Eban Outlines Israel’s Policies at U.N. in Address at Brandeis University

Aubrey S. Eban, permanent Israeli representative to the United Nations, declared at the first convocation of Brandeis University here yesterday that Israel’s policy within the U.N. will be based upon democratic principle, international brotherhood and regional responsibility.” Israel can never be neutral between reaction and progress, between the lingering ghosts of Nazism and the reviving spirit of democratic government, he said.

“By regional responsibility I mean a sense of Israel’s identity with the genuine interests of the Near East. We look with sympathetic aversion upon the illiteracy, ignorance, endemic disease and primary poverty which ravage and degrade the somber life of the common man in the countries of the Arab East. Whenever we see an impulse for peace and liberation awakening amongst our neighbors, Israel will be identified with that impulse,” Mr. Eban declared.

Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, acting U.N. Palestine mediator, told the 2,000 guests attending the convocation exercises that “it would be a serious mistake to exaggerate the significance of the Palestine armistice agreements.” Touching on the objectives of the U.N. Charter, Dr. Bunche declared: “The Charter reinforces and gives new inspiration to the heroic struggles of racial and religious minorities as, for example, the Negroes and Jews of America, to free themselves of unjust disabilities which they suffer only because of race or creed.”

Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, president of Brandeis, reviewed the progress of the institution’s various departments during the past year. “Brandeis University, as the nation’s first and only Jewish-inspired, non-sectarian institution of higher learning, has dedicated itself to the task of meeting this responsibility, fully cognizant of the role it is destined to play,” he assorted.

George Alpert, president of the Board of Trustees, declared: “A Jewish sponsored, non-sectarian institution of higher learning has emerged within this land of great opportunity. It is our hope that history may record Brandeis University as a corporate contribution of the American Jewish community to the educational wealth of our nation, a token repayment to a land where the Jew, by and large, has found security and opportunity,”