The Great Challenge for 1058...
In this inter-planetary era, as man pushes back the horizons of outer
space, with exploratory steps towards travel that will cdnquer space and
distance, the year 1958 is marked by the challenge for wider vistas of
scientific knowledge . . . Even greater is the challenge to Man to apply
this knowledge with wisdom for the advancement of the welfare of the
human race. . . . The challenge is for a better world and for peace. .
In the interest of peace and the .attainment of true amity for all peoples,
we pray that the challenges that face the coming year should be met with
wisdom and courage by the statesmen of the world.
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Resurgence of
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a Guide for
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Commentary,
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E eJEWISH NEWS
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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOLUME XXXI I — No. 17 looreg rInsi%i, 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd —VE
The Mirage
in the Sarids
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Editorials
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8-9364—Detroit 35, Decembr 27, 1957 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c
Ben-Gurion Beats Opposition;
Will Negotiate With Germany
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM.—Premier . David Ben-Gurion beat back an opposition move in the
Israel Parliament Tuesday to subject his attempt to send a secret mission to Bonn to
secure West German security support, but the parliamentary victory only aggravated the
Cabinet crisis and coalition split.
NEW YORK. (JTA)—The "Daily Worker," official
The vote came after a statement by the Prime Minister in ilvhich he warned that
organ of the American Communist Party, this week
Israel was being progressively overtaken by Arab states in arms. He said Arabs had
sought to debunk Arab allegations that Moscow is sup-
"unlimited" sources which Israel was unable to • match. This, he said, obliged Israel to .
porting the Arabs- in an attempt to force Israel back to
place stress on the quality of arms it obtained rather than quantity. It was to obtain
vital equipment to replace obsolete equipment in use by Israel that he had planned to
its 1947 United Nations partition boundaries. "As of this
moment, the only great powers that have proposed rolling
send a mission to West Gerinany, he declared, describing that country as the only one
back Israel's borders are the .U.S. and Britain," the paper
in the world where Israel could obtain what it needed.
wrote.
The Premier defiantly justified his move and told the Knesset that he appeared
The Communist newspaper said it was "understand-
before
it "unrepentent"—he used the English word—in connection with his decision to
able, that certain Arab governments would want Israel's
obtain equipment vital to Israel from the only source open.
frontiers shrunk back to the lines fixed in that 1947 UN
The motion to debate the issue introduced by.the Herut party, the rightwing oppo-
resolution which- at the time they opposed with arms.
sition, was defeated by a vote of 46 to 14, with 17 abstentions. Achdut Avoda, the co-
But are they ready to accept the whole' resolution or
only part of it?
alition party whose Cabinet representatives precipitated the current crisis, abstained
from voting. Other leftwing member of the coalition, the Mapam party, walked out of
Declaring that the Arabs "cannot have their cake
and eat it too," the article stated: "The reactionary war
the chamber before the vote. The stand thus taken by two leftwing partners in the
launched by the Arab governments against Israel forced
coalition indicated that Ben-Gurion would have to force a showdown on the composition
that country to fight for its independence—a struggle in
of his government.
which it had the active support of the Soviet Union and
Ben-Gurion spoke twice—once in his opening statement and the second time in re-
Czechoslovakia."
sponse to Moshe Sneh, Communist. In his s e c o n d speech the Premier indicated that
The territory presently occupied by Israel was "occu-
among arms sought by Israel from Germany were submarines.
pied in the course of its war of self-defense," said the
Dr. Sneh created something of a storm when he charged that Israel was seeking
Daily Worker. The newspaper charged that the first pro-
to obtain submarines from Germany and charged that this was a threat to world peace.
posal to reduce Israel's territory was written by repre-
sentatives of the U. S. State Department and British
In reply, Ben-Gurion told the House that, assuming Dr. Sneh's disclosure that Israel was
Foreign Office and put forth by the late Count Folke
seeking submarines was true, Dr. Sneh well knew that Syria and Egypt were obtaining
Bernadotte.
the underseas craft from Russia.
Daily Worker Backs
Israel on Border Issue
Continued on Page Six
1958 Allied Jewish Campaign rormnla Calls for
Lartier St u ns for Local. I ational and Israel Needs
In order to meet all operating obligations for Detroit's community causes
and for the national agencies included in the Allied Jewish Campaign, and to
provide Israel with the necessary emergency funds, a minimum of $200,000 will
have to he raised in the 1958 campaign.
This became evident when the annual budget conference of the Jewish
Welfare Federation, meeting at the Ten Mile Road Jewish Center, at morning
and afternoon sessions on Sunday, adopted a formula which provided for vitally
needed increases for Allied Campaign beneficiaries.
Representatives of all local Federation member agencies who participated
in the conference, by unanimous action, recommended that the local operating
allocations be increased to a minimum of $1,250,000, the same agencies having
received $1,163,487 last year. The national 'agencies' allocations were increased
from $200,626 to $221,000.
The conference went on record in favor of striving for a minimum of
$2,1'71,000 for the regular funds of the United Jewish Appeal and a minimum
of $1,500,000 towards the Special UJA Rescue Fund.
Hope was expressed by the conference that the cuts made in local agencies'
requests for vitally needed increases to provide for the coming year's operating
expenses will be restored through a contingency $78,000 item to be included
in the campaign goal. .
The campaign again will include an item of $385,451 for capital expenditures
On the basis of the recommendations made by the budget conference, the
1958 Allied Jewish Campaign must raise at least $6,200,000 to equal the
services rendered hi 1957. But the aim will be for a much higher goal in order
to provide the additional sums vitally needed for overseas needs and Israel,
All funds raised above the amounts allocated will go for needs in Israel.
The recommendations of Sunday's budget conference now will go to the
executive committee and the .board of goVernors of the Federation for approval.
Judge Thedore Levin, Federation president, presided at the conference.
Hyman Safran, who headed the steering committee that developed the formula
for the 1958 campaign, outlined the plans for the forthcoming drive.
An outline of budget material was presented by William Avrunin, associate
Federation director. The overseas and Israel needs were reviewed by Samuel
Rubiner. Local and national needs, as developed by the health and welfare,
education and community relations divisions were outlined by Erwin S. Simon,
Morris Garvett and Jacob A. Citrin, the respective chairmen of the three divi-
sions. Max M. Fisher spoke for the committee on capital needs.
The steering committee, under Safran's chairmanship, included the five
spokesmen for the above listed divisions, Jack O. Lefton, Judge Levin, Louis
Tabashnik, Dr. Harry Arnkoff of Pontiac, whose Federation now is functioning
as part of the Detroit community, Theodore Bargman, Nathan Silverman, Mrs.
H. C. Broder, Mrs. Sidney J. Karbel, Edward Fleischman, Maurice Schiller,
Milton K. Mahler, Leonard N. Simons, .Philip Slomovitz, Leon Kay and Abe
Borman.
Max N. Fisher, Allied Jewish Campaign chairman, in a brief address that
concluded the budget conference, called for community-wide cooperation to
assure uninterrupted support by Detroit Jewry for. the local and national causes,
and a maximum of income to provide increases to the United Jewish Appeal for
Israel and other overseas needs.