Weizmann Warns 'Mission'
Israel Looks to U. S. Aid
Mizrachi Names
Acting President
Dr. Pinkhos Churgin of New
York City has been elected act-
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ing president of the Mizrachi
newed wave of persecution of Jews in Iraq," a foreign ministry Organization of America. He
succeeds Leon Gellman, whdl left
spokesman announced.
Asserting that the latest wave of persecutions began on Yom
Kippur, the spokesman said 10 Jews arrested in Amara, south, of
Bagdad, including the head of the local community, had been
jailed and tortured "in Nazi style" to make them confess mem-
bership in the Zionist movement.
, The spokesman said • that
since the State of Israel had dicated the Agency must spend
been established the Jews of between $4,000,000 - $4,500,000
Iraq had been the victims of a monthly to maintain the 90,000
barbarous regime's racial perse- Jews now housed in reception
cution.
camps. He estimated the cost
New Acts of Terror
of feeding and sheltering 'new-
"To the general discrimina- ly-arrived immigrants in Israel
tion long suffered by the Jews during the coming year at
of , Iraq have now been added $50,000,000.
new acts of terror, including
Monroe Goldwater, president
detention in concentration
of
the United Jewish Appeal of
camps, confiscation of property
and staged trials," the Foreign Greater New York and a mem-
ber of the UJA delegation now
Ministry spokesman stated.
touring Israel, said he was "au-
He added that there are 130;- thorized
by David Ben Gurion,
000 Jews in Iraq and some of
DR. PINKHOS CHURGIN
Premier
of
Israel, to say that a
these Jews whose lives and pos- recent Jewish
Oct. 21 for Jerusalem to assume
Telegraphic
sessions had been jeopardized
Agency report attribiiting cer- the chairmanship of the execu-
had tried to escape to Israel.
tain statements to the Prime tive of the World Mizrachi Or-
"The fate of Israel hinges Minister
concerning the immi- ganization.
upon the fate of immigration," gration of
Dr. Churgin will serve as
Jewish youth from
Foreign Minister Sharett told
president of the American re-
America
was
a
distortion
of
his
a Mapai meeting in Ramat Gan,
ligious-Zionist movement until
views."
Gan, near here.
Goldwater added: "I lam per- the next national convention in
"We are compelled to saturate
the summer of 1950.
the country with people" in suaded that at no time did the
At present dean of the Teach-
preparation for any emergency," Prime Minister say or give any ers'
Institute of Yeshiva Univer-
reason
to
believe
that
Israel
is
Sharett said. "It is difficult to
Dr. Churgin has been af-
assess the repeated reports of a interested in anything but free- sity,
with the university for
"second round" of warfare pre- will immigration of any Jews filiated
dicted by the Arabs," he added, wishing to enter this country." Jewish history a n d literature
28 years and is now professor of
"but it is obvious that every
Until his election to the presi-
minute is most precious to us. New 'Der Stuermer'
dency, he was 'a vice president
Our power, and our nation must
of Mizrachi, and served on its
Called Anti-Semitic
be increased."
administrative board during the
Can't Place Controls
past 10 years.
"We cannot place any con-
LONDON (JTA) — British
trols on the rate of immigra- Foreign Secretaary Ernest Bevin
tion" to Israel, Berl Locker, told Parliament he could not in-
Jewish Agency executive chair-
man in Jerusalem, told the terfere with the proposed publi-
United Jewish Appeals' "emer- cation of the German anti-
gency mission." (Since this talk, Semitic paper, "Der Stuermer."
Mr. Locker has been in the His reply came after Barnett
United States.)
Janner, Laborite M.P., asked
Mr. Locker said no immigra- whether the foreign secretary
tion controls could be imposed „knew the printer of "this hor-
"because emigration is a matter rible pornographic paper," wide-
of life or death for Jews in ly circulated during the Nazi
some countries." Without men- period, has intimated that he
tioning the country of origin,. will resume publication.
he disclosed that 20,000 Jews
came to Israel during the past
six weeks from one country Urge Jews Not to Hate
while another 20,000 are coming New German Republic
from the same nation.
He added that 500 Jews are
BUDAPEST, (JTA)—The cur-
now arriving daily in the Jewish rent issue of Uj Elet, organ of
state from this unnamed coun- the Jewish community of Buda-
try, in addition to the "flow of pest, carries a letter from the
newcomers from other areas." "German Democratic Council"
The Agency official said the and excerpts from some of its
immigrant reception centers literature which call for the
has reached 90,000. "We cannot Hungarian Jews not to hate the
regulate immigration," he de- German people and the new East
clared, "when fear of persecu- German Republic for the crimes
tion drives them to our shores." of the Nazis. The letter says it
Need Millions Monthly
would be wrong "to mingle
Meanwhile, Levi Eshkol, new- hatred of the German fascists
ly-elected Agency treasury, in with the German people."
2 DP Commissioners Are Finally- Sworn In
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — After are Harry N. Rosenfield of New
more than a year's delay while York City and Edward M.
their- appointments were in- O'Conor of Buffalo.
volved in the controversy over
the provisions of the Displaced
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UPA Urges Welfare Funds
Give Top Priority to UJA
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON; (JTA) — The
national United Palestine Appeal
convention held here adopted a
resolution calling on all welfare
funds and local communities to
lend their efforts toward rais-
ing every possible dollar in be-
half of the United JeWish Ap-
pears beneficiary organizations.
One thousand delegates from
38 states attended the parley.
The resolution called for:
1. Joint establishment' by the
UJA and local welfare. fund and
communities throughout the
country of local quotas and the
joint determination of percent-
ages of funds collected to be
allocated for overseas needs.
2. Conversion immediately of
all pledges into cash so UJA
agencies can meet the urgent
needs essential to the survival of
the more than 85,000 Jews in
transit camps in Israel.
3. Refrain from expansion of
local services and the initiation
of new projects which would
of necessity deprive the UJA of
funds for Israel.
4. Make immediate plans for
the 1950 campaign of the UJA
and reconsider and revise any
ollotments- of funds coil cted
during 1949 so that the UJA will
obtain funds in proportion to
the critical situation facing its
agencies.
The convention also unani-
mously adopted a resolution
calling on President Truman to
"lend the weight of his influence
in the United Nations to in-
sure a solution of the problem of
Jerusalem that shall be both
equitable and practical."
The Jewish community of
America 'must be roused "to a
frenzy of excitement about the
need for cash so that it will
pour into the offices of the
offices of the United Jewish Ap-
peal and out to Israel," Henry
Morgenthau Jr., general chair-
man of the UJA 'told the dele-
gates.
Asserting that "so far we have
only done fairly well," Morgen-
thau told the delegates that "we
haven't begun to - match the
sacrifices of the Jews of Israel—
even in terms of mere dollars."
Israel Ambassador Eli a h u
Elath stressed "that there is no
desire on the part of the govern-
ment of Israel to intervene in
the internal affairs of the Jew-
ish 'community in the .United
.
States,"
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