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E JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

Warn Against

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VOLUME 15—No. 15 2114 Penobscot Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit 26, Michigan, June 24, 1949

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Israel uggests Arab Plebiscite
Arrive at Political Solution

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Louis Be'rry Issues Personal Mail Appeal
For 'One Best Gift' To Complete Campaign

Louis Berry, 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign Chairman, this week extended a special appeal
to all members of the Jewish community of De troit who have not yet made their pledges toward
the Greatest Homecoming in History and toward building a better community at home.
In addition to the mail appeal, workers in all divisions are continuing to visit their pros-
pects, aiming for "the one best gift to cover all of the causes we of the Jewish community of
Detroit have agreed are important to us as a community," Berry declared.
At their workers' party Friday, June 17, Women's Division workers made additional reports
bringing the total raised in general solicitation to 100 per cent of their 1949 Quota, $110,000.
Deneral solicitation is under the chairmanship of Mrs. William B. Isenberg.
Berryi letter reads:
"When I write to you to ask for your contribution to the 1949 Allied Jewish Campaign, I
speak not only for myself, but for the many drives, the many causes, the many people whom
you will help support in your One Gift—if it is your best gift.
"I know that if I could talk to you in person and tell you about the wonderful work that
is being done in Israel .. about the thousands who are finally leaving the DP camps in Europe
. about the fine -programs we are maintaining here in Detroit for our children, our old people,
Ourselves and our neighbors . if I could tell you in person, then I know you _would give and
give generously.
. "But I cannot call on every one of my Jewish neighbors in Detroit and ,so I am hoping
that I can make this letter vivid and compelling enough so that your own mind and heart will
tell you the story.
"More than 30,000 of your friends, neighbors and relatives have already made their pledges.
"This is one year . when. none of • us will want to miss our opportunity to share the most
glorious chapter in Jewish history. Please let me hear from you today—on the enclosed pledge
slip—that you too want to express your kinship',with Jews everywhere by giving to the 1949
Allied Jewish. Camp.aign. - Make your gift today and make - . it your best gift."

TEL AVIV, Israel.—The conviction by an Hungarian
court of six Zionist leaders on charges of aiding illegal
immigration of Israel-bound Jews from Hungary was criti-
cized by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett at the
conclusion of general debate on Israel's foreign policy in
the Knesseth.
While he pointed out that Israel cannot interfere in
the internal affairs of another sovereign state, Mr.
Sharett asserted that any obstruction to the migration..
of Jews constitutes the contravention of their right of
self-determination. He added that such a problem is
worldwide in scope and declared that it is a mistake to
separate Israel from Zionism because Zionism was the
lifeblood of Israel and immigration was its heart.
The Foreign Minister told the Israeli Parliament that he
was shocked by the statement of the Hungarian court that
the migration of Jews to Israel from Hungary constituted
assistance to "Anglo-American imperialism." Reviewing
the history of Jewish immigration, he said that Sews were
called "Communist" by Hitlerites when they left Eastern
Europe and now they are accused of being "tools of im-
perialism." He insisted that the Hungarian point of view
was "invalid" because other Eastern European countries
take the contrary position on the same issue.
Turning to the issue of an independent Arab state in
Palestine, Mr. Sharett said that although Israel favored
the establishment of such a state it was unprepared to go
to war to guarantee it and insisted that that was the only
way of enforcing the establishment of an Arab state. He
revealed' that Israel intended to suggest to the UN Con-
ciliation Commission that 'a plebiscite be held to permit
. residents of the area to determine their own political
future.
Mr. Sharett denied that Dr. Walter Eytan, head of the
Israeli delegation to the Lausanne peace talks, had proposed
the establishment of Haifa as a free port. He expressed
regret that the commission, which is conducting the
Lausanne parley, was "one-sided" in composition—without
a Soviet representative—and revealed that the Israelis had

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F arewell to Herzog:

On the eve of his departure for Israel after con-
cluding a six-week tour in this country for the United Jewish Appeal, DR. ISAAC HAL-
EVI HERZOG, (right) , chief rabbi of Israel, was honored at a farewell testimonial re-
ception tendered him by Mizrachi Organization of America. Mizrachi leaders presented
the chief rabbi with a testimonial scroll commemorating his first visit to this country
since Israel's independence. Left to right: RABBI MAX KIRSHBLUM, national execu-
tive vice president of Mizrachi; LEON GELLMAN, national Mizrachi president; RABBI
JOSEPH R. LOOKSTEIN, chairman of Mizrachi administrative board; and DR, HERZOG..

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S15,000,000 - Loan for JNF:

At the Waldorf-Astoria, New York„
on June 9, announcing the granting of a $15,000,000 loan by the Bank of America Na-
tional Trust and Savings Association of California to the Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael, Ltd.,
Jerusalem (Jewish National Fund). Left to right, seated: PHILIP S. EHRLICH, attorney
for Bank of America; RUSSELL C. SMITH, executive vice president of Bank of America:
'JUDGE MORRIS ROTHENBERG, president of JNF of America; JACOB SINCOFF, JNF
treasurer; DR. JOSEPH WEISS_ financial director, Keren Kayemeth Lelsrael; DANIEL
FRISCH, president. Zionist Organization of America; ABRAHAM KRUMBEIN; standing,
BARTLEY C. CRUM, NATHANIEL S. ROTHENBERG, a t to r n e y s for JNF; ARTHUR
LOURIE, Counsul-General, State of Israel; FRANCIS X. SCAFURO, vice president, Bank
of America; FERDINAND J. WOLF; KENNETH M. JOHNSON, attorney for Bank of
America; MENDEL N. FISHER ; JNF executive director; RABBI MAX KIRSHBLUM.

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Prints Talninsi:

This is the title
page of Tractate Sabbath, initial volume of the Babylonian
Talmud to come off the press in Germany since Hitler. The
Joint Distribution Committee, with the aid of the U. S. Army,
paid for the printing of the work. JDC receives its funds
for its worldwide relief, resettlement and reconstruction pro-
grams from the $250,000,000 United Jewish Appeal which
is supported in Detroit by the Allied Jewish Campaign.

