UJA Survey Report Shows 600,000
Jewish Refugees Resettled in Decade

NEW YORK, (JTA)The re-
settlement of 600,000 European
Jewish refugees was among the
far-reaching accomplishments of
the agencies of the United Jew-
ish Appeal in the decade since
the outbreak of World War II,
it. was reported by Henry Mor-
genthau, Jr., general chairman
of the UJA, in a survey of the
Appeal's wartime and: - . postwar
relief, reconstruction and re-
settlement programs.
"More than 1,000,000 people
who are today alive and rehabili-
tated, or on the road to reha-
bilitation, owe their lives to the
unprecedented efforts and gen-
erosity of the American JeWish
community, as -manifested
through its all-out suport of the
United Jewish Appeal," 'the re,
port said. Outlining the scope of
the operations carried on by the
UJA agencies since the last war
began, Morgenthau cited the fol-
lowing figures as highlights of
the accomplishments of the Uni-
ted Jewish Appeal:

with funds provided by the UJA.
3. Appro:!:imately 200,000 Jewish refu-
gees -entered the United States. Of this
number 120,000 were resettled and en-
abled to become self-supporting by the
United Service for New AmericanS. with
the aid of UJA funds. The bulk of these
have already become American citizens.
4. During the war. when non-military
shipping was reduced to •a minimum, more
than 80.000 refugees were nevertheless
transferred- to Palestine, the United States
and other countries from Allied and neu-
tral nations to which they bad.. escaped
from Nazi-occupied Europe. The great ma-
jority of the Jewish DP camps and in-
stallations in Europe have been emptied
as a result of the JDC emigration pro-
gram.

2—THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, September 9, 1949

1949 Balfour Ball
Set for November 5

Comnmnity Center, Shaarey Zedek
To Host Program Planners' Institute

Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, - presi- afternoon will be devoted mainly
dent of the Jewish Community to demonstrations of available
Council, announced details of
resources of the Jewish Com-
At a meeting at the home of the annual Program Planners' munity Council. Lawrence
Institute
to
be
conducted
by
the
Harry Cohen, plans were set for
the 1949 Balfour Ball, which Council Culture Commission of Cram, co-chairman of the Cul-
ture Commission, will preside.
will be held Saturday, Nov. 5,
Selections of choral music will
at the Hotel Statler.
be heard from the Mastersing-
Morris M. Jacobs, president of
ers. Jewish music on records
the Michigan Zionist Region,
will be presented by Moe Kesner,
discussed latest happenings in
and a film on Israel, "Israel Re-
Israel. David
born," will be shown. A talk on
"These figures," Morgenthau
an, treas-
the Jewish community of Amer-
stressed, "only cover . the high-
urer of the
ica will -be given by Morris Lie-
lights of the. work done by' the
Zionist Organi-
berman, -president of the Labor
JOint Distribution Committee,
zation o f De-
Zionist Organization of Detroit.
the United Palestine Appeal and
troit, spoke
"Songs of Friendship," a film;
the United Service for New
about his recent
"My Native City," a radio tran-
AMericans. They do not reveal
visit to Pales-
scription, and "Man in a Cage,"
the heroism of the thousands of
tine and the
a film strip, will be included on
men and women who performed
ew significance
the program. For reservations
incredible feats during the war,
that "S ho e m
and information, call the Coun-
and since, in saving as many as
leichem" h a s
cil, WO. 3-1657.
possible of Europe's -Jews, q,000,-
taken on since
000 of whom were murdered by
he visited Sho-
Zellman
the Germans."
lem Aleichem
To Seek $15 Million
Street in Tel Aviv. Robert Mar-
For Weitmann Institute
wil,
who
also
recently
returned
Canadian Adults Oppose
1. Palestine received and settled 390,000
from Israel, stressed the import-
immigrants with t he aid of the Real Estate Covenants
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A $15,-
ance of continuous support by
United Palestine Appeal. Of these, about
000,000 endowment campaign
250,000 entered since the establishment of
AmeriCan Jews. Among others at
MONTREAL—(JTA)—Restric- the
Israel. Some 35,000 of the immigrants
to meet the minimum re-
meeting who recently visited
in the ten-year period were children 16. tive real estate covenants are
Rabbi Morris Adler -
2. One hundred and forty new agricul-
quirements of the Weizmann
Israel was Ruben Kaplan.
opposed
by
68
per
cent
of
Ca-
tural settlements were established in Pal-
With Dr. Philip E. Lachman the Jewish Community Council,
Institute of Science will be
estine to house and provide employment nadian adults, a survey made
launched at Rehovoth, Nov.
for the immigrants. These settlements
as
chairman
of
the
program
at
8:30
p.m.
Thursday,
Sept.
15,
were set up on land of the Jewish Nation- public by the Canadian Insti- committee and Rueben Gold as
2 when the Institute is for-
at Shaarey Zedek, and at 2:30
al Fund, which acquired 1,603,392 dunams tute of Public Opinion revealed.
mally opened, it was an-
co-chairman, a program of gen- p.m. Sunday, Sept. 18, at the
nounced by Meyer Weisgal,
eral appeal is being planned for Jewish Community Center.
chairman of the Institute's
the Zionist communal fund-
The Thursday program will be
executive council. The official
raising ball. Among the bene- devoted to discussions, questions
opening ceremonies have been
ficiaries of the Balfour Ball are: and answers concerning various
timed to take place on Presi-
Youth Commission, scholarship phases of the problem. Rabbi
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
dent Weizmann's 75th birth-
for ,local student in Israel, edu- Morris Adler, chairman of the
day.
cation,
publications,
Brandeis
Culture Commission, will preside.
Germans' Preparation for 'More Experienced' Hitler
•
Camp,
counteraction
to
anti-
Aims and goals of cultural pro-
Talk is increasing about the rise of a more arrogant sort of
Nazism than was in evidence in Germany under Adolf Hitler, and Israel and anti-Zionist propa- grams will be discussed by Rabbi
ganda
and
public
relations.
Moses Lehrman. Planning for
observers of new trends in Europe continue to warn that the
Harry Cohen is chairman of the year will be handled by Re-
fascist spirit is being felt everywhere. Students of conditions in
becca Sanders, program chair-
Germany point out that the danger of a new Nazism is growing the ball.
and that insofar as the Jews in Germany are concerned the threat
man of the Council of Jewish
of progroms is felt everywhere.
Detroit Listed in Survey Women, who will deal with the
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e
Seymour Freidin, writing for the New York Post from Zurich,
Jewish scene, and Esther Green, left - wing Mapam — United
tells the story of Johann Meinhold of Munich who is visiting rela- Of Communities Aiming chairman of- the American Jew- Workers Party of Israel—which
tives in - Switzerland. Meinhold spoke frankly about "the generals At Improved Structure ish Congress - Council - of Michi-- has the second largest represen!-
(who) betrayed Hitler." He told Freidin: "They sabotaged him in
gan, the American civic scene.
tation in the Knesset has in-
the war. It would have been different if we had military men who
Eleanor Wolf, executive secre formed the government that it
NEW
YORK
At
least
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were faithful." -
local Jewish communities have tary of the Jewish Labor Com- wishes to participate in the co-
Freidin describes the existing situation, as exemplified by
mittee, will present available
Meinhold, as follows: . "It has become quite fashionable - these days -recently completed, or are cur- community resources. Jewish alition Cabinet.
rently involved in, major com-
A Ministerial committee made
to discuss Nazism in many places in Europe with a flavor of deep munal studies of structure -and music will be discussed by. Jason
nostalgia. There's a frightening tendency to talk about National program; a survey by, the Com- Tickton, and the role of publicity up of Labor Minister Golda My-
Socialism in much the same vein that kids back home reflect on mittee on Community Organiza- in increasing attendance, by erson, Finance Minister Eliezer
Kaplan and Immigration Minis-
a pitcher who was great for a long time and, then, suddenly lost tion of the Council of Jewish Wilfred B. Doner.
ter Moshe Shapira will meet to
his stuff."
Federations and Welfare Funds
The program for Sunday consider Mapam's request.
Meinhold—and Freidin reports that "there are lots of Mein- reveals.
holds around"—refused to say what "trade" he was learning. "I
Among the community actions
will admit," he said, "that most of the Americans who always think
are the recent revision of
about business are the Jews. When we rebuild Germany this time listed
the
Detroit
Jewish Welfare Fed-
we won't have them to worry about. We'll. all be true Germans.
eration
constitution,
and the
What, actually, is this "trade" of the young Munich Nazi?
By BORIS SMOLAR
Meinhold told Freidin it is none of his business, but added : "I meetings, by committees of the
(Copyright, 1949, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
talk to my fellow Germans -. Right now, I'm only talking in the Federation and the Detroit Jew-
smaller communities. I haven't had much experience. Only a little ish Community Council, to ex- Political Notes
Israel leaders seem at present to be interested in two major
over a year. In another year, I shall be permitted to larger audi- plore the two groups' relation-
ships and functions.
aims in the United States . . They want to counteract the
ences in the bigger cities."
Commenting on the CJFWF tendency of the State Department to seek, at the United Nations,
Thus, the preparations are going on, as Meinhold said, when
"we will have a glorious Fourth Reich." And the democracies, by compilation of community ac- internationalization for . Jerusalem and revision of Israel's bor,
encouraging the rebuilding of -Germany before its denazification tivity, Stanley C. Meyers, of ders .. . And they are anxious to maintain the active interest
Miami, CJFWF president, and of American JeWry- in the Jewish state . AS to the status of
are helping the Meinholds!
There is entirely too much talk—and action—in support of Julian Krolik of. Detroit, chair Jerusalem, all indicationS point to the • fact that the UN General
_Nazism even in our own land. The Klan again is riding freely and man of the committee, declared Assembly may decide to put the city under a UN High •Commis-4.
high. Even where its mask is banned, its white garbed uniforms that community action in this sioner for a few years with a plebiScite among the- inhabitants
are being displayed by unmasked.men. The Ku Klux Klan showed sphere reflects "the maturity to follow .. In the meantime, the Jewish part of Jerusalem
its cheek in New York where it staged a dastardly demonstration and alertness of the American would be under JewiSh muniCipal administration while the Old.
in breaking up the Paul Robeson meeting recently. We subscribe Jewish communities in seeking City, inhabited by Arabs, would be put under Arab municipal
to the viewpoint expressed editorially by the New York Post: "We constantly to raise already high management—with both municipalities responsible to the UN
infinitely prefer Robeson's baritone to his, bombast; but we de- standards of communal service. High Commissioner .. . With regard to maintaining continued
interest of American Jews in Israel, it is feared in Israel that
fend his right to use his voice in any way he chooses." As long
as Robeson acts and serves as a front and tool for Communists AJC Intervenes to Aid the present interest in the Jewish- - state is already showing signs
of diminishing among Jews in the United States • .. Israel leaders
and Communism, he only hurts himself; the moment he is attack-
follow with great interest the growing tendency among the Jewish
ed. by the Ku Klux Klan in the fashion in which hoodlums broke Egyptian Students
communities in this country to pay more attention to their local
up his meeting, his antagonists harm the basic ideals of America.
NEW YORK, (JTA)
T h e needs and institutions . . . This is taken as indication that
W. K. Kelsey, Detroit News commentator, in his analysis of the
Robeson incident, warned against the signs of hysteria and bigotry American Jewish Congress has American Jewry may gradually concentrate more and more on
intervened in behalf of two its internal affairs and leave developments in Israel to take
existing in this country. Kelsey stated:
Egyptian Jewish students who their own • course while continuing, as - much as possible, phila4-
AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RIOT-that prevented Paul Robeson from
Jewish - Appeal.
have been ordered to return to thropic aid through the United
giving a recital in a grove 'near Peekskill, N. Y., Saturday evening, has . been
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demanded.. Whether it would turn up anything of value is a question. A dem-
Egypt where they insist they
monstration can easily become a riot if tempers are lost.
face religious persecution and Communal Notes
Hewever, there is one bit of evidence that indicates that someone had Pre-
New York will not be the center of major Jewish conferences
pared to make serious trouble. It is reported that a cross. 'or crosses, was, or
anti-Semitic terror and violence.
were, burned. Now a cross, a Klan symbol, is not hastily impovised. It is
The :Congress presented a and conventions this season . The United Palestine Appeal
constructed in advatice, with malice aforethought. Somebody in the gathering
was out for something more than peaceful protest.
brief and:exceptions to a prelim- will hold its national conference in Washington- . . . Hadassah
The question has also arisen whether the authoritiie were aware that a Pre-
inary adverse ruling in the cases will meet in national convention in San Francisco .. . The
test demonstration was to be made. If they were, it was their duty to have
officers en hand tc} see that it did not become disorderly, and that it did not
of the two - students who seek to Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds will conduct its
interfere with either Mr. Robeson's right to sing, or the right of the audience
remain in this country under General Assembly in Cincinnati . . The Joint Defense Appeal
to hear him.
the DP immigration law. The will meet . in Detroit The Joint Distribution Committee and
MR. ROBESON, WHO HAS SHOWN signs of hysteria on other occasions,
sees in the Peekskill disturbance a hint of a 'nationwide campaign of terror,"
names of the students have been the American Jewish Committee are the only two major organiza-
directed against 'progressive forces" according to one part of his statement, and
"Negroeis" to another. Others have found it Fascist, and anti-Semitic. An in-
withheld for fear of retaliation tions which will hold their annual meetings in New York . .. 1.4
vestigation might turn up- some evidence en these points, if it showed who - get
by the Egyptian authorities is a tradition with them to have their annual gatherings take
up the demonstration (for it certainlly was not spontaneous), and what was in
place in no city other than New York . .
his Mind.
against their families. -
The United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York is completing
One commentator has called the riot "un-American." In the sense that it
was contrary to expressed AmeriCan ideals, it was. In certain other respects, it
plans for the acquisition of its own building which will become
was typically American. There is too much bigotry in this country hiding behind
Abdullah Wants Agaba
an important center of Jewish activities
the mask of patriotism. When it is given- the courage of collected numbers, which
The building will
it does not possess individually, it is likely to take the form of mob violence.
Developed, Arabs Settled not only house the officeS of the UJA but till also have large
Some have expressed surprise that the incident happened in New York State.
It. could as well have happened in Michigan.
halls where • meetings and conferences dealing with the UJA.
LONDON — (JTA) — King Ab- campaign will be held .. . Tens of thousands of dollars are
Here we have a warning not only against the recurrence of dullah of Transjordan, address- being
spent yearly on rent for the holding of UJA functions in
mob violence but also against the spread of Nazi idea• Those who ing a press conference, declared New York hotels and in public halls .. . This money will
incite to riot here help the Meinholds in Europe. And if the Mein- that the development of the port saved for the UJA when all these functions will henceforth be
holds succeed it will be to the detriment not -of Jews—bedause of Aqaba as a "gateway to the held in its own building . . .
there will be few, if any, Jews left in the land of the Nazis—but of East" was foremost in his mind.
The Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds is being
the entire world.
He said the resettlement of Pal- flooded with inquiries by local communities on various appeals
It is high time that the democracies prepared against the rise estine's Arab refugees was an for contributions . . . During an eight-month period, the
of the new and stronger Nazism. The danger of the rise of an- "inescapable human duty of the replied to 1,122 inquiries concerning 363 national and Council
overseas
other (more experienced?) Hitler is close at hand.
world." - •
agencies.

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