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Vol. 52—No. 41

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Friday, November 3, 1950

4 Parties Join
Israeli Cabinet

JERUSALEM—(Special)—The same four parties which
had formed the first 'Israeli coalition cabinet and broke up
over differences between Ben Gurion's Mapai party and the
religious bloc, will make another try.
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The new cabinet formed by€'

David Ben Chalon after many
weeks of negotiations includes was a concession to the right-
111°Si o: the old cabinet members. wing faction of the coalition that
The only minister dropped is Zal- had demanded such a ministry
man Shazar, Mapai member, who with broad powers.
Geri, formerly known as Jack
was minister of education and
will go to Moscow as Israel's Gering, comes from South Africa.
ambassador.
He was told b•• the cabinet that
Pinhas Lubianiker, Mapai, was he would not be allowed to ap-
named minister of agriculture pear in the Knesset until he had
and will take over the duties of chaAged his name because of its
Dr. Bernard Joseph, former min- similarity to that of the late
ister of supply and rationing. Nazi leader Hermann Goering.
Joseph became communications
Of the 13 cabinet seats, Mapai
Additional responsibilities will come to Jews in Detroit and all over America as a minister. The former communi- now controls seven. The Ortho-
result of the National Planning Conference for Israel last Sunday in Washington, the Jew- cations minister, David Remez, dox have three representatives,
serves as minister of edu- the Sephardim one, and the
ish Chronicle was told by Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federa- now
cation.
Progressives one.
tion, who attended the meeting.
A new ai.lition to the cabinet
It was the common under-e
The new cabinet received a 69-
is Yakov Geri, minister of trade 42 vote of confidence at the close
standing at the parley, Sobeloff
"The stirring example of Is- and industry, an independent of the general debate in the
said, that without an extra ef- of Economic Advisers, outlined
fort by American Jewry Israel Israel's' economic potential but rael's democracy and courage," 5usinessman. His appointment Knesset.
will face a desperate situation, warned that the new nation could he added, "has increased the
and that the key to Israel's prob- not develop economically with- security and prestige of every
lems was increased productivity. out the cooperation of the United Jew in this country."
States. Ile called for maximum
The Israeli Ambassador to the
A four-point program was
assistance for Israel "as our United States, Abba Eben, said
adopted:
junior partner" in safeguarding that Israel must achieve econo-
1) to enlarge and strengthen democratic ideals and principles.
mic self-sufficiency despite the
the United Jewish Appeal,
Rudolph G. Sonneborn, chair- Arab blockade and economic
2) to encourage private in- man of the board of directors of boycott.
As a service to the Jewish organizations, the Detroit Jewish
vestments in Israel,
the United Palestine Appeal, said
Chronicle, in answer to their requests, is now published one day
Edward M. M. Warburg, chair-
3) to endorse the Israeli bond that American Jews had been man of the Joint Distribution
later, on Friday instead of Thursday.
drive if and when the Israeli carrying "only a fraction of their Committee, said that the action
The deadline for all copy and pictures will be 12 noon,
government decides to issue real potential." He warned that of the conference represented an
Tuesday. The deadline for all classified advertisements will he
"the future of Israel is directly "historic landmark in the states-
such bonds, and
4 p.m., Wednesday; for display ads, 12 noon, Wednesday.
4) to seek inter-governmen- linked to American Jewry's meet- manship and planning of the
ing
its
obligations."
These new deadlines will enable contributors and adver-
Jews in the United States."
tal loans for Israel.
tisers to submit their material one day later than previously.
Asked whether the parley
showed any indication that Am-
Ilowever, the Chronicle urges all groups to mail in their
erican Jewry was on the way
news as promptly as possible to assure full consideration.
to a broader organization as an
Subscribers and newsstands will have their Chronicles on
outarowth of this meeting. Sobel
Friday ntor-• '-gs
off said that no attempt was
made to change the political set-
up, but that it was inspiring to
sew-+d4" kinds- of organizations

AidartoarIsrael Parley
Adopts larPoint Plan

JIFF to Seeh Payment of 82,000,(10(1
in Unpaid Pledges to Stare Off Disaster

Chronicle's Deadline
Now Tuesday Noon

Presenting UN Flag

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Prefer
Milder Anti-Semitism of U.S.

Austrian Politician

enfergency

and plan jointly for aid to Israel.
In answer to the question what
UJA would do in order to comply
with the decisions of the confer-
ence, Sobeloff said that UJA
campaigns would be started as
early as possible and that the
Welfare Federations will try to
collect, until the end of this year,
$50,000,000 from outstanding 1949
pledges, advance payment of an-
ticipated 1951 pledges, personal
loans and bank and institutional
loans.
In Detroit, $2,000,000 is still
outstanding from 1950 and
$700,000 from 1949: The Jewish
Welfare Federation will attempt
to get these funds which are
needed to stave off starvation
and ruin in Israel, Sobeloff
said.
Among Detroiters who attend-
ed the meeting were:
Max Osnos; Mr. and Mrs. I.
Davidson; Abe Kasle; Mr. and
Mrs, Saul Slom; Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph Holtzman; Louis Berry;
Samuel W. Leib; Leon Kay; Al-
fred A. May; Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
ter Field; Mr. and Mrs. Philip
Slomovitz; Charles Wolok.
More than 1,200 delegates of
44 Jewish organizations attend-
ed the parley and adopted a pro-
gram to provide Israel with a
billion dollars in the next three
years.
The delegates emphasized that
the program was designed "to
enable Israel to stand on its own
feet economically and to make
its highest contribution to the
preservation of the Jewish peo-
ple as well as civilization as a
whole."
The program expressed a strong
appeal to the United States Gov-
ernment to help Israel through
grants-in-aid, loans and "other
avenues of financial support that
have been mobilized by our gov-
ernment to further the cause of
democracy everywhere."
Representatives of Jewish com-
munities presented checks total-
ing $5,651,000. The conference
noted that the funds available
through UJA "can meet at most
only basic relief and initial re-
settlement needs" in Israel,
In the principal address of the
day, Leon Keyserling, chairman
of President Truman's Council

VIENNA — (WNS) — 'Admis-
sion that he was an advocate of
a "milder form" of anti-Semit-
ism and that the League of In-
dependent Voters he heads was a
proponent of "moderate anti-
Semitism" was made here by
Herbert Kraus, one of 15 depu-
ties representing the League in
the Austrian parliament.
Kraus made the admission
while under cross-examination in
a libel suit he brought against
Erwin Rollett, president of the
Organization of Democratic
Journalists. The basis of the ac-
tion was a statement by Rollett
that Kraus was a "neo-fascist."
Kraus told the court he was
"opposed to the Nazi form of
anti-Semitism" and that he fa-
vored instead 'the "milder form,
such as exists in the United
States."

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The Jewish War Veterans Department of Michigan presented a

United Nations flag to station WDTR-FM on UN Day, Oct. 24.
The station which is operated by the Board of Education carried
an all-day broadcast on the United Nations to'the public schools.
Making the presentation are, left to right, Norman L. Berkley,
JWV Department commander; Joyce Humphries, of Northwest-
ern High School, representing France; and Kathleen N. Lardie,
director of WDTR.

UJC to Feature
Half Century
on Celluloid

Scenes from old Detroit, news-
reels of the first 50 years of the
20th century and pictures of
events in the history of the De-
troit •Jewish community will be
combined to make a feature film
—highlight of the 50th anniver-
sary celebration of the United
Jewish Charities, at 7:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, Nov. 28, in the Hotel
Book-Cadillac, Theodore Levin,
UJC president, announced.

Msgr. Sheehy Accepts
Interfaith Group Job

The Right Rev. Monsignor S.
Sheehy of Catholic University,
Washington, D.C., has accepted
the Catholic co-chairmanship of
the Commission on Religious Or-
ganizations of the Notional Con-
ference of Christians and Jews,
it was announced by Allyn P.
Robinson, director of the Coin-
mission.

Monsignor Sheehy succeeds the
Rev. Allan P. Farrell, S.J., dean
of the graduate school of the Uni-
versity of Detroit.
Dr. Maurice E. Eisendrath of
New York, president of the Union
of American Hebrew Congrega-
tions, will continue to serve as
the Jewish co-chairman and Dr.
Collaborating on preparation of Joseph R. Sizoo, president of New
the film are the program chair- Brunswick Theological Seminary,
man, Charles Rosen, Leonard N. as the Protestant co-chairman.
Simons and Leon S. Wayburn.
Charles C. Simons, of the U. S. WINGATE CIIILDREN'S HOME
JERUSALEM— (Special) —A
Court of Appeals, who is the son
of the founding president of the Gen. Charles Wingate home for
UJC, the late David W. Simons; children will be erected by the
Judge Levin and Samuel H. Jewish National Fund on Mt.
Rubiner, president of the Jewish Carmel. The general's widow
Welfare Federation, will address was present at the cornerstone
laying.
the meeting.

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Fund Shortage
Perils Needy,
JDC Warns

Following Kraus' admiSsion, a
spokesman for the Vienna Jew-
ish Community declared that the
government's policy of permit-
ting a resurgence of National
Socialism was responsible for the
anti-Semitic manifestations in
Austria. Kraus' statement, he
added, was proof that the League
of Independent Voters consisted
of former Nazis.

Detroit Jews
to Observe
Book Month

Jewish Book Month will be ob-
served this year from Nov. 3 un-
til Dec. 3. Sponsored nationally
by the Jewish Book Council and
locally by the culture commis-
sion of the Jewish Community
Council, Jewish Book Month is
designed to awaken interest in
books on Jewish topics.

"The return of the 'People of
the Book' to the book is a pre-
requisite to American Jewry's
coming to maturity," stated Rabbi
Morris Adler, chairman of the
culture commission.
Through the program service of
the Council, speakers may be ob-
tained to discuss books on Jewish
themes.
The commission also has pre-
pared a selected list of Jewish
books which may be obtained
from the Council office.
In addition to the Jewish book-
shops in Detroit, the J. L. Hud-
son Co. will feature a display of
Jewish books during November.

NEW YORK — (WNS) — the
Joint Distribution Committee is
facing a "terrible choice" which
will determine the future of hun-
dreds of thousands of Jews over-
seas, it was disclosed by Moses A.
Leavitt, executive vice-chairman
of the organization.
Leavitt, who recently returned
from a two-month survey trip to
Europe and Israel, said that un-
less "additional funds are swift-
ly forthcoming from the Amer-
ican Jewish community through
the United Jewish Appeal," the
JDC will be forced to make a
choice which may result in dis-
N. Y. RETAILER HONORED
aster for tens of thousands in
NEW YORK—(ISI -In recog-
the "now or never" areas of nition of the enterprise, vision
Europe and the Moslem world. and good will" shown by the
London Character shoe stores in
JNF HAS RECORD YEAR
sponsoring Israel - made men's
JERUSALEM— (Special) —The shoes, the New York firm has
Jewish National Fund during been awarded a special scroll by
1949-50 completed the acquisi- Ed I. S. Echtman, general mana-
tion of the second million dunams ger of the Manufacturers' Assoc-
of land-holdings in Israel.
iation of Israel.

