Sidney Shevitz Ent ers Judgeship Race
Sidney Shevitz, prominent De-
troit Jewish leader who had held
a number of the major community
presidencies, this week announced
his candidacy for Recorders Court
judge in the primaries to take
place on Aug. 2.
Heartened by encouragement he
has received from many local per-
sonalities, Shevitz enters the race
with an advance assurance of sup-
port from the AFL-CIO. A warm
SIDNEY SHEVITZ
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letter of endorsement was
addressed to him this week by
Walter Reuther, AFL-CIO presi-
dent.
As president of the Jewish Com-
munity Council, as chairman of the
Zionist Council, as a leader in the
Labor Zionist movement and as a
member of the board of governors
of the Jewish Welfare Federation,
Shevitz has been a spokesman for
the most important Jewish causes
in Detroit.
He was the first chairman of
the Detroit Israel Histadrut Com-
mittee is a vice president of
AMPAL Investment Corp. and
has been active in Israel Bond
campaigns, as well as in the
Jewish National Fund, Allied
Jewish Campaigns and the Am-
erican Jewish Congress.
He has received numerous cita-
tions, including the St. Cyprian
Award, the Jewish Congress Amity
Award, Workmen's Circle citation
and numerous other honors.
A native Detroiter, Shevitz re-
sides with his wife, the former
Edythe Shoob, and three children
at 18300 Oak Drive. Their son
Henry is a third-year student at
Wayne State University medical
school; their daughter Vivian is a
University of Michigan graduate
and their younger son Daniel is a
third year Cass High student.
Shevitz received his BA from
the University of Michigan and his
law degree from Harvard. He was
chairman of the Michigan Fair
Employment Practices Committee,
having been named to the FEPC
by Governor G. Mennen Williams.
He was named by Governor George
Romney to both the Michigan Civil
Rights Commission and the Human
Resources Council. He is a mem-
ber of Cong. Adas Shalom.
Revive Famous Arlosoroff Case
By ELIAHU SALPETER
people involved in the case from
Chief JTA Correspondent in Israel one camp or the other published
JERUSALEM — Israelis, still articles and memoirs, reviving
weary from the protracted public the case and the argument. Among
recriminations of the Lavon Affair, them was the late Yehuda Arazi,
which ultimately led to the walk- a police officer and Jewish Agency
out of Ben-Gurion, Gen. Dayan and intelligence agent during - the
Shimon Peres along with a num- British Mandate, who conducted
ber of other political leaders from the interrogation of the suspects.
Mapai, to form their own Rafi After the first 48 hours of investi-
party, were faced in mid-April gation he became convinced, wrote
with the prospect of yet another Arazi, that it was not the Re=
historical inquiry
visionists who , perpetrated the
threatening to
murder.
reopen half-heal-
Yehuda Arazi has since passed
away. But recently, Shaul Avi-
ed old political
wounds. The
gur, former Shai Chief, wrote
question of "who
an article about him in Mapai's
k i 11 ed Arlosor-
monthly Molad. "Myself and my
off?" was again
colleagues were convinced—and
forced on the
I am still convinced today—that
public.
Araii gravely erred in his evalu-
On a hot June
ation," Avigur wrote. Zvi Rosen-
Friday night, in
blatt, the only one of the three
1933, the then
defendants still alive, sued Avi-
head of the po-
gur and Mapai (as publishers
litical d e p a r t-
of Molad for libel, demanding
Arlosoroff
ment of the Jewish Agency, Dr. 250,000 Israeli pounds (over
Haim Arlosoroff, was taking a $80,000) in damages.
stroll, with his wife Sima, on the
The plaintiff was represented by
Tel Aviv seashore. Two young men Gahal Knesset member Shmuel
approached them, one asking him Tamir, one of Israel's best known
what was the time. While Dr. lawyers, who made all the prep-
'rlosoroff was pulling out his arations for a big political trial
hatch, the other young man pulled which may last for months, or
jut a revolver, shot him, and both even years. There was widespread
fled. Emergency surgery in a speculation that District Judge
nearby hospital failed to save his Joseph Lamm, known for his com-
life.
mon-sense approach, would hold
Mapai claimed that the murder one opening session then postpone
was committed by the Revisionists hearings for several weeks to
(from among whose ranks rose enable the parties to try for an
the Irgun underground group, out-of-court settlement, sparing
commanded by Menahem Begin, the Israeli public a senseless legal
who became the leader of Herut). battle over what is by now a sub-
The Revisionists claimed that ject for historical research.
Instead, Judge Lamm took what
Mapai, in cooperation with the
many
believe an even wiser
British Mandatory Police, covered
up tracks indicating that two course. After listening to the open-
Arabs from Jaffa killed the Mapai ing arguments of both sides, he
leader. During the trial, there was decided that the plaintiff indeed
indication of cooperation between was libeled, even if unintention-
the Jewish Agency intelligence ally; and that the defendant did
people and the British police in not offer to present proof of a
collecting information a gains t nature that could prove the truth
three Revisionist suspects. How- of what was implied in the crucial
ever, the British (Mandatory sentence, namely that the late
Government) courts found the de- Yehuda Arazi erred in believing
that it was not the Revisionists
fendants not guilty.
who killed Arlosoroff. He awarded
Nevertheless, the allegation that the plaintiff 2,000 pounds (nearly
the Revisionists murdered Arloso- $700) damages, plus all court costs
roff became part of the Mapai —enough to show that genuine
creed; just as, for the Revisionists, libel was involved, but not high
it became a fundamental support enough to induce the defendants to
of their claim that Mapai was appeal.
Constantly conspiring with the
And, indeed, there were indica-
British against the nationalist tions that, by that sentence, the
movement represented by the Re- Arlosoroff case was again retired
visionists. From time to time, to the pages of history. , •
Israel's Role in U.S. Foreign Policy
(Continued from Page 1)
part of Israel that the United Na-
tions Emergency Force should be
retained at the Gaza strip, it was
indicated that Egypt also wants
UNEF to stay. This declaration in
relation to the UN force was
accompanied by the comment that
"one incident could trigger full
scale fighting."
At the same time it was reported
that the United States, by con-
tributing more than $20,000,000 to-
wards support of the Arab refu-
gees, thus making the largest gift
to the United Nations Refugee
Relief Agency, is the mainstay
of assistance to the growing num-
ber of homeless Arabs.
Calling the condition of these
refugees "a tragedy," a State
Department official who has just
returned from Jordan admitted
to The Jewish News that their
numbers are being "constantly
padded." He said that the Ameri-
can share of assistance to
UNRRA has declined from 70
per cent to 65 per cent, as a
result of the U.S. insistence that
others share in this responsi-
bility, but lie called "both sides
intransigent" and he said a so-
lution is too far in the distance
to provide a measure of hope for
an early peace.
Problematic in the current con-
ditions is the flow of munitions
from the Soviet Union to Arab
states. Concern has been expressed
over American sales of jets to
Jordan. While Israelis are less con-
cerned about this expanding
threat, members of Congress have
protested against the complacency
of the State Department in per-
mitting the arming of the Arabs
and in acting like the USSR in
increasing the arms potential
against Israel.
Nevertheless, there is a measure
of consistency in State Department
actions. At the same time that
efforts are being made to prevent
arms imbalance between India and
Pakistan, there has been a similar
declaration made to Congressman
Seymour Halpern (Rep., N.Y.) of
a desire to assure similar action
in the Middle East. Assistant Sec-
retary of State Douglas MacAr-
thur II has made it known that
contracts are being made with the
Soviet government and other na-
tions to find a way of "turning the
spiral of arms acquisition by Near
Eastern countries downward."
The sale of jets to Jordan repre-
sents another threat and members
of Congress are exerting their
efforts to prevent an accelerated
imbalance. The warm expressions
of friendship in Congress on Is-
rae-l's 18th anniversary — Michi-
gan's Congressman Robert P.
Griffin was among the most out-
spoken admirers of the Jewish
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 6, 1966-5
State—indicated that Israel's needs fairness, that he recognized Is-
are not being ignored.
rael's important role as a demo-
cratic nation.
Cleveland Jewish Appeal
He will be remembered for
Opens with $4,544,068;
many good acts. He was..., a sup-
Goal Is $6,220,000
CLEVELAND (JTA) — The porter of Histadrut and -received
Jewish Welfare Fund Appeal high honors from the Detroit
opened this week with a record Israel Histadrut Committee. In
first report totaling $4,544,068. Zionist history he will be remem-
Last year's opening figure was bered as a friend.
$4,322,311. Goal of the 1966 cam-
paign, which closes on May 12,
is the all-time high of $6,220,000.
* * *
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