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VOL. 24—No. 24

Brotherhood

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Egypt's Defiance of UN Over Israel
Blockade Issue Called 'Blackmail'

Detroiters Expected to Donate
Million to UM at Miami Parley

Scores of Detroiters, under the leadership of a group
of prominent Allied Jewish Campaigners, will participate
this week-end in the inaugural conference of the United
Jewish Appeal in Miami Beach, Fla.
Although held away from home, the Miami Beach
planning conference has become the traditional method of
opening Detroit's campaign.
Among the Detroiters who will supervise solicita-
tions from their townsmen in Miami Beach this week-end,
are Max M. Fisher, Samuel H. Rubiner, Isidore Sobeloff,
Irving W. Blumberg, Abe Kasle, Joseph Holtzman, Na-
than Fishman, Miss Esther Prussian, and Mesdames
Henry Wineman, John C. Hopp, Harry L. Jones, Seymour
J. Frank, Abraham Cooper, Joseph Holtzman and Harry
Becker.
Last year, gifts of Detroiters announced at the Florida
meeting amounted to $1,100,000. The total national amount
raised in February of 1953 in Miami Beach was $14,150,000.
It is expected that Detroit's contributions, to be
announced in Miami Beach on Sunday, will equal and may
exceed last year's gifts.
The launching of the UJA 1954 nationwide cam-
• paign this weekend at Miami Beach was preceded by an
urgent message from Edward M. M. Warburg, general
chairman of the UJA, in which he urged members of
this and other American communities to "prepare to
contribute, far larger sums than at any time in the past
to assure that the people of Israel are not weakened
economically at a moment in their history when every-
thing cries out for their economic strengthening."
Mr. Warburg termed "the hastening of Israel's march
to economic independence one of the most urgent tasks
that has ever faced the Jewish communities of the United
States," warning that "any economic reversal at this time
will not only impose severe hardships on the new State's
entire population but expose them to possible new assaults
by a whole array of hostile nations."
The formal opening of the campaign will follow three
days of participation by more than 900 campaign leaders
and contributors in the national inaugural conference at
the Saxony Hotel.
The conference will hear addresses by Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt, Mrs. Hal Horne; chairman of the UJA National
Women's Division, movie actress Lena Home, Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, Mr. Warburg, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, UJA
executive vice-chairman, and Sam Levenson, television
entertainer,

Brotherhood

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Action on Arab

Refugees Asked
By Congressmen

WASHINGTON, (JTA)
Congressman Thomas M.
Pelly of the state of Wash-
ington warned Congress to
go slow on giving arms aid
to the Arab countries.
He warned that Ameri-
can grants of military
equipment to Arab coun-
tries would be a terrible
mistake."
Citing the fact that the
U. S. last year gave $30,-
000,0100 worth of arms and
military equipment to Arab
countries, Pelly asserted
that he had "heard ru-
mors" that the U.S. "was
on the point" of making
large new arms grants to
the Arab countries.
Two Republican mem-
bers of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, who
visited nine Middle East
countries, urged the United
States to place firm re-
strictions on aid to the
Near East to force ease-
ment of tensions in the re-
gion. Reps. Lawrence H.
Smith of Wisconsin and
Winston L. Prouty of Ver-
mont stated that thou-
sands of Arab refugees in
camps throughout the
Middle East were _ anti-
American and anti-United
Nations.
Reps. Smith and Prouty
recommended that the UN
serve notice that it would
not support the return of
the Arab refugees under
present conditions, that
the U. S. press Israel to
pay compensation to the
Arab refugees for land and
homes abandoned by them,
and that the U. S. press
for lifting of the anti-
Israel blockade and boy-
cott by the Arab states.

An Unfinished Job

On the Occasion of Brotherhood Week—Feb. 21-28—Sponsored by the
National Conference of Christians and Jews

By BERNARD M. BARUCH

The forces oforganized bigotry are being routed in America. Steadily

and surely, in education, employment, housing and in all human relations,
discrimination is waning. Much remains to be done, to be sure, and Brother-
hood Week is a reminder to us that the task is incomplete.

To discriminate against a man because of race, color, creed or national

origin is antithetical to democracy and dangerous to America. In this time

of democracy's testing, we must proclaim our faith in it and live closely by
Its principles. In these days of danger to America we can permit nothing
to undermine the unity which is so essential to our safety. Nothing • is so
destructive of unity than the hate, discord, suspicion and bitterness which
prejudice breeds.

There can be no second class citizens in America. As we expect each

nian, black and white, Jew and Christian, native and foreign born to bear the
oesponsibilities of citizenship, so we demand that each share in its rights and

privileges and we seek that all shall live in mutual ,respect, understanding and
kiendship.

The time will come, and soon I hope, when Brotherhood Week will be
a reminder, not of the presence of discrimination in our midst, but of its
eradication. Until that time, we must, each of us, work to break down its
harriers, fight bigotry wherever we find it and cleanse our own hearts of blind
sieitnosity against our fellows.

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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — Egypt's threat Monday
night to call a meeting of the signatory powers of the in-
ternational pact governing administration of the Suez
Canal if the United Nations Security Council rules Egypt's
anti-Israel blockade illegal was regarded in UN circles Tues-
day as sheer blackmail and ineffective at that.
The United States was not one of the signatories of the
Constantinople Convention of 1888 which governs adminis-
tratipn of the waterway. Czarist Russia was a signatory,
but whether the Soviet Union would be invited to such
a meeting is questionable. Other signatories to the pact
were the Ottoman Empire, Britain, Germany, Austria,
Spain, Italy, France, Luxemburg and the Netherlands.
In any event, observers here point out that the convo-
cation of such a meeting could only take place if three
of the signatories joined in calling for it. It is not believed
here that Egypt could get any other country to go along
with it in such a move. The Egyptian threat was hinted
at by Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, Egypt's • representative to the
UN, at a press conference called after Monday's meeting
of the Security Council where Egypt indicated it would
adhere to its blockade .of Israeli-bound shipping regard-
less of Security Council action.

Egypt insisted at the Security Council that it has the right to
search Israel-bound ships passing through the Suez Canal and
the Gulf of Eilath, and charged - the Israel complaint against the
Egyptian restrictions lacked "seriousness."
Major General Abdel Hamid Ghaleb, member of the Egyp-
tian delegation, told the Security Council that although Israel
and Egypt have signed an armistice agreement, a state of war
still exists between the two countries.
Gen Ghaleb insisted that the Egyptian blockade against
Israel does not violate the Constantinople Convention of 1888.
Israel Ambassador Abba S. Eban told the Security Council
that "a very grave turn" had been taken "in what was already
a serious situation." The Security Council had heard "a firm
and defiant insistance" on the blockade measures which the
Council had "vigorously denounced." Egypt upheld its conten-
tion that it could "wage unilateral war" four years after the
hostilities had ceased. The Security Council had already deter-
mined that the armistice agreement was incompatible with the
rights of visit and search, he continued.
.
At the .request of the Israeli delegation, the Egyptian gov-
ernment decree of 1950 and the amendments to it dealing with
restrictions on shipping in the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba
were circulated to members 'of the UN Security Council.
In a letter to the President of the Council, Ambassador Abba
Eban said "compliance with the Security Council's resolution of
September 1, 1951 would of course require the complete and
unconditional revocation both of the (Egyptian) decree of Feb-
ruary 7, 1950 and of the amendments published on November
24, 1953."
Mr. Eban had a lengthy session with Soviet delegate
Andrei Vishinsky on the significance of the principle of free
passage of waterways—an issue in which the USSR has
evinced more than passing interest in the past. Mr. Vishinsky
gave no indication of the way he intends to vote, but in UN
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