Jeffersonian Principles versus 'Law of Christ' THEJEWIS!li . NEWS Society's Role In U. S. History A Weekly Review Proposa Is Commentary, Page 2 Jewish Publication Welcome to Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Ambassador Eban Editorials, Page 4 <111••••■" VOLUME 25—No. 12 0400 7 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, May 28, 1954 $4.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 1 5c 31 Per Cent of DPs Desire to Remain in Germany Revolving Fund Planned to Make Surviving Jews Self-Sufficient • • Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News 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