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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1W7
Negro Leaders Join Protest JDC Heads Ur
Over SNCC’s Anti-Semitism
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Czech Verdict on Jordan Death
NEW YORK (JTA)— Sweeping
protest from prominent Negro
leaders as well as from the Jew
ish community has almost engulf
ed the anti-Zionist, anti-Israel
and enti-Jewish statements that
appeared in the official newslet
ter of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and were
later reiterated at a press con
ference in Atlanta by leaders of
the organization.
When the newsletter drew an
outraged response from the Jew
ish community, three SNCC
leaders at the “black power” or
ganization’s Atlanta headquarters
told niwsmen that Jews “were
imitating their Nazi oppressors,
committing some of the same
atrocities against the Arabs,” a
charge that has previously ap
peared in the group’s official
organ.
The SNCC attack, Ralph Fea-
therstone, program director said,
was not anti-Semitic, but was di
rected against “Jewish oppressors
and those Jews in the little Jew
shops in the ghettos.” “Israel,”
he added, “is and always been
the tool and foothold for Amer
ican and British exploiters in the
Middle East and Africa.” Misa
Ethel Minor, another SNCC
leader, told the press that the or-
Farmers Report
Record Harvest
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli
farmers have turned in a record
wheat harvest of 210,000 tons,
comprising about 60 percent of
the country’s total requirements,
it was reported by a spokesman
for the Agricultural Ministry.
He stressed the importance of the
domestic yield in view of the de
cline in wheat surpluses through
out the world.
Comparison between the yields
Of Arab farmers on the West
Bank of the Jordan, now occu
pied by Israel, and Israel’s cur
rent output, showed that the
former Jordanian region had
produced an average of only 60
to 70 kilograms per dunam,
while the average per-dunam
yield in Israel was more than
200 kilograms.
ganization would expand on its
anti-Israeli propaganda.
The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. declined in Atlanta to
comment on the SNCC anti-Jew-
ish attacks, saying he had not
read the SNCC newsletter. He
stated, however, that he was
strongly opposed to anti-Semi
tism.
Whitney Young Jr., executive
director of the National Urban
League, compared the SNCC
newsletter’s views on the Israel i-
Arab issue to those of the Amer
ican Nazi Party, and declared:
“Negro citizens are well aware
of the contributions for equal
rights by Jewish citizens. Negroes
have been the victims of racism
for too long to indulge in group
stereotypes and racial hatred
themselves.”
A joint statement issued by A.
Philip Randolph, president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car
Porters, and Bayard Rustin,
executive director of the A. Phil
ip Randolph Institute, said they
were “appalled and distressed by
the anti-Semitic article” in the
SNCC newsletter. They declared
that the SNCC attitude “reflects
a complete divorce from the
opinions and aspirations of the
mass of American Negroes.
Hebrew University
Ehrolls Nine Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine
Arab students who formerly
lived in the Jordanian-held Old
City of Jerusalem have enrolled
for the next academic year in
the Hebrew University, it was
announced. They had studied
previously at universities in
Cairo, Beirut and Munich. Their
fields include mathematics, eco
nomics, physics and medicine.
The Arab students are now
among 350 from abroad who
started this week to take an in
tensive course in Hebrew. Of the
350, about 100 are Jewish stu
dents who had come here as
volunteers to aid Israel during
the immediate pre-war and post
war days of the June conflict,
and have decided to stay here
for further studies instead of re
turning to their homes.
WASHINGTON (JTA)—United
States officials sey the Czecho
slovak Government conducted an
autopsy on the body of Charles
H. Jordan, executive vioe-ohair-
man of the Joint Distribution
Committee without notifying
United States diplomatic auth
orities in time for them to attend.
The Czech authorities announced
that it had been established that
the cause of death was drowning
and that there were no marks of
violence on the body.
The autopsy by a Czech Gov
ernment pathologist was held
from 7 a. m. to 9:20 a. m. Prague
time, last Tuesday. The United
States Embassy in Frague was
not notified until a few minutes
before the autopsy was conclud
ed, making It impossible for the
American oonsul to arrive to wit
ness the proceedings. The consul
arrived five minutes after the
postmortem operation had end
ed, having been given only 20
minutes notice, although United
States authorities had pointedly
asked, on the day after the body
was found, that they be notified,
so they might attend.
Selwyn Lloyd Says
Divided Jerusalem
Would Be Tragedy
JERUSALEM (WTJP) — Com
pleting a six-day visit in Israel
as the guest of the Government,
John Selwyn Lloyd—who served
as Britain’s Foreign Minister dur
ing the 1956 Sinai campaign—de
clared at a press conference here
recently thatj “Jerusalem must
remain re-united—a return to a
divided city would be a tragedy.”
Mr. Selwyn Lloyd made it a
point to state that the world
must not allow the present op
portunity for a settlement of the
Arab-Israel dispute to be lost as
it was after the Suez campaign
in 1956. He hailed the “extra
ordinary military achievements
of the Israeli forces" which he
said “demanded great skill and
courage.”
After protests by the United
States, Czechoslovakia agreed to
a second autopsy. It is now being
conducted by Prof. Bernard
Hardmeyer, deputy director of
(the Legal Medical Institute of
Zurich, Switzerland, who flew to
Prague for the purpose. Dr.
Hardmeyer was accompanied by
Dr. Alexander Gonik, of the JDC
staff in Geneva.
American medical authorities
said in Washington that it was
extremely difficult to determine
CHARLES H. JORDAN
facts involving possible homicide
after an autopsy is performed.
The chances for gaining evidence
in a second autopsy are lessened
because of the obliteration of
possible evidence inherent in any
autopsy.
It was reported here that Mr.
Jordan’s nephew viewed the body
and identified it by rings and
other indicators. It appeared that
Mr. Jordan had not been the vic
tim of robbery. Mr. Jordan dis
appeared when he left his hotel
room in Prague to buy an Amer
ican newspaper.
In New York, Lcui3 Broido,
chairman of the JDC, issued a
statement emphasizing that “it is
absolutely impossible for us to
U. S. Uncommitted
In Event Warfare
Renews in Mideast
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
United States Government has
officially gone on record stating
that there was no commitment
to Israel or the Arabs in event
of new warfare in the Middle
East.
The State Department policy
statement was issued in answer
to a request by Sen. J. W. Ful-
bright, Ark. Democrat, chair
man of the Senate Foreign Re
lations Committee. Sen. Ful-
bright had asked the State De
partment: “Is the United States
as a nation committed to supply ’
military or economic resources
to protect the territorial integri
ty of these (Middle Eastern)
states?”
William B. Macomber, Jr., As
sistant Secretary of State for
Near Eastern Affairs, wrote to
Sen. Fulbright: “President John
son and his three predecessors
have stated the United States in
terest and concern in supporting
the political independence and
territorial integrity to the coifn-
tries of the Near East.
’This is a statement of policy
and not a commitment to take
particular actions in particular
accept the explanations of the
Czechoslovak Government con
cerning the death of Charles H.
Jordan."
“When we heard that the au
topsy on Mr. Jordan was to be
performed,” Mr. Broido stated,
“we requested a delay until the
arrival of Prof. Hardmeyer and
Dr. Gonik. The fact the Czechs
refused to delay the autopsy we
find to be a highly suspicious cir
cumstance, so suspicious that we
cannot escape the conclusion that
the Czech Government is cover
ing up a vile crime, of which
they mu3t have had knowledge.
“In view of the implications
contained in some of the reports,
I want to state that I spoke with
Charles Jordan in Israel less than
two weeks ago. At that time, we
discussed a number of future
JDC programs and special pro
grams. Mr. Jordan then showed
a lively and vital interest in
them. In addition, a number of
his friends as well as the JDC
staff have received postcards,
mailed by him from Prague on
the very day he disappeared.
These postcards sound normal
and cheerful.
“In view of the circumstances
of Mr. Jordan’s death, we are
sending to Prague as our rep
resentative Mr. Seymour Rubin,
counsel for the JDC. Mr. Rubin
is a former general COUMta of 1
the Agency for International De
velopment, and as a former as
sistant legal advisor to the De
partment of State he undertook a
number of missions lor the late
President Kennedy.
“We in JDC are determined to
pursue every investigation with
the cooperation of our State De
partment until we have determ
ined precisely what took place.
We owe this to the memory of
a great and good humanitarian,"
Mr. Broido concluded.
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India Organizes
League for Goser
Ties With Israel
BOMBAY, India (WUP)— An
Indo-Israel Friendship League,
consisting of many prominent
personalities from all parts of the
nation including some thirty
members of Parliament, has been
established here. Among the
speakers at the Founders’ meet
ing were Mrs. Lilavati Munshi,
president of the League, and C.C.
Desai, M.P., and one of the vice
presidents.
In her opening address, Mrs.
Munshi stated: “Our basic «im is
to pursue India’s age-old policy
of friendship and goodwill tow
ards all with malice to none. The
position which the Government
of India has taken on the Mid
east crisis, is, unfortunately, very
much at variance with the ma
jority of public opinion in the
country. The Jews have been the
most persecuted people in the
history of the world. Following
centuries of vicissitudes, they
ultimately created a homeland
for themselves and Israel was
bora in 1948. International ethics
and morality,” she stressed,
“make it obligatory or. all mem
ber nations to accept this fact"
The new Indo-Israel Friend
ship League is intended to be
circumstances. Unrest and con- ,. used as a platform through which
fhet in the Middle East have cultural, economic and oamraer-
COn f ern * cial tie. between India and Israel
United States for a long time.” wlll t* MUbU^ed and strength-
Helmets on crossed rifles served os censers for brate two months’ liberation for that city. All
memorial flames as part of a parade held in the soldiers there had taken part in the fight
Hebrew University stadium in Jerusalem to cele- for liberation and all received decorations.