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Vol. 53—No. 8

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Friday, February 23, 1951

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UJA Drive Launched,
$10,250,000 Pledged

Israeli Parties
Agree to Hold
June Elections

TEL AVIV—(Special)—A caucus of the Mapai delegates
in the Knesset has resulted in a unanimous demand for new
elections not later than June 19.
The Mapai delegates also voted for a parliament of 120
seats, the same number as no w.

(Mapai, Ben Gurion's party, is
the largest in the Israeli parlia-
As the elections approach bit-
ment.)
The General Zionists have ter feeling between Mapai and
brought in a resolution to hold the religious bloc has mounted.
MIAMI—(Special)—The 1951 United Jewish Appeal campaign cam
A Mapai leader charged that the
e off to a flying start elections on June 5.
when at the national inaugural conference here last Sunday a total of $10,250,000 was
religious bloc had precipitated
The
judiciary
committee
of
the
pledged — the largest sum ever given to launch a UJA campaign.
Knesset decided not to ask any the crisis out of fear of losing a
Pledges from Detroiters totaled $538,000, a substantial increase ove r last year's pledges changes in the election law in monopoly on education in the
country.
and the largest sum ever reported for Detroit at a similar meeting.
order to avoid a delay in the
The action came in response tr”)
elections. The committee recom-
On the other hand, Rabbi I. M.
a plea by Edward M. M. War- I 6
mended that newcomers who Levin, spokesman for the re-
burg, general chairman of the
enter Israel before March 1 be ligious bloc, charged the moder-
United Jewish Appeal, who told
declared eligible to vote.
ate socialists with responsibility
the conference that American
Thousands ofJewish babies - in
Meanwhile, until the elections for breaking the agreement with
Jews are expected to advince
are over, the Ben Gurion cabinet the bloc on education in the
North Africa and the Moslem world
before May 31 the major part
will carry on. In this interim immigrant camps.
today owe their lives to the medi.
of the UJA's 1951 requirement
government
the General Zionists, Rabbi Levin said that thou-
for $203,684,000.
cal and feeding programs of the
according to a decision they sands of children of religious
Leading the contributors was
Joint Distribution Committee.
reached last weekend, will not families had been compelled to
the Joseph Mazer family of New
Daily milk-rations — "formula"
participate.
York which pledged $300,000.
receive secular education and as-
prepared under medical supervi.
In anticipation of the election, serted that the bloc would con-
Abraham Levitt of New York an-
sion—have meant survival for the
a
new
election
law
is
being
pre-
nounced that his contribution
tinue to "fight for the principle
Perez triplets of Casablanca (left);
pared by the Ministry of Justice, that religious parents were en-
would be substantially more than
at
milk-stations
like
the
one
in
$250,000.
headed by Pinchas Rosen, a Pro- titled to educate their children
Tunis (below), milk is distributed
gressive.
Robert and Saul Schiff of New
according to their will"
for some 4,500 tots-each day.
York, and Joseph Cherner and A.
S. Kay of Washington pledged
Funds for JDC programs are pro-
$150,000 each.
vided by the United Jewish Appeal.
Abe Kasle, chairman of the
Detroit Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, pledged $60,000. Other
pledges from Detroiters were:
Israel and Louis Davidson,
$75,000; Samuel and Louis
TEL AVIV—(Special)—The so- the controlled price of 12 pounds
Hamburger, $56,000; Joseph
called non-payment import plan a ton, but on the free market it
Holtzman, $46,000; the Max Os-
is under review of the Israeli brings between 50 and 70
nos family, $35,000, and Nathan
government, according to a re- pounds.
Epstein, for the Keystone
port by Sydney Gruson, N. Y.
Two steps ar under considera-
Aurora and Speedway inter-
Times correspondent.
tion to improve the scheme and
ests, $65,000.
The plan has been in opera- halt its effect on the currency.
The assembly heard. messages
tion for two months and has
One is to reduce the number of
from Premier David Ben Gurion
provided the treasury with $6,- firms auth r'ze to ,dual w;
000,000 w s t
and Henry J. Morgenthau Jr.
Ben Gurion wired that success of
oreign money.
the UJA drive li'•rarlo'rstste•s
mewed depression of the country
The Other is to set price' limits
efforts to settle 200,000 homeless
. .
The plan is the most import- for goons mported
i
freely, keep-
Jews. Morgenthau informed War-
ant of a series of measures that ing profits at a reasonable level
burg that he had accepted the
have brought about concealed and again reducing competition
honorary chairmanship of the
devaluation to encourage invest- for black market funds.
1951 campaign.
ment. The essentials of the plan Similar concealed devaluation
Pledges this year exceeded last
are these:
is becoming necessary for cer-
year's by almost $4,000,000.
On application a foreign in- tain kinds of exports unable to
Israel's ambassador to the
vestor is given a special license compete successfully abroad. A
United States, Abba E. Eban, said
to import his funds in the form new plan has just been started
that Israel can succeed in the
Lt.
Gen. Robertson immediately of wanted goods, mainly build- combining subsidies and allowing
TEL AVIV—(Special)
race to become self-sufficient only
Sir Brian Robertson, com- entered into a series of confer- ing materials, that he can sell at the exporter freer use of his fore-
if large-scale outside help is made Gen.
in chief of the British ences with Israeli leaders. He whatever prices the market will ign currency earnings.
available through the United mander
.
Middle
East
Command, arrived
bear. He invests at the official
Importers are also included in
Jewish Appeal and other sources.
here
last
Tuesday
on an official talked with Foreign Minister rate an equal amount on goods this plan, when they are normal-
Warburg told the conference
Moshe Sharrett and Gen. Yigal that must be sold at controlled ly engaged in the production of
that American Jews in the next visit.
Yadin, chief of staff, as well as prices. The difference is so great goods for domestic use. They
100 days must make possible the
Berry
and
Joseph
Holtzman
Premier David Ben Gurion who that he is rewarded with a fav- would be allowed to use part of
movement to Israel of nearly
orable conversion rate.
their capacity for free price
100,000 Jews facing emigration were on the dias with the of- is also defense minister.
Cement, for example, sells at sales if they delivered the re-
deadlines in eastern European ficial leadership of the UJA.
Reliable sources report that the
quired amount of utility goods
and Moslem countries and that Detroit workers were congrat- Israeli government wishes to
at the controlled price.
the way for this action must be ulated for helping spark the openly align itself with the west-
This, it is hoped, will have
pioneered by the assembled Jew- campaign in such a splendid ern powers, but feels that it must
three results: provide a subsidy
ish leaders through establishment manner.
have definite assurances from the
for utility goods, means of soak-
The Detroit representatives west if it is to sell the idea to its
of a standard for giving in keep-
ing up some of the inflationary
.ing with the urgency of the crisis. and their wives also held a good people.
purchasing power loose in the
Detroiters took a prominent fellowship cocktail party in honor
Gen. Robertson is quoted as
TEL AVIV — (Special) — The country and an incentive to
part In the proceedings. Louis of Abe Kasle.
saying upon his arrival that he striking metal workers went back greater production.
has not come to suggest that to work on Tuesday after a coin-
With all these economic con-
Israel do anything which she does promise had been reached in the trivances to provide hidden de-
not regard as in her own best in- strikes and lockouts that had kept valuation and to sanction the
terest. • most of the industry idle for the existence of multiple exchange
It appears that Israel is inter- last four weeks.
rates,- the wonder of it has been
ested in securing firm commit-
Under the settlement, the to many observers here that
ments that the United States and workers receive wage increases economic mortality has not gone
Great Britain will try to defend averaging 15 per cent and im- even further.
the Middle East against Soviet proved social benefits. The mini-
agression with troops as well as mum wage for metal workers
ENVOY TO gUSSIA
with their navies and air forces. will be $5.50 and the maximum
TEL AVIV—(ISI)—Dr. SInnuel
Israel also seeks to build up the $9.80.
Eliashiv was appointed Israel
Labor and management also minister to the U.S.S.R. Dr. Elia-
country's military and economic
strength and demands the im- will discuss ways to increase shiv, who will be the third repre-
mediate provision of the latest productivity. Management has sentative of the Jewish State in
types of planes and heavy arma- maintained that wage increases Moscow, has served as Israel's
ments which both the U. S. and could only be tied to higher pro- Minister to Czechoslovakia and
Britain have refused to sell to her. duction.
Hungary.

ormu a for Lif e

Israel Seeks Way Out
of Import-Slump Cycle

British General Visits Israel,
May Seek Defense Treaty

Metal Workers
Strike Settled

Here's ilow Ws Done

WJC Denounces Leniency for Nazis

Mrs. Ben Nadis, second from right, civilian defense chairman of
the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Women's Council, watches a group
of Bnai Brith women receiving instruction from a Red Cross
teacher. The Council is carrying on a full program of home
nursing classes and first aid. These courses consist of two-
hour sessions given once a week for six weeks. For information
on when the next classes start call TL 7-4781.

NEW YORK — (WNS) —The World Jewish
Congress this week denounced the action of the
American authorities who were responsible for
commuting the sentences of the convicted Nazi
war criminals.
Declaring that the action "threatens to turn
the vital code of offenses against mankind, estab-
lished at Nurenberg, into a travesty," Dr. Israel
Goldstein, chairman of the western hemisphere
executive of the WJC, said that a legal panel of
experts of the WJC had determined that clemency
had been granted to virtually 90 per cent of the
Nazi war criminals whose cases were reviewed.

"This action," he said, "was taken despite the
fact that neither the evidence in the original trials
nor the justice of the original sentences were
challenged by the American authorities."
Prior to the recent acts of mitigation, Ameri-
can authorities had released a total of 109 war
criminals before the expiration of their terms, Dr.
Goldstein pointed out, emphasizing that "only 51
war criminals remain in prison in the American
zone out of nearly 1,300 sentenced to prison, and
if the present rate of.pardons continues the num-
ber will dwindle rapidly.*