JDC Adopts a Budget of 830,425,000 • Ribicoff Pays Visit to Kennedy Monument in Israel As a highlight of his trip to Israel in November, Senator Abra- ham Ribicoff of Connecticut paid a visit to the John F. Kennedy Monument, now being built by the JNF near Jerusalem. T h e Senator was ac- companied by his wife and both of them planted trees in the forest near the memor- ial. 7 Edward M. M. Warburg (left) retiring chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, congratulates his successor, Louis Broido, who was elected chairman at the 51st annual meeting of the JDC in New York. Broido is commissioner of the Department of Commerce and Industrial Development of New York City. Several - — hundred Jewish leaders at the meeting adopted a budget of $30,425,000 to finance JDC operations on behalf of more than 400,000 needy Jews in 30 countries around the world. The budget was presented to the national conference of the United Jewish Appeal which convened immediately after the JDC meeting. JDC receives its funds mainly from the campaigns of the UJA. Bourguiba Clarifies ME Peace Plea: Israel Must Return Some Arab Land LONDON ( JTA) — Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba, who proposed last spring that Israel and the Arab states start negotiat- ing about peace, made it clear in an interview published here Tues- day that his plan envisaged that "a portion of Israeli territory must be returned to the Arabs." Scholarship Winners Greet the Rohliks, Donors of WSU Grant Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Rohlik had a pre-holiday luncheon party at the McGregor Center at Wayne State University, and everybody came. In this instance; everybody in- eluded the newly-appointed vice president for student affairs, James P. McCormick, in his first official appearance, and 18 entering fresh- men, the Rohlik Scholars; who are studying at the university this fall on scholarships made possible by a $10,000 grant to the Wayne State •ind from the Sigmund and Sophie ')hlik Foundation. This contribution, the first of 10 ich annual installments that will total $10,000, was delivered to the university last March 23 on the occasion of Rohlik's 75th birthday, but this was his and Mrs. Rohlik's first opportunity to meet with the recipients of their generosity. Rohlik, 17301 Mark Twain, is the president of Rohlik, Inc., a leather goods plant, at 7777 Cortland. Harold Cruger, director of fi- nancial aids, whose office selected the Rohlik Scholars, spoke about the value of student aid funds at the University. Paul E. Andrews, associate di- rector of the Wayne State Fund, explained that the Rohliks had come to Detroit from Magdeburg, Germany in 1938. He said also that Rohlik had tried unsuccessfully to retire a few years ago from his highly successful business of manu- facturing specialty leather goods. However, the new owners returned Rohlik, Inc. to him after a year and now "he'll probably never re- tire." Deaths caused by birth defects each year cost the U. S. an esti- mated $80 billion in future pro- ductivity. Of the babies born alive, one in 40 does not live to see his first birthday. A total of 105,000 infants under one year of age die annually. Birth defects are a leading cause of these deaths. You can combat this toll by joining the March of Dimes. The interview appeared in the quarterly Views, together with answers by Abba Eban, deputy prime minister of Israel, to Presi- dent Bourguiba's statement. Referring to Arab-Israeli rela- tions, Bourguiba said; "I thought it would be better to find a suitable platform which would attract world sympathy and international opinion and which would be an improve- ment compared to the present situ- ation the Arabs are in. "This could lead to a reasonable and lasting solution, the construc- tion of peace between the countries in the area. I advocated a return to United Nations legality, respect for UN decisions," he said. "There is a portion of Israeli ter- ritory which must be returned to the Arabs. I know that Israel would not accept this easily, but it was still worth suggesting," he de- clared. Asked whether he thought it would be possible in the future to negotiate with the Israelis without preconditions, he said: "I would rather not fight with people who are obstinate. I would rather look after my own country. My proposals had been made to ensure at least a mini- mum of peaceful coexistance be- tween existing elements. The policy of hatred and bitterness has achieved nothing in 17 years." Eban, in answer to questions about Israel's reaction to the Bour- guiba proposals, said: "Nothing could be more uncongenial to the success of the Bourguiba initiative than expressions of public embrace from Israel. Our reply was that we were prepared to negotiate with any Arab state on any question. What we cannot accept is that we must make prime concessions in order to win their arrival at the conference table." Regarding the Arab refugee question, Eban stated: "The moral consideration must impel us only to adopt those solutions which make for the peace of the Middle East and the welfare of the refu- gees, and forbids us to compound the sufferings of the past by creat- ing new tensions for the future. "I don't believe that any state- ment by Israel about her willing- ness to take back a fraction of the refugees would advance peace by a single step. Rtit, if the Arab states were to say we are prepared for an international solution of the refugee problem in which every- body must play his p a r t, I am sure there would be a definition of an Israeli contribution." THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 17, 1965-11 The Senator showed keen in- terest in the project, and when the architect explained that the memor- ial structure was shaped like the trunk of a tall tree cut down be- fore its time, and that it would be built of 51 columns, representing the States of the Union, including the District of Columbia — the Senator nodded appreciatively and said, "I must say, your Israel ar- chitects show considerable im- agination." In conversation with the JNF people on the spot, Senator Ribi- coff told them that they were doing very important work. "I my- self, as a member of the Noar Hazioni, used to go out collecting with a blue box," he said, and added, "The Jewish National Fund is the source of my own attachment to Israel and every time I come here I marvel at your achieve. ments; which are noticeable every- where . . ." There were no speeches or cere- monials, and in the calm of the setting sun in the Judean hills, Senator and Mrs. Ribicoff each put a sapling into the ground and covered it with earth. Mrs. Ribicoff recalled that the late President was a great lover of trees and flowers, and had designed a rose garden near the White House, the first of whose blossoms he had En Yahav, Gerofit, Yotvata, Blot not lived to see. "It seems right and Eilat in the south. then," she added, "to plant a tree A 14-kilometer access road to in his memory, here, in this land- the Yatir development region has scape." just been completed and will en- The Kennedy Monument and able the afforestation and land Peace Forest are special projects reclamation crews of the JNF to of the JNF of America and will enlarge the scope of their develop- be inaugurated the coming summer. ment work in this hilly area. 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