Goldmann Charges U. S. Jewry Suffers
from 'Overorganized Chaos,' Waste of
Manpower' at Zionist Dinner for Neumann
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
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NEW YORK — The charge
that American Jewry is suffer-
ing from "overorganiz- zed chaos.
leading to overlapping, waste of
manpower and efforts", was
voiced here Tuesday night at
a dinner of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America tendered in
tribute to Dr. Emanuel Neu-
mann, honorary president of the
ZOA and member of the Jewish
Agency Executive, in recogni-
tion of his 50 years of leader-
ship and dedicated service to
the Zionist cause.
Neumann Wag presented with
the ZOA Herzl Gold Medallion.
awarded each year to an indi-
vidual judged to have rendered
the most outstanding service to
the cause of Zionism. Previous
Pr evious recipients of the
awards since its creation by the
ZOA three years ago were Israel
President Itzhak Ben-Zvi; the
Earl of Balfour, nephew and
heir of the author of the Bal-
four Declaration; and Dr. Abba
Hillel
More than 1,000 Zionist lead-
ers and key workers in the
Metropolitan area and other
parts of the country attended
the- $100-a-plate Dinner, the
proceeds of which will go
towards the American Zionist
Fund to financp the expanded
programs of the activities of
the ZOA.
Principal speakers at the
dinner who joined in paying
tribute to Neumann included
Israel Foreign Minister Golda
Meir; Michael S. Comay, Is-
rael Ambassador to the Un-
ited Nations; Prof. Enrique
Rodriguei-Fabregat, Ambas-
sador of Uruguay to the Un-
ited Nations; Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of t
World Zionist Organization;
Max Bressler, president of the
ZOA, who presided; Rabb
Irving Miller, chairm of t
United Zionist Cou
the conferenc f
of Major
Organizat
Nussbau c I man of
National A xe cut
Council.
Abraham oodnaan.. treas
of the- Jewi Agency for Israel,
Inc., _ mide the presentation
the Herzl Award to Neum
Goldrcrann paid trib
to
Neumann, whom he
cribed
as "one of the most
ted and
consistent Zionist
ders wh
for decades, ha
reatly inf
enced Zionis
II America
all its asnec
nd has playe
important ole in world
ism."
further stressed
"the
are few Zionist le
so ully familiar with all
lems of Zionism and Jewi
as Dr. Neumann, few a
deeply convinced of the
necessity of a strong
movement as he."
. Neumann was also laud
Israel Premier David Bre
rion, who said in a cable
Jerusalem: "There is no
to recount the valuable w
you have done in- many fields
Jewish life. It is known to •u
and appreciated. I esteem your;
true Zionist qualities and hope
that you will be blessed with -
many years of fruitful continua-
tion of this work. The presenta-
tion of the Theodor Herz). Gold
Medal Award is seen by your
friends not only as a recogni-
tion of the past but as a land-
mark pointing to the future."
Neumann in responding to
the tributes, warned against
the perils facing the Middle
East as a result of the at-
tempts by Arab states in the
United Nations to impose an
unjust solution for the Arab
refugee problem. He empha-
sized that in the 14 years
since the adoption of the U.N.
resolution, "Israel has brilli-
achievements since its establish-
ment. Neumann also emphasized
that "above and beyond such
monumental achievements at
home, Israel is also serving as
pilot-plant for emerging nations
of Asia and Africa, in attacking
most difficult problems of recla-
mation and development, and
social reconstruction. Israel is
demonstrating how' these prob-
lems can be solved, not by the
brutal, coercive methods of a
police state, but by voluntary
cooperation with elaborate safe-
guards for the human rights of
the individual." -
Speaking on the Arab refugee
problem, Which is under dis-
cussion at the United Nations,
Neumann said: "What is being
offered to the United Nations
today is clearly not a formula to
DR. EMANUEL NEUMANN
alleviate the lot of the refugees,
C
but an invitation to undo the
antly vindicated the - hopes of settlement of 1947-1948 and
its founders. It has given sweep away the entire structure
home and sanctuary to a mil- of the status-quo, No such ad-
lion refugees and molded venture can be undertaken
them into a flourishing free without setting the whole Mid-
society with a strong, stable dle East aflame.
and democratic government."
"As I see it, the Arab lead-
Further citing rsrael's ers are being pushed and
dragged, by their extremists and survival of Israel both se-
into . a diplomatic impasse by curity wise and economically,'
taking a further step away and secondly, "the forging of
from the high road of nego- ties between the Jewish com-
tiation and co-existence to a munities of the world and Is-
path that can only lead to rael which would make it the
more bitter frustration war. It center- of Jewish life and a new
is to be hoped that in the source of the spiritual and
forum of the United Nations moral values which will - safe-
a more rational and construe- guard Jewish surviv
- five statesmanship Will pre-
"To so
of the
vail."
two
s will require man
Goldmann made his charges
• not decades and bat
in settling forth the major pr
asks can only be fulfilled •
lems facing world Jewry,
there will be
strong Zio •
ticularly American Jew , in movement
zing the
strengthening the ties h the ish
allying
nd
State of Israel and t further- - Is
the s
role
ance of Jewish e ation as
ye._
organiz-
"the main conditio or Jewish
h Jewish
ple in its
survival."
for the .
rgency of the
He termed as one of the
most shortsight
and dan-
gerous illusion
which he
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the two major problems which
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will determine its future and
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its historical destiny are far
from solved." He cited these
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problems as "the consolidation
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