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The Jewish News joins with the entire community in welcoming to Detroit Israel's Ambassador
to the United States, the distinguished scholar. statesman and orator, Abba Eban, who comes here
officially to open the 1952 Israel bond drive. May he meet with complete success in his efforts here.
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Arabs Organize Tunis Pogrom;
or African Jewry Is Menaced
Reports reaching Paris from Tunisia on Monday revealed that the pogrom against the Jews in Tunis assumed the form of organized mob rule.
At least one Jew was killed and considerable property belonging to Jews was damaged by an Arab mob that invaded the Jewish quarter of Tunis.
A JTA report states that the Arabs apparently were organized into two groups which attacked the Jews from different directions. Police broke
up the clash by firing into the air.
Leaders of the Jewish community of Tunis, which numbers 35,000 people and represents less than 10 per cent of the city's population. have ar}-
up the clash by firing into the air after scores were injured.
Contrary to facts, newspaper stories and radio announcements in this country reported the Tunis outrages as "clashes between Arabs and Jews."
in spite of previous experiences which indicated the helplessness of the Tunisian Jews against the overwhelming number of Arabs who have
been attacking their quarters periodically.
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to the Jewish News
TEL AVIV
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An appeal to the Israel government to seek the protection of Jews in Tunisia where anti-Jewish attacks have been going on for
several days was made here Tuesday by the association of immigrants from North Africa. A similar plea was sent by the association to the World
Jewish Congress.
The anti-Jewish developments in Tunisia have aroused grave concern in political circles in Israel where it is assumed that the Moslem attacks
against Jews in Tunis started after Israel acted negatively in the request by Arab countries at the United Nations to call a special session of the UN
Assembly to discuss the Tunisian dispute.
It was revealed Tuesday that Israel, in taking the attitude that there is no need for a special UN session, was of the opinion that since the UN'
Assembly is to start its regular session four months from now the French government might in the meantime find a solution to the Tunisian problem
and reach some understanding with the Moslem nationalists in the French Protectorate.
Meanwhile the office of the World Jewish Congress on Tuesday asked the French Minister here to transmit to the French Foreign Office in
Paris a request for appropriate measures to be taken by the French authorities in Tunisia to defend the Jews there from further possible attacks. The
French Minister agreed to transmit this request immediately.
The recent anti-Jewish riots in Tunis have not caused the Jewish population of Tunisia to speed up immigration to Israel, Itzhak Raphael. Jew-
ish Agency member, reported Tuesday at a meeting of the Agency. He said that the current rate of 500 immigrants a month could be increased if
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ficulties in connection with communications could be cleared up.
Allied Jewish Campaign to Close
At Luncheon Meeting on June 27
Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign will close officially at the report luncheon meet-
ing Friday, June 27, at the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Building. 163 Madison.
In the interim, a report meeting will be held today, at the Butzel Building. to bid
bon voyage to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtzman, who are leaving next week for a visit
in Israel.
At today's meeting, it is expected that the total subscriptions will exceed the
$4,000,000 mark. But with a minimum quota of $5,200,000, the campaign is not having
the success that was anticipated and great effort will have to be exerted during the corn-
ing few days to secure the million dollars short of the goal.
Abe Kasle, campaign chairman, refusing to admit defeat, informed his associates
in the drive that by contacting all unsolicited prospects it is possible to secure the en-
tire minimum sum needed to provide for the basic needs for Israel and the 50 additional
local, national and overseas causes.
At the campaign workers' rally last Sunday. at Knollwood Country Club, more than $140,-
000 was paid on campaign pledges. The appeal to workers was made by George Jessel.
Mr. Kasle directed his appeal to contributors and to workers. "There pre some who have
not given, and some who may, upon examination. find that they can afford to give more,"
he stated. "Our urgent plea is that both elements should respond promptly—with larger
gifts and with their pledges. Much depends upon this year's work. Israel will suffer if the
United Jewish Appeal funds are reduced. At the same time, it is necessary for us to empha-
sise the necessity for liberal giving in support o f our local causes. Our schools and our many
social service agencies depend entirely upon the income from the Allied Jewish Campaign.
We dare not let Israel down, and we dare not i more the local needs. We hope that those who
have not been contacted will of their own accord call in their pledges to the campaign office,
163 Madison, WO. 5-3939."
Algiers Conference Hears
Jewish Position Is Grave
ALGIERS, (JTA I—The first conference of the North African
Jewish communities affiliated With the World Jewish Congress
concluded a four-day meeting here and endorsed steps taken by
the WJC to improve the conditions of the Jews of Morocco. Urg-
ing continuation of these - efforts, the conference noted reports
of a special status under which Jews in Mazab. Algeria, are
subjected to discriminatory measures.
The conference asked the World Jewish C -mgress to under-
take action that would assure the Jews in that city the same
status that Jews in other parts of Algeria enjoy and also adopted
a decision to establish a permanent body for the purpose of coor-
dinating the activities of the Congress in North Africa.
Attending the conference was a six-man delegation from
Algeria headed by B. Heler, president of the Federation of Jewish
Communities in Algeria: a five-man delegation from Tunis: and
a five-man delegation from Morocco. Representing the WJC
executive were A. L. Easterman, political director:, Dr. A. Stein-
berg. head of the cultural department; Dr. G. Riegner and Marc
Jarblum, members of the WJC executive.•
In a political survey, Mr. Easterman warned the parley
that the anti-Jewish attitude of the Arab states was likely to
continue and in recent months had taken new forms. He said
this problem must be dealt with on an international level. The
WJC, he added, is making representations to the governments
whose citizens are affected and whenever necessary, to the
United Nations, to secure the rights and liberties of Jewish
minorities.
Plea to Outlaw Mass Murders Falls on Deaf Ears
Genocide Convention Opposed by
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright. 1952, Jewish Telegraphie Agency. Inc.'
WASHINGTON—Fifty-nine United States Senators have indicated
agreement with Rep. John E. Rankin, of Mississippi, by sponsoring a con-
stitutional amendment aimed against the United Nations Human Rights
and Genocide conventions. Rep. Rankin condemned the Human Rights pro-
gram as "Communistic fanaticism" and called on the Senate to oppose it.
Denouncing advocates of the UN program to protect minorities,
Rep. Rankin said: "They have been run out of practically every country
iat Europe in the years gone by, and if they keep stirring race trouble in
country and trying to force their Communist program on the Chris-
tian people of America, there is no telling what will happen to them there."
- Despite the fact that the earliest Congressional attacks on Human
Rights came from Rankin, Senator John W. Bricker, of Ohio, and Sen.
• : t McCarran, of Nevada, insisted they were defending "freedom" by op-
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the UN Human Rights accord. The State Department had told
e Senate that it wants to guard against any repetition of genocide, spe-
cifically mentioning the Nazi extermination of Jews. But Sen. Bricker
'd: "I deny that any human being has ever been obligated to murder
er human being."
Sen. Bricker last month openly stated that "the UN draft covenant
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on Human Rights has been the primary target of my criticism." To pre-
vent American ratification of the draft covenant, he introduced Senate
joint resolution 130. This would provide for a constitutional amendment
to restrain this nation from joining with other nations in expressing con-
cern over the welfare of minority groups through ratification Hof the Hu-
man Rights principles. And he proudly announced that 58 other Sena-
tors. including such influential leaders as Robert A. Taft, had joined them.
Two years ago Dean Rusk, former Deputy Under Secretary of State,
begged the Senate in vain to ratify the genocide convention. He said the
United States has cooperated in the past "with other nations in the sup-
pression of such lesser offenses as the killing of fur seals. It is natural
that other nations look to the United States for cooperation in the sup-
pression of the most heinous offense of all — the destruction of human
groups."
Mr. Rusk said the destruction of European Jewry so shocked civilized
society that any such mass murder should be prohibited by the interna-
tional community. He told the Senate that "the worst atrocities of Nero
against the Christians failed to reach the level of those perpetrated by
Hitler against the Jews. No one can yet have forgotten the organiZed
butchery of racial groups by the Nazis, our enemies in World War II,
which has resulted in the extermination of some 6,000,000 Jews."