Our Major Campaign and Its Leaders E EWISH NEWS Brotherhood We.ek: A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Percentage of Children in Our Jewish Schools Fanatics' Irresponsible Acts Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle , VOLUME-26—No, 24 i(g)gtoo The Improving 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-93'64—Detroit 35, February 18, 1955 Commentary, Page 2 $4.00 Per Year, Single Copy 15c 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. . Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News 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.