WA Adopts Goal of
Warburg Remains Chairman;
$85,000,000 Raised in 1951
ATLANTIC CITY (AJP) — bring about more effective sup
Buckling down to the year-long port for Israel.
needs of world Jewry in explo-
Bond sparkplug Henry Mon-
sive, uncertain times, 1,000 Jew- tor sat in on all important UJA
ish community leaders here una- committee meetings over the
nimously adopted a $151,500,000 week-end — a first step in
goal for the United Jewish Ap- smoother, more effective plan-
peal's nationwide campaign for ning between the two groups,
1952.
Adoption of the figure follow-
- ed disclosure that American
Jewry had contributed $85,-
000,000 with the presentation
of $7,000,000 in checks by de-
legates to William Rosenwald,
a UJA national chairman.
observers felt.
in the Israel Parliament. He
declared that Mr. Ben Gurion's
.comments "have been subject
to unfortunate misunderstand-
ing." He stressed that "Mr.
Ben-Gurion could not have
said nor, meant to imply that
there is no longer any need
to worry about the financing
of mass immigration to Israel."
"What Mr. Ben-Gurion did
say and what is true," Mr.
Looker asserted, "is that with-
in the forseeable future the
sources of catastrophic immi-
gration now available to us
will be exhausted." Mr. Locker
emphasized that Mr.Ben-
Gurion did not say that there
will be a lack of Jews able
and willing to go to Israel but
that there will be a lack of
countries willing to let them
A heavy round of applause
greeted Supreme Court Justice
William Douglas, a principal
speaker at the National Confer-
ence of the UJA.
A highlight of Douglas' ad-
dress was this:
If a fraction of the money
A draft movement calling
upon Edward M. M. Warburg to wasted on corrupt governments
go.
remain at the helm of the huge had been spent in Israel by
David Zvi Pinkas, Israeli Min-
fund-raising apparatus took hold the United States, the State ister of Communications, re-af-
at early sessions of the National of Israel today would have no firmed the reliance of the Israel
Conference of the United Jewish problems."
government on the UJA, declar-
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Appeal and resulted in War-
burg's unanimous election for Greater Coordination
the second consecutive year as
Asked by Conference
general chairman of the UJA.
Delegates, in setting the 1952
ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA)—The
quota, pointed out that it was
the minimum 'sum that Ameri- three-day annual national con-
can Jewry must raise in order to ference of the United Jewish Ap-
meet a world-wide rescue and peal adopted a resolution calling
settlement program estimated at for a greater degree of national
and local co-ordination in plan-
$175,400,500.
The setting of a specific ning the drive of the United
goal marked the 'first time Jewish • Appeal and the Israel
bond issue. The resolution rec-
since 1949 that an exact figure
was cited. as a UJA campaign ommends that local committees
establish coordinating commit-
objective.
Warburg, in accepting a se- tees where none now exist and
cond term, declared that "our that all local co-ordinating corn-
help in 1952 must take a new mittes meet immediately to de-
turn; our principal objective velop the necessary plans for
must be to aid Israel and con- 1952.
solidate the great gains she has
Israel Ambassador Abba S.
made to date."
Eban, in an address to the de-
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, re- legates, described the United
elected executive vice-chairman Jewish Appeal as the "first in
of the Appeal, praised American the field as an instrument of
Jewry for its efforts in raising massive financial effort for
$85,000,000 in last year's UJA Jewish rehabilitation." He ex-
drive.
pressed the hope that the
To the tremedous applause
$151,500,000 goal for 1952 will
151,5
ing that there was "not an atom
of truth" in the contention that
"the government of Israel has
concentrated all its interest in
the Bond Drive to the exclusion
of the United Jewish Appeal."
He emphasized that 'far from
standing in mutual contradic-
tion the UJA, and the Bond
Drive are, in view of the Israel
go v e r n m en t, complimentary
operations each engaged in its
special sphere of aid to Israel.
Rudolf G. Sonneborn, national
chairman of the United Pales-
tine Appeal, who presided at the
opening session, told the confer-
ence that the chief task facing
UPA agencies in 1952 is "to
speed the process of making im-
migrants a productive force
within the social and economic
framework of Israel. Ellis A.
Radinsky, director of the UPA,
said its agencies in Israel would
require $147,825,000 in 1952 for
transportation, absorption and
agricultural programs.
Moses Beckelman, European di-
rector general of the Joint :Dis-
tribution CoMmittee, said that
in 1952, the JDC will require a
minimum of $23,507,300 for re-
lief and welfare programs in
Europe and the Moslem coun-
tries and for hard-core cases
in Israel. Walter Beiringer, pres-
ident of the United Service for
New Americans, said that the
USNA and the New York Asso-
ciation for New Americans will
require $4,068,200 in 1952.
'History of- Jewish People'
Translated Into Spanish
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — A
Spanish translation in the com-
plete 10-volUme "History of the
Jewish People," by Prof. Simon
Dubnow, noted Jewish historian,
was published here by a local
publishing .house. The transla-_
tion into Spanish was made by
Dr. Leon Dujovne of Buenos
Aires.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
—
Friday, December 21, 1951
Observving Lipsky's 75 Birthday
of an audience hailing the re-
turn of one of American Jew-
ry's foremost leaders, Rabbi
Abba Hillel Silver delivered a
two-fisted blast on any at-
tempts to appease the Arab
states at the expense of Israel.
• Delivering his first major ad-
dress before a United Jewish
Appeal body since his split
with Henry Montor more than
three years ago, the Cleveland
rabbi told delegates that "the
United States must not repeat
the tragic blunder of Great Bri-
tain by appeasing the Arabs at
Israel's expense.
Hailed as one of Silver's
finest oratorical presentations,
the address before a packed
audience was of the no-punch-
es-pulled vintage which thrill-
ed throngs in the pre-Israel
era.
Jewish Agency Chairman Na-
hum Goldmann hailed the con-
ference as a sign of ()Towing
Maturity in Jewish circles to-
ward the long range program of
aiding Israel. In place of emo-
tionalism, Goldmann observed,
there was a soberness of the
continuing efforts which must
be exerted to assist Israel.
i
Any existing disputes be-
tween two great and necessary
efforts for Israel—the UJA and
the Israel bond drive—failed to
stir open controversy here.
Instead delegates approved a
resolution urging a greater de-
gree of coordination both on
the national and local level to
be effectively attained and
that "a successful United Jew-
ish Appeal will radiate its
victorious example to all other
branches of our common ef-
fort."
The Israel Ambassador em-
phasized that the preservation
of the Jewish state depends upon
the success of several efforts "for
economic consolidation." He list-
ed these as aid received from
the UJA, the sale of Israeli
bonds and the intergovernmen-
tal aid from. the United States.
He revealed that "our efforts
in Washington to enlist govern-
mental aid have prospered and
are still going forward in an
atmosphere of co-operation be-
tween the Department of State
and the ,Embassy of Israel."
John W. Gibson, chairman of
the U.S. Displaced Persons Corn-
mission, told the conference that
the United States and Israel are
"freedom's port of call for refu-
gees." He pointed out that "the
U.S. and Israel have played lead-
ing roles in seeking the solution
of the refugee problem inherited
from World War II." He lauded
the Jewish state for doing "one
of the most magnificent jobs of
resettling displaced persons and
refugees in the world."
Bed Locker, chairman of the
Jewish Agency who came from
Jerusalem to address the ses-
sion, made reference to Pre-
mier Da v i d Ben - Gurion's
statement of last Wednesday
—American Jewish Press Newspix
—American Jewish Press Photo
Rabbi ABBA HILLEL SILVER exchanges handshakes with
'NW Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas at last weekend's
important National Conference of United Jewish Appeal in
Atlantic City. Looking on are BERL LOCKER (extreme left),
Jerusalem head of the Jewish Agency, and UJA general chair-
man EDWARD AA, M. \WARBURG. Dr. JONAH WISE, a na-
tional UJA chairman, is pictured at. the extreme right
Hundreds of old-timers in American Zionism flocked to a midtown New York
Yor k hotel
fast week to fete veteran . Zionist Louis Lipsky at a surprise party on the occasion of his
75th birthday. Lipsky happily slices a huge birthday cake as part of the celebration (1):•
familiar cigar in hand, Lipsky and his wife receive an ovation from the throng (2) ; the
haunting songs of Israel were rendered by attractive Eleanor Stone (3) ; what's a birthday
party without a present? Judith Epstein, hostess for the evening, presents Lipsky with the
first of a 15-volume gift on the annals of the theater (4) ; a host of speakers greeted Lipsky
on his 75th birthday, including Avraham Harmon, Israeli official (5) , Dr. Henry Atkinson,
noted Christian Zionist (6) , Rose Halprin, Hadassah leader (7) , Rabbi Jerome Unger, ex-
ecutive director . of the American Zionist Council (8) , Mrs. Epstein (9) full of wit and
charm Lipsky brought chuckles from his wife and Dr. Atkinson (10) as well as the more
than 300 guests at the American Zionist Council-Jewish Agency tendered party (11).