Jewry Honors Senator Herbert H. Lehman
All-Time High Set in Advance Pre-CampaignEfforts for UFA
Special to The Jewish News
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NEW YORK—Detroit played
a leading role here, last Satur-
day night, in setting an all-time
high in national pre-campaign
activities for the United Jewish
Appeal.
The occasion was the impres-
sive dinner meeting, at the
Waldorf Astoria, at which Sen-
ator Herbert H. Lehman was
honored for 50 years' leader-
ship in humanitarian causes by
the establishment of a settle-
ment in Israel, to be known as
"Lehman."
The $16,870,000 raised at that
meeting included the sum of
$2,820,000 for the regular UJA
drive and $1,700,000 for the
Special UJA Fund, 'from New
York. Detroit was second, with
$1,097,350 for the UJA campaign
and $515,050 for the Special
Fund.
(Detroiters at the dinner in-
cluded Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Holtzman, Mr. and Mrs. Hyman
Safran, Mr. and Mrs. George M.
Stutz, David Goldberg, Mr. and
Mrs. Sam Freedman, Louis
Berry, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Slo-
movitz, Mr. and Mrs. William
Avrunin).
Chicago was third with $1,-
026,000 and $254,000 to t h e
respective funds.
The push towards the un-
precedented fund-raising tri-
umph started with the $50,-
000 gift made by Mr. Holtz-
man at,the UJA conference in
December. (Story of "Holtz-
man Club" on Page 1. Also
see Commentary, Page 2).
William Rosenwald, UJA gen-
eral chairman, reported at the
dinner that while the nation-
wide drive is not scheduled to
open formally until the end of
February,' contributors in all
parts of the country have been
coming forward voluntarily "in
a mood of anxiety" to assure the
emigration of Jews from North
Africa and the continuity of
immigrant resettlement . in Is-
rael.
Samuel Bronfman, president
of the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress, presided at the dinner.
The $11,037,000 given toward
the UJA's regular campaign
and the $5,833,000 contributed
to its concurrent Special Fund
drive came from the same con-
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tributors. Gifts to the Special
Fund were made "over and
above" contributions to the reg-
ular campaign, with the over-
all result showing more than
a 50 per cent increase over pre-
champaign giving at this time
a year ago.
The new refugee settle-
ment, to be known simply as
"Lehman", will be located in
the Ashkelon district on the
Mediterranean coast and will
be populated by immigrant
families now arriving it large
numbers from North Africa.
A scroll to this effect lettered
in English and classical Hebrew
was presented to Mr. Lehman
by Edward M. M. Warburg,
president of the United Jewish
Appeal.
The scroll testifies to the fact
"that dienceforth and for all
time to come in the State of
Israel, a Jewish settlement on
the Mediterranean Coast in the
district of Ashkelon will bear
the name Lehman„ and by the
name it bears this settlement
will enshrine in perpetuity the
appreciation of the Jewish peo-
ple for his life-long leadership
and magnificent service in the
,cause of universal freedom, the
welfare of Jews the world over,
and for his vigorous and
weighty support for the inde-
pendence of the State of Israel,
its development and its prog-
ress."
Israel's President Itzhak Ben-
Zvi, in a cable from Jerusalem,
told Senator Lehman that the
naming of the new settlement in
his honor "is abundantly merit-
ed," adding that "it expresses
the admiration and appreciation
of the Jewish people."
Senator Lehman, responding
to the tributes, said that he did
"not consider them to be direct-
ed to me personally," but to
the causes of "freedom, humani-
tarianism and democracy," for
which he has stood.
"Israel," he declared, also
"symbolizes these causes" and
for that reason has been under
attack by "international com-
munism" and by leaders of the
Arab States.
"For the Soviet Union," Sen-
- ator Lehman stated, "Israel rep-
resents an intoleAble enclave
of freedom and stability in the
midst of a seething world, ripe
for a Communist-type revolu-
tion'."
"For the Arab leaders," he
added, "Israel represents a con-
venient, diversion for the surg-
ing forces of ferment and up-
heaval within their countries."
Senator Lehman scored the
Middle East policies being
followed by the free nations
and by "our own Govern-
ment" as "short-sighted," and
as "reflecting little resolution
or determination, and no com-
prehension whatever of the
basic forces involved."
He described as "folly" the
United States policy of "im-
partiality" as between the Arab
States and Israel, and the policy
of seeking "to draw one and
then the other of the Arab
States into our complex pat-
tern of world politics ; as in
the Baghdad Pact and the
Northern Tier."
Senator Lehman warned that
the. United States must not let
the Arab States "fall prey to
Communist-type revolutions or
to Communist intrigue" and
stressed that' "we must concen-
trate with all our might on
helping them to resolve their
basic problems."
Senator Lehman listed the
following three-point plan
which he offered as America's
"answer to Soviet intrusion" in
the Middle East:
1) A security pact with Is-
rael, but open to all her
neighbors.
2) Arms for Israel, as long
as arms are needed to main-
tain the present precarious
balance of forces.
3) Large-scale a n d long-
range economic aid to the
Arab States and to Israel.
In the meantime, he called for
strong support of both the Unit-
ed Jewish Appeal and State of
Israel Bonds in behalf of "em-
battled and endangered" Israel,
and Jews in other parts of the
world.
Israel Ambassador Abba E.
Eban told the UJA leaders that
Arab truculence against Israel,
bolStered by 'the uncritical sup-
port of the Soviet Union" and
aggravated by both Soviet and
Brit i s h arms shipments to
Egypt, have placed Israel in
imminent danger of attack and
aggression which may come "by
the summer of this year."
Added to this danger, Am-
bassador Eban emphasized, is
the fact that there are no "ef-
fective guarantees capable of
deterring an aggressor or re-
assuring his prospective vic-
tim."
The Israel envoy called, first,
as a matter of "paramount ur-
gency," for a strengthening of
Israel's defenses, "especially in
the air," terming this a "basic
military deterrent" which could
"preclude a conflict in the sum-
mer of this year."
Secondly, he urged the west-
ern world "to dispel the danger
of conflict and to relieve mutual
fears by proclaiming in solemn,
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Lastly, he called for a "sin-
cere advocacy and pursuit of a
peace settlement" but stressed
that "such a settlement will
surely not be obtained by in-
viting little Israel to become
still smaller in order that the
vast Arab Empire should fur-
ther expand."
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