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Vol. XLII A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925 Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 29, 1967 UN Told Israel Will Stand Firm for direct talks, no withdrawal UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)— Foreign Minister Abba S. Eban of Israel politely but firmly told the United Nations General Assembly here that Is rael will stand firm on the pres ent cease-fire lines until the cease-fire agreements that end ed the June war are replaced ‘by treaties of peace which will ensure the security of all Middle Eastern states and establish con ditions of stable co-existence.” Speaking in the Assembly’s general debate, Mr. Eban prom ised that “in negotiations with Arab governments, we shall make viable and equitable proposals compatible with the national hon or and legitimate interests of all states. We shall also make sug gestions for effective regional co operation and for the regional and international solution of pop ulation problems created by the wars and belligerence policies of Judge Says Services ‘Never a Nuisance’ TEL AVIV (JTA)—Jewish re ligious services can never be con sidered a nuisance in a Jewish city, District Court Judge Joseph Lam told a group of tenants, in dismissing their request for an order to forbid the opening of a synagogue in their apartment building. Judge Lam’s action was taken in connection with a suit Jjfftught to his court by the tenants who claimed Stud a flat in theit building, Which was being converted into a synagogue, might become noisy and a nui sance to other residents of the apartment house. 'LIGHTNING OUT OF ISRAEL’ It’s i handsoms, hard caver, pro fusely llltistratcd book on the six-day war between Israel and the Arab stalls, and it's being prepared for yen by a task force of Tko Associated Press, world's largest news gathering organi zation. It will tell you what hap- psaad net oaly in terms of mili tary movements bat af the common people and leaders in volved. Scores of nows pictures and maps In color and black and whfta will help make this a memorable volume that yen will wait ta read and kMp. (See Pag* 12) the past two decades. We shall, of course, give consideration and make reply to whatever sugges tions the other negotiating parties decide to submit.” Mr. Eban told the Assembly that “there . is no other choice” than the Israeli policy of seeking transition from the cease-fire to a negotiated peace and declared that that policy “deserves inter national endorsement and res pect.” To return to the pre-June 5th situation would be to return to ‘‘political anarchy and stra tegic vulnerability,” he said, noting that “national suicide is not an international obligation.” Mr. Eban served notice that “no external declarations or gua rantees, no general affirmations of Charter principles, no recom mendations or statements by in ternational bodies, however, un exceptionable, can replace the sovereign responsibility of the governments concerned." Peace in the Middle East, he 9aid, must spring from the Middle East. He told the Assembly that the most constructive course it could take would be to tell the Middle Eas tern states to negotiate the con ditions of their future coexistence. He said that Israel’s insistence on direct negotiations was not a mat ter of procedure tout an issue “of principle and substance.” The Israeli Foreign Minister charged that there had been a propaganda campaign about the west bank residents who “moved without concern across the Jor dan as a result of Hussein’s wan ton war.” These people were free and thousands have returned, he noted, “but there is relative si lence about the Jewish commun ities, especially in Egypt, whose members are not free to move be cause they are held in conditions of cruelty in concentration camps for no reason or purpose except of sheer malice.” Mr. Eban commented on the new attack made by Soviet For eign Minister Andrei A. Gro myko in the general debate and pointed out that the General As sembly and the Security Council had previously rejected all Mr. Gromyko’s assertions. He then charged that “the tension which exploded in the Middle East last June was largely of Soviet man ufacture,” listing the Soviet arms shipments to the Arabs, the So viet policy in the Security Coun cil of blocking criticism of Arab aggression, and finally, the charge that a false Soviet report of Is raeli troop concentrations on the Syrian frontier had influenced Nasser of Egypt to the actions that led to the outbreak of hos tilities. President Johnson': WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Johnsqn issued the following statement of greetings on Rosh Hashana: “As my fellow Americans of the Jewish faith observe the coming of a New Year, I am happy to extend to each of you my warmest wishes for health ana happiness. “The High Holy Days exhort your people to sanctification through meditation, prayer, penitence, and love of God and neighbor. This mission lends inspiration to all men of goodwill. “We are in the midst of a trying and troubled timers time that tests the bedrock beliefs of our fathers and the founders of this land. No citizens are better equipped than you to meet the challenge before us. “For those who have sought the way of justice and mercy the road has always been a thorny one. For every friend of freedom, the history of man records at least one foe. But in every comer darkened by despair, there has always been the sterner duty of hope. For every convenient compromise to principle, there has been a human conscience to bear the bur den of its own inequity. “Adversity and distress have been the constant companions of your people. But valor and endurance have been your stead fast friends—and our own pathfinders in need. “So as you gather in these penitenial days under the fath erhood of God, the brtherfhood of man is enriched by a well- remembered past and a resurgent'hope for that which is to come. I “And all of us are humbled—and heartened—by the sus taining faith of Judaism in our midst.” * LYNDON B. JOHNSON Patrols to Protect English Synagogues LONDON (JTA) — Jewish patrols are being organized to protect synagogues, following a fire of mysterious origin which damaged the Kingsbury Syna gogue in suburban Middlesex, Victor Mishcon, chairman of the Jewish Defense Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, disclosed. There were sus picions that the fire had been set by two unidentified men seen by a neighbor running from the site just after the conflagration broke out this week. ‘to & Mr. Mishcon said the members of his committee had met with representatives of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women “to decide upon certain steps, including the installation of patrols." %****$& o'* aoV 151 ^oO >. 39 uin raiu L'SHANA TOVA TIKOSEVU - TO ALL OUR FRIENDS from the Staff of THE SOUTHERH ISRAELITE Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher Kathleen Neaee, Joseph Redlioh, Vida Ooldgar, Harry Rose, Betty Meyer, Kathy Wood, Gertrude Burnham, Esther Piper, Buddie Parver, Paul Warwick, Joan Dinerman, Pearl Rxelbirt Schary Sees American Negro Less Anti-Semitic than Whites WASHINGTON (JTA) — A leading American Jewish civil rights worker said that, .Jews were reducing their contributions to such “nihilistic causes” as that espoused by H. Rap Brown, chairman of the Student Nori’- violent Coordinating Committee, but he pointed out that the anti- Semitic positions taken by SNCC reflected the extreme leftwing position assumed by that group. Dore Schary, chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of B*uai B’rith, said in e press conference here that he did not see the American Negro community as anti-Semitic. He characterised Negroes as less prejudiced against Jews than were'white non-Jews. Urging continuation of pro grams to implement equal rights ot. Ji V.„ for Negroes, be stressed that Negroes bad the right to provide their own leadership. He- aahad, however, that they “at least not shove us away” in striving to combat prejudice end pwlect the American society. Mr. Schary criticised the United States Government for fariBnf 1ft release the Douglas Skyhawk jet bombers purchased by Israel year and said the United Statee had “an obligation to i (Me ‘Maud ofif Middle East” He the ADL hod asked the State partment, and the Red, investigate the treatment of ; in Moslem and Communist tries. He said their plight had worsened since the Arab-Israeli Wsr last June. '7 Egyptian Tales of Atrocities Found Untrue by UN Emissary Shah Cedes Israel ‘Right to Exist* NEW vr>RK (JTA)—Shah Mo hammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran has said publicly for the first time that be felt Israel had the right to exist “naturally, like any other member of the United Nations.” He made the statement in a wide- ranging interview with the New York Times in his palace in Shimran, a surburb of Teheran. While affirming Israel’s right to national existence, the 47- year-old king said he was op posed to tbt use of miltary force in general and specifically to the sixrday June Israeli-Arab war. He , repeated previous criticism of Israel’s conquests, declaring that Ira* was against “the annexation of fi nybody's territory by sheer brifttft" tout!’*” 1 ’* -naalttw. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—Nils-Gorn Gussing, Sec retary-General U Thant's spec ial representative on the welfare of Arab inhabitants, reported to the General Assembly that be had found little evidence to sup port Arab charges of atrocities by Israeli troops. Mr. Gussing was sent by the states and Israel in conformity with a June 14 Security Council resolution calling on Israel to in sure the safety, welfare and se curity of inhabitants of the oc cupied areas. The UN emissary reported he spent from July 11 to Septem ber 1 visiting every area relevant to his study, including the cap itals of Israel, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and the areas occu pied by Israel. He said he had received, “excellent cooperation at all levels" in the countries he visited, and the facilities, includ ing transport, required. | He implied dissatisfaction, how ever, over the fact that, in the areas occupied by Israel, he could talk to, displaced persons, ci vilians and prisoners of was- only in the company of representatives of the Israel Government. “Par ticularly in the occupied areas,” he reported,:“i1( would have been of great psychological importance and would have provided for franker exchanges for the Spec- Representative and for the In area after area, the report showed, the atrocity charges made by the Arabs against Israel proved without foundation. Here and then*, Mr. Gussing noted, as in Syria, the. government con cerned bad deliberately frighten ed 'people into leaving their home afeas. In some cases, some local Israeli commanders, he reported may have contributed to the un easiness of the Arab inhabitants. But charges that Israel demolish ed villages were not borne out of the facts, except in instances where destruction was the result of military activity during the war. ' . The report went into details of population movements in all the areas visited by Mr. Gussing. Butt he pointed out that, for instance in the Jordan River area, these were nC specific data about Is* rael forcing Arabs to cross- over into the Jordanian-held east bank region. On the other hand, be rt* ported that Arabs were told by Israeli loudspeakers mounted on automobiles “that they might be better off on the east bank.” Jor danian charges of Israeli looting were discounted largely by the report ,‘r 4 people to whom he spoke if he had had the opportunity tp meet and talk without witnesses to whomever he wished. This view was conveyed to Israel CRwsrn- ment representatives, but without reenltn*. - U. S. IN TCI AVIV RAM TEL AVIV (JTA) — American Embassy announced here that the United Statee would participate in the Levant bp held at the Tel Avtv in grounds in' 19M. Embassy reserved an area of UNO . equara meftagj for ft* American exhibits. 'Ixlflbitfor