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Jewish Leaders As 'Acceptabl
Fulfill ent of Adenauer Pledg
For German Restitution to Jews
UJA Seeks to Solve Israel's Food
Shortage ith $15,000,000 in Cash;
Asks $500,000 Each Day in October
An offer by the West German Republic to negotiate
a settlement of Jewish claims for restitution, made at
Bonn, before the West German Parliament, by Dr. Konrad
Adenauer, the Chancellor, which was overwhelmingly ap-
proved by the Parliament, brought forth demands for con-
crete proposals for restitution from Jewish spokesmen.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish
Agency, in a 'statement in New York, declared that Chan-
cellor Adenauer's declaration "indicates.for the first time
that responsible German leaders are aware that the Ger-
man people as a whole cannot escape responsibility for the
unspeakable crimes against Jewry committed by the
Nazis" and added that any move by the German authori-
ties to combat growing anti-Semitism in Germany "must
be considered as meeting the very minimum requirement
of a society which wants to adhere to the acceptable code
of humanity and the prinCiples of the United Nations."
Dr. Goldmann added: "There can be no expiation for the
dead. But for those who managed to suffer the Nazi terror and
still survive, retribution in some measure can and must be
made. Law and morality demand that the criminal be forced
to yield the profits of his crime. On this basis the government
of Israel and the Jewish people, with the support of all decent
elements in the world, have made certain .-claims upon
Germany."
They're I n:
Commenting upon Chancellor Adenauer's announcement of
the Bonn government's readiness to discuss indemnification with
Israel and the Jewish peOple, Dr. Goldmarin said: "The amounts
involved must be in some proportion to the magnitude of the
destruction of Jewish assets for which the German people are
responsible. Only when the concrete proposals of the West
German Government are made known, both as to the extent of
its planned restitution and indemnification, and the procedure
which it is prepared to follow, can Jewish public opinion judge
the signific=ance of the Chancellor's statement. Certainly, no
arrangement can be considered acceptable unless it satisfies not
only the claims of individual Jews and of the Jewish people as
such, but above all the specific and detailed claims presented by
the government of Israel which have already won the moral
support of the western powers and of Jewish organizations
throughout, the world. Chancellor Adenauer has opened the way
to the only restitution, considering the nature of the crime,
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The "shuttle ship" S. S. Transylvania brings another boatload of
newcomers from Romania to Israel. From Constanza to Haifa, the ship plows steadily
through the seas, carrying from 5,000 to 8,000 persons a month to the new homeland.
While emigration is permitted, the belt-line out of Romania must be kept moving. This
project and other life-saving programs in Eu rope, North Africa, Israel and the United
States are 'financed through the United Jew ish Appeal and carried on by the United Pal-
estine Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and United Service for New Americans.
To help meet Israel's critical shortages of food, housing, medical supplies and health
facilities, the United Jewish Appeal begin ning with Rosh Hashanah is seeking $15,-
000,000 in cash during the month of October at the rate of $500,000 a day as part
Of its emergency nationwide cash campaign to raise $35,000,000 by the end of 1951, it
was announced by Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA General Chairman.
Mr. Warburg, who served as leader of the UJA's Leadership Mission to Israel which has
just returned from the Jewish State, reported on his findings at a press conference held in offices
of the United Jewish Appeal. Other members of the mission included Morris W. Berinstein of
Syracuse, N Y., chairman of the UJA's 36-man National Campaign Cabinet, and Dr. Joseph J.
Schwartz, UJA executive vice-chairman.
The UJA General Chairman said that results of the month-long $15,000,000 drive would be
announced by 1,000 community leaders on Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 27 and 28, at a UJA
national report conference, at Hotel Commodore, New York.
Mr. Warburg described the one-month drive for $15,000,000 in cash as "phase one" of the
UJA's special effort to raise $35,000,000 by December 31, adding that the Report Conference
in New York would mark the opening of the second and final phase of "this determined
effort to help meet Israel's needs by the end of the year."
Mr. Warburg said that the countrywide $35,000,000 cash drive will be under the national
chairmanship of William Rosenwald of New York, who recently returned to this country after
an extended survey of Jewish needs in Israel and Europe.
Mr. Warburg, who launched the UJA's short-term $35,000,000 cash drive in Jerusalem follow-
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ing talks with Mr. Ben-Gurion, emphasized that "while Israel today stands on the verge of great
new accomplishments in - industry, agriculture, and national development, her ability to realize
further progress is being seriously threatened as she strains every nerve to overcome shortages
arising out of an unprecedented immigration and other factors."
The UJA General Chairman ascribed Israel's present difficulties to what he termed her "basic
shortage."
"The chief root of Israel's present crisis," he pointed out, "is her shortage of foreign ex-
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change, of dollars, and it is this deficiency which the United Jewish Appeal must help in part to
meet through its drive for $35,000,000 in cash, $15,000,000 of which must be forthcoming in the
next 30 days."
He emphasized that "while there is no starvation in Israel, the food situation is not good
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and is wearing down the even temper and go od humor with which the Israeli in the past
has met and conquered his hardships." He pointed out that the present food shortage is
•• attributable not only to continued immigrattion and to the deficiency in foreign exchange,
but to last winter's drought.
• At the present moment, he said a total of 70,000 families are without permanent shelter and
that a Jewish Agency program calls for the importation and setting up of 20,000 pre-fabilcated
houses to provide more substantial shelter for 80,000 people by mid 1952. The cost of this hous-
ing has been put at $7,000,000.
Mr. Warburg linked Israel's medical shortages with its other serious deficiencies, asserting
that "the present lack of medicines, equipment and health facilities is dangerous and .forebod-
big." He said that the United Jewish Appeal mission had been advised that $1,500,000 in cash is
Weeded for the purchase in the next four months of surgical equipment„ antibiotics and pharrna-
Ceuticals,
Confer on Immigration:
Discussing
statistics on Western Europe's., refugee and surplus popula-
tion problem, President HARRY S. TRUMAN is shown here
conferring at the White House with officials of the major
sectarian voluntry agencies. Representing the Advisory Com-
mittee to the U. S. Displaced Persons Commission, the group
urged the President to take action in setting up intercsovern-
mental machinery, prior to terminaion of the IRO at the end
of the year. They also asked the President to see that avail-
able money voted by Congress for such a program should be
utilized promptly as America's contribution to such an agen-
cy, pointing out that so long as the problem existed to create
tensions overseas, the peace of the world was endangered.
Spokesman for the group was ARTHUR GREENLEIGH (sec-
ond from left) , chairman of the Advisory Committee, and
executive director of United Service for New Americans, an
agency of the United Jewish Appeal. Others conferring with
the President were (left to right) JOHN W. GIBSON, DP
Commission chairman; the REV. ALOYSIUS J. WYCISLO,
National Catholic Welfare Conference; ROLAND ELLIOTT,
Church World Service, and the REV. ROBERT E. VAN DEU-
SEN T National Lutheran Council:
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