New Formula for Increased Overseas Aid Budget Planners Endorse Increased Help for Israel, Refugees; Anticipate $5,000,000 Allied Drive in 1964 Mounting overseas refugee problems, increas- ing needs to provide for tens of thousands of new settlers in Israel and the challenges that emerge from the needs to be fulfilled by the United Jewish Appeal, combined to transform the annual budget- ing conference of the Jewish Welfare Federation, held last Sunday at the Jewish Center, into a virtual demonstration for the mobilization of every available means to assure larger allocations from Allied Jewish Campaign incomes towards the rescue activities. Echoing the admonitions that were heard a week ago at the national UJA conference in New York, where world and American Jewish leaders maintained that the Jews of this country were not meeting their obligations to the needy in many lands and to the resettlement needs in Israel, local leaders were concerned that there has been a drop in gifts here for aid to refugees and their migration to Israel. There were numerous appeals for unstinted and increased contributions towards the advance- ment of educational and cultural movements lo- cally and nationally, but all local interests were overshadowed by the unanimous endorsements of the appeals for the major American Jewish relief movement—the United Jewish Appeal. An entire morning's discussions, preceded by reports from major division budgeting chair- men, resulted in the adoption of a formula for allocations from income from the 1964 Allied Jewish Campaign, providing for the following: If as much is raised in 1964 as in 1962, distri- bution will be in the same proportion. This would obviate greatly-needed increases for local and na- tional causes. Hyman Safran, who presented the formula as chairman of the budgeting conference steering committee, pointed out that the functioning bud- geting division would have to decide who would be hurt the least under such an unfortunate even- tuality of failure to secure added sums in the next campaign. The same policy of fund allocations would be followed if the sum of $4,800,000 is to be raised in the 1964 campaign. The campaign's objective, however, would be to raise at least $5,000,000. Then, the formula provides, 90 per cent of all increases above the $4,800,000 figure would go to the UJA for refugees assistance and Israel and the other 10 per cent would be allocated to local causes. In all events, budgeting rights will not be taken away from functioning committees, it was emphasized. Max M. Fisher, as president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, presided • at the budgeting conference, and Safran presided at the session of the steering committee which followed the con- ference deliberations. The decisions of the steer- ing committee are expected to be approved and put into operation by the Federation's executive com- mittee as a policy to be followed in allocating campaign income in 1964. Fisher and Safran made the major appeals Continued on Page 32 THE JEWISH NEWS ROIT Weekly Review Of=T A NA I I-I I G of Jewish NI Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper, Incorporating The Jewish Chronicle Vol. XLIV—No. 17 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 35 December 20, 1963 Blame 'Arab Blackmail' for Omission of Rabbi's Scene from Johnson Film Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News NEW YORK — The United States Information Agency was disclosed Tuesday to have ordered deletion of a scene on a rabbi from a film on President Johnson scheduled to be shown throughout the world. The deletion was ordered because of possible Arab objections. The 30-minute film, based mainly on newsreels made by Hearst Metrotone News, is entitled "Let Us Continue." The documentary film is designed to explain President Johnson's pOsition on several crucial issues. To show the harmonious relationships of different religions in the United States, a shot originally was included showing Roman Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clergymen. The deletion was denounced by Rabbi Leon I. Feuer, president of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, who said the action was "a disgrace to the United States." He added that "in an attempt to placade the Arab nations whose loyalty to the United States is doubtful, the U.S. Information Agency has n9t only offended the Jews of this country but has violated the trust that all Americans have in their government by letting the pressure of foreign governments influence American democratic ideals." He termed the deletion a "new and abhorent concession to Arab blackmail. A formal denial by the United States Information Agency of the report that it had ordered deletion of a Jewish scene from the documentary failed Wednesday to mollify a growing group of critics. The original report said that the film "Let Us Continue," produced gratis by television writers Rod Sterling and William Froug, was ordered by USIA for showing throughout the world to explain President Johnson's position on several vital issues and that a scene showing a rabbi had been omitted to avoid offense to Arab audiences in the Middle East. Donald M. Wilson, deputy USIA director, said "there was no censorship exerted by USIA nor is it true that one of three religious scenes was dropped." He said that a tentative approach calling for a "panoramic" opener to show the geography, institutions and people of the United States included "possible scenes of church services." This was dropped, he said, for a different approach. The explanation drew a comment from Rep. Emanuel Celler (D., N.Y.) that is was "weasel worded and will not wash." Sen. Kenneth B. Keating (R., N.Y.), said he had checked into the report and learned that the agency had "certain general policies with regard to scenes which they feel would offend the viewing audiences in different countries." After Wilson's statement, a USIA spokesman said that "a discussion of distribution problems in the Middle East might have been brought up as a secondary issue," but he, too, insisted that agency policy did not include censorship of any kind. He also said that USIA had produced both documentary films and television programs which showed Jewish individuals and groups and that these films had been widely shown in the Middle (Continued on Page 3) 1964 Pre-Campaign Budget Formula 1963 Experience TOTAL Campaign and Collections Reserve for Shrinkage AVAILABLE FOR ALLOCATION L Overseis and Israel 1964 Recommendations In Event of 5% Increase $4,800,000 Anticipating In Event of Higher Income 5% Decrease $5,000,000 $4,400,000 $4,568,026 310,000 251,241 4,006,785 4,226,000 4,415,000 3,848,000 2,092,150 2,210,000 2,380,000 2,013,500 (52.3%) 2. Local—Operating 1,434,085 1,513,000 1,527,000 1,377,500 (35.8% -) 3. Local—Capital 250,800 262,000 265,000 238,000 (6.2%) 4: National Agencies 229,750 241,000 243,000 219,000 (5.7% ) These tabulations illustrate the new formula adopted by the steering committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation, which acted in behalf of the budget conference held Sunday. The steering committee under the chairmanship of Hyman Safran included Max M. Fisher, Louis LaMed, Alan E. Schwartz, Samuel S. Greenberg, Louis Tabashnik, Charles II. Gershenson, Samuel J. Greenberg, Stanley J. Winkelman, Mai M. Shaye, Mrs. Philip R. Marcuse, Mrs. I. Jerome Hauser, Isidore Sobeloff, Dr. Norman Drachier, William Avrunin, David Safran, George M. Stutz, Sidney M. Shevitz, Jack 0, Lefton, Philip Slomovitz, Arthur Howard, Mandell L. Berman, Jacob A. Citrin, Philip Stollman, Isaac Litwak and George M. Zeltzer. Myer Feldman (right) accepted President Lyndon B. Johnson's invitation to remain at the White House as his Deputy Special Counsel to advise him on Jewish and Israeli matters. Detailed report by our Washington Correspondent, Milton Friedman, on Page 5