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UJA Leaders Told Israel's Future
Is Responsibility of World 'Jewry

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Lipsky Is Elected Center President Garvett's
Unanimously Head Holiday. Greetings For World Peace
Of Zionist Council Jewish Community Center for continuance of Detroit

NEW YORK — The American
Dr. Goldmann warned that a can communities, adding: "But
Jewish state- of 1,000,00 to 2,000, all of us know that the great Zionist Council announces that
000 will not survive unless the Jewish communities of t h e Louis Lipsky, veteran leader of
jeWish people everywhere iden- United States will not go under
over 40 years of
tify themselves with _and "shake if building programs are de-
• s ervice to
off the present symptoms of layed awhile."
:American Zion-
apathy which are beginning to
Edward M. M. Warburg, chair-
ism, was unani-
appear. If world Jewry stops man of the Joint Distribution
mously, elected
its help and loses the sense of Committee, told delegates that
to the post of
equal responsibility for the the job of rehabilitation and re-
chairman of the
Jewish state, it will collapse and settlement of European Jewry
Council on Sept.
the greatest historic venture in is not yet finished and addi-
8. At a meeting
Jewish history will end in a tional funds were needed to
attended__by
'shameful episode of Jewish im- complete operations.
heads of all
Maturity and irresponsibility,"
Mr. LipSky Zionist parties
Moses A. Leavitt, JDC execu-
he declared, adding that while tive vice-chairman, reported in the United States Lipsky was
the stature of Jews has grown that the immigration crisis in pressed into service to take
With Israel, the collapse of Israel Israel is having repercussions in over the direction of Zionist
would adversely affect the pres- the remaining displaced persons public relations at this critical
, tige and security of Jews every- camps in Europe . and other juncture in Zionist history.
Where.
areas where Jews await trans-. Elected to serve with Mr. Lipsky
He said that "the collective portation to the new state. "In were the following: Vice-
responsibility of all Jews of the remaining DP camps of chairman, Mrs! Judith Epstein,
the world for the 'future and Germany, Austria, and Italy, former national president of
fate of Israel is an established and in the nearly 20 emigration Hadassah; secretary, Rabbi Max
fact from which one cannot camps the JDC maintains in Kirshblum, executive vice-pres-
rim away. If anything should Marseilles, North Africa and ident of Mizrachi Organization
happen to this state, it would Aden, tens of thousands of peo- of America; treasurer, Pinchas
be a defeat not only for its ple are waiting, miserable and Cruso, secretary of the political
citizens, but would be a catas- uncertain; fearful of making the committee of the Labor Zionist
trophe for every Jew in the journey to which they . once Organization of America—Poale
World."
looked forward- with hope and Zion.
Dr. Israel Goldstein, retired enthusiasm," he asserted. In L Rabbi Jerome Unger, who has
treasurer of the Jewish Agency, North Africa and Moslem lands served until now as associate
who returned last week from "hundreds of thousands of Jews , director of the Zionist. Organ-
• Israel, warned th'at failure of are living under conditions ` zation of America; has been
the UJA might mean the spread which are , incomparably worse named as executive director of
Of CommurliSm in Israel. He than that of Jews of the DP the Council.
said that while there is now camps or even the reception
The management of the af-
but one Jewish Communist in centers of Israel," he added..
fairs of the Council has for the
the Knesset "there is no telling
Eliahu Elath, Israel Ambas- past three months been in the
What may happen if Israel will sador to the United States, hands of a four-man Praesidium
be compelled unaided to cope - said his presence at the meet- which took charge on an in-
With its economic problems."
ing "is' evidence of the deep terim basis following the resig-
- Dr. Goldstein said that it was
concern of my government nation of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver
"unreasonable to expect this with the purposes of this on June 16.
infant state, surrounded by hos- emergency conference." He said
tile neighbors, to fend fOr itself Israel has strained her econ-
lit these crucial formative years °dry to the utmost to. absorb. JWB Send? Military Posts
of its life. If • American Jews' 285,000 immigrants since the Supplies for Holy Days
relax• their support they will new state was established.
give-- encouragement to the About 190,000 of the new ar-
Arrangements for bringing
enemies of Israel who would like rivals, or 70 percent, have High _Holy Day services to Jew-
to' smother this infant and they . found gainful employment, he
Will forfeit the moral right to said. In addition there are ish servicemen in the remotest
ask the Christian world- for po
70,000 persons still in recep- installations of North America,
litical and • economic help to tion camps for whom both Europe, Asia and the Caribbean
Israel." _
jobs and homes must be area have been completed by the
National Jewish Welfare Board.
Judge Morris Rothenberg, na- found.
tional chairman of the UJA,
Aubrey S. Eban, Israel's dele- Large quantities of prayer books,
declared that it is not the in- gate to the UN, hailed the UN shofars, talesim, holiday leaf-
tention of UJA leaders to under- economic survey mission in the lets, skull caps and other items
have been shipped to Jewish
estimate local needs in Ameri- Middle East.
chaplains. in Japan, Okinawa,
Guam, Hawaii, the Philippines,
Germany, Austria, and the West
Indies.
The total JWB operation—in
the U.S. , and abroad—which will
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involve some 210 Jewish chap-
lains and 33 JWB and USO-JWB
viewed Monday night by Speaker Yosef Sprinzak, in the closing
directors will be carried out at
hours of the*session. Before the body adjourned until Nov. 7. it
some 500 military posts and Vet-
adopted Israel's first free public education bill. The bill provides
erans Administration hospitals.
for free education of all children between 5 and 13 years of age.
It was opposed by General Zionist and Progressive - party members
because it perpertuated the quadruple school system now in ex-
istence. Separate systems are , maintained by Mizrachi, Labor,
General Zionists and Agudas Israel.
LAUSANNE, (JTA)—Israel and*
Arab delegates participating :n
Israel Labor Leader
the UN Conciliation Commission
peace talks here were surprised
when Sir Desmond J. F. Morton,
British deputy chairman of the
Commission's economic survey
Mission, who arrived here a few
days ago from London,• brought
with him what is interpreted as a
new British policy regatding the
Middle East. Sir Desmond and
Gordon R. Clapp, U. S. chair-
Man of the mission, left for the
Middle East.
The new policy can be sum-
marized' as follows: 1. Since a
durable peace in the Middle East
Makes it imperative that all
states in that area have as few
alien minorities within their ter-
ritories as possible, it is desirable
that there not be a big Arab
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minority in Israel, nor a large
Jewish minority in Iraq; 2. Al-
though no figure is final, the
British view seems to be that
Israel's offer to readmit no
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ISRAEL STOLARSKY,
More than 100,000 Arab refugees
is the maximum compatible with prominent Labor Zionist, has
'the Jewish state's internal se- been named assistant secretary
curity; 3. Israel must Compen-
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sate the Palestinian Arabs who of the National Committee for
have been displaced, but this Labor Israel, Joseph Schloss-
compensation should be two- . berg, general chairman of the
part-payment by Israel of a committee, announced. Mr.
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lump sum to the Arabs and the Stolarsky has been active in
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transfer to Israel of the more behalf of the Israel Histadrut
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than 1100,000 Jews now living in
his
arrival
in
campaign since
Iraq.

president Morris Garvett voiced
a New Year prayer fdi "world
peace and universal freedom"
in extending High Holy Day
greetings to the Jewish com-
munity of Detroit.
"How appropriate," Garvett
said, "to pray, with all the vigor
of our minds and hearts, that
the Rosh Hashanah we are about
to observe will see the beginning
of visible achievements on the
path to'world peace and univer-
sal freedom."
Garvett continued with a call

Jewry's interest in its communal
affairs. Citing the part of the
Center in expanding its cultural
work, creating understanding of
Jewish issues, goals, and enhanc-
ing the positive identification
of Jews with their group, he
termed the activities a general
striving to achieve "a spirit of
Jewish affirmation."

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, September 16, 1949

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