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The Invisible Man
Mr. Nixon has held the office of the Presidency for about
a month now. In this time, he has been largely invisible, ex
cept for a few routine performances outside the Oval Room.
His invisibility exists mostly in the realm of his intentions.
It is difficult to tell what they are.
Therefore, it is odd that in the first foray into reality out
side the White House (Biscayne and David retreats excepted)
will be to Europe. Why Europe? Is he pursuing the image
of his first defeat and wants to outdo John F. Kennedy who
drew over a hundred thousand people in Berlin? Is he pur
suing objectives essential for his administration’s concept of
American vital interests? Or is this an expression of his
penchant for travel which he considers equal to foreign ex
pertise? Whatever his motive, or consideration, it would
seem that his first big step is right here at home. The coun
try is in a constant turmoil. Its anxieties, as in psychoso
matic ailments, take many free-floating forms. And each one
of these forms needs attention.
If Mr. Nixon were going to Paris to settle the Vietnam
War or to the Mideast to help settle a rapidly mounting ten
sion, one could concede the urgency of a trip abroad so soon
after election. Otherwise, why not fly to urban ghettoes?
True, they are not pleasant sights. But neither, if promises
are held, will the receptions for him be in European coun
tries. Security there is top-heavy for his visit.
Who needs it? If we knew, then perhaps some of Mr.
Nixon’s invisibility would become more exposed.
Wayne State Campus Bias
Arouses Public to Propaganda
DETROIT (JTA)—The Jewish the Wayne State community,
and Christian communities here A confrontation between advo-
were aroused by a wave of anti- cates and opponents of the New
Semitic anti-Israel propaganda Left and black militancy oecured
that has spread over the Wayne at a campus forum last week.
State University campus. The The subject was “Racism, anti
propaganda, apparently originat- Semitism, Nationalism—is unity
ing with the Arab Student Or- possible?” The forum was mod-
ganization, has been abetted by erated by Father Michael Hunt,
campus and off-campus adher- Catholic ohaplain at WSU. Ac-
ents of the New Left, among oording to the Detroit Jewish
them a number of Jewish stu- News, Larry Hochman, a phy-
dents. sics instructor at Eastern Mich-
It took the form of anti-Israel, *gan University and a self-pro-
anti-Jewish blasts in the campus claimed radical, chided the Jew-
newspaper, South End. and ish community for its “sensitiv-
reams of anti-Israel material pub- ity and persecution complex.”
licly displayed in the University He said the Jews cannot forget
library, Arab students and New their history of torture and that
Leftists also conducted a “teach- organizational Jewry has a “pa
in” in which Israel was excor- ranoia” in which it sees itself
iated and the Arab terrorist or- besieged by Arabs in Israel and
Sanitation, El Fatah, glorified. blacks in America.
> The propaganda barrage was Rev. Locke warned that only
denounced by a group of Chris- the forces of anti-Semitism and
tian clergymen associated with white racism stand to gain from
the office of religious affairs on the widening gap between Ne
ttie WSU campus. Others in the groes and Jews. Such forces are
community assailed WSU librar- not only “willing but gleeful to
ian Flint Purdy for refusing to see black and Jew pitted against
remove the anti-Semitic propa- each other,” he said. He declared
ganda from the library and criti- that unity “is not only possible,
cized WSU president William R. but indispensable. David Wine-
Keast for his mild admonition to man, professor in the . WSU
the campus editor, John Watson, school of social work, refused the
a militant New Leftist. It was charge that Jews cannot take
disclosed that Mr. Watson was criticism. “If Jew's as a group are
not an enrolled student at the vilified as a special form of white
time he assumed the editorship with the most hate-filled imagery
of South End, a newspaper fi- known in the history of Jewish
nanced by Michigan taxpayers, persecution, then that’s anti-Sem-
The Christian clergymen, headed itism,” he said,
by Rev. Hubert Locke, a Negro, South End editor Watson, a
affirmed their belief in freedom participant in the forum, denied
of the press. They added, how- that his paper or his New Left
ever, that they “also cling to the associates were anti-Semitic. He
hope that discussion in the aca- claimed, “if blacks would respond
demic community will be con- to criticism the same way Jews
cemed with the ideas and actions did, blacks would be burning
of rational men and women, not down this city every day of the
their bigotries.” They called week." He said the Detroit “es-
articles appearing in the student tablishment” personified by the
newspaper manifest acts of Detroit News and the Chrysler
racism, in this case, anti-Semi- Corp, were trying to crush his
tism.” The Wayne State Univer- papier and were using anti-Sem-
sity Fund denounced the campus itism to do it. He said, “half if
propaganda and declared that it not all of these people are anti-
presented a distorted image of Semitic themselves.”
Eshkol . . .
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eration has built a state and lost
a people. Jewish solidarity, which
is being built around the state,
is the main force in our days to
protect Jewish youth-from assim
ilation. There is a tremendous
awakening among Jewish youth,
which is flowing to our shores
through national channels. Let us
hope that this Jewish solidarity
will be recognized as a national
and human challenge to that
youth.”
One of the greatest of the pio
neer builders of Israel, Mr. Esh
kol was born in Oratova, in the
Russian Ukraine, on October 25,
1895. He received a religious ed
ucation in Vilma and went to
Palestine in 1913, working in the
orange groves and serving as a
watchman in Petah Tikvah.
He fought in the Jewish Le
gion during World War I and he
was founder of Degania Beth
Kibbutz, where he was a mem
ber all his life.
He was one of the organizers
of basic Histadruth Industries.
He was secretary general of the
Tel Aviv-Jaffa Workers Council
from 1944 to 1948 while serving
on the Hagannah high command.
He founded the military indus-
tires and during the War of In
dependence was director general
of the Defense Ministry. After
the war, when Israel was re
ceiving hundreds of thousands
of immigrants. Mr. Eshkol head
ed the Jewish Agency Agricul
tural Settlement Department.
While holding the post of Min
ister of Agriculture, he was
David Ben-Gurion’s Finance Min
ister for eleven years, until suc
ceeding Ben-Gurion as Prime
Minister in 1963.
Mr. Allon eulogizing Prime
Minister said that ‘all the sev
enty-three years of his life were
dedicated to his people. His heart
was open to every Jew wherever
he was and his people returned
this love. He was ready to lis
ten to every man’s problems be
he a new immmigrant or an old-
timer. ne came from his people
and remained a son of his peo
ple. We lost a brother a friend
and a leader.’
“We called him a man of the
hoe and the plow who contri
buted greatly to the settlement
of the Jewish state and the ir
rigation of the wastelands.
He*'wt*8 a leader in the mass
immigration 8 and absorption.
Jewish Agency officials and
employees held a meeting Wed
nesday to mourn the passing of
the Premier, a long-time mem
ber of the Agency executive and
its director of settlement. He was
extolled as a man of the soil, a
mediator who brought peace
among men and a leader of a
generation.
U. S. Ambassador Walworth
Barbour Doyen of the Diploma
tic Corps conveyed the regrets of
the diplomats of foreign coun
tries stationed in Jerusalem and
Tel Aviv.
“Israel has lost a great leader
and the world has lost a great
statesman,” said the U. S. Am
bassador. He stressed that Levi
Eshkol was a friend of the
United States and of the Amer
ican people and will be sorely
missed.
Reacting to a Fatah announce
ment in Beirut that they “killed
Prime Minister Eshkol in shelling
his home in Degania,” the for
eign ministry spokesman in Jer
usalem David Rivlin said, “This
Fatah boasting is just another ri
diculous and childish fabrication
of the primitive mind behind
their propaganda machinery.
The United Jewish Appeal is
sued the following statement
upon Mr. Eshkol’s passing:
“It is with a profound sense
of personal loss that we, the
officers of the United Jewish
Appeal, mourn the death of
Levi Eshkol, Prime Minister of
the State of Israel.
“The People of Israel have lost
a stalwart leader, whose un
yielding courage was a standard
to which a whole nation rallied.
In time of war and in the quest
for peace.
“All men who cherish peace
and freedom have lost an eloqu
ent champion of human dignity.
With the passing of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, a
condolence hook will he open in our office from Thurs
day, Feh. 27, 1969 through Friday, Feb. 28, 1969 (Sat
urday and Sunday excepted), between the hours of
9 A. M. and 5. P. M.
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“And we at the UJA have lost
a true and beloved friend.
“Levi Eshkol was always int-
imitately associated with the
humanitarian goals of the UJA:
the rescue, relief and rehabili
tation of Jewish lives in Israel
and throughout the world.
“He was also the beloved,
personal friend and comrade of
the many leaders of the UJA
whom he met and worked with
during three decades.
“Levi Eshkol was a living
symbol of the miracle of Israel
Reborn. He was one of that early
handful of young men and wom
en who came to a barren Pales
tine at the turn of the century
from the pogroms of East Eur
ope and said, ‘Here there will
be no more pogroms. They dared
to look at the swamps and say,
‘Here there will be farms.’ They
dared to stand in the empty
wastes and say, ‘Here there will
be Jewish towns and cities.’
They dared to stand at Haifa
bay and say ‘The Gates of thl*
port will be open to every Jew
who wishes to come.’
“His dream was the two thou
sand-year-old dream of his
country’s anthem:: ‘To be a free
people in our own land, the land
of Zion and Jerusalem.’ HLs en
tire life was dedicated to the
fulfillment of that dream ...”
Jewish Calendar
’FAST OF ESTHER
March 3, Monday
•PURIM
March 4, Tuesday
’PASSOVER
April 3, Thursday
(First Day)
April 10, Thursday
(Eighth Day)
•LAG B’OMER
May 6, Tuesday
•SHAVUOT
May 23, Friday
’TISHA B’AV
July 24, Thursday
*ROSH HASHANA
Sept. 13-14
Saturday-Sunday
*YOM KIPPUR
Sept. 22, Monday
•HOLIDAY BEGINS
SUNDOWN PREVIOUS DAY
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and to make the necessary re
pairs.
In an interview here with the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Moshe Kol, Israeli Minister of
Tourism and Development, said
that one of the motives of the
attack on the El Al airliner was
to kill Israeli tourism and cre
ate an atmosphere of tension and
hysteria, bolstering Russian and
French attempts to establish a
crisis atmosphere on the eve of
possible Four Power talks on a
Middle East settlement.
The Israeli official said Amer
ican Jews had to answer these
attacks by increasing travel to
Israel this year, thereby proving
that intimidation would not work.
American Jewish organizations,
he said, should not replay to the
attacks with indignant statements
but by organizing new group
flights to Israel, thus showing
real solidarity with Israel. The
heads of the Christian churches
in Jerusalem, Kol said, had told
him they had decided to show
their support of Israel by in
creasing the number of Biblical
tours and Christian pilgrimages.
American Jews should do no
less, he said, and should show
an example of Jewish stubborn-
css to convince the Arabs of the
futility of further attacks. He as
serted that he expected a 15 per
cent increase in tourism this
year, with more than 500,000
tourists visiting the country and
tourism netting for Israel more
than a record of $100 million.
Widow of Executed
Russian Writer Dead
LONDON (JTA) — Mrs.
Tzippe Bergelson. widow of the
famous Soviet-Jewish novelist
David Bergelson, died in Mos
cow at 65, according to news
reaching here. A group of Yid
dish writers attended her fun
eral in addition to her family.
Mr. Bergelson was one of the
Yiddish writers executed by
Josef Stalin.