Mrs. Schenk to Seek Administration’s Assurance of Security for Israel

Mrs. Max Schenk, national president of Hadassah, said today that Israel was returning to the Jarring peace talks with trepidation, and that she would try to obtain maximum assurances of Israeli security from the Nixon administration. Addressing a meeting of Hadassah’s Greater Washington Chapter at Congregation Ohr Kodesh here, Mrs. Schenk said a complete rollback of Egyptian missiles was not achievable, because the United States was not insisting on it. Therefore, she continued, Israel in the interest of peace will concentrate on continuing the cease-fire and avoiding a renewal of the shooting war. The Hadassah leader urged her listeners not to be swayed by the “secular state” arguments of the Palestinians. “What they really want,” she said, “Is their own state and the liquidation of Israel.”