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Prof. Martin Buber:

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Axil • n o Controversial Issues
In M. diver Report Postponed by
NCRAC; En ors e Basic Directions

December—Busy Month
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For Jewish Community

December will be a busy month for the Detroit
Jewish community.
Many events are planned by the Jewish Com-
munity Center for Hanukah and for Jewish Book
Month. Hanukah will be observed Dec. 23-31. Jewish
Book Month concludes on the last day of Hanukah.
During December, the Detroit Israel' Bond Or-
ganization aims to sell $1,500,000 worth of Israel
bonds. Bond workers will retort on results of their
ac4vities at rallies on Dec. 13 and 27, to be ad-
dressed by Dr. Frank Kingdom .and Pierre Van
Paassen.
The Zionist Organization of Detroit will dedicate
the Zionist House at a series of events scheduled to
start on Dec. 26 and to conclude on Dec. 30.

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114A to the Rescue:

This house
•ife and her children stand before a butcher shop
in Tel Aviv that has been closed by the serious
food shortage. The photo explains the United Jew-
ish Appeal's current nationwide drive for cash
through' which the United Palestine Appeal can
help Israel overcome its serious problms, and pro-
vide medicines and health facilities.

Shorthand fin. Israel:

Fledgling

secretaries pound typewriter keys in the newly-
instituted commercial curriculum' at the Beth Zei-
froth Mizrachi in Tel Aviv, one of the network of
projects sponsored in the Holy Land by Mizrachi
Women. Shorthand, typing and secretarial curricu-
la augment the vocational high school's varied
programs in home economics, dress designing, ped-
sigogy and institutional management.

ATLANTIC CITY—(AJP) —Amid sharp deb ate, caucuses and compromises, delegates to the
National Community Relations Advisory Council plenum have adopted the general directions em-
bodied in the controversial Maclver Report, but postponed temporarily any decision on several
storm center issues, including allocations and the division of responsibility on the American scene.
A six-point program, including a preamble, was unanimously adopted late Monday by delegates
representing the American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, American Jewish Commit-
tee, the Jewish War Veterans, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith and the Union of Ameri-
can Hebrew Congregations. The decision came on the heels of two days of heated debate in which
four major Jewish groups supported the recommendations of a special committee on evaluative
study while two bodies, ADL and the committ cc, at first battled a proposal which would empow-
er the NCRAC executive committee to act on the thorny issue of division of responsibility.
The agreement adopted at the plenary sessions here postponed until not later than June
15, 1952, any decisive action on recommendations touching on the division of responsibilities and
Maclver's proposal in regard to the interfaith aspect of Jewish community activity in the U. S.
The key point adopted by delegates here provided for the Committee on Evaluative Study es-
tablished by the NCRAC to "submit specific recommendations for logical and practical division of
labor among thd national agencies" at the June m eeting.
Under the agreement reached here, NCRAC was barred, for the present, from adopting any of
the evaluative study committee's recommendatio ns on this point, unless by unanimous vote of the
member agencies. The study , committee was instructed to present its recommendations to the
NCRAC by May 1, 1952, for final action by the plenum not later than June, 1952.
In what was considered by delegates here as an important step, the various agencies affirmed
the authority of the plenary to affect decisions by a majority vote. Observers viewed this as af-
fording any recommendations accepted by the plenary, when it next meets in June, a note of finality.
The evaluative study committee's recommen dations to the plenary session next June might or
might not embrace recommendations advanced bY the author of the Report, Prof. Robert Madver.
In establishing a time-table for future action on the storm center point of alleged duplication
and- overlapping of Jewish defense agency activity, the plenum favored "a continuing process of
joint program planning within the framework of
the NCRAC," adding that "certain divisions of re-
Israel Sifts Soviet Warning
sponsibility should result from this process."
The same plenum will act next June upon
On Western Mid-East Pact
recommendations on financing Jewish communi-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Cabinet discussed the
ty work, under agreement reached here. A com-
Soviet note in which the Israel government was warn-
mittee representing the NCRAC and the Large
ed that adherence by the Jewish state to the proposed
Cities Budgeting Conference was instructed by
Middle East Command now being organized by the
the plenum to devise such a plan for airing in the
Western powers would be considered by Moscow a
Spring as well as for action before the 1952 Gen-
hostile act against the Soviet Union.
eral Assembly of the Council of Jewish Feder-
From London it was reported that it is under-
ations and Welfare Funds.
stood there that Iraq and Lebanon have agreed to
A less important resolution adopted here
join the Middle East Command, although the Arab
reaffirmed an NCRAC agreement reached in
countries are among the lands which were warned
1944 concerning the relationship between na-
by Moscow against joining a defense arrangement.
tional organizations and local community
From Paris it was reported that Israel Foreign
groups. This resolution barred national groups
Minister Moshe Sharett and British Foreign Secre-
from undertaking local programs without first
tary Anthony Eden had their second meeting. Earlier,
obtaining the approval of the local council.
Mr. Sharett met with U. S. Secretary of State Dean
The NCRAC session called for the issuance of
Acheson.
an executive order by the President establishing
(It was reported in London that Mr. Sharett told
an FEPC, for federal, state and local legislation
Secretary Eden that Israel cannot commit itself ex-
to assure the full civil rights of all Americans
clusively to the West. The report said that Israel will
for the safeguarding of civil liberties, for U. S.
remain outside of the Middle East defense pact, but
ratification of the Genocide Convention, and for
will receive economic and military aid in anticipation
a change in Senate rules to defeat filibusters.
that she will join the Western powers should war

break out. The report added that Secretary Eden had
acknowledged appreciation of Israel's situation,)

Fascinating 'Enterprise:

Israel Institute:

Dr. Louis Finkel-

stein (right), chancellor, Jewish Theological Semi-
nary, and Dr. Hayim Greenberg, member of the
executive board of the Jewish Agency, discuss the
work of the newly established Seminary-Israel In-
stitute, aimed to develop spiritual ties between the
Jewries of Israel and America. Institute sessions
will begin at the Seminary in. February.

Israel's cooperatives fascinate these two guests
from India who are studying the economic and
social experiments of Histadrut. The set-up of
Hamashbir Hamerkazi, Histadrut's wholesale co-
operative that serves a hundred thousand families
in Israel, suggests a solution to some of India's
troubles. The Detroit Histadrut drive for $300,000
will start Jan. 64

