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Is David A. Croll

'The Forgotten Man

of Parliament Hill'?

A Weekly Review

The Butzel Month

Speaking in
Millions and the
UJA CampAign

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of Jewish Events

Genocide and
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Commentary, Page 2

Michigan's Only/English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME-26—No. 26 c4S* 7

17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, March 4, 1955

Editorials, Page 4

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$1,165,000 Starts Allied Jewish Campaign

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Detroit
Detroit Gets Entire Country's
Acclaim
for Leadership in UJA
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.MIAMI BEACH.—Allied Jewish Campaign leaders from Detroit heard themselves
and their community praised by officials of the United Jewish Appeal for distinguished
service in behalf , of Israel and other communal causes as the Michigan metropolis-re-
ported $1,165,000 in advance gifts as part of the $17,60Q,000 total announced for the•
entire country. This sum signalizes the launching of the 1955 UJA drive for $99,521,275
The Israel-Egyptian battle in the Gaza area, which
to meet urgent needs this year throughout the world.
resulted in more than 40 deaths and many casualties, has
William Rosenwald, general chairman of the national drive, Maurice Berinstein, of
caused a serious new Middle East crisis. Syracuse, Samuel Daroff,
of Philadelphia, and Joseph Holtzman, of Detroit, were among_
the campaign officers, along with Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, executive vice chairman,
Israel charges that the Egyptian protests to the United
who reviewed the past year's work at a weekend meeting at the Saxony Hotel which
Nations and to the world powers are a result of a propa-
ended Sunday with a great outpouring of gifts by vacationers from all over America.
ganda campaign to villify the Jewish state. The issue has
Avraham Harmon, Consul General in New York for Israel, spoke for his government,
become a matter of major • Consideration by the world
and Jack Benny interrupted his role as comedian, to express his fervid interest in the
powers, Israel contending that her troops had repulsed an
purposed of the annual drive, which in the last 10 years has raised $850,000,000 to aid
and resettle 1,450,000 men, women and children.
Egyptian invasion.
Detailed Reports on Page 3
Speaker after speaker paid tribute to the Federations and Welfare Funds, through
whose partnership the UJA campaigns in cities throughout the country. Detroit was
singled out for honors for contributing $2,093,000 to the national organization in 1954 ➢
a community gift which brought to $12,500,000 the total donated by our city during the
last five years. This sum was exclusive of the $2,000,000 advanced by Detroit as its share
of the nation-wide $65,000,000 refunding lo an. It was pointed out that the amount
loaned by Detroiters through UJA was tw ice as large as from any other source in
borrowed money during the year.
In a message to the mobilization conference, Defense Minister Levi Eshkol, of
Israel, who is expected in this country this week, paid tribute to the participating cities,
which in in 1954 provided $65,000,000 in loans and $61,000,000 in contributed funds,
for a total of more than $125,000,000 that helped Israel's economic situation immeasur-
ably. "The funding loan," stated Mr. Eshkol, "changed- the face of Israel's foreign
exchange debt picture. It improved our foreign currency finances, it instilled new con-
fidence in our economy, both at home and abroad, brought. about the savings of .mil-
lions of dollars and enabled us to shake off the golem of short term debts and recur-
ring crises they created. As a result of yo ur participation we were able to cut our
short term debts in half and bring about a r emarkable improvement in the foreign ex-
change debt structure of Israel."
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The message to the conference concluded with an appeal not to be satisfied
"simply with the removal from our path of the obstacles of short-term debt." It point-
Continued on Page 10

Gaza Battle Stirs New
Crisis in Middle East

Butzel Month Proclaimed
At the Historical Museum

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Henry D. Brown, director of the Detroit Historical Museum,
announced this week that a Fred M. Butzel Month has been
proclaimed at the Museum.
Setting the month starting with March 8 as a period for
tribute to the memory of Detroit's most distinguished leader dur-
ing nearly half of this century, Mr. Brown said that the late
Fred M. Butzel's name will be featured at the Museum as Per-
sonality of the Month.
, The late Mr. Butzel, who this year also is being honored
by the Recreation Commission by the establishment of a Butzel
Playground, on Lyndon and Meyers, where a $225,000 pool in Mr.
Butzel's memory was opened last summer, had been honored
previously by bur community. His name has been appended to
other memorials—to the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Building, on
Madison and: John R, which houses the Jewish welfare Federa-
tion offices as well as a number of agencies affiliated with the
Federation, and a Forest on Jewish National Fund land in Israel.
Fred M. Butzel was an institution unto himself. He was
the dean of social workers in Michigan—giving liberally of his
time and his money to all worthy causes. He was a guide and
leader in all. Jewish Welfare Federation activities, having served
as chairman of its executive committee. He was one of the early
chairmen of Allied Jewish Campaigns. He was Michigan .chair-
man of the Jewish Welfare Board, for more than 20 'years presi-
dent of the Ford Republic and an ardent Zionist, for a number
of years having been honored with the honorary presidency of

the Zionist .organization of Detroit;

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Purim Pageant:

—Photo by Mirlin, Jerusalem

The Tolem theatrical organization of Israel is shown here

in the pageant it brought to newcomers at H erzliah for the Purim festival.

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