Several Faculty Members Ask Increased Support for Israel

Five Harvard faculty members have called for worldwide support for Israel and a negotiated settlement of the war in the Middle East in a statement signed in Venice, Italy at a conference of the International Committee on the University Emergency.

The statement was drafted Monday and Tuesday by Nathan Glazer, professor of Education and Social Structure, Seymour Martin Lipset, professor of Government and Sociology, and professor Edward Shils of the University of Chicago.

Other Faculty members that signed the statement were professors Frank Freidel and Franklin Ford of the History Department and Radcliffe President Horner. The majority of the Statement's signers are faculty members of European universities.

Primarily aimed at European countries, the statement notes a present superiority of Arab forces over Israel and calls for relief of Israel's isolated situation.

The statement expresses "regret that some of our governments have been complacent or worse in the face of Arab aggression and that most have remained passive while the Soviet Union has taken immediate action to replace Egyptian and Syrian losses of equipment and munitions."

Separate Statement

In a separate statement published in yesterday's New York Times, three more Harvard faculty members called for continued United States support for Israel and continued peace negotiations. Daniel Bell, professor of Sociology, Martin Peretz, Master of South House, and Michael Walzer, professor of Government signed the policy statement of the National Executive Committee of the American Professors for Peace in the Middle East.

"The language of the statement reflects our sense of the situation as of Sunday night," Glazer said in an interview yesterday. Glazer said that while Israel's situation has been eased somewhat by the public support of the United States, many European countries are still witholding public support for Israel due to threats of Arab countries to reduce oil shipments.

"An imposed settlement is the only possible settlement" to the war and a military victory for either side would be harmful to the cause of world peace. Glazer said.