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Allied Campaign to Open April 3

Justice William 0. Douglas
To Address Workers' Dinner

Hon. William 0. Douglas, Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, will come to Detroit to address the
official opening of the 1951 Allied Jewish Campaign ad-
Vance gifts division, at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 3, in the
Grand Ballroom of the Book Cad-
illac Hotel, Abe Kasle, campaign
chairman, announced.
The dinner will be under the
general direction of Louis Berry
and Joseph Holtzman, chairmen of
pre-campaign solicitations.
One of the younger members
of the nation's highest judiciary,
Justice Douglas became a mem-
ber of the Supreme Court, as an
appointee of the late Franklin D.
Roosevelt, in 1939, when he was
only 41 years old. Previously he
had been chairman of SEC, after a
distinguished career in other gov-
ernment posts and as a member
of the law faculties of Columbia
University and Yale University.
Justice Douglas is a native of
Justice Douglas
Minnesota, but spent his early boyhood in the State of Wash-
ington where he attended Whitman College and taught in
high schools. He received his law degree from Columbia Uni-
versity.
Associate chairmen of the pre-campaign division in-
clude Sidney J. Allen, Irwin I. Cohn, Milton K. Mahler, Max
Osnos, Ben L. Silberstein and Leonard N. Simons.
Announcement also was made this week that Nate
S. Shapero, who was chairman of the 1946 Allied Jewish
_Campaign, and Abraham Srere, who with the late Fred
M. Butzel headed the 1936 drive, have been named vice-
chairmen of the 1951 campaign.
The 1951 Allied Jewish • Campaign is Detroit Jewry's
medium for supporting the European and Israel programs of
the United Jewish Appeal, the educational, cultural and civic-
protective programs of essential national agencies, and the
network of recreational, educational, cultural, vocational and
ether services of Detroit's Jewish community.

Israel Seeks Action by
UN, World's Powers in
Defense of Iraqi Jewry

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

Detroit Mobilizes
For Bond Campaign

Max Osnos has accepted the
chairmanship of the Israel bond
drive in Detroit, it became known
this week.
Rudolph G. Sonneborn, promi-
nent UJA and Zionist leader, was
elected president of American Fi-
nancial and Development Corpora-
tion for Israel, which has charge
of the 5500,000,000 nd issue in the
United States, at a meeting in New
York on Sunday. David Horowitz,
director-general of the Israel Min-
istry of Finance, who came to the
U. S. to assist in launching the
bond drive, addressed the meeting.
Arnold Wallick of New York ad-
dressed Detroit Bnai Brith leaders
Wednesday, at a dinner meeting
called in behalf of the Israel bond
drive, at Hotel Statler, and out-
lined the importance of the bond
issue to Israel's economy.
Last week, a group of leaders met
to discuss the bond drive with Alex
Lowenthal, prominent Pittsburgh
leader, and Leo Bernstein of New
York, director of field operations
for the bond drive.
Offices for the Israel bond drive
are being set up here at the David
Stott Building.

JERUSALEM—The Knesset was informed on
Monday by Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
that his government is communicating to the pow-
ers maintaining friendly relations with Iraq facts of
mistreatment of Jews in that country. Reviewing the
growing dangers, Mr. Sharett reported to Parlia-
ment that bank accounts of Jews in Iraq had been
frozen, that all moveable property had been taken
from them, that prospective emigrants were tor-
tured and persecuted and that reports were current
that the Iraq government intended to place all Jews
registered for emigration in concentration camps
pending their transfer.

The Foreign Minister announced that Israel had in-
formed the United Nations that the value of Jewish
property frozen in Iraq would be taken into account in
the settlement of compensation Israel had undertaken
to pay to the Arabs who fled from Palestine.
He told the House that the government warmly
greeted the "exiles of Babylon" now returning to IsraeL
A total of 104,000 Iraqi Jews had registered for transfer
to the Jewish state, he said, of whom 40,000 had already
been transferred, leaving 64,000 awaiting transportation.
The Knesset debate on budget was shelved to permit
the Foreign Minister to make his statement on Iraq.
When he concluded, spokesmen for all parties made
declarations supporting the government's move to aid
the Iraq Jews, calling for the strongest possible measures.
A sensation was caused by the Arab Communist deputy,
Tewfik Tobi, who assailed Iraq's "reactionary . racial
discriminatory policy" and warned that it was hurting
the cause of the Arabs everywhere.
Arrangements to step up the Baghdad-Lydda airlift
were completed Tuesday. With planes shuttling from
Baghdad to Lydda Airport three times daily, it is ex-
pected that the airlift will move 1,000 refugees a day.

2-Week Drive for $5,000,000 in Cash Launched
By UJA to Save Iraqi Jews; Spurs Detroit Drive

NEW YORK—A panic stricken mass exodus to Israel of Jews from
Iraq has confronted the Jewish state with the most severe immigration
crisis in its history, David Horowitz, director general of Israel's Ministry
of Finance, reported to an extraordinary session of United Jewish Appeal
leaders here - who, in immediate response, voted to launch an emergency
two-week drive for $5,000,000 in cash as the first of a series of special
moves to effect the resuce in the next 70 days of 64,000 Iraqi Jews.

Mr. Horowitz, who gave his report Friday to the UJA's National Campaign
Cabinet four hours after landing in New York from Jerusalem, is second in
command to Eliezer Kap-
lan, Israel's Minister of
Finance.
He indicated that the
movement to Israel in - re-
cent days of Iraqi Jews
has ceased to be a process
of emigration and has be-
come an exodus.
Within . the last few
weeks, the Iraqi govern-
ment has taken steps to
sequester Jewish property
and to freeze Jewish funds
in banks following an ear-
lier action setting May 31
as a deadline date on fur-
ther Jewish emigration to
Israel.
The Israel government
official told the Campaign
Cabinet that the future of
the 90,000 Jews of Iraq will
be decided mainly by Amer-
ican Jews within the next
70 days—before the May
31 deadline.
He urged the United
Jewish Appeal to spare no
effort in providing large
sums to enlarge a 'Salva-
tion Airlift" now shuttling
more than 1,200 Jews daily -
These Jewish youngsters in Iraq are among
the more than 64,000 Jews in the Moslem land from Baghdad, capital of
Iraq, to Lydda, Israel.
who must be rescued in the next 70 days.

'the new immigration _ crisis . comes at a time when Israel's resources are
already strained from the effort to cope with difficulties arising out of the en-
try in the last three years of more than 500,000 Jews.
Mr. Horowitz said that Israel will continue its historic immigration program,
especially at this critical time, but that to succeed the Jewish state must have
the full support of American Jews through the UJA.
Among the officers of the United Jewish Appeal and members of the Cam-
paign Cabinet who conferred with Mr. Horowitz was Joseph Holtzman of Detroit.

(The national decision came on the heels of Detroit's tremendous
1951 Allied Jewish Campaign effort and is speeding action for mobiliza-
tion of all forces to raise maximum sums in this year's drive).

Warns Thousands Will 'Converge on Teheran in Spring
Modern Exodus in Offing • •

NEW YORK, (AJP)—In the wake of increasing hostility toward Middle East -,
ern Jewry besieged by the Arab states, the director of rescue operations in that
area warned in an emergency conferenc that thousands of refugees clamoring
for safety in Israel could be expected to converge on Teheran after Passover.
The warning by Samuel Abramovitch, director of emigration and relief pro-
grams for Jews through the UJA in Iran, followed a decision by the anti-Zionist
Iraq parliament to freeze Jewish property and bank accounts
of Jews deprived of Iraq-nationality.
"When the Spring comes and after Passover," Abramovitch
said, "tens of thousands of Jews of Iraq and Iran will flood the
roads to Teheran with the hope of getting to Israel." The JDC
director in Iran recalled that last year's waves of desperate
Jews crowded into Teheran waiting to get to Israel. They
camped in synagogues, cemeteries and open fields.
Mr. Abramovitch reported that in addition to the Jews
of Iraq and Iran arriving in Teheran, there has been a widen-
ing flow of Jews from Afghanistan. He said that Jews from
Iraq, Afghanistan and Kurdistan are given priority for move-
Abramovicb.
ment to Israel to avoid an overflow in the Iranian .capital of
stateless persons.
He estimated that more than 30,000 refugees arrived in Teheran in the lass
18 months.

May 'Ask British Govt. Intervention

LONDON, (JTA)—The situation of the Jews in Iraq was discussed at a meet-
ing of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. Barnett Janner, member of the
. House of Commons, said that the position of the Iraqi Jews closely resembles
that of German Jewry during the beginning of the Nazi period.
Mr. Janner also reported at the meeting that the Executive Council of Aus-
tralian Jewry, the central representative body of Jews in Australia, has ap-
proached the Board of Deputies of British Jews with a request to bring up the
question of mass-admission of Germans to Australia at the current international
an migration which onened in Geneva several days ago.

