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JDC Adopts $26,000,000 Budget to Meet 'Pressing' 1954 Expenditures
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Joint
Distribution Committee, at its
39th annual conference here.
adopted a 1954 "minimum bud-
get" of $26,186,000 for its relief,
resettlement and rehabilitation
activities in 20 countries of
' Europe, North Africa and the
Near East.
The figure represents an in-
crease of $4,000,000 over 1953
expenditures by the agency.
Nearly one-half of the budget
will be spent on JDC operations
in Israel, including the work of
Malben, the welfare program in
behalf of the aged, ill and hand-
icapped in the Jewish state.
The 500 delegates unanimou-
ly pledged full support of the
1954 campaign of the United
Jewish Appeal, which provides
the funds for JDC operations.
Edward M. M. Warburg was
re-elected JDC chairman, and
Moses A. Leavitt re-elected
executive vice-chairman. Dr.
Joseph Schwartz was also
granted an extension of his
leave of absence from his JDC
post to permit him ,to con-
tinue serving as executive
vice-chairman of UJA.
Addressing the delegates,
Mayor-elect Robert F. Wagner
of this city sharply criticized the
McCarran-Walter Act as "an
ugly monument to the -theories
of • racism and isolationism,"
erected by "hysteria and know-
nothingism."
The omnibus immigration law,
Wagner said, "makes a mockery
of our great tradition of hospi-
tality to the oppressed and
anguished."
Pointing out that he is the
son of an immigrant, he declar-
ed "the concept of second-class
citizenship" embodied in the law
"violates our fondest boast—the
equality of all Americans before
the law."
Wagner said he was most im-
pressed with JDC's emigration
assistance activities. "As Mayo•-
elect of a city whose citizenry
. made up so largely of the
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much your aid has meant to
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needed your helping hand to do
so," he said.
Warburg, who recently re-
turned from Europe and Israel
where he learned the needs of
overseas Jews, reported "we
have won some notable skir-
mishes" in the fight for recovery
and rehabilitation, but "the
battle must yet continue." He
observed, "There should no long-
er be Jews living on the edge of
a volcano, helplessly waiting for
a sudden turn in world events
which may cause the -volcano to
erupt—but there are."
Leavitt. reported that JDC
expenditures exceeded $22,000.000
in 1953 and provided aid for
some 160,000 persons in 20
countries on four continents. In
Israel, he announced, JDC's wel-
fare agency, Malben, aided some
25,000 persons through its net-
work of 100 old-age homes, cus-
todial care centers, hospitals,
sanitaria, clinics, she
workshops and other installa-
tions as well as through out-
patient clinics, rehabilitation
loans and other forms of recon-
struction aid.
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In contrast to the "contin-
uing and heartening progress"
in Israel and the Moslem
lands, Leavitt pointed to *Eu-
rope" where we come face to
face with the realization that 1
here only a long-term pro-
gram of aid could continue to
advance Jewish survivors to-
wards a peaceful and prosper-
ous future.
"It is a tragedy compounded
because so many are so-called
"hard core" cases and their de-
pendents of whom nearly all
avenues of emigration had hith
erto been barred and who, be-
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Presi-
dent Ben Zvi left for a 10-day
rest at Tiberias, on orders of his
doctor. While he is there he will
receive the new Italian Minister
to Israel and Acting Premier
Moshe Sharett, who will report
on the progress of negotiations
for a new Cabinet.
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borders of the Jewish State,
Sharett charged that the Secur-
ity Council resolution on Kibya,
"by its patently one-sided and
discriminatory character, ap-
pears to have encouraged fur-
ther offensive violations (of the
Israeli frontiers) as is attested
by a series of incidents occur-
ring since then.
Asked about Israel's position"
on the Suez Canal negotiations,
Mr. Sharett declared that while
Israel did not oppose achieve-
ment or fulfillment by Egypt of
her legitimate national aspira-
tions, Israel was concerned over
her own national interests in a
changeover of the canal.
He pointed out that the
change would affect the present
balance of strength between Is-
rael and Egypt "which is of
particular concern to us as long
as there is no peace because of
Egypt's refusal," and raised the
question of free passage through
the Suez Canal for Israeli or
Israeli-bound shipping. Both is-
sues, he said, had been the sub-
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Sharett Tells Press Conference
Israel Ready for. Peace with Arabs
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — In his
first press conference as Acting
Premier of Israel who is seeking
to set up a new Cabinet, Moshe
Sharett pointed out that what-
ever government emerges from
the present negotiations, it will
have to continue and develop
further "the great work achieved
under the inspired leadership of
David Ben-Gurion."
He said the two major tasks
facing the n e w government
would be the fullest possible
development and utilization of
the country's potential resources
and the economic, social and
spiritual integration of the hun-
dreds of thousands of newcom-
ers.
A major problem to be in-
herited by the new governnignt,
he pointed out, was Israel's re-
lations with the Arab states sur-
rounding it. He declared that
"the conclusion of a permanent
peace between us depends on
them alone. - -
On. the subject of American-
Israeli relations, Sharett de-
clared that they "are based on
a firm friendship to which many
factors contribute. The t w o
governments, he said, did not
always see eye to eye on a num-
ber of specific problems con-
cerning or affecting Israel, but
"we try to solve these diver-
gencies in the friendliest spirit."
On the subject of Soviet-Is-
raeli relations, the Acting Prem-
ier and Foreign Minister noted
that he had previously expressed
satisfaction over the resumption
of relations with Moscow but
added that "it is far too early
as yet to say in what concrete
form this renewed friendship
will manifest itself in the fu-
ture." He said he had nothing
new to say on the question of
emigration of Jews from the
Soviet Union to Israel.
In reply to a question on Bri-
tish-Israeli relations, Sharett
said recent events had placed a
certain Strain on British-Israeli
relations which he hoped would
not remain long. The forth-
coming resolution in the Secur-
ity Council on the Syrian com-
plaint against Israel, Sharett
said, may be a "test case''' in
this context.
Discussing the Israeli security
situation: and tension along the
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the delegates that among those
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