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Vol. XLII
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establish' 925 i
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Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, November 3, 1967
See USSR ‘Seeond Front’ UJA for 1968
To Offset Viet Nam War To Continue
Emergency Aid
No. 44
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet Union may have caused
the sinking of the Israeli des
troyer Elath and otherwise es
calated tensions to establish “a
second front in the Middle East,
to take the heat off North Viet
Nam,” Rep. Edward J. Derwin-
ski, Illinois Republican, a mem
ber of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, said in a statement
issued here. .
The Congressman charged that
Russia might have used guided
missiles against the Elath “as an
answer to the increased Amer
ican aerial activity in North Viet
Nam. The sinking rekindled the
Arab-Israeli conflict and made
Egypt more dependent on Soviet
military foroes. There is much
more to this crisis than a mere
Arab-Israeli confrontation.” Rep.
Derwinski urged the Administra
tion to “take cognizance of Rus
sian efforts to establish air and
naval bases in Egypt and other
Mideast Lands to neutralize the
U. S. Sixth Fleet.”
The Congressman demanded
that the Administration disclose
“the extent of recent Soviet ac
tions in the Middle East and the
serious implications for American
policy.” He said: “It is high time
that we had some indication from
the Administration of these sin
ister developments. The Russians
are obviously exploiting our pre
occupation with Viet Nam and
troubles In NATO to pull a dan
gerous sneak end-run into the
Mediterranean. ”
Rep. Derwinski charged that
Russia is rapidly building bases
for its military establishment in
both Egypt and Syria. He said
Soviet strategists are trying to
outmaneuver the U. S. aircraft
carriers in the Mediterranean
through conversion of Egypt and
Syria into “unsinkable carriers.”
He noted that the sinking of the
Elath caused “a predictable flare-
up quickly exploited by the Rus
sians to send additional Red navy
ships, military equipment, and
technicians to Egypt. Soviet mil
itary specialists are now attached
to every important Egyptian
naval, air, missile, armored, and
artillery unit.’*
Bienstock Succeeds Smolar
As JTA Editorial Director
NEW YORK (JTA)— The re
tirement of Boris Smolar after 43
years with the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the last 26 as editor-in-
chief of the world-wide news
service, has beenl
announced by|
Robert H. Am-
ow, JTA presi-l
dent Mr— Smo-j
lar, who is 70 J
will continue tol
write his popu
lar oolumn dis-|
tributed by JTAI
to the America™
Jewish press and!
will carry thel
title, Editor-in-|
Chief Emeritus. BIENSTOCK
Victor M. Bienstock, who was
JTA editor in 1933-35 and has
been its general manager and di
rector of operations since 1951,
has assumed the editorial di-
reaction of the agency.
Mr. Amow also announced the
appointment of John Kayston as
business manager of the JTA. Mr.
Kayston, who joined the JTA or
ganization in 1936 has been res
ponsible for JTA administrative
affairs, circulation and produc
tion for many years. He will con-
.,. For War Time Presence in Israel
Director-General Melr Deshaltt, Israel’s Minister of Tourism,
ernsalem. takes time-out on a tour of America to present a special
srtlflcate to The Southern Israelite’s Editor 4k Publisher Adolph
usenberg for hh presence in the Jewish State during the Six-Day
far. With them to Amnon Gil-Ad, director of the Southeastern Dour
it Office. The three dtocumafl ways far the weettaa affiliated with
ie American Jewish Press Asasdattaw to hafp
wentieth Anniversary Tear.
tinue these activities in his ex
panded new capacity. Mr. Arnow
said Jack Siegel, director of de
velopment, would also assume
added responsibilities in the fi
nancial area. *
Mr. Smolar studied journalism
at Northwestern University, in
Chicago and was on the staff of
the Chicago Qnily Forward until
he joined the \TTA in 1924. He
later became chief European cor
respondent for JTA and covered
most of the world’s major news
stories involving the Jewish peo
ple over e period of nearly two
decades.
He was one of the JTA team
which provided the world press
with its major coverage of the
1929 Palestine riots. He covered
pogroms in Poland and Rumania.
His dispatches from Moscow to
the JTA and the New York
World during a critical period in
the evolution of the Soviet Rev
olution did much to inform the
world as to the fate of Russia’s
Jews. Perhaps his longest and
most arduous assignment was to
report the growth of the Nazi
movement in Germany which ul
timately led to Hitler’s accession
to power. He remained on Eur-
War Criminal Sues
BONN (JTA) — Erich Raja-
kovic, an Austrian war criminal
and former SS leader, has filed
suit in Munich to compel the de
letion of certain passages from
Simon Wiesenthal’s book, “The
Murderers Are Among Us,”
which deals with notorious Nazis
who went unpunished after
World War II. Wiesenthal’s book
discloses that despite his war
criminal background, Rajakovic
served as representative of Sovi
et, East German, Polish, Hun
garian and Czechoslovakian
business firms in Italy ten years
ago.
opean assignment after the out
break of the war until 1941 when
he returned to New York and as
sumed the editorship of JTA.
Mr. Bienstock, a native of Hart
ford, Conn., came to the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency after serving
on the New York World, the New
York Herald Tribune and the
London Morning Post. He resigned
as an editor of the Herald Tri
bune News Service in 1933 to join
the JTA staff as editor of the
news service and managing editor
of the Jewish Daily Bulletin. He
went to Europe in 1935 with head
quarters in London, as chief of
foreign service, to reorganize its
operations and direct its news
service. In 1940, he became chief
of the foreign service of the
Overseas News Agency with head
quarters in London and served as
war correspondent in the Middle
Bast and European theaters. He
became foreign editor of ONA in
1945 and general manager of JTA
in 1951.
Mission
it.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The United
Jewish Appeal will continue in
1968 its Israel Emergency cam
paign in addition to its regular
drive, UJA general chairman Max
Fisher anounoed at a dinner given
in honor of Premier Levi Esh-
kol by the current UJA Study
Mission.
Mr .Eshkol told the almost 600
UJA leaders that “the emergency
is still with us,” adding that, while
the Six-Day June war “saved Is
rael from extinction, it has not
solved Israel’s problems of the
future. He also said that Israel
must MU spend “hundreds of
millions of dollars every year an
security, leaving other fields of
development without funds.” He
then asked the UJA leaders to
extend the Israel Emergency
Fund into 1968.
He said the emergency funds
would be needed for absorption,
welfare aid and other humani
tarian tasks for Israel’s newcom
ers which Israel’s people could
not provide. In response, Mr.
Fisher said “you said the emer
gency continues. Our answer is
that the Emergency Fund also
continues.”
ARRIVAL IN ISRAEL—Down the ramp to Israeli xaQ
Mrs. Marvin C. Goldstein, Dr. Marvin C. Goldstein and
Joseph Cuba (in sunglasses), all nf Atlanta, as the Atlanta
gates arrived on the UJA study mission. Story on pngs 8.
Shutdown of Suez
Costly to Britain
LONDON (JTA)—The continu
ed shut down of the Suez Canal is
costing Britain an average of $56
million a month, or more than
$200 million since the Six-Day
War laut June.* This information
was given to Parliament by
Prime Minister Harold Wilson
whose Government is planning
new relations with Egypt after a
three-year hiatus. Most of the
money has been spent in prec
ious hard currency for oil to re
place Middle Eastern supplies,
contributing to Britain’s already
precarious balance of payments
situation, it was disclosed.
GEORGIANS WELCOMED—Mrs. Harry Sunshine, far left, and
Sam Roth berg, center, are being welcomed aa they deplaned In
Israel as delegates to the 13th annual UJA stndy mission. Story
on page 9. ,-:■■■ v
‘Some’ Skvhawks This Year
Promised for Israel bv U. S.
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Some
but definitely not all of the 36
Douglas A-4 Skyhawk jet bom
bers approved for export to Is
rael will be delivered in 1967,
State Department officials said
last week. These officials said
shipment would begin soon. But
they did not anticipate that the
entire consignment would be in Is
raeli hands until early in 1968.
It was revealed meanwhile that
no negotiations ere under way
for new weapons for Israel or the
five Arab states also affected by
the limited lifting of the June
embargo. The United States is
not now undertaking new mili
tary equipment commitments be
cause of the Administration pol
icy, officials said in reference to
the possibility of subsequent ship
ments to the Middle East The
items cleared for export under
the announcement by the State
Department were described as a
“one-shot” transaction.
Morocco and Libya will also
receive military jets. Munitions
of various types, other than air
craft, will go to Saudi Arabia,
Lebanon, and Tunisia. The pro
vision of weapons to Jordan re
mains “under consideration,”
State Department spokesman
Robert McOoakey Mid.
Mr. McCloskey noted that So
viet arms shipment® to the Mid
dle East were being “maintained,
at a substantially high level” to
Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The Rus
sians also ere understood to have
offered munitions to other Arab
states. Mr. McCloskey added that
the United. States Government
still was interested in seeking an
agreement with the USSR to limit
the flow of arms to the Mideast,
but so far has had no success.
According to Mr. McCloskey,
the Arabs required spare parts.
It was indicated that Libya and
Morocco needed planes. Israel, In
addition to the limited number
of planes, will receive spare parts,
repair equipment, and compon
ents for radio and other equip
ment.
Jordan’s Hpssein
Arrives in Bonn
BONN (JTA)— King Huseein
of Jordan has arrived here for
meetings with West German, gov
ernment leaders. He brought a
so-called “peace plan” which di
plomatic observers believe calls
for Israeli withdrawal from oc
cupied territories, big power gua
rantees of Israel’s borders, and
fine passage through internation
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