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VOLUME 23—No. 6
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Drive for Minimum 5 Million Goal
Israel-Arab Peace Is Major Goal on
Eve of New State's Fifth Anniversary
Confidence Reaffirmed in
U.S. Friendship for Israel
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D. C. — On the eve of Israel's fifth
anniversary, to be observed on Monday, April 20, impor-
tant world figures converged upon Washington to review
the friendly diplomatic relations that have
existed between the United States and Is-
rael since the declaration of Israel's Inde-
pendence in 1948, and to seek means of
strengthening this friendship and of striving
for peace with the Arabs.
The events of the past week also were
marked here by declarations, which have
some bearing on the position of Israel, in-
volving other nations. The statements of
Dr. Konrad Adenauer, West Germany's
Chancellor, • and the views expressed by
prominent members of Congress are being
studied carefully for their possible influence on future
events.
- Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' approaching
trips in Israel and in Arab states also are closely inter-
linked with the occurrences that continue to be woven into
a fabric intended to point to peace and to relationships
aimed at retaining friendships between the United States
and her tried allies.
The visits here last week of Israel's Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett, Israel's chief delegate to the UN Golda
Myerson and other notables, as well as that of Lessing
Rosenwald of the Council for Judaism, have made the
past week an unusually busy one.
Major importance is attached to the statement of
Mr. Sharett, in an address last Friday before the Nation-
al Press Club, that his conferences with President Eisen-
hower and Secretaries Dulles and Wilson strengthened
his "conviction that the friendship between the ITnited
'States and Israel is built upon solid and enduring founda-
tions, and that Israel can confidently look forward to an
attitude of sympathetic understanding of her problems
on ' the part' of the present United States Administration."
This is similar to the impression with which this
correspondent left the capital after conferring with a
number of important figures, including Senator Homer
Ferguson, a new member of the Senate Foreign Affairs
Committee, whose positive interest in Israel has placed
him in a position of leadership in every effort to provide
U.S. Government grants to the young state. Senator
Charles . Potter similarly expressed sympathetic interest
in Israel. Continued on Page 24
Dr. Nahum Goldmann to Deliver
Principal Talk at Campaign Rally
The call to the Jewish Community of Detroit to extend the hand of friendship, de-
mocracy and freedom to Jews all over the world rings loud and clear as final arrange-
ments are announced for the official opening of the 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign.
The campaign will commence at 8 p.m., Wednesday, in the auditorium of Temple Is-.
rael where members of the community will hear a major address by Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, chairman of the American Section, Jewish Agency for Palestine. In addition to
other important messages, noted opera star Mimi Benzell will be featured in the program.
As the all-important day grows closer and the community becomes increasingly
aware of the need for participation in and f ull and -generous support to this year's drive,
a volunteer army of 4,000 under the over- all leadership of Harvey H. Goldman and
Irving W. Blumberg, chairmen of the 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign, is ready to extend
•-5 every effort to achieve a suc-
cessful campaign — to meet
the essential needs here at
home, throughout the United
States and around the world.
The 1953 Allied Jewish
Campaign, which supports
the United Jewish Appeal and
56 other local, national and
overseas causes, will help
meet needs for hospitals,
homes for the aged, children's
educational and recreational
agencies and other programs,
provide help for Jews in Is-
rael, Europe and Moslem
countries, and make:Israel a
haven for those already on its
soil and those it may be called
upon to welcome.
The opening program in-
DR. NAHUM GOLDMANN
M IMI BENZELL
eludes the address by Dr.
Goldmann on "The World Scene," a talk by Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish
Welfare Federation of Detroit; on "The Do mestic Scene," messages by Goldmann and
Blumberg and a group of selected songs by Miss Benzell,
Making her debut with the Metropolit an Opera Company during the 1944-45 sea-
son as Queen of the Night in "The Magic F lute," Mimi Benzell was immediately ac-
claimed by critics as one of the bright new American stars of the Metropolitan.
(The sum of $2,425,854 was raised at the pre-campaign dinner on Tuesday eve-
ning. Detailed story on Page 3).
We Salute Israel's Anniversary
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L etter Events for the Month
The Jewish News joins with Detroit Jewry and Jewish communities
everywhere in saluting Israel on the fifth anniversary of the state's re-
Drive Opening Features Goldmann, Benzell
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establishment. We pray that the sixth year of Israel's independeoce
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should be marked by peace for Medinat Israel, her Arab neighbors and
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the entire world.
`G-Day' Solicitation Set for Sunday, April 26
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