De Gaulle Attitude Makes Anti-Semitism Major French Issue
President Charles de Gaulle's description of Jews as "an elite people, sure of itself
and domineering" once again ras created a Jewish issue in France, and anti-Semitism
has become a major item on the agenda of the French people. A poll conducted by the
Paris weekly l'Express shows that 44 per cent of the people of France agree with de
Gaulle. The old anti-Semitic ring that was centered in the Action Francaise again is
propagating anti-Jewish sentiments, and Xavier Vallat, the commander of Jewish
Affairs in tthe pro-Nazi Vichy government of Marshal Petain, is writing articles
accusing the Jews of being "a separate people" that can not be assimilated.
The UN Speaks
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Leadership
Retaliates With
Defiance
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Describing the new upsurge of anti-Semitism in France, Henry Tanner, writing to
the New York Times from Paris, points - out that the French are sharply divided on the
new issue, and that so are the Jews, among whom are defenders of de Gaulle; that the
Jewish background of powerful men is now talked about to indicate their association
with de Gaulle; that: "Suddenly It has become politically relevant that Michel Debre,
the finance minister, is the grandson of a rabbi and a converted Roman Catholic;
that Maurice Schumann, the minister of science, is a converted Jew, and that two or
three other Cabinet ( members have Jewish wives."
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De Gaulle's Aid to Iraq Draws
Protest; French Tension Grows
`No Limit' Fund-Raising Task
Marks Goal for UJA Next Year
NEW YORK (JTA)—A massive, "no limit" fund-raising drive will
be conducted by the United Jewish Appeal in 1968 to meet the "crucial
human needs in Israel and 30 other countries throughout the world,"
it was announced here Sunday.
Edward Ginsberg, of Cleveland, announced the plans for the "no
limit" campaign at the closing session of the UJA's national conference.
Ginsberg was elected general chairman of the UJA, succeeding Max M.
Fisher, of Detroit, who had held that post since 1965.
The conference, which opened Friday, heard an address by Maj.
Gen. Ithak Rabin, chief of staff of Israel's defense forces, who asserted
that, while Israel was "pursuing peace with all its might," the war with
the Arabs is not over, but Israel is confident it can meet a new test of
arms "if only our most faithful ally, the Jewish people, will be a full
partner and will accept the significance of this responsibility."
Other major addresses were delivered by Baron Elie de Rothschild,
of Paris; Sir Barnett Janner, of London; Dr. Moses Rosen, of Bucharest,
chief rabbi of Romania; Gregorio Shapiro, of Mexico City; Aryeh L.
Pincus, of Jerusalem, chairman of the Jewish Agency; Fisher; Mrs.
Harry L. Jones, of Detroit, who was re-elected women's division
chairman; Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice-chairman of the
UJA; and Louis Broido, chairman of thee Joint Distribution Committee.
Rabbi Friedman announced that the Israel Emergency Fund,
launched by the UJA last June to underwrite the costs of Israel's
humanitarian programs, which Israelis could not meet because of the
enormous costs of the Six-Day War, will be continued during 1968.
The UJA campaign in 1968, Ginsberg said, will be the first in the
UJA's 30-year history without a fixed goal "for the reason that the
needs are too great to be circumscribed by any goal." Since its incep-
tion, the UJA has raised $2,000,000,000 for Jewish rescue, relief and
reconstruction programs in Israel and 30 other countries around the
world. The funds to be raised in 1968, he said, will be devoted to these
two high-priority areas of Jewish needs:
(1) The crucial human needs that must be met on behalf of more
than 400,000 Jewish immigrants now living in Israel, as well as for the
25,000 other newcomers whose arrival is anticipated in 1968; (2) To carry
on existing programs outside of Israel, on behalf of more than 400,000
Jews, principally in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.
Gen. Rabin told the conference, at its annual dinner Saturday night,
that Israel now faces "the greatest test to which the Jewish people have
been put since the destruction of the second Jewish commonwealth by
the Romans in the year 70 of the Christian Era." "The great Jewish
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PARIS (JTA)—President de Gaulle took a significant step in his new anti-Israel
campaign by lifting France's Middle East arms embargo to the Arab nations while
continuing it against Israel. The development came amid mounting criticism of the
French leader for his anti-Israel, anti-Jewish and anti-American stance.
The Paris daily L'Aurore reported France planned to sell 50 Mirage V jet fighters
to Iraq, as well as 15 Mirage-E3 jets and eight Nord Atlas jet bombers. The newspaper
Combat denounced the reported sale to Iraq, declaring that the action was "criminal"
because it would "increase the danger to Israel." According to the reports, France may
sell to the Arabs some of the weapons made for but never delivered to Israel. It was
indicated that the embargo would continue for Israel because Israel offended de Gaulle
by failing to heed his wishes. Iraq recently signed an agreement with a French oil firm
to develop large areas confiscated from the British-owned Iraq Petroleum Company.
One of the protests was a letter to de Gaulle from 14 leading French Jewish
academicians, including a Nobel prize winner, which said the signers were "deeply hurt
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17 Michigan Congressmen Among 357 Signing
Statement Condemning USSR Suppression
Three hundred fifty-seven members of the United States House of Representatives, including
Congressmen from all 50 states, joined in condemning "the suppression of Jewish spiritual and cul-
tural life in the USSR." They challenged the Soviet Union to "translate into deeds" the statement
by Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin that all Russian citizens, including Jews are free to leave the
Soviet Union to join their relatives abroad.
Their statement was published on the 19th anniversary of Human Rights Day, Sunday, in the
New York Times, inserted by the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry.
The 25 national Jewish organizations comprising the Conference published the statement, "as a
reminder that 3,000,000 of our brothers in the Soviet Union do not yet enjoy their elementary
human rights."
Michigan members of Congress who signed the statement include Representatives Garry Brown,
Elford A. Cederberg, John J. Conyers, Jr., Charles C. Diggs, Jr., John D. Dingell, Marvin L. Esch,
Gerald R. Ford, Jr., William D. Ford, Martha W. Griffiths, James Harvey, Edward Hutchinson. Jack
H. McDonald, Lucien N. Nedzi, James G. O'Hara, Donald W. Riegle, Jr., Philip E. Ruppe and Guy
Vander Jagt.
American intellectuals joined to protest Soviet anti-Semitism and issued a public statement
condemning the "forcible cultural extinction" of the 3.000,000 Jews of the USSR. Protesting
against "this frenzied anti-Jewish assault" are 198 prominent artists and intellectuals—including
five Nobel Prize winners—who signed a two-page advertisement to appear in the Dec. 21 issue
of the New York Review of Books. The advertisement cites the 15th anniversary of the arrest
and murder of 24 leading Soviet Jewish intellectuals accused of being "rebels, agents of Ameri-
can imperialism, nationalist bourgeois Zionists and enemies of the .USSR." It points out that "this
spurious charge has provided the dark theme of much Soviet propaganda on the Jews in all the
subsequent years—tragically, even today" and charges that "official Soviet 'practice perpetuates
the Stalin policy of depriving Soviet Jews of continuity with its past and of any hope of a future."
UJA Forces Mobilized on Local, National Fronts
Preparatory to 1968 Drive; Budget Parley Sunday
Emergencies arising from the pressing elected national chairman of the UJA Wom-
needs in Israel, the plight of Jews in Moslem en's Division, Paul Zuckerman was elected
countries and the increasing demands for a national chairman, and Joseph Holtzman
services in behalf of homeless and displaced was re-elected one of the honorary chairmen.
In Detroit, the heads of all agencies and
have combined to create the demand for
innnediate mobilization of all American Jew- members of boards of affiliated groups will
ish forces in support of the major philan- participate in the 19th annual pre-campaign
budget conference of the Jewish Welfare
thropic overseas efforts.
In New York during the past week-end, Federation to outline a formula for the
the United Jewish Appeal's national con- 1968 Allied Jewish Campaign fund-raising
ference issued a call to action in support
of the regular UJA needs and for the re-
newal of the emergency fund for Israel, to
assure continuation of aid to protect Israel's
economy.
Max M. Fisher, general chairman of the
WA since 1965, was elected president of the
major voluntary American Jewish philan-
thropic agency, and Edward Ginsberg of
Cleveland was elected to succeed him to the
chairmanship. Mrs. Harry L. Jones was re-
and allocations. Hyman Safran, Federation
president, said 300 key personalities in local
ranks are expected to participate in the
budget conference starting at 9:30 a.m. Sun-
day, at the Jewish Center.
The conference is a community forum for
the development of a formula for the dis-
tribution of funds raised in the coming 1968
Allied Jewish Campaign to provide for the
allocation of funds in four categories: Over-
seas and Israel, local operating budgets for
Detroit agencies and services, local capital
funls, and national agency allocations.
Presentation of needs among the agencies
will be made by the followings: representa-
tives of Federation's divisions: Stanley J.
Winkelman, chairman, community relations;
Irving Rose, chairman; capital needs; Man-
dell L. Berman, chairinan, education; and
Dr. Peter G. Shifrin, chairman, health and
welfare.
Fisher will speak on the needs overseas.
The formula pertains to the regular Allied
Jewish Campaign, headed by Alfred L.
Deutsch and Maxwell Jospey, who are also
leading the 1968 Israel Emergency Fund
drive which will be conducted at the same
time as the regular drive.
Deutsch and Jospey are proceeding with
the selection of associates in the campaign
organization.
Due to the urgency of current needs in
Israel, an appeal has been issued for prompt
payments on pledges made to the 1967
Allied Jewish Campaign and Israel Emer-
gency Fund. Reviewing the services rendered
by the UJA, the appeal for payments by the
Detroit committee leaded by Irwin I. Cohn
concludes:
"We have grave commitments to meet
—now—to nearly 850,000 Jewish men wom-
en and children on the face of the earth who
look to the UJA for assistance.
"The UJA has undertaken a nationwide
cash collection drive to raise $60,000,000 on
the pledges made to it earlier in the year.
"Detroit hat a splendid record of sup-
port to the Allied Jewish Campaign. If ever
there was a time in Jewish history when
that record should be maintained, the time
is now. Fulfill your commitment before the
year ends!"