Friday, March 1, 1946
THE
Annual Federation Meeting
To Hear UJA Drive Plans
Judge Friedman, Isidore Sobeloff, Heads of Affiliated
Agencies to Give Reports; Rabbi Adler to Speak;
$2,000,000 Campaign Objectives to Be Reviewed
Rabbi Morris Adler of Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
who has just returned from service as a Chaplain in the
U. S. Army in the Pacific, his last post having been in Japan,
will be the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the
Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, at 8:15 p. m. on Mon-
day, March 11, at Hotel Statler.
Judge William Friedman, president of the Federation,
will preside and will submit his annual report.
Reports of affiliated agencies of the Federation will
be submitted by:
,
Harry Jacobson, president of the Fresh. Air Society;
Benjamin Jaffe, president of the Jewish Social Service
Bureau; David Wilkus, president of North End Clinic; Fred
M. Butzel, president of Resettlement Sei:vice; Harvey Gold-
man, president of Jewish Vocational Service.
The central theme running through the reports and
dis.cussions at this important meeting will be the ques-
tion "How Can the Local Community Help the United
Jewish Appeal?"
Community leaders will discuss the plans that are be-
ing made to assure the success of the $2,000,000 Detroit
Allied Jewish Campaign.
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Federa-
tion, in his resume of the year's activities, will outline
the plans for the unprecedented $2,000,000 drive.
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, is chairman of the Federation's
nominating committee which includes Irving W. Blumberg,
Sidney Alexander, Joseph M. Welt and Joseph Bernstein.
The contributing public in invited to submit suggestions for
nomination to the Federation Board of governors to this
committee.
Invite Recommendations
For Nominees to Board
Of Welfare Federation
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich has
been named chairman of the
nominating committee of the
Jewish Welfare Federation.
Other members of the com-
mittee include IrVing W. Blum-
berg, Sidney Alexander,
Joseph M. Welt and Joseph
Bernstein.
This committee will submit
its report at the annual Fed-
eration meeting at Hotel Stat-
ler on Monday evenin g,
March 11.
In line with the recom-
mendations made at . last
year's meeting of the Federa-
tion, the contributing public is
invited to submit recommend-
ations for membership on the
Federation board of governors
to this committee by com-
municating with Mrs. Ehrlich,
at her home or at the office
of the Federation, 51 W. War-
ren, CO. 1600.
Page Three
Weekly Review of the News of the World
(Compiled from Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)
AMERICA
A new orientation program for U. S. Army
replacements arriving in Germany has been
inaugurated as a result of a recent street
fight between Jewish DPs and Germans in
Lampertheim, Germany, during which Jews
were slapped, abused and threatened by a
U. S. Army officer and ten armed soldiers,
Homer Bigart, New York Herald Tribune cor-
respondent, reports from Lampertheim.
Three hundred and fifty residents of
Sunnyside, Queens, New York, in a letter to
Mayor O'Dwyer, demanded a police investiga-
tion of anti-Semitic vandals who defaced a
neighborhood Russian Relief Depot. Windows
of the depot were painted with the word
"Jude" (German' for Jew), and smeared with
a Star of David and a swastika. The letter
charged that local police were indifferent.
The Jewish War Veterans of the United
States, in a letter to British Ambassador Lord
Halifax, vigorously protested against the re-
turn to Palestine of Jamal el Husseini, cousin
and aide of the pro-Nazi ex-Mufti of Jerusalem
now under indictment as an Axis criminal.
Haj Amin el Husseini, ex-Grand Mufti
of Jerusalem, will shortly "escape" from
forced residence 1Ln France and will turn up
in some Middle East country, Alexander Uhl,
PM foreign editor, reports from Washington.
Mr. Uhl, who bases his information on "trust-
worthy sources," states that negotiations for
the flight of the Mufti have been going on for
some months in certain British and French
quarters which consider his escape a power-
ful appeasement move to keep the Arab world
out of the Soviet sphere. There are no in-
dications however, that the British or French
Governments are involved in these negotia-
tions, Mr. Uhl says.
King Haakon VII of Norway expressed
deep concern for the problems of the Jewish
people resulting from the catastrophe in
Europe and "warm understanding of the Jew-
ish case" in a lengthy audience given to
Rabbi Marcus Nurock of Riga, Latvia, a mem-
ber of the executive committee of the World
Jewish Congress, the Congress reports.
OVERSEAS
The Allied Military Government has bar-
red soldiers from private Vienna homes pend-
ing an investigation of their original owner-
ship, following the arrest of several United
States and British soldiers who billeted them-
selves in Aryanized Jewish homes and thus
prevented restoration of the homes to the
Jewish owners.
A batch of intercepted clandestine letters
from American citizens in all parts of the U. S.
to German friends in the U. S. occupation
zone, reveals that some Americans are prob-
ably more Nazi-minded than the Germans
they write to, American military authorities
disclosed in Frankfurt.
The Soviet prosecutors at the Nuremburg
trial of 21 top Nazi war criminals, presented
to the international War Crimes Tribunal
evidence purporting to show that defendant,
Hans Frank, Hitler's governor general of
Poland, was directly responsible for the mas-
sacre of 3,000,0000 Jews in Nazi death camps
in Poland, According to the evidence, Frank
wrote in his personal diary that "there would
not be enough forest in Poland" to supply
paper for the lists of Jews he had slaughtered.
Nearly $40,000 has been subscribed by
British Jews in a drive to raise $200,000 to
plant a forest of 150,000 trees in Palestine, com-
memorating the gallantry of British Jewish
soldiers in World War II. The project, to be
known as "Forest of Freedom," will be planted
on Keren Kayemeth (Jewish National Fund)
land in upper Galilee. Brigadier Benjamin,
Commander of the Jewish Brigade, has sub- -
scribed for a garden, to be laid out in the mid-
dle of the forest, in the name of, the men of the
Jewish Brigade.
Leading British . Jews and non-Jews, in-
cluding members of Parliament, attended a
farewell dinner in London for Dr. Chaim Weiz-
man, president of the Jewish Agency for Pal-
estine and the World Zionist Organization, on
the eve of his departure for Palestine.
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Have ou ever seen a Brave Man Cry?
IT HAPPENED somewhere in the Pacific. The boys of
the 5th Air Force were "occupying" a God - forsaken
jungle island which had been taken from the Japs.
The heat, and the bugs, and the dirt were unbearable.
The loneliness was almost beyond belief.
Then—on a sweltering airstrip one morning a plane
came down out of the sky. And out of it stepped two
Red Cross girls, American girls.
"Hi there, Soldiers!" Their voices were like magic.
American girls, like the sisters and sweethearts they
hadn't seen for so many long months—greeting them
as they'd been greeted so often in the old, happy days
at home. Yes, tears filled the eyes of more than one of
those fighting men. Brave men they were, crying
unashamed !
* * *
Many thousands of our men are still overseas. They're
lonely. They're homesick. They need your Red Cross
now. And Red Cross men and women are at their side.
But only you can keep them there. Through your con-
tributions you make it possible for the Red Cross to
see them through. Give today!
Mrs. Roosevelt Sees
Palestine Sole Ht•pe
For Surviving Jews
NEW YORK, (JPS) — The
remnants of European Jewry
want to go to Palestine and "the
sooner these people can be where
. they can become citizens and feel
they are building a new life, the
better it will be for the whole
world," Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt,
U. S. delegate to the UNO As-
sembly, told 2,000 women at a
rally here launching the 1946
campaign of the women's di-
vision of the United Jewish
Appeal of Greater New York.
Mrs. Roosevelt, in the past not
regarded as a friend- of the
Zionist cause, asserted that Pal-
estine "represents some roots"
for the "spiritually uprooted"
Jews whom she found in dis-
placed persons camps in Europe.
She pictured the "complete and
utter misery" of the homeless
and stateless Jews.
"It gave me the most com-
pletely miserable sense of what
people can suffer and how the
suffering can numb them and sap
their strength," she said. It is up
to the United States, Mrs. Roose-
velt declared, to provide, not
only money for food, but spiritual
and moral leadership for these
people.
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