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Arab-Israel Peace Talks Backed
y Yugoslavia an •Anthony Eden
Detroiters to Help Launch
1955 UJA Drive in Florida
A large number of Detroit Jewish leaders are expected
to participate in the National Inaugural Conference of the
United Jewish Appeal at • the Saxony Hotel, Miami Beach,
Feb. 25-27, and to participate in
the launching of the 1955 UJA
Avraham Harman, who holds a
key . diplomatic post as Israel's
: . Consul-General in New York, will
'address the conference, it was an-
nounced by William. Rosenwald,
UJA general chairman.
"Mr. Harman is one of Israel's
most brilliant young diplomats and
a stirring speaker," Mr. Rosenwald
said. "His important message to
the Inaugural Conferees is certain
to engender an inspiring impetus
to their launching of the 1955
A. H. Harman
nationwide UJA campaign."
A number of other distinguished figures .in Israel and
American life will address the sessions. Jack Benny is
coming from Hollywood to participate in the gathering.
More than 750 community leaders will gather at the
conference, Mr. Rosenwald reported, to get the UJA's 17th
successive campaign under way. This year's goal is for
close to $100,000,000 to finance the life-saving and life-
renewing programs of the UJA . constituent agencies—the
United Israel Appeal, Joint Distribution Committee and
New York AssoCiation for New Americans.
Noting that an outpouring of advance gifts represent-
ing substantial increases over last year's standards already
had brought forward more than $10,000,000 as a tribute
too UJA President Edward M. M. Warburg, Rosenwald
• urged the Conferees to establish a higher level of giving
as a model for all community campaigns to follow.
Mr. Rosenwald emphasized that nearly 500,000 Jewish
men, women and children must be aided by UJA-financed
projects this year. He pointed to such critical programs
. as the ship-to-settlement operation, which will aid some
30,000 Jews from. tension-ridden North Africa to settle in
Israel and immediately take up productive lives in the
- country. This is only one phase, Mr. Rosenwald added, of
. a vast and urgent program of aiding the free people of
:Israel to develop their- land as a haven for the oppressed
and for providing rehabilitation services to Jews in need
. fin Israel, Europe, Moslem lands and this country.
.
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LONDON—Yugoslavia is prepared to help solve differences between Israel and Egypt
if asked by both sides, according to reports here. The reports quote Tanjug, the official
Yugoslav news agency.
Tanjug added that Yugoslavia had always pointed out, however, that the Egypt-Israel
dispute should be settled by direct negotiations to avoid the possibility of the conflict be-
coming an object of intervention by "the opposing blocs."
Eden to Talk to Egypt and Iraq. on Peace with Israel
British Foreign Secretary Sir Anthony Eden is disappointed over the slow progress of
British behind-the-scenes efforts to achieve an Arab-Israel rapprochment, it was learned.
Sir Anthony is leaving for the Middle East in a few days. He will confer with Egyptian
and Iraqi government leaders before and after the forthcoming SEATO talks at Bangkok
this month, and is understood • to be planning vigorous representations to the Arab chiefs
in behalf of a lessening of tension.
It is believed that the Foreign Secretary, who recently conferred with the Israel
Ambassador to London, Eliahu Elath, will tell the Arab leaders that Britain feels that
their continued hostility toward Israel is pointless and only delays an all-out regional
defensive effort against Communism.
Nazareth Suburban Project Begun Despite Protests From the Arabs
TEL AVIV.—The Israel government has begun working on a Jewish suburban devel-
opment on the outskirts of Nazareth, the all-Arab Christian city in Galilee, it is reported.
here.
The project will consist of government offices and several hundred housing units. The
cost is expected to be about 3,000,000 pounds which will be allocated from- the current
development budget,
A number of prominent Arab personalities in Nazareth oppose the project, and the
municipal council has attempted to hinder it in many ways, but the Israel government is
going ahead with its plans, the report said.
Arab-Israel Conflicts Continue,. With MAC Censures for Both Sides
TEL AVIV—The Syrians have refused to release four Israel soldiers captured last
December because Israel has not freed seven Syrian
seamen captured when their vessel was wrecked near
Haifa in the same month, Gen. E. L. M. Burns, United
Tercentenary Music
Nations Truce Chief in Palestine, said here Tuesday
upon his return from Damascus.
FestitPal Cancelled
While he was in the Syrian capital, he visited
Morris Schaver, chairman of Israel prisoners. Gen. Burns also said that negotiations
the Detroit Tercentenary Music were continuing to have both sides release their
Committee, announced late Mon- prisoners.
day afternoon that the music fes-
The UN Truce Chief revealed that he had visited
tival which was to be held this the Arab village of Kirat El Bakkara in Israel terri-
Sunday evening, at Mumford High tory in the demilitarized zone along the Syrian border,
School Auditorium has been can- and had found that the villagers enjoyed freedom of
celled due to the sudden illness of movement and their economic status had improved,
the director, Dan Frohman. Re-
Military authorities here announced that 14 clash-
hearsals scheduled for Monday and es took place along Israel's frontiers.
Wednesday evenings were can-
The Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission
celled. Hope was expressed that condemned Jordan Tuesday for the shooting of three
the festival may be held at a later Israel soldiers near Migdal Zadek a week ago; the
date.
_reproached Israel for returning the fire.
Fading arriers: A Concept of Brotherhood
The concept of "brotherhood"
amonor men is another way of saying
b human relations - — about
"good
which there is often more talk than
application: The nub of the matter
with regard to good human relations
is, of course, our ability as individu-
als to live up to the high principles
- most of us readi- -
iy embrace a n d
to which we pay'
easy lip-service.
This being so,
ft is especially
important to
document by liv-
ing example the
faith we must
have in people
and the convic-
tion that mere
differences
among people
need present no
insurmountable
barriers to
friendly relation-
ship, once they
are brought to-
gether under cir-
cumstances which realty permit them
An know each other and to embrace
common human purposes and values
in place of narrow racial, religious or
national ends and attitudes.
I may cite, for instance, the
very encouraging demonstration af-
forded by the Secretariat—the work-
ing staff—of the United Nations of
the ability of perhaps the most diver-
sified assemblage of people to be
found under one roof anywhere in
the world to understand each other
well and to work together amicably.
Altogether, there are some 4,000
members of the United NationS
staff. They represent a majority of
the nationalities in the. world. They
are of all races, colors, religions,
languages, cultures and ideologies.
Their habits of dress, eating, wor-
ship, marriage and work are vari-
ied. Many come from highly de-
veloped and industrialized societies
and many others from underdevel-
oped, agricultural countries. Some
are from the Colonies. There are
Africans, Indo-Chinese, and West In-
dians working side by side with their
British, French, Russian, Greek,
Scandinavian and Latin-American
colleagues. There are Arabs and
Jews, Hindus and Moslems, Budd-
hists, Roman Catholics, Anglican*,
Greek Orthodox, and shades of Pro-
testants from Baptists like myself to
Presbyterians. They come from
capitalist and communist countries
and from all shades in between;
from thoroughly •democratic socie-
ties and from some which have
never held any kind of an election;
from republics, monarchies and ev-
ery brand of dictatorship. They rep-
resent the whole gamut of compe-
tence, skills and professions and are
engaged in work from the menial
level to the exalted executive.
In short, just about all the bar-
riers known to human relationships
are to be found in the Secretariat
housed in that towering slab of glass,
marble and metal at 42nd and. First
Avenue in New York City. But we
find that these barriers are remark
ably fragile. All of these people, .so
widely diversified in origin and back-
ground, work and play together in
impressive harmony. Genuine friend-
ships cut across all lines; social and
athletic clubs are formed on the sole
basis of common interests; there is
an easy informality and camaraderie
in relationships; and there is, ,tof
(golusit,, no, little. ociwtint and mar-
by Ralph J. Bunche
Director, Dept. of Trusteeship,
United Nations
Editor's note: This is published fn
the interest of Brotherhood Week,
Feb, 20-27, sponsored by the National
Conference of Christians and Jews.
Also, see Editorial. Page 4.
riage. It is a congenial human com-
pany, enriched by its very diversity.
I doubt that there has ever been
a finer or more encouraging demon-
stration of the ability of people to
hurdle the superficial barriers which
divide them, and get on together as
human beings should—and must, I
suspect, if very many of us are to
survive on this earth in this era of
the split atom. In truth, in the United
Nations Secretariat, there is little of
deliberate hurdling of such barriers
—the relations among the members
of the staff are so natural and free
that there is very little consciousness
of the existence of barriers.
After all, there is nothing so im-
portant in this world as people giv-
ing expression to the good that is in
all of us by amity toward each
other, by respecting each other and
by acting generally like civilized bie-
jags.