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VOLUME-26—No. 2 5aktri;;1 ° 7
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Israel Marks Ben-Gurion's Return
ffice with Triumphal Acclaim
41••• ■ --_
EDITORIAL: _4,7-1 Appeal for Amity
Don't Disrupt Our Community
A serious crisis faces our community.
Detroit Jewry, for more than two decades the model
of American Jewry as a community that has shown the way
in generosity and in cooperation by all elements, is threat-
ened with disruption as a result of the unfortunate flouting
of democratic decisions made by the duly recognized De-
troit Israel Bond Executive Committee.
It is a conflict that could have and should have been
avoided. The pledges made for continuation of all bond
efforts — with the single condition that public functions
should be avoided — and the earnestness with which the
leaders of the bond drives here, Phillip Stollman, Israel Da.v.
iclson, David Safran, MorriS Lieberman, Irving Schiussel,
Daniel Laven, Samuel Belkin, and many others, approached
the issue, indicated one thing: that by being reasonable, by
accepting the democratic decisions of the local committee,
bond efforts would have been strengthened here and Israel's
eause would have been enhanced.
A conflict always has the tendency to harm the causes
involved. Israel, through the United Jewish Appeal, is the
major beneficiary of the Allied Jewish Campaign which pro-
vides the free dollars for Israel's upbuilding. But in the
Allied Jewish Campaign also are incorporated our major
local causes. Our Hebrew Schools get their entire income
from the drive which always begins informally with the
UJA sessions in Miami Beach—opening there today. The
Yiddish schools and the Yeshivah receive their subventions
from our_major drive. The program for the aged, our social
services, our health agencies, the Jewish Centers, all depend
for their sustenance upon the Allied Jewish Campaign. We
owe it priority and we owe it to ourselves that there should
be no occurrences to disrupt our communal unity.
As a democratically-functioning community which has
never known rough stuff and to wh6m the law of the jungle.
has always been. an abomination, we have always con-
formed to orderly processes of communal organization. We
pray that jungle rule may never invade our ranks—and if
there is to be a perpetuation of orderly procedures our ac-
tivities must be planned in their proper courses—the Allied
Jewish Campaign in its due time, the bond drives in their
proper settings, all other efforts in such timing—planned by
the local community and not on orders from the outside—
as to eliminate any chance of a split in our ranks.
There is a basic principle involved in the present con-
flict: that only Detroiters can -plan campaigns for Detroit,
and that intrusions from the outside can not possibly en-
hance our position as a generous people. Since the dispute
is not over the sale of bonds but rather over that of timing,
the incident that was imposed upon us should have been
avoided. Anyone who forces us into a controversy must be
considered an interloper, in view of the enviable record set
by the Detroit volunteer workers and leaders for the Israel
bond drive. Take away the volunteers, and you take the
heart out of a movement.
We have faith that this community will not permit such
a division in our ranks. There still is time to cancel the
March 1 dinner; but if it is held as planned, let that dinner,,
in itself, mark an end to the flouting of democratic prin-
ciples and let us return, at once, to the standards of unified
efforts for action by Jewry in the best interests of our
people.
retailed Bond Crisis Story
Executive Committee Deckfres
Itself Dissolved as March 1st
Dinner Plans Go On Unabated
Ignoring urgent requests of an overwhelming majority of the
members of the Detroit Israel Bond Executive Committee that
all public functions for bond drives be abandoned. during the
months of March, April and May which are traditionally dedi-
sated to the Allied Jewish CaMpaign, the staff of the Israel bond
office here has proceeded to plan for the dinner scheduled for
March 1. Senator Wayne Morse • of Oregon and S. Robert .Abra-
hami of Israel are to be guest speakers at the dinner. Art after-
dinner recital will be given by 141ischa Elman, world famous
As a consequence of this move on the part of the Israel bond
*thee, whose staff here has been augmented by a number of sta.ff
Continued on Page 24
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Detailed plans fal ► Ir March 1 dinner, as manoknove4
by the ioitla. Isla
Page 24.
bond offico
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—David Ben-Gurion's re-entrance into political life took on the cha-
racter of a triumphal return when thousands of persons lining Parliament Square here
cheered him as he entered the Knesset to take the oath of office as Minister of Defense
Monday.
The khaki-spirted, bronzed ex-Premier was confirmed in his new office by a vote
of 74 to 22, after declarations by various party spokes-
Baldwin Denies
men who took* the floor following Premier Moshe
Sharett's official announcement of the resignation of
He Found Cairo
Pinchas Lavon and Mr. Ben Gurion's appointment.
Trial Was Fair
Paying tribute to Mr. Lavon's role in initiating,
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
sponsoring and directing a series of valuable improve-
LONDON — Roger Baldwin,
ments in the nation's defenses, Mr. Sharett said that
chairMan of the League for the
the army's organization and fighting capacity had
Rights of Man, denied Tuesday
been greatly enhanced under Mr. Lavon's direction.
in letters to the British press
that he had ever said that the
Left-wing deputies, Communists and Herut party
Cairo trial of 13 Jews on charges
spokesmen
made declarations of no confidence in the
of "espionage and sabotage" had
new appointment and charged that Mr. Ben-Gurion
been conducted in a "spirit of
represents no change in security policy, since Mr.
fairness."
Lavon was his protege and faithful pupil. Other cri-
In his letter Mr. Baldwin said:
"I made no such comment.. I
ticism voiced concerned the "un-democratic way in
arrived in Egypt after the trial
which the appointment' was made, namely, without
had concluded. My comment
the Cabinet's consultation."
was construed from remarks I
Zalman Ben-Yaacov, speaking for Agudath Israel,
made on another trial I wit- .
said that his party supports the new Defense Minister
nessed of Moslem Brotherhood
despite the fact that Rabbi I. M. Lewin, Agudah leader,
members,,.where procedure was
as fair as • before any military
resigned from government under his administra-
court."
tion as Premier over religious issues. He added that
He continued, "While t h e
the Agudah wished to demonstrate the country's soli-
procedure in the Zionist case
darity with Mr. Ben*-Gurion in view of the grave sec-
was evidently the same:. fair
urity situation. He expressed the hope that a "strong
procedure does. _not_ make - fair
man" who enjoys the country's trust would not dis-
trials. The judges were military
appoint the Orthodox elements of Israel. Mizrachi and
officers without legal training
Hapoel Ha Mizrachi were the only parties which did
and they reflected, inescapably,
not make a statement in the course of the day's pro-
the political policies of the gov-
Earlier Stories o Page 3
ceedings.
ernment." •
Detroiters Set $1,000;000 Minimum for
Start of 1955 Allied Jewish Campaign, as
Great Relief Effort Starts in Miami Beach
MIAMI BEACH—The Detroit Jewish com-
munity launched its greatest communal effort
of the year on two major fronts as advance
steps were taken by a special committee of
Detroiters in Miami and other Florida resorts
to spark the approaching 1955 Allied Jewish
Campaign, while a similar committee of De-
troiters intensified efforts to speed up drive.
activity on the home scene.
Encouraged by messages from the govern-
ment of Israel and the Jewish Agency re-
affirming the priority position of the United
Jewish Appeal, major beneficiary of the De-
troit drive and .similar spring campaigns
throughout the country, the leaders of the
campaign are pushing ahead and stressing
the fact that increased needs in Israel and
North Africa will be met only if a minimum
of $4,500,000 is realized in Detroit, as compared
with an achievement of $4,100,000 last year.
John E. Lurie, Detroit campaign chairman,
who was in Miami on a flying trop to visit his
ailing mother, pointed out that the larger
figure is not a maximum goal, but rather a
minimum figure below which it would be
dangerous to fall—dangerous both to the do-
mestic agencies and causes, as well as to the
overseas activities.
Louis C. Blumberg, an associate chairman
of pre-campaign, is serving as Detroit chair-
man for Palm Beach and also has been giv-
ing valuable service as a member of the
national Palm Beach Committee. Last Mon-
day night, at the Whitehall Hotel in Palm
Beach, advance commitments were secured
from banner contributors from various
parts of the country. Among those who as-
sisted in the Detroit ?art of the program
were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Winernan, Mr. and
Mrs, Louis Tabashirik and Mr. and Mrs,
Abraham Sr ere.
In Miami, the Detroit workers, headed by
Nathan Fishman are pointing toward the na-
tional launching of advance gifts participa-
tion next Sunday, when the annual pre-drive
United Jewish Appeal conference wilt be held
at the Saxony Hotel.
Detroit, which was the leading city out 4.
side of New York at the Edward M. M. War-
burg testimonial dinner in New Ycirk last
month, is again striving to head the parade
of "good" cities next Sunday.
Assisting Fishman yin preparing for the big
event are Maurice Aronsson, 1948 campaign.
chairman; Israel Davidson, who has served as
honorary vice-chairman of several of the an-
nual drives; Irwin I.. Cohn, Morris L. Fruman,
Samuel Hamburger, Phillip Stollman and Jo-
seph Holtzman, former campaign chairman
and now a national chairman of UJA.
An added touch to developments is result-
- ing frOm the impending visit of a group com-
ing - here for the 50th birthday party of C.
William Sucher, host at a recent advance gifts
function at his home in Detroit. Many of
those attending will stay over for the Sunday
conference which follows by a day Mr. Su-
cher's celebration.
Another event . which helped to create a
favorable campaign climate took place
Wednesday afternoon at the Martinique Hotel,
with William Fisher, of Detroit, the hotel's
proprietor, as host.
Both the committee here and the De-
troiters on the home grounds are shooting
for a million dollars in pledges as the mini-
mum amount to be announced next Sunday..
Abe Kasle, who was chairman of the cock-
tail party Wednesday, expressed satisfaction
with the warmth and friendliness of the
affair, and predicted that Detroit would give
a good account of itself at the national con-
ference.
In addition to Mr. Lurie, others who ate
taking a leading role in advance campaigning
are Irving W. Blumberg, who, along with Har-
vey H. Goldman, was campaign chairman last
year; Mix Fisher, pre-campaign chairman; Ely
Safran, associate pre-campaign chairman;
Samuel H. Rubiner, president of Federation,
and George Keil and Alex Sklar, who have the
responsibility for trades Ind professional or-
ganization, along with Milton K. Mahler,
-. president of the Detroit Service Group.