Ail Committee President Abram Will Address Campaign

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 30, 1965-5

Victory Dinner May 12; Target to Raise $5,100,000

Morris B. Abram, president of
the American Jewish Committee
and the United States Representa-
tive to the United Nations Corn-
mission on Human Rights, will be
speaker at the victory dinner of
the Allied Jewish Campaign, it was
announced by Campaign Chairmen
Sol Eisenberg and Irwin Green.
The dinner will be held Wednes-
day evening, May 12, at the Jewish
Center. It will be preceded by a
reception for Mr. Abram.
Abram, a leading trial and ap-
pelate attorney, is the youngest
president of the American Jewish
Committee in its history. On May
30, 1964, he headed a group of
committee officials who met with
'Pope Paul VI at the Vatican to
discuss Catholic-Jewish relations,
as expressed in a decree at the
Ecumenical Council. In August of
the same year he headed a three-
week, 15,000-mile committee mis-
sion that studied conditions among
the Jewish communities of Argen-
tina, Brazil, Chile and Peru. Early
in 1965 he made a direct appeal
to the West German Minister of
Justice to extend the Statute of
Limitations for Nazi war criminals
to 1975.
A native of Georgia, he had
been appointed by President Ken-
nedy to serve as legal counsel of
the Peace Corps at the time of its
formation, and served for several
years prior to his current appoint-
ment at the UN as the U.S. expert
on the UN subcommission on the
prevention of discrimination and
the protection of minorities. In
this position he submitted docu-

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MORRIS B. ABRAM

ments establishing standards from
which to judge racial and religious
discrimination, and has been suc-
cessful in drawing international
attention to anti-Semitism in the
Soviet Union.
He waged a 14-year legal battle
against the Georgia County Unit
Election System which discrim-
inated against urban voters. The
legal principles developed in this
struggle, which he won in the
U. S. Supreme Court, played a
vital role in the reapportionment
decisions affecting the Congress
and the legislators of the coun-
try.

Abram was graduated summa
cum laude from the University of
Georgia, received a Doctor of
Jurisprudence Degree from the
University of Chicago Law School,
is a member of Phi Beta Kappa
and a former Rhodes Scholar. In
the Army Air Force he rose to the
rank of major and was awarded
the Legion of Merit. He was a
member of the American prosecu-
tion staff at the Nuremburg trials
His career in public service in-
cludes service on the committee
for the Marshall Plan and mem-
bership of the Wage Stabilizataion
Board. He was co-author of the
monograph "How to Stop Violence
in Your Community."
With the closing date of the
Allied Jewish Campaign 12 days
away, campaign leaders and
workers are putting forward the
all-out task of contacting the
7,000 prospects still to be solicit-
ed this year.
At the third and final campaign
report meeting today, chairmen of
leading sections are to be honored
for their achievements and 100
section chairmen will receive
awards.
The ten campaign divisions are
planning their own phone meetings
to make sure .that every possible
pledge card is covered before
May 12.

Parliamentarian Maurice Edelman
Has Novel, Biography of Ben-Gurion4
Welcomed at AJC Reception in N.Y.
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Hazaken, to the Old Man who made

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guished himself not only as a
parliamentarian but also as a
novelist, another M. P., Maurice
Edelman, is mak-
ing his mark as
a writer.
Random House
TRIBUTE
has just issued
his latest novel,
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"The Prime Min-
ister's D augh-
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Putnam's comes
On Mother's Day
his interesting bi-
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ographical ac-
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Edelman
count of Israel's
former Prime Minister, published
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under the title "David—The Story
of Ben-Gurion."
Edelman was in this country for
two weeks, until two days ago, to
be present at events marking the
appearance of his two new books.
As president of the Anglo-Jewish
IN HER NAME
Association he conferred with
A Growing Tree is a Living
American Jewish Committee lead-
Tribute to Your Mother.
ers, and in Washington, as a Labor
Let Trees in Israel Honor,
M. P., he met with prominent gov-
or Memorialize Her.
ernment officials.
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His
"The
Prime Minister's
PHONE
Daughter" is a novel that intro-
The Jewish
duces the reader to parliamentary
National Fund
procedures. It entertains with an
interesting plot. It is a drama ably
written to indicate the intrigues
of a public servant's life, the dan-
FOR A TREE CERTIFICATE
gers he faces from a hostile press.
FOR YOUR MOTHER
It is the story of a parliamen-
tary leader whose daughter be-
came involved in an unfortunate
love affair with an American uni-
versity professor. She takes too
many pills, gets into an accident,
becomes involved in a scandal out
of which her father emerges with
skill.
A TREE IS A
In the process, the procedures
of parliament become apparent,
SYMBOL OF LIFE
the eloquence of an able leader
Why not stop and pick up a
comes into play, and the human
certificate on Sunday, May
elements of the story elevate the
9? The office will be
standing of a parliamentarian-
open from 10 o.m.
story-writer whose earlier works
to 2 p.m.
have given him high standing in
the literary spheres. Like his pre-
JEWISH
vious "The Minister," as in "The
NATIONAL
Fratricides," Edelman shows skill
FUND
as a narrator, mastery of style.
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a member of Parliament, distin- history in and for Israel.

It is a fairly complete story, de-
tailing the life of the man who,
born David Green in Poland,
helped in the establishment of
Histadrut, was the master builder
of the Jewish labor movement and
the architect of the Jewish State.
Because it is a panegyric, a sort
of hero-worship of Ben-Gurion, the
personal characteristics critical of
his hero are in the main missing
from this account. But as a fac-
tual historical account it is a good
biography.
Actually, this story about the
man from Plonsk, in Poland, who
became a world figure, also is
linked with the world events in
which he had played an important
role. The activities of Orde E.
Wingate, the efforts of Zionist
leaders — Weizmann, Ben-Zvi and
others—and the military and other
factors related to the emergence
of statehood are dealt with and
add some value to this work as
an historical addendum of Israel's
epic story.

88 Scientists of 13 Lands
Engaged in Studies
at Weizmann Institute

REHOVOTH, Israel — Eighty-
eight scientists from leading scien-
tific institutions in 13 countries
have made arrangements to con-
tinue specialized studies at the
Weizmann Institute of Science at
R ehovoth.
The areas of specialized re-
search in which these scientists
will be engaged, under grants from
their own institutions, national fel-
lowships from their home coun-
tries, or those made available by
the Weizmann Institute, in a num-
ber of instances, and the govern-
ment of Israel, cover the following
fields: Applied mathematics, bio-
chemistry, biodynamics, biophysics,
chemical immunology, electronics,
genetics, infrared spectroscopy,
isotopes, nuclear physics, organic
chemistry, photochemistry, plant
genetics, polymer research, theor-
etical chemical physics, X-ray
crystallography.
Stay at the Weizmann Institute
for these studies ranges from
periods of several weeks to one
year.

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