dy ILE OF THE WEEK ane x : avid Ben Gurion prgets 6 million ond Joshua, a modern Maccabeus, the man with a Bible in his satchel who reads the Greek classics for ; the white-headed dynamo who strides five miles re breakfast and practises Yoki on his head to please resented thus at the when he has been esign because of-his sale of $2 million of arms to West Ger- “a move which has “Israel into crisis and 1 the world by its im- ‘such a deal, little as it ‘ean in terms of trade, -at a moment when the bout to supply West with atomic weapons, the point of no return len Gurion, and for Israel, act of betrayal would ‘to the people of Israel en Gurion’s service to that instrument of ican imperialism, is lead- fo loss of independence ) gers Israel’s very oe : *Gurion has not only ministers and the Opposi- ‘Israel to contend with eal. He is fighting _ memory of six million ws exterminated by German l6wed their suffering, uted more than any Be r to Ben Gurion’s ing of Exiles,” which, had raised the popu- ‘Israel to nearly two tt ople, full of suffer- urance and heroism, n Gurion’s call to te based on racial y, socialist democracy aceful relations. ‘them it is not only the -of Auschwitz that is deal stick in their he dealdy poison with- that now makes the Israel challenge the has led them thus far threatens to lead them ‘disaster. : ying the arms deal, ion argues NATO is yverful, Israel’s future de- on NATO. NATO has ‘and promoted West eadership in Europe. it is safest to be on side as West Ger- DAVID BEN GURION Although “clearly restricted by considerations of secrecy,” as the Jewish Observer puts it, Ben Gurion indicated that there was much more to the German agreement than just an arms deal.” He assured his countrymen that West Germany today was a new Germany. He turned his attack on those who “look- ed backward,” challenging them to get rid of the “Ghetto complex” and “understand the ways of the international world.” This self - fancied idealist, once said: “If you offer me a choice between all the ideals in the world and the security of Israel,-I will unhesitatingly choose the latter.” xt tt tt In pursuit of this. paradox, he pleads that West Ger- many is a rising force in the . Middle East, and the mere fact that Germany bought arms from Israel would have “a sobering effect on the Arab countries.” . Such is the “realism” under- neath the white halo of hair, the twinkling eyes, the rages and the humor, the love of an- cient learning the the prac- tice of Yogi. The man who started. his political life guided by the precept “You have but one duty to prepare to return to the land of our fathers as it is commanded in the Bible,” is now leading Israel into the arms of German imperialism. Britain's biggest trade union calls for ban on nuclear tests - LONDON-—Britain’s biggest union last week gave a clear, bold and confident lead to the people of this country on action now to rid the world of the menace of nuclear war. The conference of the 1,266,000-strong Transport and General Workers Union overwhelmingly Congress leaders and to the policy of despair of the Tories. The resolution urged the permanent ending of all tests and reaffirmed previously de- clared policy that suspension of tests means suspension of production. It further called for ending patrols by aircraft based on Britain and objected to the establishment of missle bases. It demanded summit talks and agreement to disarm. Frank Cousins, general sec- retary, scored a dramatic per- sonal triumph. At the end of his address delegates gave him three rou- sing cheers. : “You should not do that. It is- three cheers for a sane approach to this problem,” he intervened to say. With only about 50 of the 760 delegates opposing, the conference at Douglas (Isle of Man), calling attention to the grave dangers of radio- active fallout on present and future generations, repudiat- ed the idea of basing defence policies on th use of nuclear weapons. : The decision also rejected the Labor Party—TUC dec- laration proposing the form- ation of a “non-nuclear club.” Cousins asserted that talk about splitting the Labor Par- ty was rubbish. It would be - endorsed a positive and alternative policy to the hesitancy of Labor Party and Trade Union ‘a tragedy, he said, if the Tor- ies came out with a more progressive policy. The union was not stand- ing alone, otherwise there would not be the great div- ision of opinion in the move- ment today. He had not asked the Labor Party and TUC to rush out. an emergency statement. The movement had agitated and waited for two years for a clear policy. Ambiguity would lose the party the general election. The movement must make quite clear where it stood on the dastardly weapon. Kozlov’s visit to San Francisco proved coexistence hy example SAN. FRANCISCO—San Francisco’s second high-ranking Soviet visitor in a period of six months may or may not compare notes with his predecessor when he gets back to Moscow. But the fact remains there was a significant difference between the visit over the July 4 holi- day weekend of Deputy Premier Frol R. Kozlov and that last January of Deputy i iglie eee PR aye | Anastas I, Mikoyan. Mikoyan was met at the air- port by an apparently well- organized group of “Hun- garian refugees,’ who at- tackeed a group of peace ad- vocates and behaved in a manner that resulted eventu- ‘ ally in apologies to Mikoyan from both Mayor George Christopher and Governor Ed- mund G. Brown. Kozlov encountered no such demonstrations — a circum- stance that suggested strongly that such shows of protest are something less than spon- taneous and can be avoided when authorities put their minds to it. s The Kozloy visit was, in fact, marked by extreme cor- diality all the way around, de- spite intensive efforts by the press to inject cold war ten- sions “into the proceedings whenever possible. In: this respect Mayor Chris- topher turned out to be an honest and _ straightforward, if not technically skilled, re- porter. He wrote and released to the press his account of a Friday night dinner with Koz- lov and party at the Pacific Union club, which a number of papers printed in full inas- much as reporters were not permitted at the affair. ‘Mr. Kozlov tried to im- press me,” wrote the Mayor, that he too hates war. He lost two brothers in the last war, his wife lost two broth- . ers and much blood was spilled on Russian soil.” Christopher asked frank questions and got frank ans- wers. ° “T brought up the question of religion. Mr. Kozlov stated that they gave people their choice to believe or not as they deem fit. I was aston- ished to learn that only 5 to 10 percent are believers in God.*. . . He appeared per- plexed that I, as Mayor should concern myself about going to church...” Kozlov told Christopher, as he did others, the solution for tensions between the U.S. and the USSR is a summit confer- ence. The Mayor also asked what _ he considered to: be the blunt-- est possible question of the Premier. Accepting the US. State Department version of U.S.-Russian relations, Chris- topher asked Kozlov why the Soviet Union “undermined the confidence of the free world” by breaking its treaties with ether nations, The Mayor’s account of the “answer follows: “During the war Russia ful- filled her obligations. There was also an agreement to open a second front which took a long time in doing. For in- stance, we believe the Western powers are violating the Pots- - dam agreement though you be- lieve otherwise) ° “T could go on until morn- “ing explaining and pointing out where you have failed us, Premier | ' [Re fice age but we must go on to the prob- lems facing us. Our treaties in Korea and Viet Nam are being carried out..’ : Kozloy stressed the impor- tance of reaching an agree- ment in the Berlin crisis. This seems to be paramount in his mind. He returned to this sub- ject several times.” - This was the way it went during the whirlwind Fourth of July weekend visit, leading the New York Times anti-So- viet expert, Harry Schwartz, who was traveling with the ex- pedition to declare Kozlov “need defer to no American official as a grassroots politi- cian.” And the expressions of re- gard went both ways. Probably the most eloquent came from Cyril Magnin, San Francisco merchant who host- ed Kozlov and party at a bar- becue at his Hillsborough es- tate. Magnin, in vresenting Kozlov with a gold pen and pencil set, said: “This is a golden reminder of the golden state of Califor- nia. Though we capitalists often have gold in our minds, we also have love in our hearts.” He urged the pen be used to “sien a treaty of lasting friendship between the United States and Russia.” is Magnin will head a delega- tion of 23 Northern California businessmen on a trip to the Soviet Union later this sum- mer. . July 17, 1959 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3