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Friday, September 15, 1967
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Jewish
Telegraphic
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World Union Press
The Willingness To Live And Let Live
TO THOSE WHO are saying that the Arab summit con
ference at Khartoum represents appreciable progress in Arab
thinking and conduct, we have Prime Minister Eshkol’s indig
nant response that, on the contrary, the Arab resolution
against negotiating with Israel—and of course continuing to
deny the Jewish State recognition—is in the frozen pattern
of old and only makes peace prospects in the Mideast even
dimmer than they had been.
The key “yield” of the Khartoum meeting was the resolu
tion to “insure the principles of non-negotiation and make no
peace with Israel, for the sake of the Palestinian people in the
homeland.” For that they had to meet—at the summit, yet—
and, presumably, labor? It is, as Mr. Eshkol brands it, an “irre
sponsible resolution . . . against the real interests of the people
of the region”—and a defiance of the United Nations Charter
as well.
By contrast, the Israeli chief repeats his government’s
offer to negotiate with the Arab states, to sign peace treaties
with them, and thus launch an era of cooperation and growth.
As Abba Eban observed in his rejection of Tito’s one-sided
“peace” proposals, “The peace that we seek, together with the
regional cooperation that will flow from it, can only arise from
direct contact and full mutual recognition of the sovereign
states of the region.”
Reinforcing the mettlesome attitudes of the Israel leaders
is a uniquely historic voice, that of Anthony Eden, Prime Min
ister of England during the 50’s. Mr. Eden summons the
world’s attention to the opportunity “now, in the aftermath of
the fighting,” for a Middle Eastern settlement—a lasting peace
throughout the area: “the end of belligerency, freedom of
access and transit for shipping, a willingness to live and let
live.”
Mr. Eden, too, puts his emphasis on the rewards of peace
and the gains to be won by the Arab peoples from harmony
and accord: “If once toleration, let alone cooperation, could
prevail for even a few years between Israel and her Arab
neighbors, the economic opportunities would have a chance to
be spelled out.” His urgent plea is addressed not alone to the
Arabs but to “our generation”: “For twenty years now the
continuing state of war has bedevilled every attempt to put
joint effort before rancor, and progress before prejudice. To
be rid of it is surely something to work for—and our genera
tion must show enough statesmanship to make this possible.”
Yes, statesmanship—and the clarity of vision, steadfast
ness of purpose, and affirmation of justice that would insist on
the decencies of peaceful relations for all peoples everywhere.
—CLEVELAND JEWISH NEWS
Silver Lining
By DR. SAMUEL SILVER
(A Seven Arts Feature)
Atlanta is not only the home
of baseball Braves but also of a
cluster of spiritual braves.
Martin Luther King, of At
lanta, is a courageous man par
excellence. He holds high the
banner of love
no matter how
battered it gets.
Adolph Rosen
berg, of At
lanta, is the
president of the
association of
publishers of
Anglo - Jewish
papers. The or
ganization was
set for its convention in Israel
when the war struck. Advised to
call off the parley, Rosenberg
refused. His colleagues met while
the guns were crackling and as
he saluted Israeli heroes, they
were saluting him. His paper is
The Southern Israelite.
Rabbi Jacob Rothschild, of At
lanta, has been stalwart cha^n-
pion of human equality even in
the presence of terrorism and
timidity.
Ralph McGill is the famous
Atlanta journalist who has never
faltered in his assertion that
America must be true to its
ideals.
Another Atlanta brave being
heard from more and more these
days is the Roman Catholic Arch
bishop of Atlanta. He sounds like
a man we’d all like to meet.
Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan
takes literally the progressive
ideas released upon the world by
the late Pope John.
You can tell at once what a
lively and lovely person the
archbishop is from the news
paper he publishes, the Georgia
Bulletin. One of the columnists
is Rabbi Rothschild.
In a state where many people
are racists, the Catholic divine
preaches brotherly love. His
paper is chockful of items plead
ing with people to practice true
brotherhood. The archbishop is
concerned about the poverty of
the masses. “I think,” he declar
ed, “that rags worn in our slums
are far worse than the mini
skirts.”
When the Mideast crisis broke,
some Christian leaders were pro-
Arab. Some were neutraL
But Archbishop Hallinan spoke
loud and clear for the need of the
U.S. to back up Israel. He has
continued to affirm that Amer
ica’s best interests are being pro
tected by the State of Israel. He
is an unequivocal Zionist.
Letter From
By TRUDE B. FELDMAN
The Southern Israelite's
White House Correspondent
President Johnson has just
named Ernest Goldstein to be one
of his special assistants for leg
islative and organizational mat
ters.
Mr. Goldstein returned from
Paris, where for the past two
years he has been counsel for
Courdert Brothers, an interna
tional law firm. He had also been
lecturer at the Institute of Ad
vanced European Studies at Nice,
and at Ihe Universities of Brus
sel? and Luxembourg.
As special assistant, Mr, Gold
stein will ocoupy the post vacated
by Robert Kintner, who resigned
last June. These duties include
coordination of agencies and de
partments, ad consideration of re
ports demanding the President’s
attention from those agencies.
He will also assume some of
the legal activities at the White
House—conducted by Jake Jacob
sen before he resigned earlier this
year. The new Presidential ap
pointee will also be called upon
to assist Press Secretary George
Christian on various special proj
ects; and Walt Rostow on some
national security matters.
President Johnson met Ernest
Goldstein in 1956, during the lat
ter’s activities with the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’tith. The President said he se
lected Goldstein because he was
highly recommended as an inter
national lawyer and scholar, with
an abundance of government ex
perience. He is a Democrat.
Interviewed in his newly-as-
signed Whitt House office sev
eral hours after his appointment
and a few moments before he at
tended his first Cabinet meeting,
Mr. Goldstein told me that the
recognition given him by the
President came as a total sur
prise to him, and that he had no
advance indication of the event.
“The White House called me
in Paris and asked me to visit
the President,” he related. “I
took the next plane to Washing
ton.”
Asked why he resigned from
a lucrative law practice to accept
Eban To Write
Books On Israel
UNITED NATIONS (WUP) —
It was disclosed here this week
that Israel’s Foreign Minister
plans to write two major books
on Israel to be published within
the next two years.
The first volume, to appear in
1968, will contain Mr. Eban’s ac
count of the events leading up to
the recent Six-Day-War. How
ever, in the main, it will deal
with the larger questions of Mid
dle Eastern politics and policy.
The second book will be a short
history of Israel.
Random House will publish
both books. James H. Silberman,
the firm’s Vice-President and
Executive Editor, will be work
ing with the noted Israeli diplo
mat.
Born in South Africa, Eban
lived in England many years to
which country he was taken as
an infant. He graduated from
Cambridge University with the
highest honors, and at the be
ginning of World War II he en
listed in the British Army and
was sent to Palestine where he
decided to make his home after
the war. Shortly after the State
was proclaimed in 1948, he was
named the Israeli Representative
at the United Nations. When
Israel was admitted to the UN in
1949, Eban—then only 34 years
old—b e c a m e the permanent
representative, a post he held
until 1958. In 1966 he became
Israel’s Foreign Minister.
Among other things he saicT:
“We love with Christian love the
Moslems who worship the same
God as we. But we love more the
Jews whose ancient heritage we
share.”
What an archbishop!
Washington
a public assignment here, Gold
stein replied:
“Because 1 feel that a presi
dential appointment is a great
honor. I have always admired
and respecteed President John
son. Among other things, I feel
strongly that he is right in his
Vietnam policies.”
As for the recent Middle East
crisis, Goldstein said that Mr.
Johnson did a ‘superb job’.
On the domestic front, and
thinking back to the Amerioa of
the 1930s, Goldstein added: “The
President has accomplished much
more than I could have expected
in my wildest dreams.”
“Now that I’m in the White
House,” he continued, “I would
liice to give the President every
assistance on the basis of my
experience as I can—in whatever
form may be necessary.”
Although he will be 49 on Oc
tober 9th, Goldstein still retains
a fine, full crop of greyish black
hair and has a most interesting
and handsome face. He has a
warm and dynamic personality.
Ho is firmly built, five feet,
eight inches in height.
Born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvan
ia, Mr. Goldstein attended pub
lic school in Springfield and Wil-
braham Academy in Massachu
setts. He received his bachelor’s
degree at Amherst College, his
LLB at Qeorgetown University,
and his doctor of juridical sci
ence on a Carnegie Fellowship at
the University of Wisconsin. He
studied law at University of Chi
cago for two years.
A World War II veteran, he
was a Restrictive Trade Practices
specialist for the Office of U. S.
Special Representative at Paris
from 1952 to 1953, then became
Golda Meir Group
At Luncheon Sept. 20
Golda Meir Chapter, Pionere
Women, will meet at noon Wed
nesday, Sept. 20, at the home of
Mrs. Walter Frifeld, 2101 Beaver
Rd., N. E. Mrs. Morton Shapiro
and Mrs. Frifeld will be co-hos
tesses.
After a luncheon, a movie and
slides of post-war Israel will be
shown and Mrs. Edward Krick
will relate her experiences on her
rooent visit to the Jewish State.
4 New High Schools
Opened Sept. 1
NEW YORK (JTA)—Four new
comprehensive high schools be
gan operations in Israel on Sept
ember 1, joining three others
opened last year as well as a
number previously establish
ed, Charles J. Bensley, president
of the Israel Education Fund of
the United Jewish Appeal, re
ported here.
Mr. Bensley’s statement was in
clarification of oabled reports
that the opening of comprehen
sive high schools in Israel had
been deferred for a year. This
report, he said, had apparently
been based on a decision of the
Ministry of Education to post
pone until 1968 the transfer of
seventh grade students into the
newly opened IEF comprehen
sive high school in Migal Ha-
Emek and Or Yehuda.
JEWISH
CALENDAR
♦ROSII HASHANA
Oct. 5-6, Thurs-Fri.
*VOM KIPPUR
Oct. 14, Saturday
♦SUKKOT
Oct. 19-20, Thurs.-Fri.
•HOSHANA RABBA
Oct. 25, Wednesday
♦SIIEMINI ATZERET
Oct. 26, Thursday
*SIMIIAT TORAH
Oct. 27, Friday
♦HANUKA
Dec. 27—Jan. 3
Wednesday—Wednesday
♦HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
Professor of Law at the Univer
sity of Texas for eleven years.
He participated in an early fed
eral study of criminal conditions
on the Kefauver Crime Commit
tee; subsequently he served as
counsel to Congressman Emanuel
Celler’s Antitrust Subcommittee.
In 1964, as Chairman of the
Southwest Regional Board for
the Anti-Defamation League, Er
nest Goldstein oonducted a brief
survey of the new wave of ideo
logic nationalism manifested by
the Neo Nazi groups, then a mat
ter of considerable concern. He
was also President of the Jewish
Community Council of Austin,
Texas.
Goldstein was brought up in a
traditional Jewish home and his
learning of the Hebrew language
and customs continued beyond
the period of study for his Bar
Mitzva (held at the orthodox
Congregation Kodimoh in Spring-
field Mass.) He had a private
tutor who gave him a thorough
education in Judaic studies and
principles.
Nonetheless, Goldstein main
tains that religion is purely a
personal matter.
“My feeling about both charity
and religious practices are that
both are highly personal and
neither benefit from publicity or
public relations,” he stated.
“When you give charity, it’s also
private.”
Israeli Mayors
Greeted in Bonn
BONN (JTA) — The first
official delegation of Israeli
mayors ever to visit Germany
has arrived in Munich and was
welcomed by the city’s Lord
Mayor, Dr. Hans Vogel, long re
garded as a staunch friend of
Israel.
The group, which includes both
mayors and deputy mayors, was
invited by the Congress of Ger
man Cities for its annual meet
ing,- attended by representatives
both of the major German and
of many foreign municipalities.
The Israeli delegation proceeded
from Munich to Dachau to pay
tribute to victims of the former
Nazi concentration camp there.
The group will be received later
by Israel Ambassador Asher Ben
Nathan.
Israel-Arab Relations
To Be Surveyed
NEW YORK (JTA)—Leaders
of the National Community Re
lations Advisory Council has left
for Israel on a three-fold study
mission involving post-war Arab-
Israeli relations.
The group, headed by NCRAC
chairman C. Band of Cleveland,
has been invited by the Israel
Government to investigate prob
lems growing out of Israel’s ef
forts to secure peace with her
Arab neighbors, problems of the
postwar period in which the
Jewish community relations field
has special competence and in
terest, and world-wide problems
in this period which are of com
mon concern to both Israeli and
American Jewish communities.
Refugees Said Needy
In North Africa
PARIS (JTA) — In the wake
of the Arab-Israeli six-day war,
nearly 5,000 new Jewish immi
grants to France from North
Africa have applied for welfare
assistance, a delegation from the
United Jewish Appeal women’s
division was told.
Samuel Castron, director of the
Marseilles branch of the Fonds
Social Juif, told the 23-member
group that his organization has
received requests for help, in
recent weeks, from 1,500 families,
or nearly 5,000 persons. He noted
that the Jewish population of
Marseilles alone has grown from
12,000 to an estimated 65,000
since 1957, putting an “enormous
burden” on French Jewish relief
agencies, schools, youth centers,
children’s homes, old-age homes
and the ORT vocational training
system.