19 American Leaders Warn U.S. of Imminent Chaos In Middle
East; Ask U.S. Initiative for U.N. Program to Pacify Area
8—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 23, 1954
Warning of imminent chaos
in the Middle East, from which
only Russia stands to gain, 19
distinguished American leaders
made public a series of propos-
als submitted to President Eisen-
hower as the basis of a new
United States policy, to be car-
ried out with United Nations as-
sistance, and designed to pacify
the explosive situation, advance
the security of the free world,
raise the standard of living of
millions of people in that area,
and to reverse a current trend
away from the West.
Simultaneously, a copy of the
Memorandum entitled "Security
and the Middle East" was sent
to Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold, with a request that
it be brought to the considera-
tion of the appropriate organs
of the United Nations, as well as
to United Nations delegates.
The signatories, seeking re-
gional development based on
regional peace, foresee disas-
ter in the present Western
concept that security can be
predicated exclusively on mili-
tary bases or on appeasement
of Arab governments in order
to achieve military alliances
at a time when 40 million
Arabs, living in practical peon-
age, are stirring with revolt
against their poverty, their
Gershon Agron, editor and
publisher of the Jerusalem Post,
most influential English langu-
age daily in the Middle East,
formerly director-general of in-
formation for the government
of° Israel, will be a guest here
at a luncheon at the Fort Shel-
by Hotel on April 30.
Mr. Agron, who was educated
at Temple University in Phila-
delphia and went to Palestine in
the early twenties to devote
himself to the Zionist cause, has
been hailed by statesmen, fore-
ign correspondents and authors
as a leader of public opinion,
who has wielded considerable
influence in the history of Pal-
estine during the past 25 years.
governments, and the West,
regarded as the agents of the
status quo.
The group opposes arms offers
or grants now either by t h e
United States or our Allies to
the Arab governments on the
score that such arms would be
used either "against their own
people, should rebellion against
starvation lead to violence," or
"against Israel to divert the
Arab people from the real
source of their anguish—their
incredible poverty."
Instead of the present concen-
tration on arms and military al-
liances, the signatories urge a
firm offer to the Arab world of
large-scale assistance, beginning
with a $350,000,000 United States
pledge to a $500,000,000 United
Nations fund to develop the re-
sources of the Middle East. This
offer should be made condi-
tional on the acceptance of two
prior agreements: 1. Settlement
of the Palestine war. 2. Perma-
nent resettlement of Arab refu-
gees in Arab countries.
Signatories to the proposals,
representing leaders of the reli-
gious, labor, cultural and com-
munal worlds, are:
Dr. Henry A. Atkinson, General Secre-
tary, Church Peace Union: Mrs. Mar-
garet Culkin Banning. novelist: Frank W.
Buxton. former member. Anglo-Ameri-
can Committee of Inquiry; Dr. Donald B.
Cloward, Executive Secretary, Council on
Christian Social Progress of The Ameri-
can Baptist Convention: Dr. Frederick
May Eliot, president, American Unitari-
an Association: Rt. Rev. Charles K. Gil-
bert, Retired Episcopal Bishop of New
York; Rt. Rev. Henry W. Hobson, Epis-
copal Bishop of Southern Ohio; Very Rev.
Ivan Lee Holt, Methodist Bishop of Mis-
souri, president of the World Methodist
Council: Howard Mumford Jones, profes-
sor of English. Harvard University: Freda
Kirchwey, president, Nation Associates:
Dr. John A. Mackay. president, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Moderator of the
Presbyterian Church of U.S.A.; Dr. Ar-
thur C. McGiffert, Jr., president. Chica-
go Theological Seminary: James G. Pat-
ton, president, National Farmers Un-
ion; Louis H. Pink. chairman. Citizens
Conference for International Economic
Union: Jacob Potofsky, president. Amal-
gamated Clothing Workers of America
and Chairman. C.1.0. International Com-
mittee; Dr. Russell H. Stafford, presi-
dent, Hartford Seminary Foundation;
Bishop I. D. Warner. president. Board
of Bishops, Evangelical United Brethren
Church: Very Rev. Hazen G. Werner,
Resident Bishop, Methodist Church, Ohio
area; Hon. James H. Wolfe. Chief Jus-
tice. Supreme Court of Utah.
Although critical of both the
Arab governments and Israel for
present border tensions, the
group points out that "Israel has
not created the endemic prob-
lems of the Middle East. Nor
would its destruction resolve
them." At the same time it em-
phasizes Israel's value to the
free world as a "democratic
oasis" in peace and its military
value in the event of war.
The group asked the end of the
policy of appeasing the Arab
governments and put forward
the following four-point pro-
gram "to promote stability in the
area and to enable its people to
Shevitz Renominated to Head Council;
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Sidney M. Shevitz was nom-
inated for another term for
Community Council president at
the Council's delegate assembly
held at Congregation Bnai
Moshe. This and other choices
of the nominating committee
were reported by Philip Mar-
cure, nominating committee
chairman.
Other candidates renominated
for council offices are: Vice-
presidents, Samuel J. Rhodes,
Hyman Safran, Harry Yudkoff;
for secretary, Louis LaMed;
treasurer, Charles Goldstein.
The committee announced the
following choices for the Coun-
cil's executive committee: Sam-
uel Belkin, Joseph Bernstein,
Harold Berry, Mrs. Regene Co-
hane, James I. Ellman, Walter
Farber, Mrs. Irving Hencken,
Dr. Richard C. Hertz, Hoke
Levin, Harry T. Madison, Mrs.
Irving Posner, Isidore Sobeloff,
Stanley Winkelman, Dr. Max
Winslow.
Shevitz announced that the
Council's final delegate assem-
bly of the season will be held
May 27, at Young Israel Center,
when the names of all candi-
dates for council positions will
be presented for balloting. Addi-
tional nominations may be made
by petition until April 28. Peti-
tion forms may be obtained at
the Council office.
At the delegate meeting, plans
were announced for. Detroit's
community-wide celebration of
Israel's independence, to be ob-
served by a program at Congre-
gation Adas Shalom, Saturday,
May 8, at 8:30 p.m., under the
sponsorship of the Joint Zionist
Council - Community Council
Committee.
Boris M. Joffe, the Council's
executive director, reported on
Council activities, with refer-
ences to the Council's interest
in the FEPC bill which recently
failed of passage in the Michi-
gan House of Representatives.
Joffe reported on recent sur-
veys which indicated that em-
ployment discrimination against
Jewish applicants might be.
greater in extent than has been
appreciated. The problem is
being surveyed by a special
Council committee, headed by
Hoke Levin. Joffe also advised
the delegates of the Council's
participation on a brief arnicus
on behalf of members of the
Seventh Day Adventist denom-
ination, who were refused un-
employment benefits because of
their unwillingness to accept
employment involving work on
Saturday. He also repotted on
the recent action of state offi-
cials in agreeing to special ar-
rangements for postponing a
state examination for archi-
tects, in the instance of a Jew-
ish candidate who was not able
to take the examination on
Saturday.
Council delegates were advis-
ed. also that on May 3, Prof.
N. B. Minkoff, editor of Zukunft,
will appear as the guest lecturer
on the Wayne University course
on mid-Europe. His appearance
is being made possible through
the Community Council with a
grant from the Morris L. Shaver
Foundation.
Community Council activities
in arranging local appearances
for speakers equipped to inter-
pret the problems of Israel and
Israel-Arab relations was dis-
cussed by Irving Schlussel,
chairman of the Zionist Council.
The committee is now planning
talks b3; Gershon Agron, editor
of the Jerusalem Post, who will
be in Detroit the latter part of
this month.
ZOA Launches National
Drive for Israel Bonds
Zionist leaders at a meeting in
New York, officially launched an
unprecedented all-out program
of action to sell and purchase
Israel Development Bonds,, and
to enlist a record number of
members for the "Guardians of
Israel," nation-wide organiza-
tion of Americans who render
outstanding service to Israel's
economic growth. Membership
in the "Guardians of Israel" is
open to those who purchase $1,-
000 in Israel Development Bonds
in 1954. Judge Joseph 'Goldberg
of Worcester, Mass., is the ZOA
national Israel bond chairman.
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emerge from their impoverish-
ment." They specify:
1. Neither the United States
nor its allies should offer or
grant military subventions to the
Arab governments "until there is
a permanent settlement of the
Palestine war."
2. "The United States should
request the United Nations to
invoke its machinery to bring
together the parties in interest
to negotiate a permanent peace
settlement."
3. The United States should
agree to contribute $350,000,000,
70 per cent of a $500,000,000 in-
ternational fund to be placed at
the disposal of a Regional Re-
sources Development Board for
the Middle East. Such a Board
would be established under Unit-
ed Nations auspices, to initiate
a six-year program for the de-
velopment of water, land and
mineral resources of the Arab
states and Israel. In addition to
money appropriations the United
States should place at the
Board's disposal its most com-
petent authorities.
4. In advance of the 1954 ses-
sion of the General Assembly,
the United States should make
known to the United Nations and
to the Arab states its view that
"the only feasible and fruitful
solution of the Arab refugee
problem is through resettlement
in Arab countries."
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