Eisenhower's
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Leonard Simons
States the Case
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London Exprc., Warns Israel
Not. to Leave Gaza; Egyptian
Jews Given Haven by Israelis
U.S. Asked to Pro -side Mercy
Airlift to Sase Egypt's Jews;
Peace Action Also Requested
WASHINGTON — The United States was asked
Monday to call upon the United Nations to dispatch Sec-
retary General Dag Hammarskjold to Egypt "to ascertain
the full extent of the Egyptian government's violation of
human rights and the mistreatment of the. Jewish popu-
lation."
The request was made by Irving M. Engel, president
of the American Jewish Committee, in the course of a
meeting with William M. Rountree, Assistant Secretary
of State for Near Eastern Affairs.
MT. Engel also proposed an American emergency
"Mercy lift" to transport Egyptian Jewish escapees now
stranded in Europe.
He recommended the airlift, however, only for those
victims who have been expelled from Egypt. For Jews.
. still in Egypt he said "the full restoration of their rights
must be sought."
Mr. Engel later described the 60-minute conference
with Rountree as "Ve,V er,-ouragin o
U. S. leadership fo press for an early Arab-Israel
eace settlethent was urged Tuesday by Rabbi Philip S.
.
, . Bernstein, of the American Zionist Council for Public
Affairs, in State Department conversations with Rountree:
Rabbi Bernstein expressed concern over recent anti-
Israel statements made by Pakistan and Imo, immediately
following a recent American statement which, he said,
virtually guaranteed
the territorial and political inde-
pendence of the Baghdad Pact Countries.
He also called on the Government to continue its
effort to halt the Egyptian persecution and despoliation
of Jews. The
Zionist leader expressed hope that the U. S.
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would view such statements with gravity and would
make it clear that these statements were inconsistent
with the obligations of members of the United Nations.
LONDON —
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
Lord Beaverbrook's London Daily Express warned Israel Tuesday to
refuse to quit the Gaza strip. The paper said "it would be madness" for the Israelis
to allow the Egyptians to return to Gaza and "it would or should be unthinkable for
other nations to become parties to so wrongful an act."
The conservative daily said that Israel should resist any proposal to quit the Gaza
strip to which, it said, the Egyptians do not have "the slightest claim in history or
justice." The paper said the Egyptians "grabbed it in 1948. They have held it since as a
threat against the life of Israel and an arsenal for Russian arms."
In a press conference at his headquarters at El Ballah, Egypt, Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns, commander of the United Nations emergency force, said Monday that Israel's
withdrawal or failure to withdraw its troops from the Gaza strip was "a political
matter" over which he had no direct responsibility. He announced that Israeli troops
in the Sinai Peninsula would be withdrawn a further 25 kilometers about 25 miles and
Yugoslav elements of the UN force would take over the evacuated zone.
(Israel's Knesset was told by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion Wednesday that his
government had no intention of ceding the Gaza strip to Egypt).
(French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau indicated Wednesday that France will
help Israel build an oil pipeline through the Negev.)
(India's Prime Minister Nehru, replying to questions whether his country would
help bring Israel and the Arab states together for peace talks, said the possibility
was remote in view of recent events. On the question of freedom of passage of Israeli
ships through the Suez, he said he favored free passage for all ships, but recognized
Egypt's
world claim that she is at war with Israel, and proposed presenting the problem to
court and the rewriting of the Constantinople Convention of 1888).
Egyptian Exiles Arrive at Lydda Airport
By ELIAHU SALPETER
- (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
LYDDA AIRPORT — Seventy-nine men, women and children — the first
large
group of exiles from Egypt to reach Israel —al-
rived here Tuesday by way of Athens.
Many of them were moved to tears as they alit from the El Al airliner onto an airfield
basking in a brilliant morning sun. As they assembled on Israel soil, they broke into
the Israel national anthem Hatikvah, chanting old words used before the establish-
ment of the. State.
The arrivals were welcomed at the airport by Israel government officials who told
them that "Here is a place in which the Jews can live without fear." A huge crowd
of Israelis was present at the airport to welcome the newcomers, many of them friends
and relatives, others seeking information about relatives remaining in Egypt.
Many of the arrivals carried French, Italian, Turkish and Greek passports. The
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$6,500,000 Goal Anticipated for 1957 Allied
Drive;Budgetary Conference Sets Formula
Detroit's organized Jewish community unan
morning session, but all supported the steering com-
mittee's recommendation which provided a five per
and in Israel as expressed in the forthcoming $100
cent increase over last year in
000,000 United Jewish Appeal Rescue Fund, whi
and
le
national agencies, to provide for local-operating
maintaining the present level of local and nation al
salary increments
and rising operating costs, and no increase in local-
services, at the Jewish Welfare Federation's eight
capital.
annual pre-campaign budget conference, Sunday, h
at
The campaign
the 10 Mile branch of the Jewish Community Cente r.
chairman, Max M. Fisher, em-
The conference, at which the Federation pres i-
phasized that having arrived at a basic formula for
dent, Judge Theodore Levin, presided, is called an
the regular 1957 Campaign "we will have to exert
nually to recommend the apportionment of funds t -
the biggest effort in Detroit's history to raise both
0
be raised in the year ahead, through the Allied Jew
the regular fund and Detroit's share of the United
-
ish Campaign, in four categories:
Jewish Appeal Rescue Fund. Like last year, the
Overseas and Israe 1,
local-operating, local-capital, and national agencies
Allied Jewish Campaign will be conducted as one
Anticipating a 1957 Allied Jewish Campaign go •
campaign, with one pledge card, for both the regular
of at least $6,500,000, which will include a regula al r
fund, which includes UJA and other overseas needs,
and the special UJA Rescue Fund."
fund and the special Rescue fund, the steering emu
mittee chairman, Hy Saran, presented a report rec
In his presentation for United Jewish Appeal and
otnmending an anticipated $3,785,930 which will b
overseas needs, Samuel H. Rubiner, executive com-
available for allocation from the 1957 Allied Jewish e
called the United Jewish Appeal
"a great chairman,
Campaign regular fund; $2,133,479, the same as las
instrument of Jewish survival."
year, be allotted for overseas and Israel; $1,070,00 0
"With UJA funds, the Joint Distribution Corn-
for local operating; $385,451 for local capital, an d
mittee last year aided 210,000 Jews in Europe, in
$197,000 for national agencies. All funds beyon d
North Africa, and other lands; with UJA dollars the
those voted for the regular programs, which includ e
Jewish
Agency last year alone brought 50,000 Jews
$275,000 for campaign and collections and $210,00 0
into Israel and provided for their reception, and re-
or five per cent for shrinkage, would go to the
settlement, and aided nearly 350,000 Jews,
in all,
United Jewish Appeal $100,000,000 Rescue Fund.
in Israel," Rubiner said.
The report of the steering committee was en-
dorsed and seconded in turn by Morris Garvett, edu-
"For the immediate help of refugees, an Emer-
cation division chairman, Jacob A. Citrin, community ' gency Rescue Fund of $100,000,000 over and above
the regular UJA budget of $105,000,000 was called
relations division chairman, Sidney J. Allen, chair-
man of Federation's committee on capital
for and created by the top leadership of the Ameri-
needs,
can Jewish communities assembled in New York
George M. Stutz, chairman of the health and welfare
on Nov. 30," he explained.
division, and others on the conference floor.
Rubiner called upon the "understanding and
The four division chairmen presented requests
high generosity characteristic of Detroit" to renew
for increased 1957 allocations during the conference's
mously pledged its fullest support to needs overse
as
our participation in the so-called regular part of the
campaign in the same amount as last year and make
certain that . the Rescue Fund is dramatically in-
creased over last year's Special Fund.
Citrin referred to Arab propaganda and anti-
Semitism aroused by the problem of de-segregation
in the South as two major problems. He pointed out
that there is a national trend for combining the
community relations agency with the budgeting,
fund raising and social planning agency in large
communities, and expressed the hope that such a step
would soon be feasible in Detroit.
Stutz - cited additional beds for the chronically
ill aged at the Jewish Home for Aged, additional
funds for the Resettlement Service in anticipation
of renewal of the Refugee Relief Act and funds to
enable agencies to compete in a tightening labor mar-
ket for qualified social workers, as primary needs
in the field of health and welfare.
Garvett pointed out that most of Detroit's funds
and attention in the field of education are
on the United Hebrew Schools. He cited the expended
Hebrew
School system of affiliation with religious congrega-
tions, involving the use of their physical facilities
and cooperative arrangements with Yiddish schools,
as major steps forward in the field of Jewish educa-
tion. Garvett predicted an increase in Hebrew
Schools' enrollment in the coming year and said that
coupled with increased salaries this is an uncon-
trollable expenditure and must so be regarded.
Members of Safran's steering committee were
Sidney J. Allen, Mrs. Theodore Bargman, Al Bor-
man, Jacob A. Citrin, Mrs. Harry L. Jones, Max
M.
Fisher, Morris Garvett, Joseph Holtzman, Sidney J.
Karbel, Abe Kasle, Jacob Keidan, Judge Theodore
Levin, Samuel J. Rhodes, Samuel H. Rubiner, Abra-
ham Shiffman and George M. Stutz.