3,200 Volunteer Workers Ready
To Open MC Campaign May 7
Dr. Silver Guest Speaker THE JEWISH NEWS
On Behalf of $2,000,000
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of Jewish Events
A Weekly Review
Drive at Dinner Tuesday
Detroit's unprecedented $2,000,000 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign will open officially next Tuesday evening, at a dinner
in the Grand Ballroom of Hotel Statler.
With Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of Cleveland, president of
the Zionist Organization of America and the Central Con-
ference of American Rabbis, as guest speaker, the campaign's
objectives will be outlined at this dinner, reservations for
which are being taken at the campaign headquarters, Bagley
Room, Hotel Tuller, RA. 9887. -
Nate S. "Shapero,- general chairrnan of the drive, will
preside at the dinner.
While pre-campaign activities have been in pro-
gress for a month, general solicitations will be conducted
by 3,200 volunteers from May 7 to 17, and it is the hope
of campaign leaders to secure the .entire quota before
the end of that period.
May 7 being the day preceding the anniversary of
VE-Day, the dinner will be utilized to celebrate the victory
over the Nazis. The various posts of the Jewish War Veter-
ans in Michigan will participate in the massing of the Colors.
The dinner, the first of its kind to • be held in four
years, will mark a community reunion of Jewish leader-
ship in their re-dedication to the causes represented in
the Allied Jewish Campaign.
Campaign activities are being conducted by the women's
division the junior division, special professional and trades
teams and a special division organized for the - schools.
(Complete details of activities of the various campaign
divisions appear elsewhere in this issue).
A portion of the Allied Jewish Campaign emergency dinner
program on Tuesday evening will be devoted to a special meeting
of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, under whose auspices
the ,drive is being conducted. At this meeting, to take place at 8
p. m., the membership will be asked to vote on an amendent to
the by-laws of the Federation, to add the following sentence to
Article III, Section 1, Paragraph 1:
"For a term of service beginning after the annual meeting
in the year 1946 and terminating at the annual meeting in
the year 1947, the Board of Governors is vested with the power
to elect to its membership not more than twenty-five (25) ad-
ditional members of the corporation, it being the intention
hereby .to provide representation for the various trade and pro-
fessional Service Groups of the working and contributing
public; the Junior Service Group; the Women's Division of the
Federation; and the various organizational groups of the com-
munity." ---- ,
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Detroit 26, Michigan, May 3, 1946
10c; $3 Per Year
Inquiry Committee's Report
100,000 Must Go
To Zion Within
Next 8 Months
The long-awaited report of the Anglo-American Inquiry Commis-
sion on Palestine, issued nearly four months from the date the commit-
tee was chosen, was released Tuesday night by President Truman, in
Washington, and by British Foreign Secretary Bevin, in London.
Admission of 100,000 Jews into Palestine by the end of 1946, al-
lowing the next eight months for their transportation; the virtual abro-
gation of the White Paper; condemnation of the White Paper's restric-
tions on land sales to Jews in Palestine, and the effectuating of the
provisions of the United Nations Charter calling for "universal respect
for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for
all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion," in behalf
of those Jews, who will continue to live in Europe, are among the
major points in the report of the 12-man committee.
The report favors continuation of the present mandatory govern-
ment over Palestine and opposes the establishment of multiple states,
expressing the belief that it would lead to further trouble in the. Holy
Land. It envisions the ultimate establishment of a Palestine state
which will guarantee the rights of all—Christians, Moslems and Jews—
under international protection.
The report was accompanied by a letter by President Truman
commending the inquiry committee for its recommendations, especial-
ly the points emphasizing the settlement of 100,000 surviving Jews in
Europe, the abrogation of the White Paper and the proposals for the
protection of the sacred places of all faiths.
A complete summary of the report appears on Page 6.
Americans Help Rescue Child Victims of Nazis
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SGT. BERT SIMONS, 36, of
Brooklyn, is shown in Ber-
lin with 3-year-old BELLA
RAPHAEL, for whom he has
been awarded the first visa
to admit a displaced person
into the U. S. Simons took
the youngster as a result of
a pledge that if he came out
of the Battle of the Bulge
unharmed he would adopt
a Jewish orphan when he
got to Berlin. Bella's par-
ents were killed by the
Gestapo. Simons' wife, Jean,
28, is looking forward to the
reunion with her husband
and meeting their "sou-
venir" of the war.
* * *
On the right is another sur-
vivor from the Nazi inferno
—PEREC SCHULMAN,
with S. RALPH LAZRUS
of New York with whom he
appeared on the program
at the jewelers' dinner on
April 24, in behalf of the
Allied Jewish Campaign.
(See story on Page 24).
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