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Defense and Immigration Needs Spur WA
Israeli Leaders kaki Drive's
ity,Wam f Continue Danger
$27,000,000 Raised at Conference Toward Goal
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON—American Jewish leaders
were stirred to a pitch of greatest enthusiasm in
the history of fund-raising at the national con-
ference here last week-end at which the 1949
United Jewish Appeal for $250,000,000 was offic-
ially launched. Challenged by Israeli and U. S.
leaders to a realization of the overwhelming needs
in Israel, created by the new era of reality in the
Jewish State, spokesmen for American Jewish
communities, at the session held on Sunday morn-
ing, at the Shoreham Hotel, responded with initial
gifts of $27,000,000 towards this year's goal. Speak-
ing for Detroit, Max Osnos, who only a few days
ago returned from Israel, and Joseph Holtzman
pledged an advance sum of $1,000,000 to be applied
to the 1949 contributions.
American and Israeli leaders, who participated
in the conference, expressed their elation over the
initial responses as well as the restoration of unity
in the ranks of the fund-raisers in this country
Rejecting all talk of "bad times," the prominent
leaders emerged from the conference in a spirit
of confidence that there is a better chance of rais-
ing the full $250,000,000 than last year because
of the realization of their responsibilities by
American Jews.
Among the significant highlights of the UJA
conference were:
The report on the status of Israel by the
Jewish State's Foreign Minister, - Moshe
Sharett;
The $500,000 gift—double his last year's
. David BenGurion, Minister of Finance Eliezer
contribution—sent to the conference by
Kaplan and Dr. Israel Goldstein, treasurer of the
Abraham Mazer of New York.
Jewish Agency.
Admonitions by Israeli spokesmen against :\
American Jewish leaders who voiced their
overconfidence in the security of Israel and
appeals for re-dedication to service through UJA
warnings that the dangers have not yet ended;
were Henry Morgenthau, Jr., general UJA chair-
man; former N. Y. Governor Herbert Lehman,
Announcement by Henry Montor, director
William Rosenwald, Nahum Goldmann, Judge
of the national UJA-drives, that five trains to
be known as the "UJA Caravan of Hope"
Morris Rothenberg, Julian B. Venezky, Harold J.
.Goldenberg, Dr. Jonah B. Wise, Mrs. David M.
would start on April 3 from east, west and
other areas for an intensive campaign sweep
Levy, Edward M. M. Warburg, and others, in-
cluding spokesman from local communities,
up and down the country, on a three-week
tour of 150 cities, each train to cover a separate
The calls for action issued by the Jews in
region;
this country were sounded in frank, clear .cut
reviews of the existing situation and in blunt
The unanimity with which all concerned
analyses of of
greeted the restoration of peace in UJA ranks.
in Israel. The answer
demanded of American Jewry is to indicate
Some of the greatest personalities in Jewish
that there is a seriousness of purpose in the
life joined in evaluating the needs and challenges
great effort of building Israel, that Jews are
of this year. Speaking for Israel were, in addition
not content merely with celebrating the occur-
to Foreign Minister Sharett: Levi Eshkol, chief
rence of miracles but are prepared to per-
of the Agricultural Colonization Department of
petuate the accomplishments through con-
the Jewish Agency; Eliahu Elath, Israel's Ambas-
structive work. The guests from Israel re-
sador to the U. S.; Berl Locker, chairman of the
Executive of the Jewish Agency; Yaakov Zeru-
affirmed their State's determination to keep
the doors open so that every Jew who desires
bavel, grey-bearded veteran settler in Eretz
may enter the land and find a home there, and
Israel, now head of the department for Oriental
it became clear that at least 250,000 Jews must
Affairs of the Jewish Agency; David Hacohen,
settle in Israel this year.
member of Knesseth Israel, director of Solei Bo-.
The address"of Israel's Foreign Minister Sharett
neh and Vice-Mayor of Haifa; Abraham Granovsky
of Jerusalem, world Jewish National Fund presi- will go down in diplomatic history as one of the
dent; and by transcription there were addresses most impressive diplomatic declarations on record.
by President Chaim Weizmann, Prime Minister
(Continued on Page 13)
Brandeis and Weizmann
Fifth Installment of
Autobiography of Chaim Weizmann
First President of Israel
on Page 24
Edward M.M.Warburg to Address First
Fund-Raising Rally Here Next Tuesday
Top givers in the Allied Jewish Campaign who always take the lead in setting the
pace for liberal contributions to the drive will be called upon to give the 1949 campaign
a good start at the initial fund-raising meeting to be held
next Tuesday evening, March 29, at the Book Cadillac Hotel.
Edward M. M. Warburg, national chairman of the
Joint Distribution Committee, distinguished leader and
member of one of America's leading Jewish families, will
be the guest that evening at a double dinner of the advance
gifts teams of both the men's and women's organizations in
the drive.
At UJA Parley:
Detroit delegates at the Wash-
ington UJA conference are shown here with BERL LOCKER, of Israel,
chairman of the Jewish Agency Executive. Left to right: SAUL
SLOAN, ISRAEL DAVIDSON, MR. LOCKER and JOSEPH HOLTZ-
MAN. An interview with another member of the Detroit delega-
tion, Max Osnos, will be found on Page 8 o'f this issue,
Mr. Warburg's advance conference that night with the
top givers among men and women will mark the official
opening of the drive and will represent Detroit's reply to
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the call for action that was sounded at the sessions in Wash- EDWARD M. M. WARBURG
ington during the past week-end. Detroit was represented at the conference in the na-
tion's capital by Max Osnos, Joseph Holtzman, Mr. and Mrs. Israel . Davidson and Mr.
and Mrs. Saul Sloan.
An outstanding authority on the overseas scene and one of the nation's leading
humanitarians, Mr. Warburg has led the JDC through the years of its greatest activity
in behalf of Europe's 1,500,000 Jewish survivors of Nazism. First elected chairman of
the JDC in 1941, he resigned his office shortly thereafter to enlist as a private in the
U. S. Army, rising through the ranks to become a major. Attached to supreme head-
quarters, Allied Expeditionary Forces (SHAEF), Major Warburg established a series
of centers for homeless and displaced persons caught in the battle zones as the liber,
ating Allied armies swept through France. .
After receiving his honorable discharge, Mr. Warburg was re-elected JDC Chairman
in December, 1945. He was re-elected again in 1946 and 1947. He has made two inspection
surveys of European conditions and these trips were followed by numerous speaking
engagements. An accomplished speaker, Mr. Warburg has addressed major Jewish au-
diences from coast to coast in behalf of the UJA and JDC.
Mr. Warburg was born in June, 1908, son of Felix M. Warburg, a founder of the
JDC and its chairman from 1914 to 1932, and Frieda Schiff Warburg. He received the
bachelor cif science degree at Harvard University in 1932. He then taught fine arts at
Bryn Mawr. College and has continued his art studies in extensive travels through Eu-
rope and Near East. He is a director of several institutions of art in the United States
and the possessor of a notable private collection. He is also secretary of the Shilling
Fund Committee for aid to needy artists.
Enrollment of volunteer workers for the Detroit drive resulted in an encouraging
response at the two impressive rallies last Tuesday, when Abba Eban, Israel's Represent-
ative to the United Nations, inspired overflow . audiences with his evaluation of the
present needs and the responsibilities that face all who are engaged in the great under-.
,
taking of state-building.,;