During evening panels, parents
and^ehildren exchanged ideas
and opinions.
Each day begins with a Morn
ing Watch, a new and creative
expression of prayer outdoors
with the Blue Ridge Mountains
as a backdrop of grandeur and
inspiration. In the evenings,
traditional services are held
using the routinized prayers of
the prayerbook; shying how
formal prayer reflects the mean
ing that the worshipper brings
to it.
During the past retreats, fami
lies determined to carry home
the old but newly stressed values
of Judaism and pledged to create
in their own communities islands
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only government he castigated
outright was the Soviet Union.
He charged that the USSR had
“stimulated and is now renew
ing an arms race in the Middle
East.’” He noted that, in the
last 15 years, the Soviet Union
had not once called on any of
Israel’s neighbors “to respect
her statehood and sovereignty.”
“The Soviet Union,” he de
clared, “has not been an impar
tial power working for peace
and security, but an active ally
of irridentist governments which
planned the liquidation of a
neighbor state. It is in that light
that the Soviet proposals before
this Assembly should be ap
praised, criticized and rejected.
My Government indignantly re
jects any statement, from what
ever sources, asserting that Is
rael is responsible for the hos
tilities which broke out this
month.’’
The first essential of peace,
Mr. Eban insisted, is “a dialog
ue” between the Arab states
and Israel and the recognition
dhat “intermediate armistice . ar
rangements have had their day.”
If Egypt claims there is a state
of war between her and Israel,
he said, “then there is a state
of war, and Egypt cannot com
plain of the consequences of its
own doctrine.” The only course
to assure a future of peace, he
declared, is peace itself.
pressed in agreed form. ,For the
first time in 20 years, Jerusalem
is not divided, is not a military
frontier and offers access to the
shrines of all three great relig
ions. Conditions are . thus ripe
for the fulfillment of spiritual
yearnings and ideals.”
In his address, King Hussein
charged that Israel had plann
ed its aggression for 19 years and
had finally perpetrated “a mon
ster, sneak aggression” that has
been paralleled in history only
by Japan’s’ attack on Pearl Har
bor. He charged Israel with
“vicious treatment” of Jordan-
ian civilians and prisoners of
war. He accused Israel of ag
gravating the Arab refugee
problem. He demanded that the
Assembly recognize clearly that
Israel had invaded three Arab
countries and must withdraw its
forces immediately. He told, the
Assembly that Jerusalem is
“now in foreign hands for the
first time in 1,000 years.”
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