Texas Jewish Post (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 22, 1963 Page: 3 of 12
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Capital Spotlight BY MILTON friedman
STATE DEP T. BEHIND JOHNSON ARAB REFUGEE PROPOSALS
(Copyright 1963—by JTA)
MaSS?-
Thursday, August 22, 1363 Texas Jewish Post Dallas-Page 3
Dallas Delegates Return From Pioneer Convention
WASHINGTON — State De (
partment professionals, arrogat-
ing to themselves a role in leg-
islative policy making, were be-
hind the resurrection of the
dangerous Johnson Arab refu-
gee proposals in a recent Senate
subcommittee report.
The proposals, abandoned last
year by the Administration
were objectionable to both the
Arabs and Israelis. They were
drafted by Dr. Joseph E. John
son, special representative of
the United Nations Palestine
Conciliation Commission. The
United States is a member of the
PCC.
Dr. Johnson’s preposatet were
not officially reported out or a-
cJopted by the PCC. The White
House dropped the idea after
realizing it would turn the Near
Easit into even worse chaos. But
the State Deparment kept the
file open, looking for a new
chance.
Every >ne thought the plan war
dead when a mischievous and
vigorous ghost emerged in the
report of the unwary Senate
Subcommittee on Ref ugees and
Escapees. Chairman Philip Hart
Michigan Democrat, is an old-
time friend of Israel and' former
member of the American Christ
ian Palestine Committee. Sen-
Hart was embarrassed to learn
that his insufficiently alert staff
and his own negligence, had per-
mitted crafty S.ate Department
professionals to slip the Johnson
revival into the report publish-
ed under the imprint of his sub-
committee.
The Hart subcommittee report
generally endorsed the Johnson
proposals, terming them “a care-
fully conceived and detailed plan
for progress.”
This gave the State Depart-
ment ammunition for use against
Israel. Department officials:
could cite the Senate report, tell- [
ing Israel that it was the view of
Congress that Israel should sur-
render to its recommendations
A
Having failed to sell the John-
son concept to the White House
the State Department infiltrated
it into Congress.
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New
York Republican, is an old hand
at spotting the trick maneuvers
of the State Department in the
legislative jungle. He arose on
the floor of the House to expose
the whole affair. The Halpern
philosophy is that American po-
licy m the Near East should re-
flect the views of the American
people, reflected through Con-
gress, rather thzn the personal
whims of a few diplomats.
Rep. Halpern charged that
“State Department elements have
sought to push these ill-advised
proposals even though they
were abandoned by the White
House and the Administration.’'
He said that “instead, we
should have a true initiative for
a general peace settlement. This
would be a more sensible ap-
proach for the State Department
to push.”
Hope was expressed by Rep
Halpern that the Senate “return
the ghost of the past to a restful
grave.” He said “there are e-
nough current problems in the
Near East without digging up
ghosts.”
He pointed out that the John-
son proposals were especially
dangerous to Israel’s security
“Arabs, in great numbers, in
hostile Arab states surrounding
Israel would be granted an option
of moving to Israel despite t^
fact that many are not authentic
refugees and some never lived
in Israel at all,” he said.
Stressing that the Arab refu-
gee problem could only be solv-
ed in the context of a general
peace settlement, Rep. Halpern
asked: “How can Israel be told
to admit potential fifth colum-
nists, many of whom are adher-
ents of the Arab Communist
party?”
He told Congress it was “ob-
vious that peace is a prerequisite
to any massive scheme for mov-
ing mobs of bitter people across
disputed frontiers. They would
not come as peaceful immi-
grants, but as mortal enemies de-
dicated to Israel’s destruction.’
He noted that the Arabs des-
pise Israel so much they reject-
ed the Johnson proposals he-
cause even repatriation would
not satisfy their “brutal objec-
tive of driving the Jews into the
sea and wiping out Israel.”
He called attention of Con-
gress to a perceptive editorial on
the issue by Philip Slomovitz
editor of the Jewish News of
Detroit, Mich.
Sen. Hart has now written Mr.
Slomovitz that “certainly it was
not my intention even by impli-
cation to accept the report oi
Dr. Johnson as a solution to the
Arab refugee problem ... a rea-
listic, practical solution must be
found. Isolated treatment of the
refugee problem is not the an-
swer.”
Sen. Hart stressed that “any
settlement must guarantee Is-
rael’s integrity as a nation. This
country is obligated to fulfil]
its commitment to see that Is-
Israel’s independence is not vio-
lated . . . support of the demo-
cratic people of Israel is essential
in our struggle to free the op-
pressed. The fire of hope in
others will soon die should we
default in our promises to the
Israelis.”
This made clear where the
chairman of the subcommittee
stood. It also served notice t«
both the subcommittee staff and
the State Department that eyes
have been opened.
Dallas delegates attended the
lour day Convention of Pioneer
Women, branch of Labor Zion-
ism of America, in Detroit, which
closed with a special memorial
tribute to the Eleanor Roosevelt
and the dedication of a wing of
a vocational school sponsored by
the Pioneer Women in Israel
Mrs. James A. Halsted, daughter
of Mrs. Roosevelt, accepted the
plaque and scroll of the dedica-
tion.
The Pioneer Women organiza-
tion engages in a wide program
of social welfare in the United
States and Canada and provides
social services for women and
children in several child care
and immigrant rehabilitation
centers in Israel.
The theme of the 18th Nation-
al Convention was “Today’s Wo-
man in Tomorrow’s World.”
Martha Griffith, Congresswo-
man from Michigan, and Beba
Idelson, Deputy Speaker of the
Israeli Parliament, gave the key!
note addresses. Workshops and
discussion sessions defined the;
roll and responsibilities of the
modern Jewish woman in world
affairs.
The convention was attended
by 600 delegates representing 50
000 members throughout United
States and Canada. Other spec-
ial speakers included the Hon-
orable Ogden Reid, Congress-
man of New York and former
Ambassador to Israel; Walter
Reuther, vice-president, A. F. of
L.-C. I. O., Rabbi Morris Adler:
Congregation STiaare Zedek, De-
troit, who discussed “Jewish ed-
ucation — Keystone to Jewish
Life,” in connection with a sym-
posium on “Jewish Women’s
role in Tomorrow’s World.
The delegates from Dallas at-
tending the convention were1
Mrs. Harold Rubenstein, Presi-
dent; Mrs. David Polokoff, Ex-
ecutive vice-president and Mrs.
Sam Skor, Moetzet Hapoalot
Chairman of the Richona Chap-
ter and Mrs. Lawrence Vogel
executive vice-president, Kadima
Chapter.
Happy Birthday
24 Susan Roth Sikora
24 Ethan Dubin
24 Shirley Cohen
24 Wallace Cohen
24 Milton Kaver
24 Barbara Ann Adelstein
24 Ruben Danziger
24 Beth Golman
24 Barry Alan Adelstein
25 Arthur Cagan
25 Madeleine Roth
25 Phillip Irwin Glauben
25 Mark Lipsey
25 Dr.Michael Raab
26 Hinda Sigel
26 Edis Lerner
26 Rachelle Ablon
26 Gary Katz
26 Mrs. Martin Miller
26 Harry Abramson
26 Annette Lacher
26 Susan Ephross
26 Mrs. E. Levy
26 J. B. Horowitz
26 Ernest Joseph
27 Albert Balias
27 Susan Clare Lauffer,
27 Sarah Albert
27 Gussie Sheinberg
28 Leo Kass
?8 Robin Time
28 Mrs. Wm. Magedson
28 Ronnie Bold
28 Jeff Gale
28 Edward Lee Utay
28 Beverly Fonberg
28 Sidney Stahl
28 Judy Corbin
29 Mary Elizabeth Sallinger
29 Ann Polin
29 Mrs. Sidney Klepak
29 Robert Frederic Goodman
29 Herman Ringler
29 Kenneth Olschwanger,
Houston
28 Marilyn Golman
29 Sharon Jo Goldstein
29 Dan Tobias
Starlight BB Women
Opening Meeting
To Honor New Members
Starlight Chapter of B’nai
B’rith Women will be welcoming
its new and old members to ittf
opening meeting, Monday even-
ing, August 26, at the Metropol-
itan Savings and Loan, 11161
Preston Road at 8:00 p.m.
Mr. Morton Katz, psychiatric
social worker with the Dallas
Adult Mental Health Clinic will
, be the guest speaker for the
evening.
JACOB EICHENBAUM, a
nineteenth century Hebrew poet
and mathematician, horn in east-
ern Galicia at the end of the;
eighteenth century, was largely
responsible for promoting the
study of mathematics among East
European Jewry. He translated
into Hebrew the Elements of Eu-
clid and wrote numerous He-
brew textbooks on mathemat-
ics. (JTA)
Refreshments will follow.
Members and guests are wel-
come.
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