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The ^oiitbern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XLIV
Atlanta, Georgia, Friday, April 4, 1969
No. 14
IN EFFECT
Radio Anti-Semitism ‘OK’
Supreme Court Infers
Security Council Repeats
Condemnation of Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Supreme Court declined to re
view a lower court’s decision up
holding the license renewal of a
suburban Los Angeles radio sta
tion accused of broadcasting anti-
Semitic material. The renewal
had been opposed by the south
western region office of the B’nai
B’rith Anti-Defamation League
which charged that the taped
broadcasts of an ultra-corserva-
tive commentator, Richard Cot-
ten, contained “bigoted appeals
to anti-Semitic prejudice.” The
Federal Communications Com
mission renewed the license of
station KTYM on the grounds
that broadcasts had the right to
aid controversial material pro
vided they adhered to the “fair
ness doctrine” providing equal
time for opposing views. The
lower court upheld the FCC. It
was ncted that the station had
offered reply time to the ADL
but the latter declined.
" In its appeal to the FCC to
deprive the station of its license,
the ADL cited broadcasts in
which Mr. Cotten equated Com
munism with Socialism and So
cialism with Judaism. He also
accused Arnold Forster, general
counsel of the ADL, of being a
Communist spy. The ADL as
serted that the commentator’s
statements were defamatory and
not in the public interest.
Big Four Meeting Impending
On Middle East Settlement
UNITED NATIONS— The Se
curity Council this week con
demned Israel for the plane raid
on Jordanian terrorists camp.
The vote was 9 to 0, with the
United States and Britain ab
staining. France and the Soviet
Union banded together.
Immediately after the action,
Israel’s Tokeah voiced his coun
try’s objectioh to the one-sided
action.
The action, observers noted, fol-
follows the anti-Israel line so pre
valent in the Security Council of
ignoring Arab intransiency, but
whenever Israel stands up for its
own rights, she is promptly
slapped down.
The United Nations decision
came on the eve of private so-
called four-power talks on set
tling the Middle East tensions.
Since several of the Big Powers
had predicated their stands on the
premise of Israel’s expense, the
Jewish State has said in advance
she will not accept the Big Four
decision.
Eisenhower Was Admired by Jews;
Friendly To Israel Despite'56 Events
NEW YORK (JTA) — Former
President Dwight D. Eisenhower
who died in Washington Friday,
was admired by American Jews,
regardless of their political lean
ings. The professional soldier
who commanded the Allied
“Grand Coalition” that liberated
Europe from the Nazis and des
troyed the Third Reich demon
strated understanding and com
passion for the victims of Nazism.
His treatment of the remnant of
emaciated death camp survivors,
the genuine horror he displayed
when he viewed the final results
of Hitlerite persecution, showed
him to be a man of innate decen
cy and humanitarian instincts. In
later years when he spoke out
against bigotry, as he frequent
ly did, he always referred to the
ravages of the holocaust.
As President, his attitude tow
ard the young State of Israel was
friendly and one of encourage
ment. He had admiration for the
fighting spirit and the skill of the
Israel Army and often spoke of
the high military quality of the
Palestinian Jewish Brigade, a
unit of the British Army, that
served under his command in
North Africa in the liberation of
Italy and in France in World
War II. There was one episode
in Eisenhower’s Presidency how-
ver that angered some Jews and
saddened many more. In the au
tumn of 1956, during the heat of
a Presidential election campaign,
Israeli forces invades the Sinai
Peninsula and Gaza Strip in
order to secure the Gulf of
Aqaba, threatened by Egyptian
blockade, and to put an end to
the incursions of Egyptian fed-
ayeen who were taking an in
creasing toll of Israeli civilians.
President Nasser had just na
tionalized and shut down the
Suez Canal, a move said to have
been taken in retaliation for the
Western power’s withdra w a 1
from bidding to build the Aswan
High Dam. With Israeli forces
driving to the banks of the canal,
Britain and France saw an op
portunity to regain the waterway
and launched their own invasion
of Egypt. The U. S. balked and,
in concert with Russia, acted In
the United Nations to forestall
the attack on Egypt. The Anglo-
French invasion was a fiasco and
Israeli forces were ordered to
withdraw from Egyptian territory
and from Gaza .There was talk
of Eisenhower Administration
support of a UN proposal for
sanctions against Israel if it re
fused to comply. There was
doubt, however, whether the
President himself favored sanc
tions. Friends of Israel were bit
ter over the forced withdrawal,
but many attributed the U. S.
position to Mr. Dulles rather than
to Mr. Eisenhower. The President
wrote a letter to then Prime Min
ister David Ben Gurion on March
2, 1957 expressing gratification
“at the decision of your Govern
ment to withdraw promptly and
fully behind the armistice lines.”
In 1958, President Eisenhower
proposed a Mideast program that
would include b guarantee of the
frontiers of all nations, including
Israel. Mr. Eisenhower always
considered the equitable use of
water resources to be an essen
tial of peace. In 1956 he sent the
late Eric Johnston to the region
as his personal representative to
settle a controversy betwen Is
rael, Jordan and Syria over the
division of irrigation waters in the
Jordan Valley. The Johnston
plan was accepted by engineers
and technical advisers of both
sides but was squelched by Arab
political leaders. In 1967, Gen.
Eisenhower and former Atomic
Energy Commission chairman
Continued on page 4
JERUSALEM (JTA)— The Is
rael Government Sunday reject
ed outright a United States pro
posal for a Middle East settle
ment based on the United Na
tions Security Council’s Nov. 22,
1967 resolution and again turned
down the principle of Big Four
intervention in the conflict. A
statement of policy read by Pre
mier Golda Meir following the
Cabinet meeting declared that
“Israel is not and will not be
come the object of power pol
itics or intra-power politics and
will not accept any recommenda
tion which is in conflict with her
vital interests, her rights and her
security.” The Israel Govern
ment’s statement reiterated its
insistence on “a peace based on
peace treaties” that would lay
down “agreed, secure and rec
ognized boundaries.” In the ab
sence of such treaties, the state
ment asserted, Israel would
“maintain and consolidate” the
present cease-fire lines.
The U. S. proposals, not made
public, were submitted to Britain,
France and Soviet Russia and to
the Israeli and Arab govern
ments. According to Western di
plomatic sources, the plan would
keep Jerusalem united under
Israeli rule but would return ta
the Arabs other territories occu
pied by Israel in the Six-Day
War. The U. S. reportedly pro
posed creation of demilitarised
zones and establishment of an In
ternational peace-keeping fore*
along new Israel-Arab borders.
It wbs said to call for a guar
antee of freedom of navigation
for all nations including Israel In
international waterways In the
region — the Suez Canal and
Straits of Tiran nt the entrance
to the Gulf of Aqaba. The U. 8.
proposals reportedly called lot n
solution of the Arab refugne
problem that would offer a ehotee
of permanent resettlement at M-
nancial reimbursement.
The plan is said to have itrun
ed that a settlement must be ta
the form of a package agreement
acceptable to all parties with n#
point being implemented without
the entire plan becoming effec
tive. The U. S. plan, diplomats
aaid, called on Israel and the
Arab nations to cooperate fn
every way with UN special saawjy
Gunnar V. Jarring and to ne
gotiate their settlement thaongh
him until they can agree to MNt
directly. Any settlement, theU. &
plan asserted, should be
tradually and reciprocally bind
ing,” the sources said.
The U. S. proposals were re
portedly greeted enthusiastically
by Britain and were accepted by
Franoe as a basis for Four Pow
er discussions, although the
French had some reservations ••
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Shazar
At Funeral
JERUSALEM (JTA)— Presi
dent Zalman Shazar represented
Israel at the funeral of former
President Eisenhower In Wash
ington. Israel’s Chief of State
will join Israel’s Ambassador to
the U. S., Maj. Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, in paying last respects, fa
a statement of sympathy on bo-
half of the people of Israel, Mr.
Shazar described Gen. Eisenhow
er as “the architect of the free
world’s victory over Facism to
whom Israel and the Jewish peo
ple owe an unforgettable debt of
gratitude for his compassion and
understanding of the displaced
persons surviving Nazi terror.”
Prime Minister Golda Meir re
ferred to Gen. Eisenhower in a
radio broadcast as “a great man,
a great President and a lover of
peace, in spite of, or perhaps be-j
cause he was also a great gen-j
oral.”
President Shazar had planned;
to spend the first Passover seder
night with his spiritual leader,]
Menahem M. Schneerson, the:
Lubavitcher Rebbe, in Brooklyn.
Cabinet members apparently pre
vailed upon Mr. Shazar to spend
the holiday In his own country,
and he was expected to return]
to Israel on Tuesday. He was to)
attend a White House receptbmj
for heads of state. The Cabinet)
was concerned that the U. 9.
Government might be embarrass-]
ed by the problem of how to
treat Israel’s head of state on a
private visit while Israel is en
gaged in intensive political con-