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VOLUME - 16—No. 25 708-10 David Stott Bldg.—Phone WO. 5-1155 Detroit, Michigan, March 3, 1950
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Wanted: 110,000 UJA Volunteers 4,000 in Detroit
Protect Israel 'Open Door' Policy,
U.S. Jewry Asked in National Call
Peace Nears
With Jordan
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—Israel Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion convoked an extraordinary Cabinet
meeting to deal with questions of security and for-
eign affairs. The meeting was of such great im-
portance that all - Cabinet members cancelled
scheduled appearances at parliamentary commit-
tees to be able to attend.
The major question discussed involved condi-
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tions for permanent peace with Abdullah.
It was indicated that Jordan consented to
transfer to Israel the Jewish quarter of the Old City
of Jerusalem and to guarantee free access to Jews
tattle Wailing Wall. Jordan also is reported to have
agreed to open the Latrun road.
- • The Cabinet heard a report from Foreign Min-
ister Moshe Sharett on the draft of a five-year non-
aggression pact between - Israel and Jordan which
- negotiated secretly for several months and
which provides that the armistice . lines *au
- be
reCognized as boundaries. Israel sources believe that
the pact may be approved, but the Knesset must
first vote on it.
Does Israel Get U.S. Arms?
Issue Becomes Complicated;
Arab Threats 'Unconcealed'
By Jewish News Correspondents
WASHINGTON.—A source close to the State Depart-
ment maintained that Israel has been receiving American
arms since the UN embargo was lifted last August and that
American tanks already have reached Haifa. Thus, while
defenders of Israel have charged that the U. S. had taken
a 'one-sided attitude in support of arms shipments to
Egypt, the controversy now becomes more complicated,
especially in view of the contention of the State Department
spokesman that the U. S. has supplied Israel with more
"aril's than to any Arab state since the embargo was lifted.
But Secretary of State Dean Acheson has reiterated that
he -believes the arming of Arab states is desirable.
. Israel Ainbassador Eliahu Elath conferred for nearly
any hour and a half on Monday with Assistant Secretary 'of
State for Near Eastern Affairs Raymond' Hare and said
later that they discussed the "leak" on the Israel arms re-
quest to the press.
' (In Tel Aviv, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, commenting
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on the Israel request for arms from Great Britain and the
Urtited States, said: "It is no wonder that Israel turns to
every possible source to secure arms when the neighboring
Ar0.13 states can get an endless flow of military equipment."
He- charged that the flow of weapons to the Arabs represents
an "unconcealed and unveiled threat against Israel" and
"completely disrupts the present balance of power in the
Near East.")
Israel Arms Arabs for Self-Defense
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JERUSALEM.—The Israel government distributed
rifles to adult Bedouins residing in Israel in. the Jordan
frontier area of • the Negev.
Bedouins living in Israel terri-
tory have repeatedly been at-
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tacked by Jordan Bedouins.
Two Israel Bedouins recently
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out by Jordan tribesman.
Summarizing
In Tel Aviv it was revealed
that during the past week
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Arab marauders operating in
the suburban area of Tel Aviv
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Tel Mond Jewish villages on
four occasions.
The. 150,000 homeless Jews who must be transferred to Israel this year with the help
of the United Jewish Appeal are now streaming into the Jewish state from Europe and
North Africa. Among.the year's first arrivals were these children from Poland, shown at
Immigration Center "B" near Lydda. American Jewry 'is called upon to rush funds now
to help the United Jewish Appeal transfer 25,000 Jews from Poland to Israel. The Polish
government has set. Aug:. 15, 1950, as the deadline for emigration to the Jewish state.
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"Hold the miracle line" is the motto that was adopted this week by Julian
the : Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit; in the, initial
,1-i,,Krotiki__Pr6isirkkt
call for volunteers for -the'19.50 Allied Jewish Campaign:
Referring to the accomplishments in rehabilitating the Jews of Europe and
North Africa and in assisting the brave - people of Israel as a "miracle," Mr.
Krolik stated in his appeal: "Once again we are mobilizing for a united total effort to
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help raise suffiCient resources for our responsibilities, wherever
they exist. In that united campaign, we need your help. We need you
as a worker, as, s well- as a contributor, and I hope that you will sign up
Call for
immediately to give your service in the driVe to hold the miracle line.
The more of our citizens who serve in the 1950 Allied Jewish Cam .-
Yolunter
paign, the faster and more effectively the job will be done."
Mr-. -Krolik's appeal echoes the call that was issued nationally
,Army
last week-end, at the UJA mobilization conference in Miami Beach,
Fla., by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., national UJA chairman, for 110,000
men and women, throughout the United States, "as a volunteer army
to raise the largest sum ever contributed to the • United Jewish Appeal:" The estimated
minimum UJA need this year is $272,455,800.
In his call for workers and contribUtors at the national mobilization meeting, Mr.
Morgenthau said that4 a state of financial emergency exists in Israel because of its open
door policy for unlimited immigration. He - declared that "America must have a decisive
role in the future of Israel," and added tha t special campaign procedure is being -set up
to assure immedate cash remittances to the Jewish . state through bank loans 'in num-
erous communities, to be repaid out of contributions to the 1950 drive. Detroit's Jew-
ish Welfare _Federation recently made a million dollar bank loan for WA.
U. S. Attorney General J. Howard Mc Grath, the coluninist and radio commentator
Drew Pearson, Spyros P. Skouros, president of 20th Century-Fox Films, Abraham Fein-
berg, national chairman of -the UJA trades and industrial division,
Julian B. Venezky, chairman of the national UJA cabinet, and Moses
Must
A. Leavitt, JDC executive chairman, were among the speakers who
joined in urgent calls for action in 1950 by the Jews of this country.
Rescue
The aid of a National Christian Committee for the UJA, under the
chairmanship of Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., has been
1,000,000
enlisted in the drive. Emphasis was -placed on the necessity of rescu-
ing -1,000,000 Jews in Europe and North Africa who are waiting for
Jews
the earliest opportunity to settle in Israel.
Mr. Venezky emphasized that "we cannot keep these people wait-
ing indefinitely. This migration can be completed in a matter of six or seven years with
the help of the UJA." Mr. Leavitt saw brighter prospects for emigration from Iron Cur-
tain countries. He stated : "The Polish government is permitting the departure of emi-
grants up to Sept. 1. I can reveal to you that already, since the first of the year, some
6,000 Jews have left Poland for Israel. If all 'goes well, and if there are the funds, it may
be possible for 20,000 to leave. Hungary is permitting 3,000 emigrants to leave for Israel,
and this movement is expected to start in a matter of weeks. Finaly, some 2;000 emi-
grants are expected to depart from 'Yugoslavia to Israel next month."
Spearheading the 1950 UJA campaign, the mobilization conference at Miami Beach raised a
total of $6,400,000 from 600 community leaders, including a number of Detroiters. The Jewish
community of Chicago gave $2,500,000, which was secured as a bank loan against forthcoming
UJA gifts. Miss .Pearl Boyar, daughter of Lou Boyar of Los Angeles, presented the largest indi-
vidual gift—$200,000—iri behalf of her father an d his associates in his construction company.
U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman, who was unable to attend, sent a gift of $75.000 in behalf of
himself• and Mrs. Lehmaril
Attorney General McGrath's strong plea emphasized that the work of the UJA "is relate-
ed to the timetable that may mean life or - death for many innocent human beings. Your efforts
in helping Israel cope with the great immigration problem and in aiding that new nation to
achieve a sound and progressive structure of democratic government represents a truly Amer-
ican obligation."
Mr. Pearson warned against the piling of weapons in preparation for another war against
Israel and warned that Hitler's forces are at work again and that in Germany "they interpret
freedom of speech as open season for anti-Semitism." He declared: "Provided you refer to mass
murder by a different name, you can still call for the annihilation of the Jews."