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DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, MAY 2, 1947
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U.S. Dooms Jewish Plea for
Arabs Fail
in Demand
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What Are You Going to Do With Us?
Russia Deserts
Them in the Vote
Zionist Speaker
DANIEL FRISCH, chairman of
the administrative council of
ZOA, will address a Zionist mass
meeting at 8:30 p.m. Monday
in Shaarey Zedek.
oice in UN Session
Dr. Silver to Address
Opening Dinner for
Workers at Statler
Detroit's Jewish community will launch a drive of his-
toric significance when workers from every walk of life and
representing more than 100 trades and professions join for
the opening dinner meeting of the 1917 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, at 6:30 p. m. Tuesday, in the Grand Ballroom of
the Hotel Statler.
UNITED NATIONS
HALL, Flushing, N. Y.—
(Special)—Jewish pleas to be
heard in the United Nations
General Assembly on Pales-
tine, which opened here Mon-
day, appeared doomed when
the United States came out
firmly against the request.
This opposition was in no way
construed as hostility to the Jew-
ish viewpoint since it was based
purely on the argument that the
matter of representation for the
Jewish Agency should be taken
up in the regular Assembly ses-
sion in September for the sake of
speed and protocol.
PLEDGE FOR FUTURE
"The Jews must still get their
day in court" before the UN con-
chides its attempt to solve the
Palestine issue, Herschel V. John-
son, U. S. deputy delegate, told
the steering committee consider-
ing the appeal of the Agency and
the Bergsonite Hebrew Committee
for National Liberation for repre-
sentation.
The Arab states were defeated
in their attempt to force an im-
mediate showdown on the Pales-
tine problem. Even Russia, which
observers had predicted would
back the Arabs, refrained from
voting when the Arab demand for
a full-dress debate on the entire
Palestine problem was beaten by
the steering committee, 8 to 1.
ARAB ARGUMENT
The burden of Arab arguments
for an immediate survey of the
problem was that-there is no jus-
tice in trying to solve the Jewish
question "at the expense". of the
Arab world and there is no justice
or sense in delaying further an
honest attempt at a just solution
of the Palestine problem.
Dr. J. Winiewicz, Polish ambas-
dor to the U. S. replied to the
.Arab argument by pointing out
that the Arab demand for termi-
nation of the British mandate
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Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, honored
in the nation for his spiritual and
communal leadership, will address
the opening of the "Campaign of
Sacrifice," bringing to the meet-
ing the inspiration which for many
years in the past, has helped to
spur Detroit Jews to noble
achievements in charitable endea-
vors.
Presiding will be Fred M. Butzel,
who heads a corps of campaign
workers who have been organizing
along trade and professional lines
in preparation for the general
solicitation.
Your contribution to the 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign for $5,335,000,
which starts Tuesday, will help homeless orphanik like these whose
parents were among the 6,000,000 Jews killed by Nazis.
Butchers Join
Zionists Call
Mass Meeting Council to Sift
Frisch Chief Speaker Price Protests
at Assembly Monday
Daniel Frisch of New York,
chairman of the administrative
council of the ZOA, and two la-
bor chieftains will address a
Zionist mass meeting at 8:30 p.m.
Monday called to formulate pub-
lic opinion on the Palestine ques-
tion up before the UN. The meet-
ing will be held in the Shaarey
Zedek.
Frank X. Martel, head of the
American Federation of Labor
here, and R. J. Thomas, vice pres-
ident of the UAW-CIO, will speak.
MOYNIHAN TO PRESIDE
Judge Joseph A. Moynihan of
Circuit Court will preside. He will
be introduced by Benjamin Lai-
kin, president of he Detroit Zion-
ist Council.
In comformity wtih the national
program of the Zionist Emergency
Council, the following resolutions
will be submitted for adoption:
BE IT RESOLVED, that the
United States Government, in ac-
cordance with the Anglo-American
Convention of 1924, and because
it has always taken a sympathetic
interest In Jewish hopes for Pal-
estine, as expressed by every pres-
ident since Woodrow Wilson, and
as particularly expressed by Pres-
ident Truman and Congress re-
cently, urging an open-door policy
for Jewish immigration to Pales-
tine and the abrogation of laws
restricting the fight of Jews to
buy land in Palestine, Instruct its
delegates to the United Nations
special session to assume an ac-
tive role to insure the speedy and
equitable solution of the Palestine
problem in conformity with the
position consistently taken by our
Government in the past and at the
present time.
WANT VOICE FOR JEWS
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED,
that the United States Govern-
ment insist that the Jewish Peo-
ple, as the party most directly
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After months of study of charg-
es of exorbitant kosher meat
prices in Detroit, the Jewish Com-
munity Council, in conjunction
with the three agencies concerned,
has formed a special committee
to handle consumers' complaints:
The committee will operate as
part of the Council's internal re-
lations committee headed by Rab-
bi B. Benedict Glazer. Constituent
groups in addition to the Council
are the Rabbinical Council, the
Kosher Butchers Association and
the wholesale meat dealers.
Consumers are invited to pre-
sent their complaints in writing
or by telephone to the Jewish
Community Council, 803 Washing-
ton Blvd. Bldg., Detroit 26. The
telephone is CH. 1657.
While no reductions in prices
have been promised, it was inti-
mated that the self-discipline im-
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MARK OF MATURITY
"The 1947 drive is one of the
largest humanitarian efforts ever
to be undertaken by voluntary re-
lief organizations," Butzel said,
"and in the measure we fulfill
our goal of $5,335,000 we will not
only provide desperately needed
funds for relief and rehabilitation
overseas, but we will also indi-
cate the depth of our maturity,
understanding and idealism as a
community.
"In this campaign, we of 'De-
troit will have an opportunity to
demonstrate our understanding of
our identification with those of
our people who suffer in concen-
tration camps, settle in Palestine,
or reach the United States.
LOCAL AGENCIES AIDED
"Not to be minimized is the
importance of our national and
local agencies also included in the
campaign which are vital to the
health, welfare, culture and edu-
cation of American Jewry."
An outstanding leader in the
rabbinate, Dr. Silver, of the Tern-
pie of Cleveland and president of
the Central Conference of Amer-
ican Rabbis, has had a distin-
guished career in communal acti-
vities, having served as chairman
of the Welfare Fund Campaign in
Cleveland.
During the war years, as na-
tional chairman of the United
Jewish Appeal, he led American
Jews to new high levels in giving
for charity.
Film Stars in Broadcast for UJA
Sylvia Sidney and Edward G. Robinson will appear In a special nation-
wide broadcast from 9:30 to 10 p.m. Tuesday over WXYZ in behalf of
the $170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal. John Garfield and Paul Munl
will join them in the program. "Barbed-Wire Sky," the documentary
drama which Ronald MacDougall, one of the outstanding writer-
producers at Warner Brothers Studios, has written for the broadcast,
will tell the story of an eight-year-old girl who was born and "raised"
in a concentration camp.
Jewish Fight
Rouses World,
Says Wallace
PARIS (WNS)—Declaring that
though he deplored acts of vio-
lence, he felt the Jewish resist-
ance movement in Palestine was
necessary, Henry A. Wallace, for-
mer vice-president of the United
States, pointed out at a press
conference that only by what
amounts "to a resistance move-
ment can Jews arouse the con-
science of the world."
Wallace expressed the hope that
Britain would take heed of the
obligation it had assumed in the
Balfour Declaration and work to-
ward the implementing of the
promises it had made.
"I sympothize with Britain,
"Wallace said, "and I deplore ter-
rorism. I have never believed in
force of arms or force of money,
but we do have to recognize facts.
"I think it has been necessary
for the Jews to conduct what
amounts to a resistance movement
of their own to arouse the con-
science of the world.
"I hope that this terrorism will
now cease and that the British
people will carry out the original
Balfour Declaration."
Wallace reiterated his advocacy
that the United States open Its
doors to displaced persons of
Eastern Europe before urging
other nations to do so. He said
he recognized, however, that this
would not solve the Palestine
problem. "At least seven-eighths
of the Jewish people of Europe
want to go to Palestine," he said.
Council to Name
List of Nominees
Chief business in the delegates'
meeting of the Jewish Community
Council Wednesday in the Brown
Memorial Chapel of Temple Beth
El will be the nomination of of-
ficers and 12 members to the ex-
ecutive committee, Aaron Droock,
president, announced.
A nominating committee under
the chairmanship of James I. Ell-
mann is preparing a slate of
names, in accordance with the
Council constitution, and will pre-
sent it at the meeting. Delegates
may add to the list by nomination
from the floor.
When nominations are com-
pleted, ballots will be prepared
and brought to the June delegates'
meeting at which the election will
take place. Droock urges all Coun-
cil delegates to attend Wednes-
day's meeting.
. 50 YEARS FOR TORWARD' .
NEW YORK (WNS)—A three
month celebration, marking the
50th anniversary of the founding
of the Jewish Daily Forward,
largest Yiddish daily newspaper
in the world, was officially begun
here this week.
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