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learned here.
Yosef Tekoah, the assistant di
rector-general erf tbe Israeli For
eign Ministry, raised the issue
with the UN official. Mr. Tekoah
said that residents planning to re
turn under an Israel agreement
with Jordan and the Internation
al Red Crosej were being exhort
ed by Amman Radio to become a
“nucleus of resistance” to Israeli
rule. Informed sources here in
dicated that, if such incitement
was not halted, Israel might de
mand a personal written oonunit-
Authors
to Russia
and Authors in Britain com
memorated this week the 10th
anniversary of the execution by
the Soviet Union of 24 leading
Jewish intellectuals with an ap
peal to Soviet authorities to al
low full cultural and religious
freedom to Soviet Jewry.
shown “by the
i of their works
nd other Ian-
g Russian end
i
‘Aliyah' Needs 40,000 Yearly
To Solve Israel's Problems
of each new group of tmrai-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
needs ait least 40,000 immigrants
annually to cope with its demo
graphic problems, Aryeb L. Pta-
cus, chairman of tbe Jewish
Agency executive, declared here
at a meeting with a 17-member
mission of the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds.
Mr. Pin cue also told the Amer
ican leaden, led by Louie Fox
of Baltimore, CJFWF president,
that the Jewish Agency has been
cooperating lately with scientific
institutes in studying the prob
lems of absorption and that
Agency officials were periodically
taking part in refresher course*
to acquaint them with the needs
Tha function of the mission is
to evaluate Israel’s needs in the
aftermath of the aix-day June
war Which American Jewry can
help ter meet and to seek to de
termine how this help can be pro
vided mbst effectively. Finanoe
Minister Pinhas lauded the work
of American Jewry and Its
leaden for Israel. He singled out
the federations and welfare
funds. Mr. Fas replied that the
mein credit should go to Israel
ial
The Southern Israe
* I I I L J
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLH
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1967
NO. tt
School Textbooks
Revised in Spain
To Eliminate Bias
MADRID (JTA)— The Chris
tian-Jewish Friendshio Commit
tee reported here that 159 pri
mary school textbooks have been
revised to eliminate references
offensive to Jews. Some of the
phrases eliminated from the
texts referred to Jews as “us
urers,” “national spendthrifts,”
“ungrateful people” and “cere
monial criminals.’
Officials of the committee said
the campaign against “false” in
terpretations of Jews would be
continued in the interests of
greater harmony between Cath
olic Spain’s various religious
groups. There are about 6,000
Jews in Spain and a slightly
larger number of Protestants,
Spanish non-Catholic religions
recently were given freedom to
worship under a new religious
law.
Catholics Reject
Jordanian Charges
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A Cath
olic official in the Israeli-held
West Bank section of Jordan has
denied charges emanating from
Jordan that some Catholic
churches in the area had been
closed because of "improper” be
havior by Israeli visitors. Father
Batkhish, secretary' 6f the Pa
triarchate not only rejected the
charges but also expressed ap
preciation for Israeli orders con
cerning treatment of the holy
places.
Printed notices were posted on
all Christian holy places for all
non-Christians. The notices
ordered removal of hats by such
visitors and a ban on eating,
smoking and drinking on .the pre
mises. The orders also banned
visits during religious services
and admonished visitors to dress
properly “as befits a place of
worship.”
Goldberg Foresees
Peace Settlement
UNITED NATIONS. N. Y.
(JTA) — The belief that these
were “positive developments” In
the Middle East in the direction
of an eventual Arab-Israeli peace
settlement was expressed here by
Arthur J. Goldberg, the United
States representative to the
United Nations.
Mr. Goldberg expressed that
view to newsmen after a lengthy
meeting with Secretary-General
U Thant. The envoy cited as the
basis for his belief the fact that
there had been a “consolidation
of the cease-fire under United
Nations supervision” and that he
looked to additional UN action
on outstanding issues, including
the status of Jerusalem. The en
voy sard that “movement toward
a settlement is going to be slow,
but there has been some progress
in the cease-fire arrangements
and there has been no retrogres
sion in otheT areas.”
Rafael Slated
For Promotion
UNITED NATIONS (WUP)—
Gideon Rafael, who was only re
cently appointed as Israel’s Am
bassador to the UN succeeding
Michael Comay, will soon re
turn to Jerusalem as Director-
General of the Foreign Office, it
was learned here.
Reason for the sudden transfer
was not disclosed, but the shift
involves a promotion for the
youthful envoy who is a veteran
in Foreign Office affairs.
While no successor as yet has
been named, it is generally be
lieved here that Mordecai Kid-
ron—in old hand in UN diplo
macy—will be given the difficult
post.
Ambassador Rafael, who has
just returned from a visit to
Israel, showed up at a UN Cor
respondents Association farewell
reception for Israel press officer
Gideon Yarden on Thursday.
Peace Settlement Will Create
.I
New Mideastern Map, Eban Says
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Israel’s
Cabinet is currently discussing
“the map of the Middle East, ac
cording to Israel’s ideas, when
peace with the Arabs is achiev
ed,” Foreign Minister Abba Eban
declared here. But, he added, the
Government will not make its
views on that subject public at
this time, “keeping these views
to itself until the time when di
rect negotiations with the Arab
states begin.”
Making the announcement at a
press conferen^ef~Mr. Eban de
clined to answer questions as to
whether Arab statesmen had al
ready put out feelers regarding
peace talks with Israel. However,
he said, the Arab statesmen are
not yet ready to negotiate at this
time. Such tendencies, he declar
ed, will develop in the future be
cause of pressures in an existing In Bethlehem C*fc
situation. “If faced with the hi-* - , _
temative of negotiations or the BETHLEHEM (WUP) Forty
prospect that Israel wall not > Arab guerrillas, all members of
budge from the territories she the Syrian-trained terrorist
Mr. Eban said that the August
31 deadline for the return of Arab
refugees from Jordan to the Is
raeli-held west bank of the Jor
dan River, “should suffice, even
for the stringent processing of
the applications” from the would-
be returnees. The first batch of
applications from those refugees
are already in Israel’s hands, he
said, and processing of the ap
plications has begun.
Jordanian efforts to incite
against Israel the west bank ref
ugees who wish to return to their
homes is “intolerable,” an Israeli
official told Nils-Goran Guaaing,
United Nations Secretary-General
U Thant’s special representative
for humanitarian affairs, it was
Guerrillas Arrested
learned
turn
with
al Red
ed by
“nucleus of
rule,
dicated
was not
mand a
meat to civil
would-be returnee.
now holds," he observed, “they
will eventually realize that they
have to negotiate.”
Concerning the United State*
embargo on arms shipments to
Israel, Mr. Eban said that “a dia
logue with the United States is a
necessity and is continuing in
order to keep the Israeli enny
strong.”
organization known as El Fatah,
wefe apprehended by the mili
tary authorities in a clandestine
meeting held in one of the cafes
here. During the interrogation,
the guerrillas admitted that they
had been given secret orders to
sabotage Israeli installations and
incite riots among the Arabs in
the occupied territories.
‘Snick’ Makes Anti-Semitism
A Plank In Its Crazy Platform
By ADOLTH ROSENBERG
SNOC, main o r g a n i zation
backer of the “Black Power”
bum-American-cities movement,
this week added a platform of
anti-Semitism to its policy.
The official newsletter of the
subversive group, which is as
communal
Jerusalem
Most of the temporary graves were
permanently Interred in
19 men and women feU In the battle for the Old Ctty of
to rest temporarily without a proper funeral service,
in the Jewish Quarter of the Old City.
un-American and non-American
as its “Student Non-Violence Co
ordinating Committee” name, is
fallacious and misleading, has
come out with a vicious attack
on Israel and Zionism.
Contents, featuring the Nazi-
type stereotype of religious hatred
disguised as anti-Israel, refer to
Israeli cruelties, the leveling of.
thirty villages and a handful of
other equally foundless lies.
Jewish leaders, deploring the
addition of anti-Semitism to the
SNOC*s already false premises,
compared the SNCC approach to
the Klan-type libels and express
ed regret to the new harm to the
civil rights movement the news
letter policy will naturally gen
erate.
It was noted by one Jewish
leader that the International
Red Cross, which has free and
complete access to the Arab ref
ugees now within Israel’s boun
daries, has issued a statement of
commendation for the Jewish
State’s humane treatment of the
problem.
This leader also observed that
not a single Arab country has of
ficially come out with a charge
of refugee or prisoner brutality
as SNCC’s propaganda alleges.
This completely qualifies and
discredits this organization as
a disreputable, i r r e sponsible
group of hoods. It should be put
in the ground six feet under be
fore it pollutes the decency of
citizenship any more.
British
Appeal
LONDON
ciation of
the
Jewish
peal to Soviet
low full cultui
freedom to
The
“untimely deaths”
dered intellectuals
sorrow” and said t
tion to Jewish li
been of utmost
had since been
many translations
into Russian and
guages, enriching
world literature.”
Pearson Column
Hints At Bias
In State Dept.
WASHINGTON (WUP)—“Inside
the State Department an under
current of smti-Semitiam has been
bubbling close to the surface ever
since the Middle East war.”
Thus charged Jack Anderson,
associate of Drew Pearson, in the
widely syndicated column.
Anderson noted that “Arab-
minded, oil-oriented foreign ser
vice officials have been heard
to complain in the back rooms
that they have spent 25 years
trying to build good relations for
the U.S. in the Arab world only
to have our policy during the
crisis directed by three Jew*—
U. S. Ambassador Arthur Gold
berg and the two R os tow
brothers.”
Walt Roetow is President
Johnson’s foreign affairs adviser
at the White House; Eugene Roe-
tow is Under Secretary of State.
“Members of the pro-Arab
clique, influenced by the oil
companies,” Anderson emphas
ized, “are now urging that the
U.8. pressure Israel to pull back
to its original borders. They urge
that tiny Israel, with only a little
over two million people, isn't as
important to the U.S. as the 0U-
rich Arab world with forty mil
lion people. .