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Big 3 Bat, k Blockade Resolution;
Israel Wins UN Territorial Ruling
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. UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—The New Zealand resolu-
Machinery Geared for '54 Campaign
tion on the Israel complaint against the Egyptian blockade
of the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Aqaba against Israel-
bound shipping is expected to be introduced in the United
Nations Security Council this week.
All indications here point to the draft having the full
backing of the Western powers.
It was learned Tuesday that the New Zealand resolu-
tion was not introduced at the Security Council session last
Friday because the Egyptian Delegation had given the
Western powers the impression that when Mahmoud Azmi,
the Egyptian representative spoke, he would offer some
"concessions" which might be a basis for further negotia-
tions. However, Dr. Azmi's speech turned out to be far
from conciliatory and the introduction of the New Zealand
resolution is considered a certainty.
Major Dates Set for Allied Drive ;
Pre-Campaign, April 13 ; Official
Opening, April 27 ; G-Day, May 2
Allied Jewish Campaign leaders this week announced the official dates for the open-
ing of the annual drive for a score of human causes overseas, including the United Jewish
Appeal, and for local and national agencies which receive their support from the Jewish
Welfare Federation, sponsor of the campaign.
Irving W. Blumberg and Harvey H. Goldman, co-chairmen of the 1954 campaign,
announced that the formal opening of the drive has been set for Tuesday, April 27. A
series of workers' report rallies will be held thereafter on Tuesdays and Fridays and will
wind up with a final meeting in May.
Israel Wins Decision in Territorial Dispute
TEL AVIV—The Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Com-
mission Monday recognized Israel's contention that all of
Lake Tiberias and a strip of land ten meters wide (approxi-
mately 33 feet) on the eastern bank of the lake is Isreali
territory.
The commission, chaired by a United Nations truce ob-
server, adopted a resolution calling upon the Syrians to
stop interfering with Israelis fishing on the lake and also
called on the Syrians to refrain from entering upon or
cross the 10-meter strip. The commission's resolution was
adopted after an 11-hour session.
With the chairman casting the decisive vote, the com-
mission also censured Syria for opening fire Monday on
several Israeli fishing boats and an Israeli police boat,
wounding three Israelis. The body also censured the Is-
raelis for replying to the attack with gunfire inflicting cas-
ualties among the Syrians on the east bank of the lake. The
Syrian attack was the second in less than a week.
The formal opening will be preceded by the traditional pre-campaign dinner, at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, April 13, at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel. At last year's similar pre-campaign dinner,
gifts of more than $2,000,000 were announced by John E. Lurie, pre-campaign chairman, who
again holds this position this year.
Another important campaign date is the pre-campaign event of the Women's Division,
announced by Mrs. Sidney J. Karbel, chairman, for Thursday, April 8, at the home of Andrew
Wineman. Mr. Wine'man's daughters, Mrs. Eugene J. Arnfeld and Mrs. Henry Moses, will be
hostesses. The Women's Division special gifts event will take place Wednesday, April 14, at the
Sheraton-Cadillac.
Sunday, May 2, has been designated as. women's "G-Day,
when 2,000 workers in
general solicitation will canvas 15,000 Jewish women for individual gifts to the drive.
The accelerated local picture comes on the heels of the Miami conference of the United
Jewish Appeal where, for the second successive year, the Allied Jewish Campaign of Detroit led
the way for the entire country in advance gifts. Detroiters pledged $1,233,000 at the meeting.
In announcing the 1954 campaign calendar, Blumberg and Goldman. said:
"We embark on the 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign with the finest leadership and worker
organization in history. We have the spirit and the will to help the people of Israel in their
struggle for economic independence, to aid the Jews of Europe, Asia, and the Moslem countries,
and to maintain and strengthen our national and local services. Our strong traditions make it
certain that Detroit in 1954 will play an outstanding and generous role."
Additional Details on Inside Pages
Editorial, Page 4
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The Israeli border line, which was upheld by the commission,
was originally set as the Syrian-Palestine frontier by Anglo-
French agreement after World War I. During the meeting the
UN chairman suggested a "compromise" under which the Israelis
would agree not to fish too close to the eastern bank. This the
Israelis rejected.
'54 Year Book Estimates World
Jewish Population as 11,627,000
The. total world Jewish population is 11,627,000, more than
5,000,000 of whom live in the United States, it is reported in the •
"American Jewish Year Book," 1954 edition, just published
by the American Jewish Committee. The 554-page record of
events and trends in American and world Jewish life is the 55th
annual volume of the Year Book series. It will be distributed
by the Jewish Publication Society.
After the United States, according to the Year Book, the
countries of largest Jewish population are Soviet Russia with
2,000,000 and Israel with 1,463,000. The Israel figure represents
an increase of 38,000 over last year, and is now 121/2 per cent
of the world Jewish total. By contrast, Germany, which once
had a Jewish population of 600,000, now has only 20,500 sur-
vivors.
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The distribution of Jewish populations by continents is as
follows:
Per Cent of Total
Number
Europe (including Asiatic USSR
3,424,150
29.0
and Turkey)
America (North and South)
5,860,030
50.5
1,609,520
14.0
Asia
675,500
6.0
Africa
58,250
0.5
Australia and New Zealand
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Total
11,627,450
100.0
The European countries with the largest Jewish populations,
after Soviet Russia, we England with 450,000 and France with
275,000. In the Western Hemisphere after the United States,
Argentina is second with 360,000; Canada has 220,000 and Brazil,
120,000.
Among other features of the new volume are a complete
account of the violent anti-Semitic campaign behind the Iron
Curtain, highlighted by the public trial and execution of Rudolph •
Slansky and other Czech Communists, the arrests and deporta-
tions of Hungarian Jews and the accusations, later admitted to
be false by the Russian government, against the Moscow doctors,
most of them Jewish. Summaries of these developments are
presented by outstanding authorities on Eastern Europe, based
in part on U. S. Department of State interviews with Iron Cur-
tain refugees.
Other events of world significance, given detailed coverage
in the 55th volume of the "American Jewish Year Book," are the
\ Finaly case in France, the Naumann neo-Nazi plot in Western.
erma.ny, the improved economic situation in Israel, and the
tinued persecution of Jews and confiscation of Jewish proy -
by in some of the Arab countries.
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