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A Weekly Review

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9, 1947

Half of Quota Reached in AJC;
Must Raise Balance in One Week

Detroit's great 1947 Allied Jewish Campaign for a goal of
$5,335,000 is off to a good start.
As this issue goes to press, more than half the goal was re-
ported reached and the campaign leaders and workers are pro-
ceeding with their task with confidence that the entire amount
will be attained on the closing day of the drive Friday, May 16.
Encouraging announcements of pre-campaign solicitations
were made at the official campaign opening dinner on Tuesday
evening, at Hotel Statler. The enthusiasm which marked prelim-
inary efforts for the drive was interpreted as an indication that

the $3,000,000 mark may be reached before the end of the week.
Fred M. Butzel, general chairman of the. 1947 campaign,
Maurice Aronsson, chairman of the special gifts division, and
Isidore Sobeloff, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion and of the drive, while expressing satisfaction with the early
results attained during the past few weeks, admonished the hun-
dreds of assembled workers that the drive is far from the goal
and that a concerted effort by the entire community will be
needed to assure the success of the campaign.
More than 3,700 workers are actively soliciting approxim-
ately 35,000 prospective contributors, and there is feverish activ-
ity among men's, women's and youths' groups to help
reach the goal.

World Jewry, Non-Jews Mourn
Henry Nionsky's Sudden Death

World Jewry sits in mourning over the death of one of its most distinguished sons—
Henry Monsky of Omaha, Neb., president of Bnai Brith, one of the national chairmen of
the American Jewish Conference, a leading Zionist and an active figure in many civic and
iphilanthropic movements.
Mr. Monsky's death from a heart attack, a week ago, as he presided over a meeting of
the Interim Committee of the American Jewish Conference at the Biltmore Hotel in New
York, was a shock to the Jewish community everywhere.
Expressions of tribute to his statesmanship and his services
to - humanitarian causes came to his family and the Bnai
Brith national headquarters in Washington from Jews and
tion-Jews:wairiiirt. of the U. S. and Canada and in every

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walk "of life.
He was stricken while addressing national Jewish lead-
ers on the tremendous need for Jewish unity in order to cope
with the problems of Palestine in the current United Nations

- session.
A great gathering of Mr. Monsky's fellow-townsmen of
all faiths attended the funeral services jointly conducted at
- Temple Israel in Omaha, on Monday, by Reform Rabbi
-Arthur Lelyveld and Orthodox Rabbi Israel Moshowitz of
Omaha, Rabbi David Wice of Newark, N. J., formerly of
- Omaha, and Dr. Abraham L. Sachar, national director of
Bnai Brith - Hillel Foundations. Members of the Bnai Brith
national executive committee gathered in Omaha from all
sections of the country to attend the services. The body lay
in state at the Jewish Community Center prior to the funeral L.
LATE HENRY MONSKY
services at Temple Israel.
- Memorial services had previously been held at Temple Emanu-El, New York City, on
'Sunday. The services, attended by leaders in American Jewish life, were conducted by
Rabbis S. H. Goldenson, Temple Emanu-El; David Wice; Israel Goldstein, Temple Bnai
Jeshurun, New York; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Free Synagogue, New York; and Dr. Maurice
Eisendrath of Cincinnati, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

(Tribute to Mr. Monsky by Aaron Droock, page 16)

Campaign leaders and workers at the opening dinner meet-
ing on Tuesday were inspired to action by the stirring address
of Dr. B. Benedict Glazer of Temple Beth El, who spoke in the
absence of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver whose duties as chairman of
the American Section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine de-
tained him at the UN sessions.
Mrs. Emma L. Schaver's singing of DP songs slit brought
from German camps was an inspiring feature of the dinner.
Accompanied by Rebecca Frohman, Mrs. Schaver was in high
excellent interpretation of the spirit of determina- -
form in her marks
the will to live of the European Jewish sur-
Lion which
vivors.
Mr. Aronsson, whose proposal for a cheer for General Chair- •

man Butzel met with an enthusiastic response, reported that the
special gifts division as of Tuesday night carried a total of $2,485,000
from 55 per cent of its prospects.
In his moving address, Dr. Glazer deplored the fact that there
is a lack of atonement among the nations of the world for the
miseries that were imposed upon the Jewish people in tjagi era Qf
domination. He condemned the "peculiar psycholo&" of a
generation which not only inflicted misery upon innocent people but
also continued to heap sufferings upon them evert after liberation.
"All we have gotten is criticism of the terrorists," he stated,
adding: "But why don't they go beyond the terrorism and find the
causes which motivated them?"
Asserting that he is worried over the absence of pity in the
world Dr. Glazer charged that "there has been no change of heart
or spirit, only a desire to go back to the shabby normalcy that does
not heal the world." -
Referring to the UN sessions, Dr. Glazer declared that "6,000,000
dead could not buy five minutes before the international assem-
bly." He emphasized the Jewish determination to survive "on its
own terms but not on the bases proposed by the persecutors."

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Plan 3 Campaign Rallies

Three rallies have been arranged for the coming week for
Allied Jewish Campaign workers. Monday, May 12, has been
set as Fred M. Butzel Day, in honor of the drive's general
chairman. - Wednesday, May 14, will be Presidents' Day, in
honor of the presidents and ex-presidents of the Federation
and its agencies. Friday, May 16, will be utilized for the closing
campaign rally. These gatherings will be held at 12:15 p.m.

at Hotel Statler.

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-Behind the Scenes at the UN Session on Palestine:

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BY PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Jewish News Correspondent at the UN Sessions on Palestine

FLUSHING MEADOWS, Queens, N. Y.—As
long as our Government adheres to its traditional
policy of striving for free Jewish immigration to
Palestine and the fulfillment of pledges based on
the Balfour Declaration, Jews have little to fear
from the onslaught of our enemies.
This is the major conclusion objective observers
inevitably. must reach after listening to the many
. debates on the Palestine question.
The Arab filibuster is far from over, and the
anti-Zionist element will have numerous adher-
' ents. But the unfairness with which the Jewish

Palestine fair enough to provide an opportunity,
for free economic development for several mil-
lion people:

Temporarily, the111merican stand was unfavorable
to the Jewish position. The arguments advanced by
II. S. Spokesman Warren Austin that the Jewish
Agency does not speak for all Jewry was a blow to
our position, and Andrei Gromyko's stand in our de-
fense was only mildly heartening. Mr. Austin's stand
reflects the results of pressures that came from anti-
Zionists and from the Bergsonites who sought either
to discredit the nationalistic position of Zionism or to
seek a place at the Assembly for themselves. In any
event, it was damaging to Jewish prestige.
If justice is to be done to Jewry, it is eqnslly im-
portant that our government should be asked not
only to adhere to its traditional Zionist policy but also
to assure the Jewish Agency exclusive rights to speak
for world Jewry, in accordance with its international
status as recognized in the Mandate and in adherence
to the request made to Mr. Austin by cable by the

position was treated at the outset, in the course of
time, may boomerang against the Arabs and react
- favorably to Jewry.
Vaad Leumi of Palestine.
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• As long as the American spokesmen adhere to
establithed U..S. policy, we can hope for support
ALTHOUGH REFUSED the status of nation-_
- from the Latin Anierican : countries. from Poland hood before the entire General Assembly of the
- and Czechoslovakia and from the Scandinavian *UN. the assurance that the Jewish position will
ntnintrietn`
be heard before the Political and_ Security Com-
Who knows--perlutps even Russia will de. .1nittee, of which Lester Pearson of Canada is chair-
- 'late from her previgous position and will concede man, should revive. considerable.-hope. that .our
to tiactigitt at Ittirsz to a Mat* ins portion of case will not be shelved through deprivation of

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defense of our just rights.
When the Jewish case is heard, it can be stated
with certainty that our spokesmen will be: Dr.
Abba Hillel Silver, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Moshe
Shertok and Dr. Emanuel Neumann. David Ben
Gurion and Eliezer Kaplan are coming from Pal-
estine to join this group of spokesmen. The Zionist
case will be in good hands with these men as its
advocates.
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SINCE THE JEWISH voice will not be stifled,
it would be suicidal for us to yield to despair and
to think in terms of battling for a lost cause. The
Zionist ideal is far from ended and our' cause has
not been beaten. It is a clear from the sentiments
expressed by many UN delegates that there still
is a. sense of justice among statesmen and that
we will be given a fair chance to develop our case.

The terms of reference-to be outlined for the
committee authorized by the UN to act on the
- . Palestine situation must include the Jewish
position everywhere, and the record of our sic-
complishments in Palestine.
It undoubtedly will incorporate the record of
Arab dealings with the Jews during the past two
generations, revealing the gravity of the Jewish
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