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VOLUME XI—NO. 7
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Jewish Events
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May 2, 1947
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Is In Our Hands!
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37,000 Volunteer Workers Start
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..The campaign will be conducted from May support for the three major agencies of the
Detroit's record-breaking Allied Jewish Cam-
_,paign, for a goal of $5,335,000, goes into mo- 6 to 16. More than 3,700 volunteer workers have United .Jewish Appeal—Joint Distribution Corn-
- lions Tuesday evening, at the official opening enlisted to solicit approximately 35,000 potential mittee, United Palestine Appeal and United_
Service for New Americans—and 54 other local,
dinner at Hotel Statler, with Dr. Abba Hillel contributors.
Silver, chairman of the American Section of the . Nearly twice as large as the largest goal pre- national and overseas causes.
(• Details of plans and activities of the Special Gifts.
Jewish Agency for Palestine, as guest speaker. viously set in an Allied Jewish Campaign, this
Trades and Professional, Women's, Junior and other
Fred M. Suite!, general chairman of the drive, year's drive chanllenges the Jews of Detroit
divisions in the drive will be found on inside pages of
to rise to great heights in providing means of this issue.)
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Hectic Debates
Mark Opening
of UN Parley
YOU Are Asked for Dollars—to Them It Means LIFE
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(Jewish News Correspondent at the
'UN
Conference)
FLUSHING MEADOWS.—The General Committee of the
special session of the UN was transformed into a gridiron
Wednesday with Zionism serving as the football and the
Jewish people the victims of-one-sided discussion resulting
from the banding together of Arab states to do all the kick-
ing while the Jewish people were kept without spokesmen
and without defenders of their goal lines.
Even the weak goal-posts which Jewry so passionately
thinks of as Eretz Israel appeared to be crumbling under the
plows of spokesmen for Iraq. Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and
Saudi-Arabia during their appeals for immediate establish-
msnt of an independent Palestine state—which would mean
an Arab state—through termination of the Mandate. En-
couragement was given the Arab states by Soviet Russian
spokesman Andrei Gromyko who favored immediate full
discussion while not committing the Soviet to any definite
policy.
Jewish leaders, despondent and, in a sense, humiliated
by the new situation which turned the international assembly
into a debating society that put Zionism on trial without
defense, were expected to speak out in emphatic terms
repudiating the undemocratic and unfair manner in which
the issue thus far has been handled.
The only defense of the Jewish position was sounded
by Poland's delegate Winiewicz who argued for the right
- of 'Jews to representation in their own defense. Canada's
spokesman defended the British view that appointment
of a committee to study the matter at hand is the only vital
issue at stake.
(Herschel Johnson, alternate for Robert Austin, U. S.
- spokesman, stated "we are here to set up machinery," and
"we want an atmosphere of quiet to deal with the delicate
situation.")
The only relieving element in the situation is the general
recognition that Palestine Arabs are being used as tools by
Arab states, and that their masses do not acquiesce to machin-
ations of politicians speaking for them without authorization
- . at Flushing Meadows.
(The above is a record of the first general committee meeting sent by
special wire Wednesday morning. Ensuing reports are of the first two plenary
sessions of the special UN assembly.)
(Continued on Page 5)
Ex-Revolutionary Leader of Brazil
Heads UN Conference on Palestine
DR. OSWALDO ARANHA,
53, former Brazilian revolutionary
leader was chosen president of
the United Nations General as-
sembly dealing with the Palestine
question. He served his country
as foreign minister to the U. S.
and came here two months ago on
a brief visit, but remained as Bra-
zilian delegate to the United_ Na-
tions security council.
Joint Distribution Committee Photo
THEIR EYES ARE UPON US: These youngsters, orphaned, ragged, carrying their last
possessions, are on the march—from lands of oppression to displaced persons camps
—their destination: ERETZ ISRAEL... their gaze is directed at US—the free•Jews of
America ... Their hopes are centered in mobilized action to rescue them and to provide
them with permanent homes and security. . . their fate is in OUR hands . . . and the
instrument for their rescue in Detroit is the $5,335,000 - Allied Jewish Campaign.
Mobilization of American Sentiments
Urged as UN Tackles Palestine Issue
Special to The Jewish News
FLUSHING, N. Y.—Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, president of the
Zionist Organization of Ameri-
ca and chairman of the Ameri-
can section of the Jewish
Agency for Palestine, issued a
scathing denunciation of
British policy in an appeal for
the moblization of American
sentiments in support of . the
Jewish position, on the eve of
the United Nations special As-
sembly here.
Dr.. Silver and Moshe Sher-
tok told more han 100 corres-
pondents the Jewish Agency
has no recommendations other
than to request for representa-
tion at the UN with a vote and
the extension of Jewish immi-
gration.
Both Agency- leaders indi-
cated they would welcome:17N
trusteeship over Palestine if
effectively enforced and rights
granted by the League of Na-
tions were guaranteed.
As an "earnest gesture of
good faith" by Britain, Dr.
Silver called for the abolition
of the White Paper, and the
removal of restrictions on im-
migration pending decisions on
Palestine at the General As-
sembly's September session.
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In the main there appears a
spirit of pessimism in Zionist
ranks with most people placing
little of any faith in the result
of the present UN debate.
The Zionist Organization of
America executive meeting
adopted decisions for extension
of the American Halutziuth
activities and for increased
youth activities. The annual
convention has been set for
July 4 in New York.
Morris Jacobs and Philip
Slomovitz are attending ZOA.
sessions as members of the
ZOA national executive.