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UJA-Bond Issue. Divides Indianapolis
BIG Leaders Defy Federation
Request for Six -Week Respite
INDIANAPOLIS, (JTA , —Israel Minister of Labor Golda Myerson
was the princi?al speaker here Sunday night at a dinner held by the
Israel bond drive over the opposition of the local Jewish community
which had insisted that active sale of bonds cease for a six-week
period during which the Indianapolis Jewish Federation would hold
its annual campaign for funds for local, national and over s eas needs,
including the United Jewish Appeal.
Bond drive officials reported that more than 650 people attended
the dinner and that Israel bonds to the value of S155,000 were sold
at the function. Federation officials, who placed the attendance at
500, said that almost all local Jewish leaders refused to attend the
function. They said that the situation brought into the open the
national conflict between the national bond office and the Nationlal
United Jewish Appeal over failure to achieve national coordination bf
the two efforts. They said that Edward M. M. Warburg, general chair-
man of the UJA, and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, its ex,ecutive vice-chair-
man, had telegraphed Julian Freeman, president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, supporting the community stand. Leaders of the
Federation addressed a community religious service on Friday, pre-
ceding the bond dinner, at which the Federation's position was re-
affirmed.
The Federation disclosed that it had rejected a proposal that
Mrs. Myerson appear in Indianapolis under the joint auspices of the
bond ()Ave and the UJA. "The Federation," it was stated, "could not
accept co-sponsorship of its opening Federation-UJA campaign with
an - organizationthat was not a beneficiary and was not a philan-
thropic program." They also reported that 39 of the largest bond
purchasers in Indianapolis had signed a statement condemning the
holding of the bond dinner.
Mrs.!Myerson told the dinner that "as we stand on the threshold
of the fourth anniversary of our independence, the development of our
economy is the most decisive factor in our future." She stressed the
need for "investment dollars to give us the machinery. electric power.
raw materials for our factories, steel for new railroads—the resources
that can make us self-sustaining in the next six or seven years."
The Israeli Labor Minister also urged support of the Indianapolis
Jewish Welfare Federation campaign in order to aid in reception
and care of new immigrants to Israel.
Governor Henry F. Schricker lauded the state of Israel's efforts to
achieve economic security and drew a parallel between its struggle and
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THE HAGUE—Departure of the German delegation late Monday night
consultations with the West German government marked the end of the first stage
of the negotiations on reparations claims made against Germany by the state of
Israel and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
The Germans are expected back with concrete proposals in response to the
claim for one billion dollars made by the state of Israel and the claim f o r
$500,000,000 filed by the Jewish conference. -
An Israel delegation spokesman said Tuesday that the discussions had reach-
ed a stage where there was nothing left to discuss except the sum itself. •
"We have made it very clear to the Germans," he .said "that the Israel
delegation is interested in continuous undelayed progress. We have no desire to
debate indefinite offers but want a concrete offer from them. They felt they
ulting with their government
could not make a concrete proposal without con s
first. While no time limit was set, the two delegations agreed that the German
answer would be made within the next few days."
It was made clear here that discussion of the sum Germany would pay
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Israel in settlement of Israel's claims for compensation for expenditures i n
finish
the
work
of
the
present
conference
settling victims of Nazism would not
but would represent a cross-roads.
"Once the question of the sum is settled, there remain to be settled the time
of payment and the method of payment," the spokesman declared. , "Further de-.
veloprnents depend on the answer the Germans bring back from Bonn and whether
the Israel claim is accepted."
The 'spokesman ascribed the speed and expedition with which the first stage
two factors. The first, he said, was that the
of the • talks, was completed to
Israeli delegation arrived so well prepared for the talks that what would
have required three weeks to clarify was cleared up in less than two. This he
said was largely due to the presence of Dr. George Josephthal, director of im-
migration of the Jewish Agency, who had on his fingertips the answer to every
question asked.
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"Let the hungry come in and
ear —the undying message of Pa!vs.
over
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beckons
to us anew as
prepare to usher in the Festival of
Freedom, at the first Seder, on
Wednesday evening. May this mes-
sage inspire our community to great
iy
action in behalf of the less fortunate.
May it introduce an era for service
through the Allied JeWish Cam-
paign, which provides the funds for
the United Jewish Appeal.
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