"56 Allied Jewish Campaign Opens
With Initial Gifts of $1,612,400
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Generous increases in contributions, made by a group of
100 community leaders, at the initial pre-campaign gathering
at the home of the William Suchers on Balmoral Drive, on
Tuesday evening, marked an excellent beginning for the 1956
Allied Jewish Campaign.
Spurred to action by the- inauguration of the Special
United Jewish Appeal Fund of $25,000,000, as an emergency
sum to be raised in addition to the national UJA quota of
$105,000,000, large increases were received over last year's gifts.
The $1,612,400 subscribed at Tuesday evening's meeting
represented an over-all increase of better than 33 per cent,
the same group having given approximately $1,097,350 in
1955.
_ On behalf of John E. and Nathan W. Lurie, Abner Wolf
and Max Shaye, John Lurie announced a $100,000 contribu-
tion from the A.C.F.-Wrigley Stores, Inc. -
Increases of $25,000 and more, that will go into the $25,-
000,000 UJA Special Fund, were received from C. William and
Harry F. Sucher of Speedway Petroleum Corporation, Wil-
liam Fisher, Nathan R. Epstein and Leon Kay, Keystone Oil
Refinery CoMpany and Max M. Fisher; Joseph Holtzman and
Nathan Silverman.
The Abe Green, Aubrey Ettenheimer and Leonard Farber
group increased its campaign contributions by $20,000. Hugo
Slotkin gave $15,000 above his '55 contribution. Julius Green
and. Harold S. Sarko pledged an additional $12,500, as did
Irwin I. Cohn. A $12,000 increase was received from Tom and
Al Borman and $10,000 increases from Max, Phillip and Aaron
Stollman, Abe Shiffman, Sol Eisenberg and Joseph Gendel-
man; Edward C. Levy; Henry Wineman; Lew Wisper and
Frank A. Wetsman. .
John E. Lurie and Max M. Fisher, chairman and co-
chairman of the 1956 campaign, expressed confidence, on
the basis of the early responses, that Detroit's response will
match in generosity the unprecedented drive of 1948.
Acceptance by .prominent Detroit leaders of responsible
posts in the Detroit campaign organization, and the . generosity
of the leaders, combined in creating an enthusiastic attitude
in the preparations for the current campaign, the goal of which
will be to secure Detroit's share of $1,230,000 towards the
$25,000,000 Special UJA Fund, in addition to the minimum of
$4,200.000 as the regular campaign goal.
Addressing the gathering, Rabbi Herbert A. Freidman,
executive vice-chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, made
a special plea for "giving in 1956 over and above what it has
been," with gifts to the UJA Special Fund and regular drive.
Describing the dangers that face Jews today in Israel, in
North Africa, in lands that stretch from the Nile to the
Euphrates, Rabbi Friedman especially emphasized the dangers
in Israel whose people, he said, "stand , in literal danger of
destruction. Calling for help to the people who are fighting
for survival from "the aggressions that may be unleashed
against them at any moment," Rabbi Friedman said that
should such aggression come it will be "with the roar of Soviet
tanks and planes which today are flowing into Egypt."
"Israel," he said, "is holding its gates open to all oppressed
Jews in spite of the ominous threats to its existence.
These immigrants, he explained, are arriving in Israel
from Morocco, from Tunisia, from areas where "their future
has been reduced to zero." More than 30,000 of these people
were received by Israel in 1955, he stated, and added that
"more than 100,000 want to get out and more than 80,000 are
registered to get out, but there are funds in sight—but not yet
in hand—to bring only half of those who wish to leave, 45,000
from Morocco and 5,000 from Tunisia."
"The big difference today," he added, "is that the people
of Israel are in no position to contribute financially to this
immigration. Although their gates are open, their treasury is
empty, as every resource goes for purposes of national sur-
vival. But with tens of thousands of lives to be saved, to- be
resettled, to be built anew in Israel, American Jews must fill
the breach with the same valor and greatness they showed
in 1948." ,
VOL. 28 — No. 20 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit
27 January 20, 1956
Emergency Parley
Unites Jews of U. S.
In Defense of Israel
• By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Stirred to action by the dangers threatening Israel's
existence, Jewish leaders from 35 States, representing the 17 major national
Jewish organizations, mobilized their forces in an appeal to the United States
Government, and to world public opinion, to prevent a war in the Middle East
by providing the Jewish State with means for self-defense, and to use all the
influence at the command of the leaders of the democratic nations to assure a
face-to-face meeting of Israelis and Arabs for the establishment of a lasting peace,
Ask Arms and Security Treaty
The conference was called by the presidents of the following national
organizations: American Jewish Congress, American Trade Union Council for
Labor Israel, American, Zionist Conunittee for Public Affairs, American -Zionist
Council, Bnai Brith, Labor Zionist Organization of America, Hadassah, Jewish
Agency, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans, Mizrachi, National
Community Relations Advisory Council, Union of American Hebrew Congre-
gations, United Synagogue of America, Zionist Organization of America. "
The conference, held in a tense and apprehensive atmosphere in a period of
most serious threats to Israel, unanimously adopt e d a resolution pleading for
arms for Israel, an American security treaty with the Jewish State a n d strong
appeals for peace between the Arabs and the Jews.
Expressing deep resentment over the campaign of propaganda conducted in
this country by Arab diplomats, the conference condemned such infiltrations as
abuses of American hospitality and asked that our Government put an end to
such violations • of decency.
The conference also asked that our Government .take serious steps to put
an end to the Arab boycott of American Jewish firms. It insisted that on the
basis of established traditions and basic American principles of non - discrimina-
tion,, our Government should register its protest against visa discriminations by
Arabs against Americans of the JeWish faith.
There were many dramatic moments at the sessions, which lasted from
Tuesday evening through Wednesday night, at which Jewry's leading spokes-
men, a spokesman for the Lebanese Christians and Christian Americans spoke
their minds against the threats to the peace of the Middle East and to . Israel's
security. More than 500 delegates ; were deeply moved by the stirring addresses
of Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Israel Ambassador Abba Eban and by the en-
dorsements of the appeals for aid to Israel's defense of America's labor leaders.
Problems Solvable, Says Eban
In view of the bitter debate concurrently taking place at the United Nations
Security Council meetings, at which Israel was fighting a difficult battle against
serious odds, the conference was especially stirred by Dr. Goldmann's assertion
alluding to the Syrian incident. He said any "excuse for further delay of Israel's
request for arms and a security guarantee is to season diplomacy with moral
hypocrisy and to court peril." -
Ambassador Eban, coming to the conference of friendly kinsmen from a
friendless UN session, emphasized that "t h e perilous situation is remediable."
He declared, nevertheless, that Col. Nasser's threats to eliminate the only non-
Arab element from the • Middle East communities must be taken seriously.
He outlined three remedies—The strengthening of Israel's defenses, "espe-
cially in the air," a declaration by the Western world of "its determination to
help resist any change of the existing frontier by force," and "pursuit of a peace
settlement."
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Voluntary Sanctions Issue Faces - Israel
(Related Story on Page 3)
Pressure upon Israel to accept a "voluntary sanctions" program
was in evidence at the United Nations, simultaneous with the con-
demnation by the Security Council of the Israeli attack on a Syrian
military base on Dec. 11. The New York Herald Tribune appeared
to summarize the pressure on Israel by the statement: "Israel might
Well improve its whole position by voluntarily acceding to growing
pressure in the UN that the peace be protected by sanctions." Those
who are proposing such "voluntary sanctions" are challenged, however,
to offer assurances that similar responsibilities for peace will be as-
sumed by the Arab states.
At the same time, there is growing the recognition of the major
approach td peace-:--by means of "face-to-face meetings with the Arabs
for peace negotiations," as proposed by Israel.
On the eve of the Security Council's action Tuesday, UN Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold left for a study of possibilities of an
Arab-Israel peace. He conferred with British Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd, in London, on Tuesday. He will be in Cairo Saturday for a
conference with Egypt's Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Mr. Hammarskjold will reach Israel on Monday, and will spend
two days there to confer with. Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and
.
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