Only Anglo-Jewish Paper With Full Local Coverage DELI- Lo- it afe,un:41-1, HRIIINICLE Vol. 51, No. S 52 ill Friday, January 21, 1919 Third of a Century of Service to Detroit Jewry 10c a copy $3 Per Year 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 (Continued on page 2) 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 (Continued on page 2) 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 (Continued on Page 10) 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.