Eisenhower's Pastor and - Zionism: Leonard Simons States the Case THE JEWISH NE A Weekly Review Commentary, Page 2 Good Will: Does It Apply to Israel? ofJep t ,Events N4$ Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—I VOLUME XXX--No. 16 The Season of Peace and .401.27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — VE P Editorial, 01) troit Jewish Chronicle Page 4 r. " , 4 6N) 'I tZt. J ecember 21, 1956 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c 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. • 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 (Continued on Page 5) $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.