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eimbursement of Nazis' Victims
Speeded; arly Ap royal Awaited

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JERUSALEM—Negotiations between the. United Jewish Appeal and
the Israel bond organization in the United States for coordination of cam-
paigns is continuing, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman, reported to a meet-
ing of the Jewish Agency here Monday night.
Dr. Goldmann also told the session that the meetings last week be-
tween Premier David Ben-Gurion and Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the
Zionist Organization of America, would strengthen the American Zionist
Council and improve relations among the various parties in the Council.
Dr. Goldmann reported on the discussions among the various groups
on the praesidium of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against
Germany for the establishment of a corporation to carry out the confer-
ence's responsibilities in relation to the reparations to be received from
Germany. The Agency leaders expressed confidence that the Bonn parlia-
_inent would ratify the reparations agreement within the next few weeks.
Dr. George Josephthal, one of the negotiators at The Hague talks, re-
ported that the Israel cabinet had made arrangements for the establish-
ment of. a "purchasing corporation to handle the shipment of goods as
reparations from Germany. The Agency will be represented in the com-
pany of which Mr. JOsephthal has been named chairman.
The Agency session decided to hand over to the Israel government
all material pertaining to the transfer of the remains of Vladimir Jabot-
insky, late Revisionist leader, from New York to Israel.
In his will, Jabotinsky requested that his remains be transferred
only when the government of the Jewish state, which was not estab-
lished when he died, decided upon it.

Reimbursement of Individual Sufferers Reported

MUNICH—Individual Jews who failed to file claims for restitution
with the West German states prior to expiration of the deadline for

filing such claims in the United States Zone of Germany have been re-
imbursed or are in the process of being reimbursed for some $5,000,000
worth of property, it was reported at a conference of the Jewish Restitu-
tion Successor Organization held at Berchtesgaden, site of Hitler's home.
After deadline expired, JRSO established a board to handle claims
by individuals, and when JRSO recovers the property or receives payment
for the property, proceeds are turned over to the individuals concerned.
Dr. Benjamin B. Ferencz, director general of the organization, re-
ported that it had turned over some $8,000,000, or two thirds of all the
proceeds it has obtained from German states, for Jewish heirless and com-
munal property since the inception of the JRSO, to the Jewish Agency.
The remainder of the funds recovered by the JRSO have been turned
over to the Joint Distribution Committee for relief and welfare assistance
to Jews in and out of Germany.
Dr. Ferencz said that the organization would recover some further
property because some of its major claims in Berlin still remain to be
settled.
• The JRSO chief pointed out that his organization arrived on the
German scene to insure successful completion of the restitution program
and that it would not leave until this task had been accomplished. He
stressed that implementation of the federal legislation for restitution
agreed to in the reparations pact would need to be watched by an effective
Jewish Organization. He also said. that Jewish groups throughout the world
would have to explain to individual victims of the Nazis their rights under
the federal laws and would have to help them file their claims as well as
secure prompt payment.

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Upon American Jewish
. Committee and A D I
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

NEW YORK—Reactions to the decisions rea ched at the recent plenary session of the.Nation-
ski Community Relations Advisory Council, held in Atlantic. City, now are echoing from many
quarters in the form of a brief but firm messa ge to the American Jewish Committee and the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith: • •
"In the best interests of American Jewry, go back to the NCRAC!"
It is an almost Unanimous feeling that NC RAC, the only agency available-for unified Jew 7
I ish community action in this country, should b e kept intact and that any attempt at weaken-
ing it by organizational withdrawals should be discouraged.
A typical example of the reactions that are heard here is this resolution that was adopted
iiy the board of the Jewish Federation of Cam den (N. J.) County:
"The Jewish Federation of Camden County regretS the action taken by. the American Jew-
ish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith in withdrawing from the Na-
. tional Community Relations Advisory Council. We feel this action was not in the best interest
of the total American Jewish Community. We r eaffirm the purposes of the NCRAC and feel
strongly that there is a necessity for a coordinating agency in the field of community relations and
that NCRAC serves that function.
"We firmly believe in the necessity for joint planning in the field of Community Relations
by national agencies and local communities en gaged in this field. We are also convinced that
re-assessment of the goals to be achieved by th e agencies engaged in community relations work
is not only desirable but necessary and that this can only be achieved through the NCRAC.
"Furthermore, we affirm our support of the resolution on division of labor as adopted by
the Plenum of the NCRAC.
"We hope that the American Jewish Committee and Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith will reconsider its action and re-affiliate w ith NCRAC, the only instrumentality created by
the American Jewish community which can suc teed in coordinating the work being done by
the local and national agencies in the field of community relations."
This resolution has special significance. It comes from a section that is unaffiliated with
NCRAC but whose feelings are sufficiently strong to motivate an appeal to the American Jew-
- ish community at large to retain intact the central organization formed for the coordination of
community relations. The Camden Federation has filed an application for membership in
NCRAC.
Previously, the Jewish Federations of Cleveland and NeWark approved the majority action
at the NCRAC Plenum, thereby joining in the call to the Committee and the ADL to "go back
io the NCRAC."
• • In addition to the Committee and the ADL—each with five votes—only three communities
had failed to back up the majority action in support of\ the Maclver Report, Milwaukee, Oak-
land and San Francisco. Cincinnati split its two -votes between the overwhelming majority and
the minority, thus -accounting for the 17 dissenting votes, and Minneapolis abstained from voting.
Additionally, except for house organs of the national groups involved, Jewish newspapers
have joined in the appeal to Committee and ADL not to splinter the Jewish community.
Communities like Baltimore and Detroit supported the majority. The Baltimore situa-
tion is especially interesting. That community's leaders — including the witty and very able
Sidney Hollander .—• took a stand against the American Jewish Committee, whose president,
- Jacob Blaustein, also is a .Baltimorean. No amount of cajoling was able to deter the Balti-
- more delegates to the NCRAC sessions from voting in support of a coordinated program as
proposed by Prof. Robert Maclver.
But while the NCRAC majority thus is vin dicated in its efforts to coordinate community
efforts, the movement itself will be faced with obstacles created by the withdrawal of two im-
portant member organizations. If NCRAC's. hands are to be strengthened, the numerous local
supporting communities will be called upon to stand back of the central organization, and. other
*ties, hitherto unaffiliated with NCRAC, will be needed to add strength to the movement for
vanity. .
Will NCRAC suffer the same end as the ill-fated American Jewish Conference whose grad -
ual decline began with a similar withdrawal of the American Jewish Committee, whose leaders
.opposed attempts to coordinate Jewish activities in this country? It is believed here that verdict
is in the hands of the numerous American. Jewish communities. If they stand behind the WRAC,
-it can not be destroyed. The verdict is in the lap of Time and its attendant elements. .

UJA's Guest:.

Haim Cohen, Minister of Justice
of the State of Israel and the new State's first Attorney Gen-
eral prior to his entry this past June in Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion's Cabinet, arrived for his first American visit ex-
pressly to address . the United Jewish Appeal's extraordinary
National Leadership Conference which is meeting this week-
end, at the Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D. C. The Israel
Cabinet officer, who will be in this country ,for only a brief
time, will give more than 500 assembled Jewish leaders a
detailed, up-to-the-minute report on Israel's economic and
financial difficulties. The Conference is being held for this
twin purpose: to mark the three quarter point in the UJA's
1952 nationwide campaign and to usher in the final effort
this year to raise urgently needed cash funds for support of
emergency programs in Israel and 22 countries of Europe and
the Moslem world. The UJA objectives will be outlined to
the conference, in addition to Mr. Cohen, by Mayor Oved
Ben-Ami, of Nathanya, Israel; George Jesse!, who recently
returned from Israel; Edward M. M. Warburg, general UJA
chairman, and Jack D. Weiler, national chairman of the UJA
cash campaign. A large delegation of Detroit Allied Jewish
Campaign leaders will attend the sessions. The final phases of
the UJA's 1952 campaign is a concerted drive to raise $35,-
000,000 in cash for financing the critical winter relief pro-
grams of the UJA's constituent agencies—the United Israel
Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and United Service ior
New Americans, . - •

