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: 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.”

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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
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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. .

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