Irish, Jews Linked in American Legion Post
Mayor Briscoe to Be Greeted Here
- The approaching visit in De- campaign. A West Point class-
of Lord Mayor Robert mate of President Eisenhower,
by Old School Chum Louis Elliman troit
Briscoe of Dublin serves to call Edward Leonard was at 22 the

When Robert Briscoe, Dub-
lin's genial and much-publicized
Lord Mayor, arrives in Detroit
"on Thursday morning, he will be
met at the Willow Run Airport
by an old, old frieficl, Louis M.
Elliman, local business leader.
The Briscoe and the Elliman
families are life-long friends,
and as boys the two men — the
Lord Mayor and the Detroit
business executive — went to
school together.
When Elliman was 14, he left
to come to this country, settling
in Detroit and entering business.
He is now the owner of the
Elliman Steel Co.
Briscoe, however, continued
school, became a leading Irish
patriot during the Revolution
there, later was elected to the
Dail (the Irish Senate) and is
now Lord Mayor of Ireland's
largest city.
According to Elliman, May-
or Briscoe's election_ to Dub-
lin's highest office places him
second in prestige to the Irish
President, Eamon. DeValera,
in a country that is 95 percent
Roman Catholic.
The Elliman-Briscoe friend-
ship started in 1885, when the
fathers of both men immigrated
to Ireland from Lithuania, then
a part of Russia. The elder Elli-
man operated a furniture manu-
facturing plant, while Mayor
Briscoe's father was in the
wholesale and retail furniture
business.
Since the days of early child-
hood, both men have been fast
friends. They - last saw each
other over the Labor Day week-
end last year when Elliman

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flew to Ireland on one of his
frequent visits to see his moth-
er and seven brothers and sis-
ters in Dublin.
According to the mail he has
been getting from his family
lately, Elliman says that all of
Ireland is thrilled by the rous-
ing reception} with which the
Lord Mayor has been greeted
on his visit to America.
Elliman admits that he was
overjoyed when he first heard
of Briscoe's election to the Dub-
lin Mayorality. He felt that not
only was the recognition justi-
fied, but that it was an excep-
tional tribute to the work of a
man who had been a leading
fighter for Zion and Irish in-
dependence.
"Bob is the kind of fellow who
was never ashamed of admit-
ting he was a Jew," Elliman
said. "Where some men who are
alone would tend to be embar-
rassed over their Jewishness,
Bob has always been proud.' of
it, and he's been accepted all
the more readily because of the
steadfastness of his convictions."
Elliman said that from what
he had seen on his trips and
heard from his family, there
has been a steady lessening
of the little anti-Semitism
that did exist in Dublin since
Briscoe's ascent in the past
decade.
"Even in this country, wher-
ever he has appeared so far,"
Elliman added, "he has brought
about a tremendous feeling of
goodwill, not only among Jews
and Catholics, but people of all
faiths. It's a tremendous boon
to better racial and religious
understanding," he said.

Mrs. Douglas to -ffelp Launch Flint
Campaign for United Jewish Appeal

Mrs. Helen Gahagan Douglas,
noted actress and for three
terms a Congresswoman from
California, will speak at the
opening luncheon of Women's
division of the 1957 Flint United
Jewish Appeal at 12:30 p.m.,
Tuesday, at Temple Beth El, it
was announced today by Mrs.
Max W. Harris and Mrs. Marcus

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A. Lebster, Division co-chair-
men -
Mrs. Douglas, in the summer
of 1952, visited Israel.. She had
last visited the Holy Land 20
y e ars earlier
during an
around-the-
world honey-
moon with her
husband, actor
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las.
On her re-
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aspeOs of cur-
rent problems
there and has
continue d to
Mrs. Douglas keep i n close
touch with the new state's so-;
cial and economic needs. She
has doone much to help ease
Israel's burden as it struggles
to absorb the more than 700,000
more b e e n
newcomers that
brought to her shores since 1948.
Prior to her election to Con-
gress, Mrs. Douglas worked with
the Farm Security Administra-
tion on problems of migratory
workers, and served on the Na-
tional Advisory Committee of
the board of governors of Free-
dom House, and a member of
the Academy of Political Science
of Columbia University.
The 1957 Flint United Jewish
Appeal drive features the need
for a $100,000,000 Emergency
Rescue Fund to save 100,000
Jewish refugees this year, at
the same time continuing UJA's
regular effort.

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