criclay, March 9, 194S

THE JEWISH MEWS

UPA, JDC Announce Goals
For Separate Fund Drives

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

United Palestine Appeal Blames Joint Distribution Commit-
tee's Leadership for Dissolution of 'United Appeal;
UPA Seeks $35,200,000, JDC $46,570;000

NEW YORK (JPS)—On the heels of the announcement of their
separate drives for 1945, the United Palestine Appeal cast blame for
the dissolution of the United Jewish Appeal on the' leadership of the
American Jewish Jdint Distribution Committee.
. 1 The JDC's goal has been set at $46,570,000 and the UPA will
seek` $:35,300,000 during their 1945 campaigns. •
The statement of the UPA was addressed by Rudolph G. Sonne-.
born, chairman of its National Council, it reply .to a telegram from
Sidney Hollander, president of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare funds, .which has 'sought•mediation. It followe'd, a
telegram to Hollander from. Paul Baerwald, chairman of the JDC,
which said that the JDC was ready to "accept differences for arbi-
tration by mutually accepted procedure." • -
SonnebOrn stated that "the belated 'acceptance' by the JDC
of your proposal has attached to it a condition which is tantamount
to another rejection of arbitration by the JDC." He said that the
UPA first. proposed arbitration on Dec, 29,-1944.
"In response to your telegram of Feb. 23 urging that the JDC
and• UPA agree to submit differences to arbitration by mutually.
acceptable procedure, we refer to our letter of Feb. ,,8 to you setting
forth the unresolved differences which existed, prior to the Cin-
cinnati meeting on Feb. 10. .
Difference Remaining. Between the Parties
"Inasmuch as no agreement was reached as a result of the Cin-
cinnati meeting, the differences remaining between the parties still
continue to be the following: The .UPA proposed a first division. of
$10,0.00,000 in the ratio Of 60 to 40 percent or a first division of $25,-
000,000 in the ratio of 58 to 42 percent, with the Jewish National
Fund traditional collection ceiling at $4100,000, and that JDC
forego the $600,000 countervailing amount. The JDC proposed that
the first division be $25,000,000 in • the ratio of 60 to 40 percent
respectively, the JNF traditional collection ceiling to be $900,000
and the JDC to forego. $600,000 countervailing amount.
"In view of the JDC's consistent desire to maintain the Na-
tional UJA and recognizing the keen concern felt by the organized
Jewish, communities -of . this country for the continuance of the
WA, the JDC agreed. to submit to arbitration by .mutually accept-
' able prwedure, the unresolVed differences as indicated above."
SonnebOrn States UPA Decision
"The conditions -- stated in the JDC's reply to your telegram
liinits the question to be arbitrated merely to the degree to which
the UPA and the - interests of Palestine shall be subordinated in
• joint fund-raising appeals," Mr. Sonneborn replied. He added that
after 10 weeks of negotiation, the UFA. had reluctantly come to a
decision with respect to its 1945 campaign . as a result of the un-
willingness of the JDC to modify its position.
"The insistence by the JDC that Palestine in 1945 remain in a
subordinate position reflected an unyielding refusal. to understand
the • importance of Palestine even in the terms of pure saving of
life, to say nothing of the dynamics of rehabilitation in Palestine,
. which has given security to over 300,000 refugees since 1933—
_virtually as many as the rest of the world combined," the UPA
'Stated.
In reply to Mr. Hollander's telegram of Feb. 23, the. UPA said:
,"In order that justice be done in meeting the needs of the JDC and
the UPA, the UPA believes that it is eminently desirable that
American Jewry, through its various communities, examine the
.requirements of Jewish life and act on them through the distribh-
-Con of funds in accordance with procedures determined locally."
Tri State UJA Urges UPA, .JDC Parity
The Administrative Committee of the Tri-State. United Jewish
Appeal; covering Western 'Pennsylvania, Northern West Virginia
and part of Ohio, has recommended that all Jewish communities
An the area distribute funds, formerly contributed to the recently
Idissolved national United Jewish Appeal,, on a 50-50 parity basis,
, between the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Distribution
, Committee.
The basis on which funds raised by the UJA of Greater New
York in 1945 will be allocated to its four major constituent -organ-
izations, was announced by Samuel Schneierson, chairman of the
allocations committee for the Greater New York Campaign. After
making a basic provisior. for the National Refugee Service and the
National Jewish Welfare Board, the Committee allocatqa 57 per
'cent of all income to the JDC and 43 per cent to the UPK.
Provision was made covering the - traditional collections by the
Jewish National Fund,' and permitting acceptance of funds for
specific projects from landsmanschaften organizations of the JDC.
NRS Announces $1,444,330 Campaign Goal
The NRS will undertake a separate campaign to raise $1,444,- .
• 30 for refugees in the U. S., Edwin Rosenberg, first vice-president
_of the NRS, announced.
—Demanding the opening of Palestine to . unrestricted immigra-
tion as the remedy indicated by "a realistic appraisal of the present
„situation," James MacDonald, chairman of President' Roqsevelt's
Advisory Committee on Political Refugees . and former League of
Nations High Commissioner on Refugees, speaking at a fiord-raising
rally on behalf of the Histadruth (Jewish Palestine: Federation of
. Labor) denounced, as "shortsightedness," the failure of the great
powers "to take action in time to prevent the slaughter of European
Jews."
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Heller Reveals Cable from Palestine
Rabbi James G. Heller, national chairman of the 1945 UPA,
• made public a cable he received from Palestine which declared
that a separate Palestine campaign in the U. S. is of special- -sig-
.nificance at this juncture in the development of the Jewish National
Home. The UPA is now carrying on its campaign through local -wel-
fare funds, to meet the $35,300,000 budgets of its constituent agen-
„Cies—the Palestine Foundation Fund and the Jewish National Fund.
The cable Signed jointly by Arthur Hantke, managing director
of the Palestine Foundation Fund, fiscal agency of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, and by Abraham Granovsky; managing di-
. 'rector of the JNF, expressed appreciation of "the great responsibil-
ity” which Dr. Heller has ,assumed in the leadership of an inde-
pendent appeal.
To. save and aid the greatest numbex\of nearly a million desti-
tute Jews in liberated Europe, and many in other overseas areas,
the JDC will seek to raise $46,570,000, Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, national
.chairman of the campaign, made known Sunday.
The goal .was set by the JDC National Campaign Oraanization
. Committee meeting at the Hotel Biltmore, after speakers listed
`JDC's needs and •Isidore Coons, national campaign. director, out-
lined the national campaign plans.
Wineman, Srere .on JDC Committee
Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the JDC, told
how the organization currently - is providing emergency assistance
. in some 16 countries in Europe and North Africa, aids in emigration
to Palestine, and assists in other areas affected by the global war.
Henry Wineman is an honorary chairman and Abraham Srere
is a. member of the executive committee of the -JDC- campaign.
' Both are Detroite.rs.

AMERICA
Herbert C. Pell, former U. S. representa-
tive at the United Nations War Crimes Com-
mission in London, will petition President
Okosevelt to return him to that post. Mr. Pell
made this decisionfollowing approval by the
House Appropriations Committee of $25,000
f9r full American participation on the Com-
mission. •-•
Attacking the Ives-Quinn anti-discrimina-
tion bill, Westbrook Pegler, King Features
Syndicate columnist, asserted that "in the city
of New York, many Jewish employers reveal
a marked 'and understandable preference for
co-religionists, with never a complaint from
other groups who also seek compatibility in
the same way."

PALESTINE
For the past six months, - a unique school,
at which Jewish "mitkhtars" (village headmen
responsible to the GoVernment) have been
trained, has been functioning under the aus-
pices of the Jewish. Agency's Political Depart-
ment (maintained. by Keren Hayesod funds)
in the vicinity of Jerusaleni.
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Palestinian industrial goods valued at
$3,200,000 were exported to _Middle - East ter-
ritories, South Africa, and other countries
during 1944, it was stated by the Foreign
Trade Institute (set up by the Jewish Agency
oft of Keren Hayesod 'funds and by the Pal-
estine Mantifacturers AssOCiation).
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JDC Grants 5,000,000 Francs for Synagogues and Schools
PARIS, (JTA)—The American Joint Distribution Committee
. announced that it had made a • grant of 5,000,000 francs to • the
Jewish 'Consistory of France to help rebuild the religious and
communal institutions of4he Jews in this country.
This-grant will be used- for re-opening synagogues, and ele-
- mentary schools of Jewish education as • well as for the training of
rabbis and 'furnishing theni to communities: functioning .in France
; and the Consistory will have to arrange for their reopening and for
the training of teachers.

Keep Your

E CROSS

At Their Side

T hink

of wounded men lying in hospitals, of

American boys eating their hearts out in the end-
,
less boredom of prison camps. Think of thousands

upon thousands of lonely men who have not seen

home or their loved ones in years.

Through your contributions to the Red Cross War

Fund you can bring cheer and comfort to these

men who are sacrificing so much for you.

Give Generously of___Your Dollars!

