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Unity in Jewish Ranks Encourages Reparations
Austrian Government to Initiate
indemnification Negotiations
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
Editorial: UM Emergency
$35,000,000 Needed NOW
• Israel faces an emergency and American Jews are challenged
to provide the protection that is so\urgently needed for the tens ,
of thousands of newcomers in the infant state who Must tern-
porarily live in the Maabaroth, in their temporary shelters;
The approach of winter is accompanied by menacing threats
frOm the elements. The Maabarcith must be protected, the new:
immigrants Must be clothed, their shelters must be reinforced.
Only the United Jewish. Appeal funds can provide the -needed
protection. Only our voluntary gifts, recently made in the form
of .pledges to the Allied_ Jewish Campaign, can provide the
sinews for the saving of lives and the protection (If the recent
settlers in the new land.
• Detroit Jewfy recently completed its Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, whose major beneficiary is the United Jewish_ Appeal.
Our gifts are valueless unless they are translated into cash. It is
urgent that our community2should cooperate in the current col-
lection effort to secure adVaince payments on UJA pledges in
the amount of $35,000,000. Thi
s is the minimum needed at once
so provide relief for Israel's newcomers. We urge contributors
!o the Allied Jewish Campaign to pay their pledges NOW, to
facilitate the raising of the $35;000,000 national emergency
fund, and we call upon those who have not yet contributed to
the .drive to do so immediately,
United Jewish Appeal leaders have indicated that "there
are 70,000 Jews in Europe and 84,000 in Moslem countries
whose survival now is contingent on the cash funds made avail-
able to the UJA." For the sake of those yet to be rescued and in
the best interests of the existino- communities in Israel, it is of
the utmost importance that the
b collection drive should bring
the.desired results: the sum of $35,000,000 before the end of 1952.
0 Detroit Jews always have responded well to the UJA and
SO the collection appeals. The current call to action must con
tinue this splendid . record.
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The Austrian government has decided to initiate negotiations with major Jewish
organizations on payment of restitution to Austrian Jewish victims of Nazism, leading
members of the government confirmed Tuesday to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Talks
will start on technical levels to be taken over later by Cabinet representatives.
Chancellor Leopold Figl, Vice-Chancellor Adolph Scharf and Foreign Minister Karl
Gruber; who received the JTA representative in Vienna, outlined their views on the
reparations issue. -They said talks would be started with representatives of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, Joint Distribution Committee, Jewish Agency and World
Jewish Congress. At a later date, representatives of the Austrian Jewish communities
will be brought in. .
While Chancellor Figl is in favor of reparations payment to the Jews and is supported in
this by Dr-; Gruber, Dr. Scharf, the strong man of the Social . Democratic Party, opposes them.
In a written statement handed the JTA, Chancellor Figl stressed that Austria did not oppose
Payment of reparations to Jews and asserted that, as much as was possible under present laws,
Austrian Jews had received back their houses, businesses and the positions they had held in gov-
ernment offices during the pre-Nazi period.
"We know of no. discrimination," Chancellor Figl insisted. "However, many buildings are
still occupied by Allied, occupation forces and cannot be returned to their former owners."
The government chief said that "our primary concern is to maintain our economy. We then
want to establish what the. Jewish claims amount to, whether our economy permits having this
claim satisfied and within what period of time it can be satisfied. The government decided as
a first step in this direction tp have ministry officials confer with representatives of Jewry and
to establish proposals. Our government could hardly have been expected to consider requests
for reparations when four Jewish organizations came to us each with different proposals and
demands. However, now that these organizations have united it has become possible that rep-
resentatfves of these organizations meet with officials of our ministries and work out a program
to be presented to the cabinet."
"The cabinet," Dr. Figl declared, "will defiaitely not disregard the opinions of the Jewish
organizations. believe that now a proper way will be found. I wish to draw attention to the
fact that it was easier for the German governnient to settle the Jewish reparations problem
because the entire. income from the spacial N9 Zi taxes imposed on the Jews has remaized in
Germany." Dr. Figl Said that Austria had not received the property taken from the Jews but
nevertheless had displayed its goodwill by concluding a credit agreement with Israel "which we.
could not easily afford." He described this as a sacrifice to establish good relations with Israel.
He urged the Jewish organizations to have confidence and reminded them that he had been
a Nazi prisoner in Dachau along with the present leader of the Vienna Jewish community.
He said that Austria did not wish to enrich itself at the expense of others but said, "we can
only return property which is still available, lii;e businesses, real estate and dwellings, but no
money or jewelry which disappeared."
He stressed the need for disposition of heirless property without other organizations rising
later to claim the same property, and warmly welcomed the uniting of the four Jewish bodies to
deal with the 'problem.
—Earlier Repirations 'Story . fen Page 3.
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Cantor's Detroit Date:
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PAL ES
jUIPS FOR TUG-41S
Procession of the Palms in Portuguese Synagogue in ilmsterdam .
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Frain- Hollywood, Eddie Cantor, who became
ill on Sunday, sends a message and an admoni
tion to Detroit Jews—to be sure and keep the
date they originally had with him on Monday.
In a wire' to. Joseph Holtzman, he urges Detroit
Jews liberally to support the Israel bond drive.
Under the chairmanship of Joseph Holtzman, the dinner on Monday, at Sheraton-Cadillac,
will officially launch the fall campaign for Israel bonds in Detroit. Mr. Holtzman called
upon Detroit Jews to turn the event into an "Eddie Cantor Get-Well Party." Reservations
for the dinner still are available by calling WO. 2-5091.
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