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Robert Briscoe to Open '57 Drive
Thursday Evening at Shaarey Zedek;
All Contributors Asked to Attend

Enthusiastic receptions are cial welcome to Mayor Briscoe.
planned for Lord Mayor Robert The resolution reads in part:
Briscoe, of Dublin, Ireland,
"Whereas, Mayor Briscoe
when he comes here Thursday
is the first Jewish Mayor of
to address the public meeting
Dublin, a city which boasts
that will officially open the 1957
the largest Irish Catholic pop-
Allied Jewish, Campaign.
dation in the world; and
Mayor Briscoe will speak at
"Whereas, Mayor Robert
the Shaarey Zedek, the meet-
Briscoe
was born in Ireland
ing being open to all campaign
of Jewish parents who were
contributors. A dinner for top
emigrants from Lithuania,
campaign leaders will precede
and since his youth has ac-
the public rally.
tively engaged in Irish poli-
Another guest speaker at
tics. He devotes himself
that meeting will be Reuven
wholeheartedly to the cause
of the Irish nation, serving
in an unselfish and dedicated
manner to whatever task he
was called. He has had a
long and distinguished ca-1
reer as a member of the
Irish Parliament, serving
thirty years in the Dail; and
"Whereas, In the following
several weeks the Mayor will
also travel throughout the
United States and visit more
than twenty American cities,
including several in the state
of Michigan; now therefotre
be it
"Resolved by the Senate
(the House of Representa-
tives concurring) , That the
members of the Senate and
the House of Representatives
of the State of Michigan ex-
tend to him a hearty wel-
come to the United States and
REUVEN DAFNI
to the state of Michigan and
wish him the best • of 'Irish'
Dafni, Israel Consul in New
luck for a pleasant and happy
York and a former leader of
visit to the United States."
the fighting forces in Israel's
(See Editorial, Page 4)
War of Liberation in 1948.

Max M. Fisher, chairman of
the 1957 campaign, will preside
at the public rally, and greet-
ings will be extended by noted
community leaders. Mrs. Abra-
ham Cooper will sing the Irish,
Israel and American National
Anthems.
Upon his arrival at the Wind-
sor Airport, at 10 a.m. Thurs--.
day, Mayor Briscoe will be
taken to the City Hall for a
reception by Mayor Albert E.
Cobo. He will receive The Key
to the City from the City
Council.
After the City Hall recep-
tion, he will be the gueSt of the
United Irish Societies at a
luncheon at the Veterans Me-
morial- Building.
The committee on arrange-
ents for Mayor Brisco's
visit consists of Louis M. Elli-
man, Louis C. _Blumberg and
Hyman Safran. •
The official reception com-
mittee is composed of the fol-
lowing representatives of the
United Irish Societies:
Martin Fleming, chairman,
committee on arrangements;
Thomas D e a n, Sir Knight,
Knights of Equity; Jock Judge,
President, Friendly Sons of St.
Patrick; Victor Brady, Presi-
dent, Gaelic League; Patrick
Killeen, President, Ancient Or-
der of Hibernians; Dan Ken-
nedy, President, American
League for Undivided Ireland.
Jewish Welfare Federation
representatives on the recep-
tion committee are: Judge The-
odore Levin, Federation presi-
dent; Max M. Fisher, chairman,
Allied Jewish Campaign; Leon-
ard N. Simons and Irwin I.
Cohn,', pre-campaign chairmen,
Allied Jewish Campaign; Sam-
uel H. Rubiner, chairman Fed-
eration executive committee;
Milton K. Mahler, president,
Detroit Service Group; Rabbi
Richard M. Hertz and Rabbi
Morris Adler.
In the Michigan State Senate,
Senators • Blondy a n d Ryan
were the authors of a resolu-
tion extending the State's offi-

Brings Irish Jokes and
Charm and Wins Aliyah

NEW YORK, (JTA) Dub-
lin's first Jewish Mayor ar-
rived in New York with a col-
lection of 500 Irish jokes, a
quantity of Irish- whiskey; a , bag
of friendship rings and a hearty
"L'Chayim" as he raised a glass
of his country's favorite toast-.
ing beverage.
Wearing the "traveling" two<
pound chain of office instead
of the ceremonial six - pound
chain, Mayor Robert Briscoe
landed at Idlewild Airport in a
.KLM plane piloted by his son
William, a regular KLM pilot,
accompanied by his wife and
another son, Joseph, a Dublin
dentist.
There. were cheering Jews
to the right of him as he
alighted and happy Irish to
the left. A delicate problem
of protocol arose as Abe
Stark, the Jewish president
of the New York City Coun-
cil, and Sean Keating, the
Irish New York City Com-
missioner, bore down on him
shoulder to shoulder.
• The Mayor waved at the
Irishman and smiled at the
Jew. Then he crossed arms
and shook hands with both
simultaneously.
At a New York hotel, he
posed for squadrons of screech-
ing cameramen who waxed
ecstatic when pretty nine-year
old Leah Loewenger, tiny refu-
gee from Hungary, presented
the Mayor with a Purim Megil-
lah. Then the Mayor talked
formally to a meeting of the
campaign Cabinet of the UJA
of Greater New York.
The next day there was the
official greeting from the May-
or of New York and- the next
day there was the review of
New York's fabulous St. Pat-
rick's day parade and then the
start of the 20-city tour for
the United Jewish Appeal and
the Irish Societies of America.
If the Mayor can survive the
leg and larynx-busting sched-

ule, it's going to be a great
seven weeks for the Irish and
the Jews.
In New York, before par-
ticipating in the St. Patrick's
. Day parade last Saturday,
Mayor Briscoe attended serv-
ices at Congregation Ziehron
Ephraim, 163 E. 67th St., and
was given an "Aliyah." Rabbi
Zev Zahavy said the Mayor's
visit was "an inspiration to
all Jews in America and
throughout the world."
Mayor Briscoe brought his
own Tanis with him to • the
services and walked to Shul,
being observantly Orthodok.
He met with Cardinal Spell-
man, whom he brought a reli-
gious gift from the Catholics
in Ireland. He chatted with
the Irish policemen. When he
told Cardinal Spellman that he
was on his way to chant his
prayers, the Cardinal said: "Be
sure to leave all those Rosary
beads here"—referring to the
gilt he brought him.
St. Patrick's Day having
coincided with Purim, the
visiting Mayor expressed a
wish for Purim Hamantas-
chen and for Irish mist
(whiskey).
Mayor Briscoe is speaking in
various cities in behalf of the
Irish Societies of America in
an effort to stimulate the tour-
ist trade between the U. S. and
Ireland.

Mr. Briscoe, who is 62, joined
the Irish Republican cause at
the age of 16 in his native Dub-
lin, serving as a staff officer to
Gen. Michael Collins, flamboy-
ant leader of the underground
army. In 1917, he' joined forces
with Eamon De Valera, who
headed the Sinn Fein, the mili-
tant nationalist organization.
Two years later, the two men
escaped to the United States to
raise funds for the IRA and to
plead their cause before the
U.S. Senate.
• In 1923, the Mayor was one
of a group of embattled IRA
fighters who seized the Irish
Free State Consulate in New
York and held it under siege
until the N.Y. police riot .squad
drove them out. Mr. Briscoe
became a founding member of
the Fianna Fail Party in 1-926.
when De Valera established it.
He was elected the next year
to the Fianna Fail (Ireland's
Parliament) from South Dub-
lin and has held office ever
since.
He has been personally in-
volved for many years in the
campaign to establish the Jew-
ish State and later, to provide
the young country with the
means to safeguard her inde-
pendence. He has made a
countless number of appear-
ances throughout the British
Isles and the U.S. in behalf of
Israel and to help the post-
World War II refugees. He and
Mrs. Briscoe, who also is a
Dublin native - and who is ac-
companying her 14,,u s b a n d;
housed a number of these war
victims until they found per-
manent homes.
Mr. Briscoe launched his suc-
cessful business career first as
an electrical engineer. More
recently, he has become asso-
ciated with 'several firms, in-
cluding textile and pharmaceu-
tical companies. He is an ob-
servant Jew and was instru-
mental in introducing Kashrut
laws in his country.
Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe are the
parents of four sons and three
daughters. William, the oldest
son, is a pilot for the Dutch
airline, KLM, and captained
plane which brought his par-
ents to the U.S. Joan, the old-
est daughter, is a physician
who lives with her husband in
Canada. Another son, Joseph,
is a dentist practicing in Dub-
lin, while a younger son is fin-
ishing medical school.

Max M. Fisher Named to head
1957 Allied Jewish Campaign

Max M. Fisher has been of-
ficially announced as the 1957
Allied Jewish Campaign chair-
man by John E. Lurie, last
year's chairman. Fisher, who
was Lurie's co-chairman in the
1956 campaign, announced that
Lurie will be special events
chairman of the 1957 campaign.
A member of the United
Jewish Appeal Study Mission
to Israel that left the Jewish
State the day before the Sinai
Campaign, Fisher is a UJA . na-
.tional big gifts chairman, in
addition to leading Detroit's
campaign.
"After visiting Israel and
seeing the sacrifices her peo-
ple make daily, to rescue
Jews from the world's trou-
ble spots and bring them to
Israel, and after seeing the
tremendous strides Israel is

Mayor Briscoe
Captivates UN

By DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)—
With all the problems bedevil-
ing the UN these days over the
critical Middle Eastern situa-
tion, everything was temporar-
ily forgotten in this •interna-
tonal city last Friday when
Robert Briscoe, our goodly
Lord Mayor of Dublin, came to
the shining glass and marble
structure as the guest of the
Irish delegation headed by Am-
bassador Frederick H. Boland.
His appearance here created
a sort of semi-holiday atmo-
sphere. Hundreds of staff mem-
bers, among them many of
Irish ancestry — wearing the
green in his honor—and of the
Jewish faith, left their posts to
catch a glimpse of the colorful
Jewish Lord Mayor of _Dublin.
Not for one moment did he
allow anyone to overlook his
Jewishness or his faithfulness
to Judaism. At every step and
turn he himself said something
significant that brought out the
Irish - Jewish combination of
the man. He linked St. Pat-
rick's Day with Purim, and re-
minded his hosts that it was
Friday afternoon, erev Shab-
bat, and that it was impera-
tive that the UN schedule • be
completed in time for him to
attend synagogue services.
A Jewish girl, Frances
Platsky, working in the radio
division of the Secretariat,
presented Briscoe - with a
Hamantash as he began to
record a brief statement for
the UN radio. Pleasantly sur-
prised, he offered his heart-
felt thanks and then re-
minded his hosts that the
world may learn a good les-
son today from the ancient
Purim episode which saw the
wicked Haman hang on the
very gallows which he had
prepared for the Jew Mor-
decai.
In one of the private little
delegates' dining rooms where
Briscoe lunched with the 14
members of the Irish delega-
tion and Consulate, the Irish
and Jewish waitresses took
great pride in serving their
special visitor. Outside in the
corridors the word spread fast
that the Lord Mayor, being an
orthodox Jew, adheres strictly
to the laws of kashrut. The
main course was broiled sal-
mon steak. When your corre-
spondent entered to greet the
Lord Mayor with whom he has
been corresponding for a num-
ber of years, Ambassador Bo-
land, in great pride, pointed to
Briscoe's yarmulka—a beautiful
silken emerald green.

MAX M. FISHER

making in industry, agricul-
ture and the arts, I feel I can
not do less than everything
in my power to help," Fisher
said.
Fisher was among those in-_
strumental in founding Sinai
Hospital and has championed
the 13 Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion member agencies.
"By supporting our Commu-
nity Centers, Sinai Hospital,
Hebrew Schools, Home for
Aged and all our other agen-
cies, we remain a . strong com-
munity, able 'to care for our
needs here in Detroit and lead
the country in helping meet.
needs overseas and in Israel,"
Fisher said.
Commenting on what he
termed a "wonderful" start in
the pre-campaign phase of our
campaign, Fisher said, "the
campaign's only set back has
been the passing of Henry
Wineman, who was to have
honorary chairman of the
1957 Allied Jewish Campaign.
Henry Wineman's experience,
advice and understanding will
be sorely missed in our Cam-
paign."
Chairman of the board of Au-
rora Gasoline Company, Fisher
is a vice-president and former
treasurer of the Jewish Welfare
Federation. He serves on the
board of the United HIAS
Service and on the boards of
Sinai Hospital and United Jew-
ish Charities.
This year's pre - campaign
chairmen are Irwin I. Cohn and
eonard N. Simons and the
pre - campaign vice - chairmen
are Jack 0. Lefton and James
Wineman. The women's pre-
campaign chairman is Mrs. Eu-
gene J. Arnfeld.
Aiming to be well above
the $3,000,000 mark by cam-
paign opening on March 28,
the mechanical trades divi-
sion, whose chairman is Rob-
ert Trepeck; the food divi-
sion, whose chairman is Mer-
win K. Grosberg; the real
estate and building division,
headed by Abe Green and
Irving Rose, and the mer-
cantile division, under chair-
men Arthur Leebove and
Stanley J. Winkelman, have
all held major fund raising
meetings.
"The services division, under
the chairmanship of Sidney J.
Bertin and Maurice Sandler, is
making excellent progress, and
chairmen Paul M. Handleman
and Abraham Satovsky of the
professional diviSion report
substantial increases in giving
in their division," Fisher re-
ported. "Paul Broder is suc-
cessfully heading the arts and
crafts division. Under the ex-
perienced leadership of Mrs.
Harry L. Jones, the women's
division is off to its biggest
campaign ever, and the same
can be said for the junior divi-
sion under William M. Wets-
man's leadership. The Metro-
politan Division's Ronald Roth-
stein is doing an excellent job."