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Bevin Softens, Maps Recognition
Gigantic
Goal Set
by UJA
Symbol of Protection
(Special to the Jewish Chronicle)
LONDON—Reversing himself unexpectedly in ' the face
of bitter criticism over his conduct of the Israeli situation,
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin announced that Britain
would release 11,000 Jews held on Cyprus and permit them
to go to Israel. They include 7,000 of military age.
ATLANTIC CITY (WNS)
A goal of $250,000,000 as
the "irreducible minimum"
required in 1949 for mass set-
tlement ha Israel, emigration
and rehabilitation in Europe
and North Africa and refugee
aid in the United States was
net by the United Jewish Ap-
peal.
Aubrey S. Eban, Israeli UN
representative, told the UJA
conference that if it were not
for the economic aid provided
o Israel by American Jewry it
might have been necessary for
Israel to seek "a premature and
unjust peace."
A successful United Jewish
Appeal campaign in 1949, he
said, "would demonstrate to the
entire democratic world the
invincible solidarity of the
Jewish people in behalf of the
homeless Jews of Europe and in
behalf of the Jewish people in
Israel."
RELIES ON U. S.
Reverting to the Palestine
situation, the youthful Israeli
statesman said that Israel en-
tered the armistice negotiations
confident of U. S. resistance to
any maneuver threatening its
existence. His few days in
Washington and London, he
said, had made it "abundantly
plain to me that the assistance
of the U. S. 'government and
people is not available for any
project which threatens the ex-
istence of Israel."
Had Britain and her Arab al-
lies dedicated themselveS oven
"for a single hour" to the prin-
ciple of direct Israeli-Arab
peace negotiations, he went on,
''we should have reached this
day without the grim legacy of
slaughter, bereavement, banish-
ment, bitterness and internation-
al disturbances."
ARABS CHOOSE WAR
The choice of war, he said,
was made by thes Arab states.
He referred to the "construc-
tive efforts of the United States
government in confronting all
parties with' their peace-making
obligations" and simultaneously
disclosed that "at the first
available opportunity my gov-
ernment must request the at-
tention of the Security Council
o the fact that the government
of the United Kingdom is re-
pudiating its obligations under
the truce.'
Britain to Free
11,000 on Cyprus
Israeli Outlines
Future of Negev
Giant Irrigation
Scheme Projected
`New Palestine Photo
Haifa children on their way to school stop to study the Bag
of the Israeli marines on a jeep.
Zionists Mobilizing
in Crisis Over Israel
In response to a plea from Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, the Michigan
Zionist Region has called a
Membership Mobilization Confer-
ence in Detroit on Monday eve-
ning, Jan. 31 at the Center. Her.
schel Auerbach, national mem-
bership director, will speak.
Dr. Silver, whose wire was in
reference to the nationwide ef-
fort of the ZOA to counteract the
latest British strategy to destroy
Israel, said: "I am surprised that
so many intelligent Jews and
Zionists fail to understand that
this very year, 1949, and per-
haps also next year, will be one
of the most critical years in the
history Of our movement politic-
ally, not to speak of economically,
and that we must remain mobil-
ized with the greatest force of
numbers and fully alerted be-
cause it is the last battle, the de-
cisive battle."
WARNS LEADERS
Cautioning leaders of the move-
ment against apathy in their ef-
forts to increase the ranks, the
veteran Zionist leader urged
them to provide the organization
with the greatest number of mem-
bers. He added: "Israel will re-
quire Zionist support in Amer-
ica for generations to come — I
say Zionist support, not merely
Jewish support."
Rabbi Leon Fram has been ap-
pointed chairman of the confer-
ence. He will conduct the oral
and visual presentation of ZOA
activities.
The conference will also be at-
tended by representatives of all
Michigan Zionist districts.
MEMBER DRIVE DUE
The Detroit district will under-
take a membership campaign on
Sunday, Jan. 30. Members of the
Over $75,000 has been raised established chapters in the city,
in Detroit Histadrut's campaign including Haifa, Chapter I, Nor-
for $375,000, William Thomson, dau and Herzl, will solicit n(ew
financial secretary, told 250
workers and delegates at a rally.
The session was addressed by
Capt. Abraham Arest, leader of
Jerusalem's defenses.
"If not for Histadrut's heroic
Beth Yehudah Day School an-
work in stocking Jerusalem with nounces that half-yearly gradua-
vital supplies, the city would tion exercises will take place
have fallen," he declared.
Sunday afternoon, Jan. 30. On
campaign that occasion there will alio be
Harry
Schumer,
chairman, cautioned workers that held the winter membership
We goal would not be reached meeting of the institution. Mayor
unless hundreds of new contribu- Van Antwerp will be principal
speaker.
tions were obtained.
His tadrut Drive
at $75,000 Mark
Mayor to Address
Yeshivah Event
members during the day after
meeting at the Rose Sittig Cohen
Auditorium at 10 a.m.
HERSCHEL AUERBACH
• • •
The conference will come in
the midst of a two-month mem-
bership campaign in the Mich-
igan region. A successful mem-
bership drive was conducted in
the Grand Rapids district by
David Cohodes, membership
chairman, Saul Gottlieb, regional
director, said.
ATLANTIC CITY. (WNS) . —
Dr. Bernard Joseph, military
governor of Jerusalem, disclosed
to the UJA conference that the
Israeli government was planning
to launch a vast irrigation pro-
ject in the Negev at an esti-
mated cost of $200,000,000. The
project, he said, would make it
possible for 300,000 Jewish re-
fugees to settle in the southern
desert area.
Revealing that the entire Ne-
gev had been cleared of Egyp-
tian troops, except those pock..
eted at Faluja and in a steadily
diminishing strip at Gaza, Dr.
Joseph said that the problem
was to make the Negev area "a
fertile, productive land, where
hundreds of thousands can be
resettled."
AWAIT SETTLEMENT
He told the 1,200 delegates
that establishment of many new
settlements in that area has al-
ready been blueprinted and that
construction will begin as soon
as the necessary funds can be
made available.
"The Jews of America will
determine whether this battle
will be won," he declared, add-
ing that it was up to American
Jewry to wiry the battle of the
"plough and the water pipe."
WON'T QUIT HOLY CITY
At the same time he asserted
that the Jews will never sur-
render the New City of Jerusa-
lem to an international or any
other type of trusteeship. He
said it was unrealistic to talk
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6 Detroiters Among &bonen
Who Set Up Colony in Galilee
TEL AVIV (Special)—In exotic-
ally-named Faradiya, the first
all American collective settle-
ment in Israel was established
last week. Nearly 100 American
Jewish boys and girls, including
six Detroiters. members of Ha-
bonim, Labor Zionist Youth, have
realized a dream of many years.
The young Detroiters are
Ralph and Jean Levy, Shlomo
and Tzyvia Sinclair, Chaim Zel-
din and Meyer Zeldis,
• • •
•
LAIR OF TERRORISTS
A FEW SHORT months ago
this area of Galilee—Meron, the
grave of Shimon Bar Yochai;
Majbal Krum, the center of bri-
gands in the area; and Faradiya
itself were the strong points of
Kaukji terrorist armies. Situat-
ed in the mountain fastnesses of
the Gatti just south of the Leba-
non border on the winding
mountain roads before Safed and
Acre, Faradiya lies in one of the
most beautiful areas of Israel.
Below in the distance stretches
the blue expanse of the sea of
Galilee. All around the hills are
green with olive trees, scrub
oaks and lofty cedar pines.
Driving from Safed one comes
upon Faradiya suddenly like an
oasis among the rocks. The road
winds and twists up and up, past
bare stony crags, sudden wadis,
through which fierce streams now
course which are bone dry nine
months of the year. The road
bends suddenly and ahead is the
green of Faradiya.
• • •
FACE MUCH, WORK
FLAT LAND is scarce in the
immediate vicinity. There will
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In addition, the foreign secre-
tary, pressed by Winston
Churchill, intimated that he was
seriously studying recognition
of Israel. Reliable sources have
been saying that a _majority Or
the cabinet indorses such a
move.
JEWS GRATIFIED
This sudden conciliatoly atti-
tude of Bevin was gratifying to
Jewish leaders. It was expected
to presage a new Bevin policy
with regard to the Jewish State
and was attributed to the fact
that the foreign secretary was
being strongly rebuked on all
sides for his uncompromising
and sulky attitude and its threat
to future relations between .the
two countries.
In New York, Aubrey Eban,
Israeli representative at the
UN, declared that "the decision
of the United Kingdom to re-
lease the 11,000 Jewish refugees
held on the island of Cyprus is
a signicant contribution toward
the creation of a better atmos-
phere" in the Palestine situa-
tion.
ZIONISTS CONVENE
Eban addressed a conference
oC leaders from 80 Zionist
groups called by the emergency
council to chart an American-
Jewish plan of action in the
now easing situation over Is-
rael.
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver said
that Bevin's pronouncement was
a "welcome step toward the
rectification of a wrong which
never should have been coin.
mitted in the first place."
Bevin told the House of Com-
mons that the Jews would have
to transport the Cyprus refugees
from the island where they live
behind barbed-wire and which
they consider a prison.
EYES RHODES PARLEY
The foreign secretary was
successful in arranging a delay
on the full-dress debate on
Palestine in the House to avoid
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Hillel Lender
SIDNEY J. KARBEL, promi-
nent attorney and past presi-
dent of the Greater Detroit
Men's Council of Bnai Brith,
lia.s been named a member of
the national Mlle! Founda-
tions commission. Karbel is a
member of the executive
board of Bnai Brith District 6.