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VOLUME 25—No. 12 0400
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31 Per Cent of DPs Desire to Remain in Germany
Revolving Fund Planned to Make
Surviving Jews Self-Sufficient
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Expect $500,000 Bond Sales
At Abba Dan Dinner Wednesday;
Governor Issues Proclamation
Israel bond leaders exressed the hope this week that
$500,000 worth of new Israel Development Bonds will be
sold at the dinner next Wednesday, at Hotel Statler. Israel
Ambassador to the United States Abba Eban will be the
guest speaker at this event, at which the "Guardians of
Israel," purchasers of $1,000 Israel bonds, will inaugurate
the Development Bond Issue campaign in Detroit.
Marking the event, Governor G. Mennen Williams, urg-
ing Michigan citizens to support the Israel bond issue, pro-
claimed an "Israel Development Bond Month" from May 14
to June 13. His proclamation asserts:
"Israel, in the six years since May 14, 1948, when it became an
independent state, has demonstrated unequivocally its devotion
to the principles of liberty and freedom which the United States
holds to be essential to the preservation and advancement of
democracy throughout the world.
'‘Creation of an industrialized nation in a land whose economy
for centuries had not been much above that of the surrounding
states, has been made possible in a few short years by funds
derived from Israel's first Bond Issue in which more than 600,000
American citizens invested.
'To provide funds for accelerated economic advances and the
achievement of the level of strength and security necessary to
a modern nation, citizens in all of the world's free nations, on
the sixth anniversary of Israel's Independence, will launch a
new $350,000,000 Israel Development Bond Month. That the
citizens of Michigan participate in this nationwide observance
is entirely appropriate.
"Therefore, I, G. Mennen Williams, Governor of the State of
Michigan, do hereby proclaim the period from May 14 through
;Tune 13, 1954, as
ISRAEL DEVELOPMENT BOND MONTH
in Michigan, and urge our citizens during this month to give
full support to Israel's $350,000,000 Development Bond Issue to
the end that this young republic may be enabled, within the
next few years, to secure a high measure of economic self-
sufficiency."
An important message on the occasion of the in-
auguration of the Detroit bond drive was issued by Am-
bassador Eban:
It was announced, in connection with the current drive,
that the national campaign policy will be to consider in-
dividuals who have joined the Guardians of Israel or the
Trustees or National Sponsors as having fulfilled their ob-
ligations to the Israel Bond Development campaign for
the year May 1954 to April 1955 and these purchasers will
not be solicited for additional commitments during the
year.
Ambassador Eban's Message and Additional Details, Page 3
Hunger Strike and Fast Day In
Israel Protest Romanian Arrests
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Leaders of Romanian Jews in Israel
started an "unlimited" hunger strike as an expression of protest
against the mass arrests of Jewish leaders in Romania. At the
same time, the Chief Rabbinate of Israel proclaimed a fast day
for all Jews in the country who wish to express solidarity with
Jews arrested in Romania on charges of "Jewish nationalism"
and Zionism.
Meetings at which the mass arrests of Jews in Romania were
denounced were held throughout the country. In Tel Aviv a
huge meeting was addressed by Chief Rabbi Iser Judah Unter-
man and by other speakers who reported on the persecution of
Jews in Bucharest and other Romanian cities.
(In London, the official :BBC radio station beamed a Roman-
ian language broadcast to Romania on the protests of the Jews
in Israel and in other democratic countries against the mass
trials of Zionist leaders in Bucharest. "The free world salutes
in them, people who had the courage of their convictions," the
broadcast said. "They were silenced by force; they were knocked
down, but not defeated.")
Eisenhower Asked to Condemn Mass Arrests
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The American Jewish Congress, at a
meeting of its national administrative committee, adopted a
resolution condemning "the continued persecution of Romanian
Jewry as part of the Communists' program to eliminate all re-
maining vestiges of spiritual autonomy of the Romanian Jewish
Ai community." President Eisenhower was asked to "formally con-
demn" the mass arrests and sham trials.
FRANKFURT—Establishment of a revolving loan fund to help Jews in Germany
become self sufficient artisans, professionals or businessmen, announced by the Joint
Distribution Committee and the Central Welfare Agency of the Jews in Germany was
seen here as another indication of the consolidation of a post-war Jewish community in
Germany.
The two organizations have revealed that sums up to $1,000 will be made obtainable by the
JDC and the welfare agency from monies turned over to them by the Conference on Jewish
Material Claims against Germany. The German Jewish communities also will supply a por-
tion of the capital of the loan funds. The funds will be set up locally in Frankfurt, Munich,
Berlin and one city in the British Zone.
Initiative for establishing the free loan funds came from the JDC which brought Noel Aron-.
ovici, its reconstruction expert, to Germany as a technical advisor on the project. The pre-
liminary meeting was called jointly by James Price, JDC director for Germany, and Dr. Berthold
Simonsohn, head of the Central Welfare Agency. Also present at that session were 30 Jewish
communal and business leaders, including Hans Schuler, president of the Jewish Trade Associa-
tion, and Dr. H. G. Van Dam, secretary general of the Council of Jews in Germany.
Moses W. Beckelman, JDC overseas operations chief, announced that the JDC's main office
in Germany will be moved from Munich to Frankfurt.
MUNICH—Some 86 percent of the 1200 Jewish DPS at Foehrenwald, the last Jewish DP
camp in Germany, have indicated a desire for permanent or temporary integration into the
German economy study of the results of a questionnaire recently sent to the DPS by the Bavar-
ian government.
In preparation for the scheduled closing of the camp early next year, the Bavarian au-
thorities asked the DPS how many expect to be able to leave Germany by that time. Only 8.5
percent answered affirmatively, although both the Joint Distribution Committee and the Ger-
man government have agreed to give them transportation assistance and the JDC will give im-
migrants some aid in their new homes.
Thirty-one per cent of the DPS indicated a desire to remain in Germany permanently. Fifty-
five percent asked to remain temporarily in the hope that they would be able to leave later •
for countries of their choice, usually the United States and Canada. Two and one-half percent
are chronically-ill people who will be sent to German health institutions. Most of the Jews who
decided to remain chose either Munich or Frankfurt where they would like to settle.
Flanders Now Dubious
On 'Christ' Amendment'
Direct JTA Teletype Wiro
To The Jewish News
W A S HI NGTO N—Sen. Ralph E.
Flanders, Vermont Republican who
introduced the so-called "Christian
Amendment" to the Constitution on
which public hearings were held last
week, Tuesday, expressed strong doubt
as to its wisdom.
The amendment, which would grant
Federal recognition to "the authority
and law of Jesus Christ," drew oppo-
sition from Jewish and Protestant
groups on the ground that it would
violate the principle of separation of
church and state.
The Senator said he introduced the
resolution "by request." "I was dubi-
ous myself as to desirability of such
an amendment," he stated, "but I
could see the viewpoint of those of
my constituents who thought such a
reference to the Deity should be made
a part of our Constitution. It was
my opinion that they were entitled to
a hearing and that at the hearing
the issues could be brought out."
After reading the transcript of tes-
timony, the Senator decided he was
"still dubious." He did not personally
appear at the hearings.
Turkey Reported Resenting
Meddling by Pakistan Into
Arab-Israeli Controversy
NEW YORK, (JTA)--The Pakistan role of en-
couraging the anti-Israel stand of the Arab countries
is resented in Turkey and may develop into a threat
to the Turkish-Pakistani pact on which the United
States Government is building its Middle East policy
against Communism, it was reported from Istanbul
.by the New: York Times.
The report says that the Turks are unwilling to
sacrifice their flourishing trade with Israel and be-
come a party to the Arab-Israel dispute. They are
particularly concerned over a proposal made last month
by Muhammad Zafrulla Khan, Pakistan's Foreign
Minister, that the Arab states should "associate"_with
other Moslem countries in seeking a solution of the
Arab-Israel problem.
Mr. Zafrulla Khan's call for a Moslem conference
on Israel and the belief that Pakistan has encouraged
King Hussein of Jordan to proceed with plans to con-
voke such a conference in Amman, 'have deeply dis-
quieted the Turks" the New York -Times cable from
the Turkish capital says. The Turks are also dis-
turbed that Iraq, which has been promised arms by
the United States, is actively cooperating with Pakis-
tan in "stiffening Arab intransigeance on the Israeli
issue," the report states.
Allied Jewish Campaign Goal Short A Million;
5,500 Unsolicited Prospects Yet To Be Reached
At the closing rally of the 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign, Monday evening, at
the Woodward Jewish Center, Irving W. Blumberg, co-chairman of the drive with Har-
vey Goldman, announced a total raised up to that point in the amount of $3,805,728.
This amount, Mr. Blumberg reported, was pledged by 22,737 people, out of a
total of 28,300 prospects.
Samuel H. Rubiner, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, who presided,
declared that "this is the closing rally but not the close of the campaign." The cam-
paign, he declared, is not complete.
Spokesmen at the dinner, including Isidore Sobeloff, the campaign director, who
analyzed the results, were unanimous in asserting that while the sum raised thus far
is about a million dollars short of the minimum goal originally set for the drive, there
is a possibility of approaching last year's total of $4,400,000 if the workers will con-
tinue their efforts and will contact the remaining 5,500 unsolicited prospects.
Mr. Sobeloff stated that at least $200,000 is available in certain gifts from people
who have not yet submitted their pledges and that there are additional sums to be se-
cured from the unsolicited prospects.
General Yigal Yadin, former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Army, was
guest speaker at the rally.
Detailed Story on Page 5