Does Congressional
Anti-Nasser Action
Endanger Israel?
Administration leaders maintain that the
adoption of the anti-Nasser amendment
to the surplus food bill spells trouble for
Israel. Another battle over the issue is
certain in the U.S. Senate.
Will Water Issue
Lead to War in
the Middle East?
Israeli leaders warned this week that
diversion of water sources aimed at inter-
fering with Israel's water project' may
result in "punitive action by the injured
party."
Detailed stories on Page 32
Jewish
Tribute to
Churchill
Students'
Attitudes on
President
Johrnson's
Immigration
Proposals
Editorials
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Allied Drive Is in High Gear,
Commences With $ - 2,405,745
Churchill's Record as Zionist
Recalled; Jewish Leaders Pay
Honor to Statesman's Memory
Tributes to the memory of Winston Churchill are pouring in
, from communities throughout the world, and Zionist leaders especially
have expressed appreciation. in messages received in London, for the
role the late British statesman played in
supporting the . Jewish national cause.
Only two months ago, Churchill was
awarded the Balfour Medal of the Zionist
Organization of America. The award was
accepted for him in New York by his son,
Randolph•.
Churchill had declared himself a Zion-
ist as far back as 1908.
In 1943, during the critical Cairo 'And
Teheran conferences of the Allied lead-
ers, he held a press conference at the
British Embassy in Cairo at which a large
number of Arab journalists were among
the 150 correspondents present. To them
he said "I personally have always been a
Zionist." He also said that the Jews in
Palestine "have made the desert bloom"
and said that it would be "madness" for
the Arabs to cut themselves off from the
WINSTON CHURCHILL benefits of this Jewish effort.
In 1930, after the British Labor government issued its Passfield
White Paper—which recommended suspension of Jewish immigration
iota Palestine until a census was taken the following year and sug-
gested curtailment of land purchases by Jews in Palestine—Churchill
joined in worldwide protests against the document. He wrote a
. special article for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on the implica-
tions of the White Paper and took sharp issue with the recommen-
dations in it_ He called upon the British government to return to
the basic principles of the Balfour Declaration which pledged the
establishment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine.
His interest in the Jews and in the Zionist movement began
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Allied Jewish Campaign leaders expressed confidence on Tuesday night, after a
highly successful fund-raising meeting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Hamburger,
27881 Lakehills Drive, Franklin, that this year's drive, for the frist time since 1957
will bring a total exceeding $5,000,000.
This assurance came after it was announced that the first large fund-gathering rally
on Tuesday resulted in the raising of $2,405,745 towards what is hoped will be a better
than a $5,000.000 drive. The sum announced after Tuesday's rally, which was attended
by 110 top givers, represented an increase of 17 per cent over last year's giving — the
same contributors pledged $2,086,000 the previous year.
William Avrunin, executive director of the Jewish Welfare Federation and director
of the drive, announcing the total, pointed out that the last year Detroit Jewry had given
in excess of $5,000,000 was in 1957, when $5,900,000 was raised. In 1958 the income
dropped to $4,900,000.
At the similar initial big givers' rally. in 1964, Avrunin recalled, the amount raised
was $1.664,390. He pointed to this as another indication of a new trend this year which
gives assurance that the minimum of $5,000,000-plus will be attained in the current
campaign.
Sol Eisenberg. co-chairman of this year's - Allied Jewish Campaign. presided at the gathering at
the home of the Hamburgers. The chairman of the drive, Irwin Green. introduced the guest Speaker,
Rabbi Arthur J. Lelyveld of Cleveland, and made a brief appeal for community-wide cooperation of
the drive. Louis Hamburger welcomed the guests in his own and Mrs. Hamburger's behalf, and addi-
tional appeals in behalf of the drive were made by Ai Borman, honorary chairman of the campaign,
and Max M. Fisher. national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, the major beneficiary in the drive,
Pointing out that loss of reparations funds income is handicapping the Joint Distribution Commit` :
tee and thus is placing added burdens on the UJA. Fisher emphasized that the drive's major objective
is to save lives.
Rabbi Lelyveld traced the history of the Zionist movement to the era of the Bilu in the 1880s and
showed how the process that led to state-building began with Theodor Herzl.
Reviewing events that transpired in recent months, including the occurrences at the Vatican, Rabbi
Lelyyeld declared that "the myth of Ahasuerus (the Wan-
dering Jew) was exploded for all time in 1948 and the
Jews now, are no longer rootless."
Emphasizing the need for united action to assist in
Israel's upbuilding and to provide for the large number
of immigrants who continue to come to Israel, Rabbi
Lelyveld said that - we are tied to our brethren in Morocco,
A living memorial to the 6,000,000
Romania. Poland, and we share one destiny.
Jews who perished in the death camps
We must make certain that never again will Jews
of World War II is to be •erected by
Plans Confia-med
for Yizkor Center
Shaarit Haplaytah this spring. Plans are
for a synagogue, social and cultural cen-
ter at 11 Mile Rd. and Southfield
For details. see Page 12.
The White House and Its Adviser: Foreign
Controversies Avoided in Great Society Era
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
Jewish News-JTA Washington Correspondent
(Copyright, 1965, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—Are Israel-American relations normalized to the point where special intercession for Israel
is .no longer needed at the White House?
President Johnson apparently feels this to be the case. The President, mainly concerned with domestic
-
considerations and the building of the "Great Society," is cautiously avoiding foreign controversies.
The White House will not designate a new "Jewish adviser" to replace Myer Feldman. special counsel to the
President, who resigned last week. Israeli problems will now be handled by the State Department without the
watchful eye, of Mr. Feldman.
Israel policy questions will be grouped with other world problems by Presidential adviser McGeorge Bundy,
who guides the President on foreign policy matter.
It is hoped that the President will continue to call on Mr. Feldman for advice even after the resignation takes
effect The President had indicated he might do this Mr. Feldman served as a vital balancing factor in the last
lour years, checking pro-Arab influences and assuring even-handed Middle Eastern policies.
Mr. Bundy's position papers on the Middle East are prepared by the State Department. Although Mr. Feldman
did more than any previous Jewish adviser at the White House to normalize Israel-American relation% there is
concern lest the next crisis finds State Department career officers again seeking Arab friendship at Israel's expense.
This was the past pattern, dating back even before the establishment of Israel.
During the Truman Administration, according to Harry Truman's own words, the Department sought
systematically to sabotage Israel in avor of the Arabs. Truman was so _distrustful of the Department that he
asked that duplicate copies of all report from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv be sent directly to the White House.
With passing years the State tment role became more subtle. During the Eisenhower Administration, the
Department characterized its Near Eastern policy as one of "impartial friendship." This involved "friendship for
Nasser's Egypt but certainly no "partiality" toward Israel. The Department tended to defend Nasser and put
pressure on Israel.
Maxwell Rabb served as President Eisenhower's adviser on Jewish matters and as Secretary of the Cabinet.
But there is little evidence that President Eisenhower heeded the advice of Mr. Rabb. The man who called the shots
on Israel was Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.
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be persecuted because they are Jews without a place to
go," he added. He declared that the fulfillment through
Israel's existence is "linked with all visions for human
progress."
The inauguration:
Fusion of Faiths,
Prayer for Peace
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
WASHINGTON, D.C.—When, prior to the inaugura-
tion of President Johnson and Vice President Humphrey,
the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sang Emma Lazarus' "The
New Colossus," reaffirming the American ideal expressed
in "give me your tired," . . . welcoming "the huddled
masses," the "wretched refuge of your teeming shores,"
there was in evidence a renewed fusion of faiths, a
mingling of all forces in our midst into a single nation.
This principle became all the more apparent when
President Johnson, in his inaugural address, one of the
the briefest yet one of the most effective on record, spoke
of "our destiny" which will "rest on the unchanged
character of our people." The President clarified his stand
in a powerful sentence in which he declared:
"They came here—the exile and the stranger, brave
and frightened—to find a place where a man could be ,
his own man. They made a covenant with this land.
Conceived in justice, written in liberty, bound in union,
it was meant one day to inspire the hopes of all mankind,
and it binds us still. If we keep its terms, we shall
flourish."
President Johnson drew upon the Prayer of King
Solomon when he used the following as the concluding
paragraph in his address:
"For myself I ask only in the words of an ancient
leader: 'Give me now wisdom and knowledge that I may
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