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Evalyn, i finally found you – after hearing "Think about what you drink" on Jim Blum's folk music show on the Akron Ohio NPR station, i've been wanting to hear it again ever since! THANKYOU for letting us hear so many of your songs for free. The main reson i wanted to find "Bottle This" was to share it with some enviro friends – especially now that we want to give away water for people to put into their own containers at an upcoming folk festival – and i had to say, Wouldn't it be great to get a CD of that rap and play it continuously next to our free water dispencer! I'll try getting somebody who knows how to buy music online to do it (don't know if i'll EVER understand all that stuff) (have had way too many disappointments with business online already). But most of all, will it be OK with you if we use your rap for that purpose? Either way, THANKS FOR PUTING ALL THOSE THOUGHTS INTO WORDS SO PERFECTLY. THE WORLD NEEDS TO HEAR THEM! Sincerely, Rus
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Allyson and I, with the help of Summer Lawson from Black Swan Theory Vintage, styled up some of my favorite trashy ladies with teased wigs, smokey eyes, and barely there vintage underpinnings to evoke the atmosphere of an Oriental drug den for this month's Vintage Vivant. Whether you were too baked to make it out, or too high to remember the evening, here are some photos of everyone enjoying their vices. This amazing party is always the last Sunday of the month, so come out and play with us!
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Erin, Fiona, and Shelley...
Sarah, and her absinthe cocktail
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Tracy and her opium pipe
Allyson, the wig wizard herself
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Me looking tired, Drea looking darling
Drea and Diamond, who just happened to have
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Drew, with his intravenous absinthe drip
Colin and Angel, in full Imperial Court attire
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Absinthe fairy, in a custom wig from Coco Coquette
Lovely Miss Summer and her man
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Elizabeth, looking stunning
Becky and Margot
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Another gorgeous green fairy
Lovely Marley
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Scott, getting slapped around
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From the article: Complications and Problems After Surgery
Before you undergo a procedure, your doctor should be clear about the potential complications of the procedure you are going to have. Still, it's often that patients say they are surprised by some of these complications, or perhaps simply the extent of them. Were you surprised by what happened after your surgery or the road to recovery that was ahead of you? Share your experience.
gastric bypass complications
- I had a gastric bypass to improve my health. I expected to be in hospital 3 days...but...I was bleeding internally so my surgeon went back in laproscopically to have a look. He cleaned out clots and put in a drain. For two days the drain has been filling and my hemoglobin is still down. Today he gave me two more units of blood and said that based on the drain contents he might have to go in and have another look. Hoping for the best.
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urination difficulties at times
- I had an emergency apendectomy and partial removal of a foot or so of the end of my small intestine and ascending colon losing in the process, my ileocecal valve. From time to time, I awaken in the morning with great difficulty in urination. Usually, I have no problem with urination with a good full stream even though I have a slightly enlarged prostate and am 73. It seems as though when this happens and I decide to sleep on my back for a while, the problem relents and I'm back to "NOrmal" I think what may be happening is that my bowel no longer having it's original archetecture from time to time twists and presses up against my urethra causing a near blockage. It is frightening and can last for several hours until somehow I am able to get relief. WHen this happens, I also note that I don't get complete bowel emptying and it takes several sessions on the toilet to complete this with small bowel movements instead of a large one. And since op. only poorly formed bowel movements anyway.
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Colon resection And total hysterectomy
- Why 3 yrs I had abdominal surgery april/09 in Calgary . When I awoke I was complaining about rt hip and rt knee pain in fact it was worse than the colon rection( for divertictultis ) first time up in in the chair my rt knee was twice the size of left leg. After complaining to dr and staff after checking for blood clot which was neg I was told by staff lots of PTs with this surgery have knee and hip pain normal will go away . I went home and was icing my knee my staples were fine my rt knee was so painful I cried like a baby as I was reassured was normal I had a friend stay with me , I tryed to wall the hall , we bought many braces etc . After 2 mons off work Time to return , I was. Using crutches or a can , my family dr sent me for an MRI that month it showed 2 100% tears to two knee muscles after repair and many many treatment I had to have a total right knee replacement this jan / 2012 anyone have any problems ?
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Laparotomy After Colonoscopy
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- I have a pacemaker and cow heart valve and had a fat transfer done and about 1 1/2 weeks after got very swick with symptoms of weird skin sensitivities and my head feeling strange--like vibrating. Also, at the site of where the fat was taken from, I had a lot of pain for a very long period of time. I am still having symptoms after 2 yrs and for some strange reason raw garlic seems to help somewhat. This is an awful thing and I just want to feel better.
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Bad Hernia repair
- I had my second hernia repair in 2002 and a month later my stomach was red around my belly-button. Went to the Dr. and he lanced it so it would drain because it was infected. I asked how long it would drain and he said as long as I wanted to put up with it without another surgery. Things came up and I didn't have the surgery and it is still draining to this day. I went back to the surgeon that did it and he thought he could get a drain point and get it drained and let it heal on the inside. They can't find a pocket of where it is coming from so I'm stuck with this unless I want to have a major surgery to take out all the mesh which didn't guarentee that I wouldn't solve the problem or could die in the process. Great Huh???????
- —Guest Janeie
- I had an inguinal hernia repair 1 1/2 weeks ago and my complication was needing a catheter for 3 days. It was painful to go the the bathroom and my muscles froze up to where I couldn't go at all. Finally after 3 days it was taken out and I used a donut to raise the toilet seat up by 5 inches and it has made all the difference in the world. Now there is no pain at all when I use the bathroom. I can't wait though till I heal completely. I get sick to my stomach a lot especailly if I over eat. It is like the hernia takes room away for food
- —amyheflin1
Pain 3 months after a nephrectomy
- I had my right kidney removed in April of this year. I was told I would be pain free after approximately 1 month. I have experiencing pain in the area where they removed the kidney for 3 months. It gets worse at night and I can barely sleep because of the pain. I have a doctors appointment on Monday but am anxious to know.
- —Guest Heather
Total Knee Replacement Complications
- I had TKR with an end result of a damaged sciatic nerve that did not respond to prednisone or therapy, so the surgical leg is weak and there is daily pain in my back, knee and leg. There was no warning from the Dr. of this possibility, so it was a shock and has been very difficult to live with. The other knee needs replacement as well, but it is too scary to consider now, so there is double pain! Appetite was affected and energy has been low. Consider all before deciding to have this surgery!!
- —Guest Diane Hughes
Major complication after hysterectomy
- I had my surgery on April 21st of this year. I had a total of two bowel movements in a week. I had the staples removed on April 27th. All of a sudden the bowel movements stopped, the passing of gas stopped and I stayed nauseated and could not hold anything down not even water! The pain meds no longer helped and I was literally screaming in pain. I went to the emergency room on April 29th and found out that my small intestines didn't wake up from when I had the surgery. The pain was sooo bad I had to take a dose of morphine every 15 minutes!! I had to be admitted and stayed until my intestines woke up and I couldn't eat or drink anything for 2 days. My intestines didn't start waking up til 2 days after I was able to have a liquid diet. It's June and I still have problems with constipation but I don't regret having the surgery, it was necessary.
- —Guest abdominal hysterectomy
Complications After Heart Surgery
- I am an avid cyclist and had open heart surgery to repair ASD and a membrane located in my atrium connected to the hole in the septum. I now have rapid heart rate after a MAZE procedure. Beta blockers do not work,blood thinner makes me feel like you know what.
- —Guest craig
Urinating After Surgery!
- I am now on day 3 post op after a DiVinci total hysterectomy. All is well except not being able to pee without bearing down with as much pressure as a labor pain. Swollen stomach from bladder and constant burning are my company each night. I was told as long as I'm passing SOME urine it's ok...I'm miserable!
- —Guest REnee
back surgery
- I had lower back sugery two months ago to fix a bulging disc. My leg and foot are still not fixed (numbness and pain in foot). Pain in back came back three weeks later. Starting over with a new MRI to find the problem.
- —Guest Sue
surgery complications
- My husband had colon resection done 8 weeks ago, the day after he had staples removed had to go to the ER, he was bleeding from the rectum. The doctor went back in to repair what we were told was minor tear. After surgery the doctor said had to put colostomy bag on because colon wall was weak. Now and his incision has foul pus draining. The doctor says it is nothing to worry about.
- —Guest rose
- During my surgery and intubation someone who administered it must have hit my cap on my tooth, it became loose after my surgery and when my dentist checked it the post was broken. The stress from the tube insertion must have cracked the post and my crown was falling off. The dentist has to try to build a new post as best as he can to attach my crown back. I don't know if my dental insurance will pay for this.
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Fair officials use caution with pigs (and humans) in Swine Barn
INDIANAPOLIS - The Indiana State Board of Health said the Hoosier State is the only place in the country right now where they are seeing cases of H3N2 (which some call swine flu) in pigs and humans.
That's why extra steps are being taken to keep you and the animals safe at this year's Indiana State Fair.
The state fair brings country life to the city. Fair officials are taking steps to make sure the experience is a healthy one.
4-H pigs must go through state inspection to make sure they do not have the flu, or H3N2, before being allowed in the Swine Barn.
"Whenever the veterinarian comes out, he checks the temperature all of the time, too, so that's how we make sure he (pig) doesn't have the flu," 4-H member Ryan Hockemeyer said.
That's what the Indiana State Board of Animal Health is looking for: a pig that has a temperature of 105 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Pigs with flu-like symptoms are sent home.
"A lot of what we are doing is based off of last year," Indiana State Board of Health spokeswoman Denise Derrer said. "We saw a lot of influenza virus floating around by the end of fair season. We had quite a few people who had picked up the virus and had also seen a lot of swine, and it actually matched as far as what type of flu it was."
Officials are also working with experts from The Ohio State University. They are swabbing all of the pig snouts.
"We are working with the Veterinary College of Ohio State University to do some more research to find out what is going on with this particular virus and the environment," Derrer said.
The state is asking everyone to avoid touching the pigs and pens. Also take this advice from a 4-H parent when visiting the Swine Barn.
"I think it's always important to wash your hands, and make sure you are washing hands before and after," Trisha Hockemeyer said. "That's the biggest thing, is just personal hygiene."
There are a number of food booths right outside of the Swine Barn. It can be a temptation, but fair goers should remember not to take their food into the barn. It can be a health risk due to cross-contamination.
Another tip: If you have small children, avoid taking sippy cups and pacifiers into the Swine Barn in case they are dropped on the floor.
The state is asking any fair goers who feel ill or have flu-like symptoms to avoid the Swine Barn so they don't make the pigs sick.


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The first downloadable content for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will be available to download from February 12th, 2013 in the US and a day later on February 13th, 2013 in the UK.
We have known for a while now that the first DLC for PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale will feature Kat from Gravity Rush and Emmett Graves from Starhawk. However, in a recent post on the PlayStation Blog, the release date has been confirmed for February. The content will be free for the first two weeks, so make sure you pick it up as soon as it is released or you'll have to pay. Here's a little information about the two new entries and their playstyles:
Kat (Gravity Rush)
"Kat graces PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale with her presence, as an up-close melee fighter who utilizes her ability to manipulate gravity to turn the tide in battle. Players who enjoyed Gravity Rush on PS Vita know that Kat loves to bend gravity to allow her to dash, slide, and fly from one place to another, and her All-Stars incarnation is no exception. Those who enjoy AP burst combos and varied mobility will definitely gravitate towards Kat."
Emmett Graves (Starhawk)
"Emmett Graves from Starhawk joins the fray! He brings his signature "Build & Battle" style from Starhawk, calling down different structures to aid him in battle, including Rift Extractors for AP and Flak Turrets that fire at will. Aside from his default rifle and pistol, Emmett can also call for additional weaponry in the form of shotgun and rocket launcher loadouts, allowing him to adapt to any situation. These loadouts will also change his level 1 super, giving him a total of five supers to choose from!"
The DLC will also feature a new map named "Fearless", which will boast the staple mash-up of two franchises known to players. This new stage will merge together PlayStation 3 exclusive Heavenly Sword with WipEout.
The post also indicates that more announcements will be made in March, so who are you holding out for? Are you looking forward to playing either of the new characters? Or none at all? Let us know!


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Agnieszka Radwanska is no longer part of a Catholic youth group after posing naked for ESPN the Magazine's Body Issue, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal. The #4 ranked tennis player in the world, just off a semifinals finish at Wimbledon, was informed that because of her immoral behavior, there is no place for her within Youth Crusade. "It's a shame that someone who has declared their love for Jesus is now promoting the mentality of men looking at a woman as a thing rather than a child of God worthy of respect and love," Father Marek Dziewiecki, a senior Catholic priest, told The Telegraph. "If she meets a man who she can truly love and establish a happy family and raise Catholic children, then she would probably have to hide these pictures from relatives." ESPN's the Magazine's Body Issue is essentially their version of a swimsuit edition, but involving athletes, both male and female, who have extraordinary body shape due to the sports they play. They are typically tactful by most people's standards. However, Catholic groups took issue with her posing nude, at all. I guess it is a bit harsh to just judge her by [...]
Father Marek Dziewiecki, did you ever actually READ the Bible? I don't mean what's been changed to fit the modern era but the original text and meaning. You guys always were a bunch of hypocrites, that's why so many left to form more free, open religions. Shall we start with the 10th Commandment where one should not covet thy neighbor's property...which includes his wife. I'm a Christian but one of truth and the original meanings of the religion. In the 3 main religions, women are not free, equal individuals of God. It is stated God wants man to fairly treat his servants, wife (wives) and children.
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Former Head of State General Abdulsalami Abubakar has said that bio-safety bill will bridge the gap between the rich and poor farmers in Nigeria.
He spoke at the Agricultural Biotechnology Net mapping in Maizube farm in Minna, Niger State. He said that agricultural biotechnology has changed the lives of the rural cotton farmers in nearby Burkina Faso, adding that it has also changed lives for the better for poor farmers in Brazil and Argentina.
"Failure in practicing this technology will continue to widen the gap between farmers from the rich developed countries who have adopted it and those of us from the developing world who are having lame excuses to avoid its adoption," he said.
The Director General of National Biotechnology Development Agency (NABDA), Professor Bamidele Ogbe Solomon said for Nigeria to fit into the global trench of the cutting edge technology, bio-safety bill is crucial in the management of biotechnology in the country.
He said the bill would provide a legal framework to check activities of modern biotechnology both locally and imported GM crops into the country.


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The first trailer of Star Wars 1313, the new 'mature' action game in the works from LucasArts has surfaced.
Star Wars 1313 is an upcoming action/adventure title that sees the player step into the armour of a bounty hunter and descend into the subterranean level 1313 on Coruscant. The trailer shows off some fantastic, potentially next-gen graphics and cover-shooting gameplay, and a distinct absence of any lightsabers (well you are playing a bounty hunter, so obviously).
Most of the footage has previously been showcased at E3 2012, however there is slight expansion on the story of the game. Check out the trailer below (brought to you by IGN):
What do you think? Will you be getting Star Wars 1313? I think it looks like it has great potential.


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SKIERS and walkers who get caught by an avalanche could be saved by a simple contraption that extracts air from the snow itself. Called the AvaLung, the device could help them survive being buried in the snow for up to an hour, by which time help may have arrived.
Normally, the chances of surviving burial in an avalanche are slim. Approximately one-third of people caught in an avalanche are killed by injuries from rocks, trees, debris or the force of the snow itself. For the remaining two-thirds who are alive when the snow settles, survival is possible only if they are found and dug out quickly. After 15 minutes, there is a 90 per cent chance of survival. But after 35 minutes, suffocation will have killed 70 per cent of people who have been buried alive.
In the tightly packed debris of an avalanche, victims typically have only a small ...
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Two Middle East Conferences in Washington
Competing for Government's Ear on Israel's Fate
As Hal Lehrman made clear once again in his last month's report on "North Africa's Dilemmas for American Jewry," the latter has a power over the fate of world Jewry such as no single Jewish community has had in a thousand years. This month he reports on a current effort by American Jews to use that influence for the achievement of changes in the Administration's policy toward Israel and the Arabs. Similarly, he analyzes a parallel attempt by other Americans to propagate views diametrically opposed to those of Israel's supporters in this country.
The Shoreham Hotel, a favorite Washington convention center for groups seeking the ear of the nation and the nation's government, has never played host to gatherings so dissimilar as the two which held forth, each for a day and a half—the one commencing five hours after the other adjourned—in its meeting halls and dining rooms (the very same ones) during the first weekend of the month of March just passed.
Friday morning through Saturday lunch : the 9th Annual Conference of the Middle East Institute, closing with an address by the Honorable Jefferson Caffery, lately United States Ambassador to Egypt, and attended by some 370 participants largely convinced that one of our major problems in the Arab world is the legacy left by previous allegedly pro-Israel American policy.
Saturday evening and all day Sunday: a Conference of National Jewish Organizations attended by 269 representatives unanimously persuaded that our major problem in the Arab world is the legacy being created by current allegedly pro-Arab American policy.
Happily, the two meetings missed confronting one another, though the first early arrivals for the pro-Israel deliberations injected a bit of bustle into the relative sedateness pervading the Shoreham lobbies during the Institute's meeting. There was no overlapping in the attendance, except for a few Israeli Embassy people at the Institute sessions as observers and vice-versa for State Department officials at the Conference; the working press (Israeli reporters outnumbering Americans at the earlier meeting); and one representative of the Palestine Economic Corporation who gallantly heckled everybody throughout the long weekend. The two programs had one link: George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern, South Asian, and African Affairs. Allen, a lean and handsome North Carolinian who has been our ambassador to India, Yugoslavia, and Iran and, before that, a Foreign Service officer in Egypt, Greece, China, and Jamaica, spoke at both conferences and said substantially the same thing—an impressive feat, which he accomplished by committing himself to virtually nothing on each occasion.
The institute brought out, among others, 20 executives of oil companies in the Middle East, some 45 U.S. academic and governmental specialists in Arab affairs, four ex-Ambassadors to Moslem capitals, ten Moslem diplomats and other notables, four associates and at least five members of the American Friends of the Middle East, and 19 Arab students. The Jewish Conference assembled the spokesmen of six major Zionist organizations. Twenty Hadassah ladies, as usual, provided the largest and most fashionable delegation; then there were 16 members from the Zionist Organization of America, 13 from the American Zionist Council, and so on down to a total of seven from four smaller political parties affiliated with the Council—Hashomer Hatzair, Hapoel Hamizrachi, Zionist Revisionists, and Achdut Avodah. Ten non-Zionist organizations sent delegations, the biggest of them 24 from B'nai B'rith, 23 from the National Community Relations Advisory Council, 17 from the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and 16 each from Mizrachi and the American Jewish Congress.
The Middle East Institute, founded in 1946, has an impeccably correct charter of intentions. Out of its modest three-story headquarters on N Street in Washington, it sponsors scholarships, lectures, language classes (Arabic and Turkish), exhibits, library and information services, and research surveys. It publishes an occasional book, a bi-monthly four-page Report, and a learned quarterly Journal.
Unlike the American Friends of the Middle East, which waited some years before conceding by inference that Israel was in the Middle East at all, the Middle East Institute really deals with the Middle East, and tries to do so fairly. This reporter, other writers friendly to Israel, and even Israelis have been printed in the Journal, and the three most recent annual conferences have each had one Jewish speaker or two (Professor Alfred Bonne of the Hebrew University in 1954, Professor Salo Baron of Columbia in 1953, Professors Hans Kohn of the College of the City of New York and J. C. Hurewitz of Columbia in 1952).
George Camp Keiser, a pink-cheeked, baldish ex-architect who came to the Moslem cause by way of research in Islamic architecture, is now chairman of the Institute's Board of Governors after having reputedly spirited the control away from its founding fathers on the faculty of the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Mr. Keiser and his George C. Keiser Foundation make good the Institute's deficit, which annually averages between $15,000 and $20,000. (The Keiser fortune comes from the Boston-based Guantanamo Sugar Company, which has sugar interests in Cuba and is headed by brother David M., genius of the family and, of all things, an accomplished concert pianist.)
Strictly non-profit, the Institute obtains its limited budget ($90,549 for fiscal 1955) mostly from contributions. The Ford Foundation was the biggest donor last year (around $25,000). The Rockefeller Foundation in 1954 gave a small grant for preparation of a book on Middle Eastern law, the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation another for scholarships. Four oil companies make corporate gifts, the largest from Arabian American (Aramco), followed by California Texas, Gulf, and Socony-Vacuum. All these operate in Arab oil fields, which hold more than half of the world's estimated petroleum reserves. Aramco's vice president, James Terry Duce, is on the Institute's Board. (Among the seven other Board members are Texas oilman George C. McGhee, onetime Ambassador to Turkey, three active State Department officials, and a former Ambassador to Iran.)
Even without such financial support, the Institute would normally reflect a dominant interest in matters other than Israeli because of its sphere (from Turkey to Ethiopia, Morocco to Pakistan). Inevitably, the oil-Arab equation infuses this interest with a certain additional sympathy for Moslems. A further stimulus is the traditional missionary influence on American cultural and diplomatic representatives in the Middle East.
Of the eighteen speakers at this year's conference of the Institute nine had been intimately exposed to the missionary viewpoint, either as missionaries themselves, or as teachers or students at mission schools (Robert College in Istanbul, Aleppo College, American University of Beirut, American University at Cairo). My own years as a graduate student in Paris had made me understand how life and work among any people anywhere can induce a lasting sympathy with them—all the more when the work involves missionary zeal for their welfare.
A main speaker at the Institute's 1954 banquet had been Moussa Shabandar, then Iraqi Ambassador, now Iraqi Foreign Minister. Without notice, Dr. Shabandar had used most of his time to attack Israel. This was embarrassing, but not enough to prevent the Institute from trying for an Arab spokesman again this year. Since stresses and strains in the Arab League are current news, first choice was Kamel Abdul Rahim, its chief representative in the U.S., who, it was felt, might be able to speak more frankly than any accredited envoy because of his non-diplomatic status. Abdul Bey seemed willing, delayed accepting for three weeks, and finally said no, presumably because of the present delicate juncture in League fortunes. Jordanian Ambassador Abdul Monem Rifa'i, having a previous engagement, declined at once. In the end, no Arab graced the program. There were, however, two Moslems—who, by universal verdict, contributed the dullest performances. Anwar Ali, a Pakistani official of the International Monetary Fund, spoke English that sounded like Arabic in brogue and emptied half a lecture hall. Mohammad Kabir Ludin, Ambassador from Afghanistan, seemed to be asleep on his feet. All in all, it was a Black Friday for the fruits of Western enlightenment in Islam.
Earlier years had programmed the Institute's discussions under such bland headings as "Islam in the Modern World," "Nationalism in the Middle East," or "Middle East Resources: Problems and Prospects." This time the title was the somewhat more admonitory "The Evolution of Public Responsibility in the Middle East," suggesting a firmer approach, a kind of admonition or nudge to move on with the business of growing up. Also, every speaker, in referring to Arab progress, diluted his praise with such phrases as "much more must be done," or "this is only a beginning," or "the road ahead is long."
Apart from these ritual nods, however, the trend was persistently bullish for Arabia resurrecta. Everybody did his best to locate and hold up for applause the proofs of Arab advance toward political, social, and economic stability. The air was suffused with a benevolent paternalism. Coming in from the moon, an observer could not have escaped concluding that the Arab was one of the nobler works of God, a bit underdone, perhaps, still faltering and needing guidance, but sure—if only the West had patience—to fulfill the trust put in him.
This thesis was not debated at the Institute's proceedings. It was axiomatic—and it had the ineluctable corollary that since the Arab was a fine fellow, anyone quarreling with him was likely not to be one. This did not apply to Westerners, of course, especially Americans, who were even finer fellows, but it did apply to Israelis—not necessarily in their own context, but certainly to Israelis in connection with Arabs. And it also applied to past American succor for "Zionism." The monster at the Institute feast, never mentioned by name or allusion but ever present in memory, was Harry Truman.
On Thursday evening, at the DuPont Plaza Hotel two blocks from the Institute, dinner was served to some 65 business representatives and economists convened for a pre-conference discussion of "area political and economic stability, investment climate, etc." Present were Aramco, Standard of New Jersey, Gulf Oil, Tide Water Associated, Cal Tex, Socony-Vacuum, American Independent, Ford International, General Motors, Chase National Bank, National City Bank, Olin Mathieson Chemical, American Export Lines, and others. Among the speakers were the deputy chief of the American diplomatic mission to one Arab country, a former U.S. Ambassador to another, now serving as an oil company consultant, and a prominent American educator just returned from a Middle Eastern tour.
According to authoritative report, anyone who heard their speeches would have carried away with him the following: even where large native funds are being expended for economic and social improvement, Arab progress was far from rapid. (A magnificent hospital was built in one remote area; it was inaugurated with éclat by the reigning sovereign some years ago; since then, the bedsheets have not been changed.) It had to be admitted that not enough was being done by local governments to raise living standards, but things were brewing. American investment ought to go in. It must go in. When it did it would meet opposition provoked by our diplomatic blunders. Worst among these was our Palestine policy. But at long last now we were giving equal treatment to both sides, and healing the wounds. We were even reaching out through religion. (A recent global conference of Moslem and Christian notables took place at Bhamdoun in Lebanon, financed by the Dearborn Foundation.) The present administration was working hard to persuade the Arabs of our honest intentions. American business should support this policy, and participate in the region's economic future. Only remember this: in the Middle East you trade with Israel or the Arab states. You can't trade with both. Beware of the Arab boycott against all who do business with the Jewish state.
Someone asked about West Germany and the Arabs. Hadn't the Arabs sworn to boycott Bonn if it paid Jewish reparations? Yet weren't the Arabs still dealing with the Germans? So why this absolute either-or? Wasn't it in the larger American national interest for private investors to build up both sides? Answer: Yes, but it's impossible. The Arabs finally gave in on West Germany only because they were convinced that Jewish reparations had been forced on the Germans by Washington (!). (This writer recalls being in Berlin in late 1953, long after the German-Israeli reparations agreement, when a visiting Saudi Arabian economic mission was eagerly handing out contracts to German firms. I asked one Saudi spokesman how he reconciled this with previous boycott threats. He shrugged his shoulders and grinned: "We didn't get away with it." The Turks, too, seem to be able to deal with both Arab and Israeli. As a matter of fact, even American oil companies can. Doesn't at least one of the firms extracting oil from Arabia sell its gasoline to motorists from pumps on Israeli highways?)
The institute's public proceedings got under way to a fairly full house in the Shoreham's Main Ballroom Friday morning with words of welcome by George Keiser, followed by papers on the current Middle Eastern situation "As Seen by Americans" (Princeton's Professor T. Cuyler Young, Chairman of the Oriental Languages and Literature Department) and "As Seen by Middle Easterners" (Pakistan's Anwar Ali).
Dr. Young amiably suggested that if we wanted the native peoples to show "public responsibility," we might legitimately be expected to be responsible ourselves. Our policies toward the area have not been as "clear cut" as desired. Gingerly, in a convoluted sentence, he mentioned as one example "the Palestine question," where "there was partial interference [by the U.S.] demanding, under our own pressures, certain points of establishment and then a failure to follow through. . . ." He closed with the standard big-brother plea: "There are many of us who get exasperated with . . . the irresponsibility of young nations. But let's remember that we were young once ourselves." For Anwar Ali, the basis of Middle Eastern instability was the "growing restiveness . . . of the underprivileged masses" and feudal-tribal pressures. He spoke of production methods "unchanged through the decades," the dominance of moneylenders, and other ills. But "the governments in the various countries are showing a growing consciousness of these problems." "A great deal has been done but a lot more needs to be done." Looking around, he saw many "hopeful signs."
After lunch came my colleague from OWI days, Dr. John Badeau, now head of the Near East Foundation, long-time president of the American University in Cairo, and no mincer of words on "The Problem of Stability among Middle East Governments." He spoke frankly of recent convulsions in various of these governments but also noted evidence that the "outlook is probably more hopeful than at any time since 1945." Dr. Badeau listed such great and stabilizing advances as the Sudan-Suez, Iranian oil, and Iraqi pact settlements. Of all the remaining "factors of tension," the Arab-Israel problem is "major." Here Dr. Badeau went forthrightly down the line: Israel is not an indigenous state. It is supported by Western money and political influence. It is populated by immigrants. It was forced upon the Arab world. In Israel the Arabs—right or wrong—see a classic proof of Western meddling. Peace with Israel has been impossible because no Arab leader could survive popular outcry against it.
The speaker went on to other things but referred back to Israel wherever his material permitted. Thus, in discussing the power of "mob" action to force the hands of certain Middle East governments, the following sally was much appreciated by the audience: "Of course, such a policy is not unknown even in the United States, where the incumbent party's desire to win an election has sometimes made it espouse a foreign policy that has not proved to the best interests of the country." Again, in explaining the difficulties of achieving broad-based economic progress in the Middle East, he said: "Israel is often held up as the example of what can be done, but the argument is inconclusive, for Israel has been created and supported by foreign gift capital." If a pre-war estimate of $1,500 invested per farm "in the Zionist colonies" is accurate, "the Egyptian government would need to invest over $3 billion to bring about like results—and this kind of money is not forthcoming, even if all the landlords were taken out and shot."
Why did the West force Israel on the Arab world, a questioner arose to inquire. To solve the anti-Semitic problem, for which the West, not the Arab world, was responsible: "The West had a guilty conscience." And would Israel collapse without foreign aid, another listener asked. Well, said Badeau, the Israeli pound is officially propped at $2.80, but can be picked up in Switzerland for 40 cents. If foreign support were cut out, he intimated, Israel might seek survival by expanding beyond her present borders, which would mean war. Nobody stood up to remind Dr. Badeau that the official tourist exchange was 55 cents, which was not much further from the free market price than many presumably "stable" currencies. During a brief break, this was privately pointed out to the chairman, Professor Sidney N. Fisher of Ohio State, who communicated it to Dr. Badeau. But by then he was off the platform.
There are other problems in the Arab world besides the Israeli. Dr. Badeau, who has known his Arabs long and well, spoke very plainly about these, too. His comments on Israel took only a few minutes of his half-hour speech. In general, the speakers who followed devoted even less attention to Israel. Yet, nearly every time she was mentioned, she automatically came off second best. And when she should have been mentioned as a possible exception to some generalization or other about the area's backwardness, she was not. Nor did anybody suggest, in discussing—as several speakers did—the instability of the Arab regimes and the gulf separating them from their peoples, that there might be something defeating in an American policy that put so much store by propping up such regimes.
Marine Colonel S. G. Taxis spoke of Middle Eastern reluctance to organize militarily for free world defense, without mentioning the Israeli exception to the rule. He chided the Arab world on its failure to recognize Moscow as Enemy Number One. Yet when an Arab student rose to charge that the Arabs had reason to fear Zionism and Western colonialism more than they fear Moscow, the Colonel generously admitted it might indeed seem so from a strictly Middle Eastern point of view, and added almost abjectly: "These problems are not all of your making. We have to take a lot of the blame."
In an excellent paper on the socio-political aspects of Middle Eastern economic development, California Professor George Lenczowski noted the possibility that the Arab industrial advance and economic revolution for which the West is pressing might complicate the Western search for stability by increasing Arab mass appetites and dissatisfactions, but he sidestepped the implications of this for Washington policy. His vigorous discussion of "shocking contrasts and abuses" and other frailties gave no hint that many of these might not apply to Israel.
At a banquet Friday evening, Assistant Secretary Allen paraphrased President Eisenhower's assurances on Arab arms grants and said: "The United States has never given military assistance to a country which has used that [equipment] in an aggressive manner against its neighbor. I don't believe the United States ever will." But then, with what some in the audience thought a surprising cavalierness, he added: "There can always be a first time, I am perfectly aware of that."
Next morning Stephen P. Dorsey, Allen's Deputy Director for Near Eastern Affairs, read a lucid essay on "Social Discontent Among the Peasant and Working Classes." The discontent was vast and the progress to allay it was quite limited though ever "hopeful." Instead of indicating, if only in a phrase, that conditions were markedly more satisfactory in Israel, Mr. Dorsey referred the subject to a later speaker on the program. An absorbing, even brilliant, speech on "The Interaction of Education and Public Responsibility" by Dr. Alford Carleton, former president of Aleppo College in Syria, illustrated the classic approach of the old mission hand, the whimsical, patronizing, but essentially loving tone toward the Arab, a bumbling fellow who had so much to learn—from us especially—but was trying so hard and had to be given the benefit of every doubt.
Finally, summing up the two days of speeches, the conference rapporteur, my long-time friend Wendell Cleland, of the State Department, another ex-president of the American University in Cairo, pointed out that a cause of Middle Eastern instability was the fact that most of its states were successors to one empire or another, and hence have had to organize amid ruins. He shrugged off the Jewish state ("I haven't mentioned Israel because I don't know what it's a successor to and, in a sense, it's an import from Europe") and extenuated the Arab attitude ("Why should we accuse them of neutralism when we in the United States practiced neutralism for 175 years?"). In eleven solid hours of talk about the Middle East, only one person suggested that in the many internal differences and contrasts between Israel and the Arab countries the former, too, might be entitled once in a while to the slimmest benefit of a doubt.
That exception was the Institute's Jewish discussant for 1955: Don Peretz, ex-Ford Fellow, specialist in Palestine Arab refugee problems, and instructor at Hofstra College. He talked on "Public Responsibility: Its Progress and Prospects in Israel," and noted at least a few of the contrasts: in Israel "suffrage is universal—a characteristic not common in the area—and representative of all sectors of the population"; "if there is any Middle East nation where the government heeds public criticism . . . it is Israel"; "Israel's relatively high standard of living and numerous government services . . . make it one of the most progressive countries in the Middle East."
But even Mr. Peretz left much unsaid. He was, admittedly, in a tight spot. Here was a Jew proposing to defend Israel before an audience poised for attack. He proceeded with care, soothing his listeners at the outset with a mild joke, and disarming them further by suggesting smilingly that Israel in 1948 had had more public responsibility "per square head" than most other countries. Everybody sat back and relaxed. Mr. Peretz elaborated by showing how well the pre-Israel Yishuv had been organized and institutionalized.
But, in reviewing developments since statehood, he gave one spoonful of good to every two of bad. He spoke at length of the deterioration in morale due to the immigrant influx, of the problem of the Arab minority, of the economy's dependence on external aid, of the anti-social quirks of kibbutz socialism, of the low productivity of Israeli labor; but only briefly of the even distribution of wealth and opportunity in Israel, of the wide participation in national life, of the growth in public services. He spoke not at all of many other positive things, or of the improvement even in those criticized. Mr. Peretz may have deliberately refrained from saying more because he wanted to be persuasive. But the warm applause he got may have been due, in the main, to his courteous reluctance to disturb his listeners' preconceived views.
Curiously, it was a Turk, a Moslem Turk, who told the Institute's friends the one thing that above all needed telling. Kasim Gülek, a Turkish-style Adlai Stevenson, secretary-general of the opposition People's Republican party, which was voted out of power in 1950 after two decades, was charming and articulate, with an anti-stuffed shirt breeziness. He talked of the need for "public responsibility" in area defense. Slyly, he reminded his Arab listeners that Turkey had "lived" with the Arab countries for centuries. Well, he conceded to the laughter, "perhaps as a senior partner"—then, on reflection: "as a bigger brother." And hadn't the Turks given haven to the Jews since the Inquisition? "I was going through an exhibition of Hebrew manuscripts in the New York Public Library," he mused, "and I found one which said 'Begun in Spain, finished in Istanbul . . . .'" So he believed Turkey could speak as a friend of both sides in the "Israeli-Arab difficulty."
The Palestine refugee problem had to be solved, but could not be "within the means of the region—the Western world, especially America, must come in with material and moral help." As for defense, "uncompromising attitudes" must be scrapped. It is time everybody admitted that Israel is a "reality, a fait accompli." The Arab states must wake up to the fact that the danger is not in Israel but "from the North. . . . Organization against that danger must be the main job." "May I ask a question of my big brother?" said an Arab student brightly. "You Turks have your independence. Therefore you desire to defend it against Communism. But we in the Arab states still have to be convinced that imperialism and Zionism are less dangerous." "As a big brother to a little one," replied Kasim Bey, "let me tell you that there is only one danger. And while you quarrel among yourselves, the big danger grows." Besides, he added, a shade tartly but with a grin, "remember that Turkey not only defends herself but the line to the South. The little brothers ought to begin taking some responsibility . . . ."
The purpose of the Middle East Institute, according to a prospectus, is "to furnish Americans factual, unbiased information" and "to further understanding between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East." Except as to Israel, it seems fair to say these purposes had been advanced in some measure over the weekend. But how far is understanding between Americans and the peoples of the Middle East—or, for that matter, the American national interest in keeping the Middle East at peace—served by repeated assurances to the Arabs from many learned men that we as a nation sympathize altogether with them in the whole bill of complaint against Israel?
That evening, chairs still warm from two unrelenting days of Arab and pro-Arab pressure were occupied by representatives of American Zionism and of every major non-Zionist, pro-Israeli Jewish organization with the exception of the American Jewish Committee. Almost a year ago, led by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, head of the World Jewish Congress and the Jewish Agency for Palestine, the presidents of sixteen such groups had begun informal consultations on Israeli matters. Originally it had been proposed to convene in Washington with full delegations before the November elections, but this idea had been dropped as too open a pressure device. But now they were here. In a way, history was being made.
There was no banquet, no fund-raising, no anniversary to celebrate. Just an ordinary rainy Saturday in March, and Jewish Americans were pouring in from thirty-two states, to hear from their government and be heard by it on their anxieties concerning that government's policies. Secretary of State Dulles had been unable to accept an invitation because of business in the Far East. So there was Assistant Secretary Allen again, but with him this time was Philip M. Klutznick of B'nai B'rith—not the Afghan Ambassador—and Dr. Goldmann, hardy warhorse of a score of world Jewish campaigns.
The bizarre spectacle was then presented of an Assistant Secretary of State trapped in a packed hall while the Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Palestine gave him a public lecture on the errors of American diplomacy. An effort was made to observe the amenities. Mr. Klutznick had already stressed that "we meet in the interest of America." Dr. Goldmann emphasized that "this is not a conference of protest but of deliberation, clarification, and calm counsel." He denied any difference between the Conference's and the government's long-range objectives in the Middle East, or that he had ever felt "the Republican administration is unfriendly toward Israel." "I will try not to use strong language tonight," he said. And then, improvising on the prepared text before him, interpolating side remarks and assaulting English grammar and syntax, he let fly.
To give the Arabs arms without getting anything in return was against American as well as Israeli interests. Why should the Arabs make any concession for peace if they could get what they wanted for nothing? There was one common feature to all the projects of American diplomacy for Middle Eastern defense: "Israel doesn't exist." This amounted to de facto withdrawal of recognition. With military pacts all around her, Israel was the only country without a single defense agreement or alliance. "How, in the opinion of the State Department, can Israel hope to maintain her position in such total isolation?" Military aid went to the Arabs while Israel received none. A policy of treating Israel as "an outcast and pariah" would harden Arab extremism and "must lead to ends Washington never intended."
"I regret the incident at Gaza, and I'm sure the leaders of Israel regret it too. But Israel in the last year has shown tremendous moderation [loud applause]. The American government and all the Western powers must make it clear that the Arabs must accept Israel as an equal partner in any security system." Goldmann begged "violently to disagree in all modesty" with a policy of one-sided concessions to the Arabs. "We are being told that this policy is now being reexamined. I am patient, and I urge you all to be patient. . . . The results of this review have long been overdue."
Goldmann sat down after exactly one hour, and it was Mr. Allen's turn. In introducing him, Mr. Klutznick noted that he was in a difficult position. Less than two months in his post, he was invited to comment on a situation that could explode at a single careless word. From the Assistant Secretary's 500-word advance press release, which I had seen, it was clear that he had come determined to make no "basic or fundamental statement about American foreign policy." He reiterated this in his opening remarks. He was willing and ready to meet with a smaller group for freer discussion of questions which "obviously" could not be treated before such a large gathering. Though he had taken his oath of office six weeks ago, he felt "in listening to Dr. Goldmann that I was beginning my job tonight." He had come to learn "your views—you, my employers, the American people." He noted with satisfaction Dr. Goldmann's affirmation that current policies were not those of a particular administration. "I started under the Republicans, worked twenty years under the Democrats, and now I'm under the Republicans again. I am not a candidate for retirement, and I intend to continue to serve under any administration the American people choose . . . ."
Then, reading carefully from his release, he confirmed the fact that Dulles had been studying the Arab-Israel problem. "I cannot say when he would be in a position to make a statement, but I hope that a propitious occasion will arise soon." At this point Mr. Allen omitted a few sentences in his text, showing that he had attentively followed Goldmann's speech, which had attacked the argument that American arms for Arabs were pledged not to be used aggressively. Citing Arab threats, Dr. Goldmann had pointed out that governments like the Iraqi could be captured by fanatics but "arms once delivered are neither returned nor retrieved." Dexterously, therefore, Allen did not read: "The U.S. has not granted and will not grant military aid to any country which, in the government's opinion, is likely to use the aid in any aggressive manner. This applies specifically . . . to Iraq."
Thereafter, Mr. Allen hewed to generalities wide of the issue: the Soviet menace, the Middle Eastern defense gap, the importance of pacts. "I've made note tonight of many things I've heard, to carry away and keep in mind." He spoke feelingly of Point Four, the need for humanitarian aid to underprivileged areas of the world. He told the same story as the evening before about a well in an Indian village which had been a polluted mudhole for 1,000 years but now everyone was clamoring for the American experts to build them a sanitary and proper one. ("Allen drags that Indian well with him wherever he goes," a reporter muttered. "Heard him tell the yarn to the American Friends of the Middle East too.") He closed, to mild applause, by saying he was "delighted to have had the experience of being with you." He had heard words of wisdom and looked forward "to getting to know you better as I go on with my work."
I wandered from cluster to excited cluster after the session adjourned. Sample comments: "A disgraceful performance. He represents the government, and he didn't make one positive statement . . . ." "Nahum was wonderful . . . ." "It doesn't matter that Allen didn't say anything. The important thing is for Allen to know what American Jews say . . . ." "Where was Abba Hillel Silver? Allen couldn't have brushed him off . . . ." "This whole thing is a waste of time . . . ." "Now they know the Council for Judaism doesn't speak for the Jews of America . . . ."
Then I "crashed" a meeting of the Credentials and Steering Committee. It had registered 218 delegates by 10 P. M., although the airport had been closed out by zero visibility. Plans were laid for state groups on Monday to call on their Senators and Representatives. "The Council has been stuffing Congressmen's mailboxes with charges that we only represent an insignificant Zionist segment of Jewish opinion. They sent four mailings to the Hill. This has been widely publicized. Unless we get to see a lot of Congressmen, we will be just another conference with one more set of resolutions . . . ."
In the lobby on Sunday morning, I met a State Department friend, and, a few paces beyond, one of the Conference organizers. "This is a good thing for us," said the man from State. "We need to get more of this point of view. . . . Still, I wonder, isn't there anyone they could have put up who sounds less like a world Jew and more like an American than Dr. Goldmann? . . ." Said the Conference organizer: "Already it's a great success. Over 250 delegates in by 9 A. M. Not the usual group of notables calling on the State Department or White House. Or just Zionists. But grass-roots American Jewish leaders from all over. Many of them at their own expense. This morning we're discussing Israel's economics. Harold Stassen couldn't make it, but go and listen to the chief of his Middle East section in the Foreign Operations Administration. This afternoon Jack Jernagan [John D. Jernagan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State] is coming over to make a real policy statement. He's even going to answer questions—written questions . . . ."
I asked someone I had seen at the Institute meeting, an American Jew who has written with distinction and scholarship about the Middle East, if he was attending the Conference. "No," he said, "I've had enough. Aren't you sick of all this parochialism? You know what would be useful? To get the Arabists into the Jewish meetings, and the Zionists into the meetings of the Institute, yes, even of the American Friends of the Middle East. It would do all of them some good . . . ."
In the Terrace Room, Hadassah's Rose Halprin presiding, Levi Eshkol was discussing economics. (The Israeli Finance Minister had found it necessary to come in person to settle a dispute raging over Henry Montor, whose resignation as director of Israel Bond sales he was shortly to accept.) After Mr. Eshkol came FOA's Norman Paul, who spoke glowingly of American participation in Israel's economic progress. (American technicians working in and with Israel are invariably more enthusiastic than American diplomats. Technicians, who deal with specific, physical problems, seem better able to appreciate the Israeli constructive zeal and competence, especially in contrast to the apathy they encounter in neighboring countries.) Mr. Paul offered to answer questions, and was given some rough ones, but did well, having no inhibitions or policy clearances to worry about. (Later I chatted with Paul, whom I had first met in Istanbul at an FOA regional meeting. "Did the questions bother you?" I asked. "No," he laughed. "I enjoyed them. Fine training for me when I go to Congress to argue for appropriations . . . .")
I saw two youths from Betar, the Revisionist Youth group, listening glumly to the speeches on economics. When the morning session started, they had handed around leaflets clamoring for a march across Jordan. (One of their insignia mounts a menorah rampant athwart a map of old Palestine. They had distributed pamphlets marked with it a few weeks ago at the Hotel Delmonico in New York, during a meeting of the American Friends of the Middle East!) Yosef Churba, aged twenty-one, of Brooklyn College and a Borough Park yeshiva, said: "Why do they waste a whole morning on economics? It's evading the issue! This conference was called to holler gevalt about military policy, wasn't it? Let them get on with it . . . ."
The conference schedule called for a lunch in the Blue Room to be addressed by Ambassador Abba Eban. Then, at two-thirty, the session was to be resumed in the Terrace Room to hear Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Jernagan and ask questions. This was to be a high point of the weekend in terms of a frank exchange between the State Department and American Jews. As things developed, however, the thing barely got off the ground, and then crashed with a p-f-f-t that may reverberate for a long time to come.
The material cause of the disaster was an epidemic of oratory. When organized Jews get together there must be a dais for all their leaders, and a dais inevitably inspires speeches. Before Ambassador Eban could make the one speech that was needed, three full-dress speeches had already been delivered—by three rabbis, Israel Goldstein of the American Jewish Congress, Maurice N. Eisendrath of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Philip Bernstein of the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs.
Each was a good speech, eloquent and solemn. The solemnity was somewhat marred by a strange preoccupation with the luncheon menu. It had been a dismal salmon plate, to meet the requirements of Orthodoxy. Conservative Rabbi Goldstein, seeking an opening gambit as any speaker will, noted that this meeting over which he had been invited to preside was the only one with a meal—"presumably to make my remarks palatable . . . ." This impelled Reform Rabbi Eisendrath, when his turn came, to call Goldstein to order for having "had the temerity to call this sumptuous repast palatable," and to pursue this profound theme for several minutes. This in turn moved Dr. Bernstein to discourse at some length on lox, shrimp, bagels, and cream cheese. (Mr. Jernagan, meanwhile, had arrived early in Rabbi Eisendrath's speech, on time—and been given a seat at the back of the hall.)
Aside from that, all three rabbis said in effect the same thing: that this great representative assemblage of American Jewry gave the lie to the insignificant number of Jews who denied and slandered Israel; that American citizens bad the inalienable right to protest and criticism; that it was in the highest American interest for the State Department to redress its policy toward a sister democracy. The time consumed by all this made a shambles of the schedule, and of Jernagan's crucially important part in the program.
Ambassador Eban had one of his great moments. Mr. Eban is always a master of style and structure, but that day he was really memorable. He spoke of the links between American Jewry and Israel which "shine forth brightly burnished in this room." In seven short years we had moved from a world where the existence of Israel was inconceivable to an era in which "a world without Israel is inconceivable." He advised American Jewry not to be overly dejected in Israel's hour of danger, and he illuminated the many achievements of his country, and the ties binding to it all the earth except the territories next to it. Then, with diplomatic grace but formidable argument, he spoke of Israel's grievances against the Arab world, and her isolation, and her concern over policies jeopardizing her security. He was in every way superb and, as often before, he saved the day.
But not quite. Things had already gone too far. Through no fault of Mr. Eban's, it was 4 P. M. when he concluded. A Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, scheduled to be heard at 2:30, still sat obscurely at a rear table. It was decided not to move to the Terrace Room, and not to have questions. Mr. Jernagan was brought to the dais unnoticed. He was required to sit there through a reading of CIO and AFL denunciations of the American government's behavior. Then he was perfunctorily introduced. All this while people were streaming out of the room, presumably to catch planes and trains. Half the hall was empty when he rose to speak.
A tall man with a small voice, he could not be heard because nobody had thought of adjusting the microphone. There came cries of "louder." The microphone was inched up, and Jernagan hunched down, bending over a text that had been measured, certified, and cleared by half the State Department. It was a competent survey of the position from the administration's point of view. (It won the lead in the next day's New York Times account of the meeting.) But, except for conceding that Israel's pro-Westernism and military capacity made it "seem highly logical that Israel should be incorporated in a collective defense arrangement at an early date"—logical but "out of the question" because of Arab-Israel relations—Mr. Jernagan's speech betrayed no sign of adjustment to the spirit and temper of his audience.
Nor did he feel able to exercise the authority used the previous day by Assistant Secretary Allen, his chief, and omit points contested by the previous speaker. Eban had demolished the Arab argument that Israel threatened her neighbors, and the Washington argument that her neighbors had no hostile designs. But Jernagan stuck to his text like a drowning man. When he read that "Israel's neighbors are themselves afraid of aggression on the part of Israel," there were groans. When he read, "I do not see evidence of any intent on the part of her neighbors to attack Israel," there were hisses. There were hisses again, with a splatter of applause, as he faded to a conclusion.
Whatever the provocation, this seemed an extraordinary way to achieve one of the Conference's prime purposes, which was to gain the respect and attention, if not the good will, of the State Department. Unescorted, almost ignored, Mr. Jernagan was allowed to make his solitary way out of the hall and lose himself in the crowd. A few hours later, he quit Washington for a week's leave.
Other speeches followed, brief ones, by participating organizations not yet heard from. "I am sorry that Mr. Jernagan has left," declared Commander Joseph S. Barr, of the Jewish War Veterans. "When I heard him say that Israel does not face a threat of attack, some in the audience could barely stay in their seats. I was one of them . . . ." Then came the moving of the resolution: for American effort toward direct Israel-Arab negotiations; suspension of arms shipments in the absence of peace; inclusion of Israel in any regional defense system; continued economic assistance to Israel and the Arabs for better living standards; refugee settlement; and the strengthening of democratic institutions. It was carried unanimously.
Nahum Goldmann then spoke for eighteen more minutes. He summed up the Conference's achievements. He was not disappointed by the failure of the State Department representatives to go away "with a change of mind." It had been obvious, he declared, that no top official could commit himself at this juncture, when the entire policy was being reappraised. But Assistant Secretary Allen had at least given the first public intimation that such a reappraisal was under way. (Ten days after the Conference, Secretary Dulles, reaffirming that the Department was engaged in a reconsideration of the Arab-Israel security problem, indicated that incidents like the Gaza outbreak were delaying a decision.) "It was more important for us to say what we had to say to the administration than to listen to what they had to say to us," Dr. Goldmann went on. Great encouragement had been given to Israel "from her only reliable ally in the long run—the Jewish people." The large majority of American Jewry had given a "new demonstration of unity." The administration could no longer pretend that it did not know how American Jewry felt: "We have conveyed our position in an unmistakable, formal, and solemn way." He urged the delegates to go home "strengthened by this unprecedented conference . . . ."
Unprecedented it certainly was, and—who knows?—perhaps ultimately effective. But hardly formal and solemn, or even well-mannered. I heard one fervent Zionist exclaim, "Is this intelligent public relations? Is this sober political action? Most of America's top Jewish leaders were here. It could have been an impressive demonstration. Why did it have to be so crude? Why didn't we bring in some Senators and Congressmen? Why weren't the speeches short? Why was Jernagan, the representative of the government of the United States after all, practically insulted? And why weren't he and Allen allowed at least to speak first? This way, it was impossible for them to say anything . . . ."
Only future events will reveal whether the steamroller is a proper instrument for the achievement of reason and influence, and whether the Conference's clearly high objectives were truly supported by its method and behavior. A reporter can only record the fact that, on a brief visit of inquiry to the Department of State two days later, no glow of enthusiasm over the Conference was discernible. . . .


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TANZANIA Revenue Authority (TRA) Commissioner General (CG) has appealed against nonpayment of 200 million US dollars (over 320bn/-) in income tax and stamp duty by a Russian uranium mining company, JSC Atomredmetzoloto (ARMZ).
He is challenging a Tax Revenue Appeals Tribunal verdict of December 18, last year, in which the Vice-Chairman, Mr Hussein Mataka and two other members found for the foreign company on the matter.
The TRA chief has advanced three grounds to support his appeal in question. "It is proposed to ask the court to allow this appeal, i.e., the decision of the Tax Revenue Appeals Tribunal and that of the Tax Revenue Appeals Board be reversed," read the appeal documents in part which were filed in court last week.
It is alleged that sometime towards the end of the year 2010, ARMZ entered into a scheme arrangement to purchase shares from shareholders of a company known as Mantra Resources Limited, trading on the Australian Stock Exchange.
Mantra Resources Limited has shares in Mantra Tanzania Limited.
Later on in March 2012, ARMZ sold and transferred 13.19 per cent of the shares in Mantra Resources Limited to Uranium One, which is a company incorporated in Canada.
Following these transactions, TRA raised and issued the ARMZ with an income tax liability claiming 196,000,000 US dollars.
Such amount was 20 per cent of the total share sale price between ARMZ and Mantra Resources Limited, payable in terms of the Income Tax Act and one per cent of the transaction valued at 9.8 million US dollars being stamp duty allegedly chargeable in accordance with the Stamp Duty Act.
J.S.C. Atomredmetzoloto resisted the raised demands and appealed to the Tax Revenue Appeals Board on grounds that it was a non-citizen company, had no presence in Tanzania and hence, any decision by TRA was ultra vires.
It also challenged TRA's legality to make such demands. In rebuttal, TRA alleged that though the transaction was carried out outside the country, ARMZ had the ultimate intention of acquiring interest in the Mkuju River Project located in Ruvuma Region and acquisition and realisation of shares in the project amounted to getting income from a source within Tanzania.
Furthermore, TRA stated that since the share sale transaction between ARMZ and Mantra Resources Limited led to the acquisition of interest in the Mkuju River Project and resulted in the conveyance of the said project, ARMZ was liable to stamp duty or conveyance under the Stamp Duty Act.


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