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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIII Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, September 20, 1968 No. 38
Nixon, Humphrey Reaffirm k
Calls For Phantom Sale
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
two major Presidential candi
dates — Republican Richard
M. Nixon and Democrat Hubert
H. Humphrey have reiterated
their call for American military
support of Israel, including the
delivery of F-4 Phantom jet
supersonic fighter-bombers that
Israel said it needs. Both can
didates, in messages to the 71st
annual convention of the Zionist
Organization of America,
stressed America’s commitments
to Israel’s independent exis
tence.
Mr. Humphrey spoke of mili
tary aid to Israel “to maintain
a balance of power in the area.”
Mr. Nixon, repeating a state
ment he made before the tri
ennial convention of B’nai B’rith
here last week, said that he
would “give Israel a technolog
ical military margin to more
than offset her hostile neighbors’
numerical superiority.”
Vice President Humphrey
said in his message that “as a
friend of Israel from its incep
tion ... I support active U.S.
diplomatic efforts for Arab-
Israeli negotiation. In the
meantime, I have supported and
will continue to support U.S.
military aid to Israel, including
Phantom jet aircraft, to main
tain a balance of power in the
area.”
Mr. Nixon declared that Israei
Kollek Wants
UN To Move
To Jerusalem
NEW YORK (WUP) — Teddy
Kollek, the mayor of united
Jerusalem, has some great hopes
and dreams for the City of
Peace which, he says, “is one
and will remain one.”
The former right-hand man of
Ben-Gurion and the architect of
Israel’s famous museum would
like to see the United Nations
set up its headquarters in Jeru
salem. He would also welcome
the construction of a “World
Synagogue” near the Wailing
Wall and, being a man of action,
he has already engaged the
Philadelphia architect Louis I.
Kahn to design it.
The above facts about the
dynamic mayor of Jerusalem
are brought out in the current
issue of Look Magazine.
Interviewed by Look Foreign
Editor J. Robert Moskin, Kollek
had this to say about his united
city: “I would suggest the UN
move here. This is the place
where the idea of peace was ex
pressed best — even better than
by secretary-generals of the
United Nations. Jerusalem means
it as a serious idea.”
Mizrachi Women
Honor Sen. Kennedy
NEW YORK (JTA) — The
late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy
was memorialized here in a
posthumous presentation of the
1968 “Annual American-Israel
Friendship Award” of the
Mizrachi Women’s Organization
of America. In a ceremony ap
proved by the Kennedy family,
the citation was accepted by the
late Senator’s colleague, Senator
Jacob K. Javits, at the Ameri-
ca-Israel Friendship dinner of
the organization’s 43rd annual
national convention.
“faced with the direct threat to
her security . . . must have the
strength to deter any attempts
on her freedom and sover
eignty.” Thus, he said, “I sup
port a policy that would give
Israel a technological military
margin to more than offset her
hostile neighbors’ numerical
superiority and if maintaining
that margin should require that
the U.S. supply Israel with
supersonic Phantom jets, we
should supply those jets.”
Mr. Nixon said that “the U. S.
has a firm and unwavering com
mitment to the national exis
tence of Israel, repeated by four
Presidents — and after inaugu
ration day next year, it will be
repeated by another President.”
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Pres
ident Johnson has admonished
Israel to remember that “boun
daries cannot and should not
reflect the weight of conquest”
and reminded them that “it is
more certain than ever that Jer
usalem is a critical issue in any
peace settlement.”
The President, speaking to
some 3,000 members of B’nai
B’rith and their guests at the
triennial convention banquet,
also took issue with Israeli de
mands for direct negotiations
with the Arabs, asserting that
“many channels are open. How
the talking is done at the outset
is not very important.”
Mr. Johnson had been ex
pected to announce a decision to
deliver supersonic Phantom jet
fighters to Israel. He had met
secretly with Deputy Prime
Minister Yigal Allon of Israel.
It was widely anticipated that
when he made his surprise visit
to the B’nai B’rith banquet, it
would be to respond to Israel’s
anxiety over the mounting So
viet buildup of the Arab states.
Instead, Mr. Johnson lavished
praise on the Jews as a people,
condemned Communist anti-Se
mitism in Eastern Europe, and
reiterated some aspects of sup
port of Israel—but introduced
Says Mirage Jets
Await U.S. Election
PARIS (JTA) — A French
journalist said to be close to
President de Gaulle wrote in an
article published here that
France will send Israel its em
bargoed Mirage jet fighters
after the American presidential
election in November.
According to Jean Raymond
Tournoux, writing in the maga
zine Paris Match, Gen. de Gaulle
told him that if he sent the jets
to Israel sooner, “there is no
telling how far the Israelis
might go.”
The Mirage jets, bought and
paid for in full by Israel, have
been impounded in a warehouse
in southern France under an
arms embargo imposed by the
de Gaulle Government on all
combatants in the June, 1967
Middle East war.
a number of potentially contro
versial new points.
The President said “it is more
certain than ever that Jerusa
lem is a critical issue in any
peace settlement. No one wishes
the Holy City again divided by
barbed wire and machine guns.
I therefore urge and appeal to
the parties to stretch their im
aginations—so that their inter
ests, and the world’s interest
in Jerusalem, can be taken ful
ly into account in any final set
tlement.”
The President said that the
“Arab governments must con
vince Israel, and the world
community, that they have
abandoned the idea of destroy
ing Israel. But equally, Israel
must persuade its Arab neigh
bors and the world community
that Israel has no expansionist
designs on their territory.”
The President said the arms
race continued. “We have exer
cised restraint, while recogniz
ing the legitimate defense needs
of friendly governments. But
we have no intention of allow
ing the balance of forces in the
area to ever become an incen
tive for war. We continue to
hope that our restraint will be
matched by the restraint of
others—though I must observe
Egypt’s Threat
Discounted by
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israeli
circles have discounted wide
spread rumors that Egypt was
planning a major military con
frontation with Israel along the
Suez Canal. They said that
Egypt was not prepared for a
confrontation and that despite
the intensity of the artillery
barrage on September 8 and
other provocation incidents be
fore and since, Cairo authorities
had instructed the army to ex
ercise restraint.
According to the Israelis, the
Egyptians appear to want only
brief, local incidents along the
canal for prestige and morale
building purposes. Israel, they
said, has decided not to be pro-
that has been lacking since the
end of the June War.”
Mr. Johnson affirmed that
“no enduring peace settlement
is possible until the Suez Canal
and the Strait of Tiran are open
to the ships of all nations, and
the right of passage effectively
guaranteed.”
He asked the B’nai B’rith to
consider the plight of the Viet
namese and others in Southeast
Asia—“a part of the world with
which few Americans have fam
ily ties.” In calling for pursuit
of peace there and in the Mid
dle East, he asked: “let us work
with our heads instead of our
passions—with our sense of jus
tice, and not our bigotry and
after 5,000 years, I believe most
of you know what I mean.”
President Johnson was given
an ovation when he arrived. A
cable from Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol, praising Mr. Johnson’s
“friendship and understanding”
in glowng terms was read to the
assemblage. Dr. Wiliam A. Wex-
ler, president of B’nai B’rith,
presented to him a silver etrog
box inscribed in Hebrew from
Psalms 45-18 reading “I will
make my name to be remem
bered in all generations, there
fore shall the people praise thee
forever and ever.”
Along Suez
Authorities
yoked into an escalation unless
the Egyptian incidents continue
along the lines of the Jordanian
border incidents, in which case
action would be taken.
Terence Prittie, writing in
The Guardian in London,
largely agreed with the Israeli
assessment of Egypt’s inten
tions. He said that while
Egypt’s military build-up along
the Suez Canal had caused con
cern in diplomatic quarters, it
is believed that its primary pur
pose was not to prepare for full
scale military action but to in
crease the pressure on Israel to
permit the re-opening of the
canal on terms acceptable to
Egypt and to Soviet Russia.
Cairo newspapers predicted a
“massive blow-up” along the
Suez Canal. The semi-official
A1 Ahram said Egypt would at
tempt to “even the score” and
regain prestige. The official
Syrian newspaper A1 Hawara
proposed that oil producing
Arab countries strike at United
States interests in retaliation for
pro-Israel statements by presi
dential candidates Hubert H.
Humphrey and Richard M.
Nixon.
Jewish Girl
Wins Top Title
Of Teen Agers
PALISADES, N. J., (JTA) —
A 17-year-old Jewish girl has
won the title of Miss American
Teen-Ager in the ninth annual
Miss American Teen-Ager pag
eant here.
The winner is 17-year-old
Fran Garten of Great Neck,
N. Y. who was one of 53 na
tional finalists. She is a senior
at Great Neck high school. More
than 250,000 girls entered this
year’s contest, officials said.
Miss Garten is active in school
programs and in volunteer ac
tivities. She won a 1969 Dodge
automobile, an all-expense visit
to St. Petersburg, Fla., and to
Hollywood where she will be
given tryouts for roles in na
tional television programs. She
also was awarded a $1,000 ward
robe, a fur coat and a diamond
ring.
NDP Head Denies
Party Neo-Nazi
Or Anti-Israel
BONN (JTA) — The head of
the right-wing National Demo
cratic Party which has been
called neo-Nazi, said at a press
conference here that "neo-Nazism
is not our business. We have
nothing to do with it.”
Adolf Von Thadden, the party
chairman also, in effect, disa
vowed the anti-Israel views
which his party was said to
hold. He was asked by the cor
respondent, in light of his criti
cism of Soviet policy, whether
the NPD did not indeed share
Soviet policy on the Middle
East.
Mr. Von Thadden replied:
“You are mixing up th®
Deutsche National Zeitung with
us. We are not of the same
opinion as the Soldatenzeitung.”
His reference was to the
Deutsche National and Soldaten
Zeitung, an extreme nationalist
newspaper that has espoused
Nazi philosophy and attacked
Israel on many occasions.
ISRAEL’S Yigal Alton (left) admires silver etrog box presented to President Johnson by
I)r. William A. Wexler (right) on the occasion of the Chief Executive’s appearance before
the B’nai B’rith convention banquet.
Johnson Airs Views on Peace,
Direct Talks and Iloly City