Predicts Israel
Will Get Arms
During Summer
Campaign Hits $3,074,536
o. In Third Week of Solicitation
Although last Tuesday's Allied Jewish Campaign report
luncheon was the fifth since general solicitation started more
than three weeks ago, pledges listed by that date had just
topped the three million dollar mark, or 57 per cent of last
year's total.
Reports from all divisions brought the total t
$3,074,536.
Honored at the meeting was-
the professional division, of
which Dr. Charles Lakoff is
chairman, which topped the
trades groups with 63 per cent
of its 1949 achievement, $401,988.
Harry Grossman, vice chairman
of the attorney's section, report-
ed for the division and cited in
particular the social service and
religious service groups, which
have raised 92 and per cent,
respectively, -of their quotas.
"Every agency local, • national,
and overseas, supported by this
campaign will be affected by its
outcome," Isidore Sobeloff, ex-
ecutive director of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, told the
sparse assemblage of workers.
He reminded them that if the
campaign total drops,- and if lo-
cal agencies are given sufficient
funds, then overseas needs will
remain unfulfilled, and vice
versa
"Detroit is considered a rich
community," Sobeloff declared,
"and cities all over the United
States are looking to our com-
munity to set an example in
fund-raising."
He concluded his brief talk
by reminding the campaign
personnel that workers must be
as diligent and as enthusiastic
at' the wind-up of a campaign
as they are at the beginning.
Nathan Stresses Needs
"The philanthropy associated
with the United Jewish Appeal
in the past four years is unpre:-
cedented in human history, but
it is not yet enough. We must
judge the adequacy of our gifts
by the need," Robert Nathan,
economic director of the Jewish
Agency, told Allied Jewish Cam-
paign workers at their fourth
report luncheon last Friday.
fr-I Nathan, although he pointed
Out the important activities of
the United Service for New
Americans and Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, co-beneficiaries,
with the United Palestine Ap-
peal, of the UJA, emphasized the
needs of the latter agency in
pointing out the continuous, and
increasing, importance of large-
scale fund-raising.
He described the major
achievements in Israel in its
two years of statehood, con-
trasting the constructive atmos-
phere prevalent there now with
the apathy of the Mandatory
Government which he felt when
he visited Palestine before the
independence declaration.
Admire Government Setup
The first achievement, Nathan
said, is the setting-up of the
government. "We must respect
the effectiveness of their organ-
ization," he declared, admitting
that the government has its
faults but that its accomplish-
ments in such a brief period are
nonetheless remarkable.
Second feat of Israel's state-
hood, the young - economics au-
thority declared, is its security
precautions. The war was more
severe and brought about more
destruction than reports in this
country indicated, Nathan stat-
ed, describing steps which the
Israelis have taken since the
armistice for their own defense.
He gave the examples of Ein
Geb, which put a tremendous
amount of resources needed
elsewhere into huge under-
ground defense facilities, and of
another settlement which de-
stroyed a large banana planta-
tion because it was serving as a
curtain for Arab infiltration
movements.
The third and most important
of Israel's achievements is the
admission of 400,000 immigrants
in two years, with 315,000 al-
ready at least partly absorbed
into the social-economic struc-
ture of the country, Nathan de-
eared. Israel's determination
never to close its gates as long
a.s there is anyone left who
wishes to enter stems from the
personal, tragic contact of the
,
ROBERT NATHAN, Jewish
Agency economist, answers
SIDNEY SHEVITZ' question
on Allied Jewish Campaign-
supported building programs
in Israel.
majority of the Israelis with the
destruction of European Jewry,
he explained.
Economic Picture Good
"The United States. economic
picture for this year is good,"
the campaign speaker stated.
"If the Jews of this country
were to contribute only one-
fifth of their increased resources
this year, the UJA quota would
be oversubscribed," he predicted.
"We must catch our second
breath in fund-raising," he
concluded, "and be partners
with Israel in the great task of
providing for the immigrants."
Divisional . reports that day
brought the campaign total to
$2,937,712, or 54 per cent of last
year's total. Largest percentage
reports were made by the Pro:-
fessional and Food Service di-
visions, with 59 and 57 per cent,
respectivily, of their 1949 ac-
complishments.
The Women's and Junior Di-
visions were setting the pace for
the general solicitation workers,
chairman of the day Louis Berry
pointed out, by recording 83 and
81 per cent, respectively, of their
1949 totals.
Frankfurt Periodical
Clings to Hitler Legend
.
FRANKFURT — (JTA)—A
new attempt to keep alive the
Hitler legend in Germany has
been made by the Frankfurt
magazine "Tempo der Welt"
which in its latest> issue pub-
lishes an alleged interview
with Martin Bormann, Hitler
lieutenant who is believed to
have perished with the Nazi
leader in a Berlin bunker in
1945.
The magazine says that
Bormann is alive and living
in Spanish Morocco "at the
headquarters of a neo-facist
Imderground movement." The
periodical also . asserts that
Hitler is alive and hiding in
a Tibetan monastery.
The press department of
Allied High Commission for
Germany has requested that
American High Commission-
er John J. McCloy take action
against the publication which
is considered here to be fas-
cist and anti-Semitic in char-
acter.
.A warning against ;dismiss-
ing as insignificant the al-
leged interview was issued by
the Evening Standard, a Lon-
don newspaper.
"To dismiss this skillful
piece of propaganda as in-
significant would be foolish,"
the paper said. "The German
people with their mystical
need for strong leadership
might fall only too rapidly
under the spell of neo-Nazis
pretending to be in com-
munication with a Hitlerian
cell in some Tibetan Valhalla.
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1950, JTA, Inc.)
It can safely be predicted that
Israel will get the long-sought
permission to purchase arms in
the United States before the
summer is over. Permission will
be granted by the U. S. govern-
ment if less public pressure is
applied by various groups.
It it known that President-
Truman considers such pressure
more harmful than useful and
did not hesitate to indicate his
sentiments in this respect.
Washington looks with dis-
favor on the conference which
the American Zionist- Council
has called for next month to
protest against the State De-
partment's arms policy on Israel,
but it seems that the visit which
Jacob Blaustein, president of
the American Jewish Committee,
paid to President Truman and
Defense Secretary Louis John-
son had an effect.
Although nothing was reveal-
ed of the nature of this visit, it
is obvious that the question of
arms for Israel was one of the
main topics discussed.
Incidentally, the Israel Gov-
ernment does not hesitate to
emphasize its appreciation of
the efforts of the American Jew-
ish Committee in behalf of the
Jewish state. Judge Joseph M.
Proskauer has received—for the
third time—a personal invitation
from Premier David Ben Gurior
to come to Israel as a guest of
the government. Israel's foreign
minister Moshe Sharett sent a
special greeting to the AJC ex-
ecutive committee session in
New York, declaring that the
role played by the American
N ewish Committee in bringing
about the establishment of Is-
rael "will never be forgotten."
United Foundation Adds 52 Directors
Religious, educational and so-
cial service leaders were among
the 52 members named to the
board of directors of the United
Foundation at its first annual
report meeting.
Among the new directors are
Rabbi B. Benedict Glazer s Nate
S. Shapero, Judge Henry M.
Butzel, Dayid S. Diamond, Leo-
nard Simons and Mrs. Henry
Wineman.
Walter C. Laidlaw, Torch Fund
general manager, reported that
a total of $8,855,000 was raised
in last fall's drive, exceeding the
quota by more than a half mil-
lion dollars.
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, May 19, 1950
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