$6,200,000 Goal Set by Allied Jewish Campaign

Aronsson
Is General
Chairman

..TJ ELI-La-L-6 Je.tuz4h.

IRREI NIECLE

Vol. 50, No. 10

Top leaders of the Allied Jew-
ish Campaign assumed their
posts this week as a quota of
$6,200,000 was announced for
1948.
Maurice Aronsson, who last
year led the pre-campaign divi-
sion, will head the over-all cam-

war:*

Friday, March 26, 1948

THIRD OF A CENTURY

OF SERVICE TO

DETROIT JEWRY

10c a Copy $3 Per Year

Zion .Stdte to Rise May 1.6
V. S. Jews
Trustee

Honored as 'Woman of the Year'

Mobilize
for Fight

Proposal
Spurned

NEW YORK (WNS)—The
effect of America's proposal
of a UN trusteeship over Pal-
estine will be to place the
American government in a

JERUSALEM (Special) —
The Jewish National Council
and the Jewish Agency of-
ficially rejected a trusteeship
plan and agreed flatly to set
up a Jewish government on

position of fighting the Jews in
Palestine, Dr. Abba Hillel Sil-
ver, chaii'man of the American
section of the Jewish Agency,
told the ZOA administrative
MAURICE ARONSSON
council.
• • •
American
of
Mobilization
paign organization, succeeding Jewry to fight the Truman be-
Detroit Jewry's "elder states- trayal of the UN decision was
man," Fred M. Butzel, who was announced by the Zionist Emer-
named honorary chairman.
gency Council.
GIVE $1,500,000
BACKING CERTAIN
Responding to an appeal by
Zionist leaders, awaiting word
Rabbi Philip Bernstein of Ro- on the official proclamation of
chester, N. Y., former adviser to the Jewish State, said that such
Gens. McNarney and Clay in a State , would "of course re-
Germany, Detroiters who attend- ceive the support of the Jews
ed the advance gifts meeting of America."
Wednesday night contributed a
As part of the national mobili-
record $1,500,000. .
zation, the Jewish War Veterans
Of this figure, $145,000 was the will hold a parade and protest
gift of members of the Women's demonstration in New York on•
Division.
Sunday, April 4.
Rabbi Bernstein spoke in place
A day of prayer will be ob-
of Gov. Her')ert Lehman who served on Thursday, April 8 in
was ill and t.,..1d not attend.
all Synagogues at the call of
"We are involved in a life and the orthodox Rabbinate, Miz-
death struggle not only for the rachi, Young Israel and other
Jews of Europe, but also here in groups.
the United States," Rabbi Bern-
LABOR PROPOSAL
stein told his audience,
Four Labor Zionist organiza-
"We can have no security here
tions in a joint statement urged
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the nations which voted for par-
tition in the UN to grant im-
mediate recognition to the Jew-
ish State.
They were the Labor Zionist
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Groups Keep Up
Attacks on Toy

Community Council
Exoneration Ignored

•

Although the Jewish Com-
munity Council has cleared Po-
lice Commissioner Harry S.
Toy _ of charges of anti-Semit-
ism, the incident has not been
allowed to die.
The Detroit Section of the
American Jewish Congress, over
the objection of- some of its
top leaders, distributed a leaflet
last week charging Toy with a
"direct incitement to anti-
Semitism" in his remarks on
the alleged entry of Commu-
nists into the United States
while posing as Rabbis.
WORDS MISINTERPRETED
The Community Council, after
a thorough study of the tran-
script of Toy's statements on a
radio program, found that Toy
had not made the bigoted re-
marks attributed to him but
rather, had stated clearly that
the Communists were not Rab-
bis. or Jewish.
The Progressive Party of
Michigan, which is backing
Henry A. Wallace for Presi-
dent, assailett Toy "for spread-
ing anti-Semitism and fostering
a war scare," at a protest meet-
ing Tuesday night at the Dan-
ish Brotherhood Hall. There
were no representatives of the
Jewish community at the meet-
ing.

Kw- - —
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt was honored as "Woman of the Year"
by the National Council of Jewish Women at a banquet last
week in New York City. Left to right are, Judge Samuel I.
Rosenman, special counsel to the late President Roosevelt;
Mrs. Roosevelt; Mrs. Joseph M. Welt of Detroit, president
of the council, and Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas. •

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Truman Reversal
Hit in Congress

-.

Gen. Marshall Calls
Policy Temporary

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
sharp debate broke out in both
houses of Congress as a number
of senators and representatives
attacked the American reversal
on Palestine partition and espou-
sal of a plan for a UN trustee-
ship.
Rep. Leo Isaacson, American
Labor Party of New York, de-
manded that the United States
recognize the de facto Jewish
state in Palestine and Rep. Jacob
K. Javits of New York introduc-
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Shertok Address to Launch
'48 Allied Jewish Campaign

To help launch the $6,200,000 meeting of the drive, at 8:30
Allied Jewish Campaign, Moshe p.m., Tuesday, at the Hotel Stot-
Shertok, foreign secretary-desig- ler.
Shertok has served as head
nate of the Jewish Provisional
of the political department of
the Jewish Agency for 14 years.
A Palesting pioneer, he recent-
ly gained world-wide notice for
his eloquent pleas for a Jewish
State before the United Nations.

LED 1947 CAMPAIGN

One of Boston's most distin-
guished business aed philan-
thropic leaders, Gilman recently
returned from a six-week study
of conditions in Europe and Pal-
estine. As head of the Boston
drive he led his city over the
top in a $9,000,000 campaign last
year.
Two orthodox leaders will be
the principal speakers at the
campaign mass meeting of con-
gregations and auxiliaries and of
other Yiddish speaking organi-
zations, at 8 p.m., Sunday, in
MOSIIE SI1ERTOK
Central High School auditorium.
Rabbi Max Kirshblum, na-
• • •
tional executive vice-president
Council of Palestine, and Her- of Mizrachi, and Mrs. Toya San-
man Gilman, chairman of the hedrai of Palestine, president of
Boston Combined Jewish Ap- the Women's Council of Hapoel

peal, will speak at the opening Hamizrachi, will speak.

WJR Balks
After Offer to
Back Survey

Station WJR has not con-
firmed its earlier acceptance of
an offer to pay half of the ex-
penses of a survey of its re-
cent news broadcasts for evi-
dence of prejudice, Oscar Co-
hen, executive director of the
Jewish Community Council, has
revealed.
Cohen also said that he had
heard from G. A. Richards, WJR
president, who has been accused
of deliberately ordering the
slanting of his Los Angeles
station's news broadcasts in a
manner prejudicial to Jews.
In answer to a request for a
statement, Richards replied only
that it would shortly be forth-
coming, Cohen said.
Meantime, Richards is in
plenty of hot water nationally.
In a petition filed with the
Federal Communications Com-
mission, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise,
president of the American Jew-
ish Congress has asked for a
revocation of the license of the
Los Angeles station, KMPC, if
the charges against Richards are
proved.
Americans for Democratic Ac-
tion held a mass meeting March
18 in Hollywood's Masonic Tem-
ple to protest Richards' actions.

May 16, , the day after the Brit-
ish mandate ends.
The two groups, representing
the Jews of Palestine and world
Jewry, made it clear in a state-
ment that they would follow
the original UN General Assem-
bly decision for the division of
Palestine. This meant that the
Jews had abandoned any plan
of proclaiming a State at once
or of asserting sovereignty over
all Palestine as demanded by
the Revisionists.
LEADERS TO CONVENE
Both groups will continue to
meet in Tel Aviv. The Zionist
actions committee will meet
there for an emergency, confer-
ence on April 4.
The, House of Commons in
London, meanW'h111,--reaffirmed
Britain's decision to quit Pales-
tine by May 15. Speaking in
the House, Foreign Secretary
Bevin said: "If other people
have got Palestine into a mud-
dle, why should the British
government be blamed? The
change in American policy can-
not possibly affect our plans to
leave."

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....

The Manchester Guardian, in
an editorial on the American
reversal said that the decision
"suggests a levity of judgment
and infirmity of purpose which
do little credit to the greatest
power in the world. . .. Now
that both the British and U.S.
governments have come to grief
over Palestine, is it too much
to ask that they should pocket
their pride and work together
to find some way out of the
mess?"
In answer to an Arab threat
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Hailed on Birthday

$75,000 Goal Set
by Junior Division

The Junior Division of the Al-
lied Jewish Campaign has set a
quota of $75,000, Leonard Baruch
and Barbara Greenberg, chair-
men, announced.
The division already has rais-
ed more than a third of this
sum through pre-campaign solici-
tation and special gifts, they said.
Active work in the group's
drive will begin April 4, when
chairmen meet with their sepa-

rate teams at the Jewish Center.

FORMER

GOV. HERBERT

LEIIMAN, American elder

statesman and leader of world
Jewry, will celebrate his 10t6
birthday, Sunday, amid the
acclaim of the nation.