fisher Getting Top U.S. Jewish Post: Head of (IMF

By Jewish News Special Correspondent

BOSTON—Max M. Fisher, prominent Detroit leader who has gained national fame for his activities in a score of important movements, atttained
the
highest position in the American Jewish community by being chosen for the presidency of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds,
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is concluding its annual assembly here this weekend.
Fisher is to he honored at an oneg Shabat arranged by the large Detroit delegation headed by Hyman Safran, this evening. National leaders
we joining in extending due honors to the Detroiter who has been selected for important honorary national positions by President Nixon, in whos:!
lection Fisher had played an important role. Safran himself was renamed CJFWF vice president.
The assembly marked a number of important innovations at its sessions here. In addition to evaluative efforts in the social service fields, the
delegates participated in planning for increased activities in behalf of Israel, in support of new projects to assist the aged, in a new task to create
added interest
E. , 41ish-Jewish press and in enrolling youth in the numerous American Jewish activities under guidance of federations and
councils.
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THE JEWISH NEWS

Honor to the
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Israel's Enemies Increase Tension
Inflaming Mid East; Plea for USSR
Jews' Exit Permits Made at UN

Jospey Returned
to Chairmanship
of AJCampaign

Maxwell Jospey will serve as chair-
of the 1970 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign - Israel Emergency Fund, Alan E.
Schwartz, president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, announced this week.
Jospey was chairman of the 1969
drive, which produced more money for
the support of Jewish services than has
over been raised in a single campaign.
A total of $10,350,000 was contributed
for the support of health, education and
welfare services locally, nationally and

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overseas, particularly in Israel.
He began his apprenticeship

in Vain-

paigning with the mechanical trades di v i-
sion, and in 1966 was a member of the

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Adding fuel to the fires that have inflamed the Middle East, Israel's enemies have accelerated their activities
in threats to destroy the Jewish state.
Aiming at the mobilization of "all Arab energies," in which they view it as inevitable that there should
be an all-out war, 13 of the 14 Arab states—Tunisia boycotted the meeting—decided upon a summit con-
ference. to be held next month in Rabat, Morocco, to plan the fusing of all Arab forces against Israel.
Many conflicting reports about a rumored U.S.-USSR agreement on a plan to force a peace formula have
been neither confirmed nor denied in Washington. But there are grounds for giving credence to some reports. Such
an agreement could be damaging to Israel.
In the process, the USSR role is viewed as being aimed at an approach both of opposing and even pre-
venting a Middle East war while contributing toward keeping the tensions inflamed.
Israeli spokesmen, however, have claimed no knowledge of a U. S. peace plan.
Official U. S. spokesmen at the UN have denied that the U. S. is moving rapidly toward a pro-Arab position.
Arab attacks claiming that the U. S. approves of Americans participating in active military roles in behalf of Israel,
and Russia's endorsement of such claims—particularly the statement to that effect by USSR President Nikolai
V. Podgorny—brought angry repudiation and resentment in declarations by Secretary of State William Rogers
and the U. S. ambassador to the UN. Charles Yost.
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech affirming again that "war - and "bloodshed" are the
only solutions to the Arab-Israel problem caused Foreign Minister Aba Ehan of Isritel to condemn him as a war
monger.
Related to the Russian role in the Middle East crisis is the appeal that was filed at the UN with the Human
Rights Commission by Israel Ambassador Yosef Tekoah in behalf of 18 Georgian Jews. pleading for the right to

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ssi re .14, 81•isli Presence' Anticipateel
Washengtoto for Peace iliraireh; Prayer's
to Ile "leave, in Synagogues This 'Weekend

As thousands assembled in Washn:gton for a massive antiwar moratorium demonstration, the Jew-
ish community here, as elsewhere in the nation, reflected a sharp split on the government's Vietnam
war policies. Some groups verbally hacked President Nixon; others supported the peace movement with
prayers or actual participation in the moratorium. Still others, the "silent majority," kept silent.

Following the lead of the Union of .American Hebrew Congregations, several Reform temples here
planned special sermons this evenin._. They included Temples Israel, Beth El and Beth Am.
At the University of Michigan. the Hillel Foundation is sponsoring a creative peace service and
silent march from Hillel House to the central cam pus this evening. The Ann Arbor Jewish com-
munity has been invited to partIcipate.
Student leaders of the Hillel Foardation had earlier endorsed the moratorium march on Wash-
ington as an affirmation of their - desire to expedite the end of the war." The 23 students from cam-
puses throughout the country, holding their first meeting as the National Hillel Student Consultative
Committee, also called on local Hiii,l units at 240 American colleges to give consideration to "their
observances."
individual involvement in local n n
Incite
Abbie Hoffman, one of the ••. hicago 8" on trial in Chicago on charges of conspiring to \s
Democratic
National
Convention, accepted an invitation to address an assem-
rioting during the 1968
bly of Jewish groups in Washington.
Hoffman, a leader of the radical ■ ippic•' movement, will
be free on bail to deliver the Friday evening "sermon" at a

ZOA

worship service sponsored by the newly formed National Jewish
Organization Project (NJOP). Arnold the Jews listed as active
on its behalf were Rabbi Balfour Brickner and Albert Vorspan of
the UAHC; Rabbi George Soblernan of the Wesleyan University,
who was said to be coordinating involvein ,•.nt of Orthodox rabbis;
and Burton Weiss of the Jewish Peace Fullew - hip. Both Rabbi
Brickner and Vorspan disassociated themselves from the invita-
tion to Hoffman.

An NJOP release claimed that "A ina‹,ive Jewish presence"
was expected for the Saturday peace march. But the major action
here was the response of the organised Jewish community, es-
Pclally the Hillel foundations, to fulfilling housing and other

needs of peace marchers. The so-called -Jewish Establishment."
in the
after initial reluctance, began preparing dormitories
leading
National Bnai Brith Headquarters Building and such
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Prexy Backs
Nixon on Vietnam

In his address to the national
executive council of the Zionist
Organization of America at the
Biltmore Hotel in New York last
Saturday evening, Jacques Tore-
zyner, ZOA president: urged that
American Jewry back President
Nixon's position on Vietnam, as
was enunciated in the President's
speech to the nation Nov. 3.
The ZOA national executive
council voted overwhelmingly not
to participate in the projected
World Zionist Territorial Federa-

bon. (Detailed story Page 6).

Embargo Iletained on Israel
Arms. French Assembly Told

PARIS (JTA)—French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann made
it clear during a parliamentary debate that France has no intention

whatsoever of lifting the arms embargo against Israel imposed by
former President Charles de Gaulle. He delivered his remarks during

the first full-scale foreign policy debate in the National Assembly
since President George Pompidou was elected to succeed Gen. de-
Gaulle. But two Gaullist deputies took issue with the government's
Mid East policy. One advised the government to reconsider France's
pressure for Big Four - talks in the area. Another urged the govern-
ment to lift the embargo on Israel because "it has not served its
purpose."

Schumann stated that France's Mid East policy was based on
the principles of self-determination. respect for international law and
a balance of power in the region. He said that in view of those con-
siderations, France continues to urge implementation of the United .

Nations Security Council's Nov. 22, 1967 Mid East resolution and
"will do nothing whatever which would worsen the arms race inphe
region." The foreign minister reiterated his conviction that the only

method that could eventually lead to a peace settlement is Big Four

consultations. Schumann said France believes that any settlement
must include an article providing for the internationalization of the
Holy Places in Jerusalem.
The French government, which last spring promised to send
troops to Lebanon if that country's political or territorial integrity
was threatened, reportedly informed the Beirut regime during the
recent crisis not to expect any political or diplomatic assistance from
France or other Western powers. and advised it to seek a compromise
with the Palestinian guerrillas. Opposition political leaders here claim
that France's position on this issue seriously influenced the stand of
Lebanon's president, Charles Ilelou, in negotiations with guerrillas.

They said that France's attitude in the Lebanese crisis had been
to support the leftist "progressive" Arab regimes. A member of the
Pompidou cabinet. Andre Bettencourt, is scheduled to go to Cairo on

Nov. 29 for talks with President Gamal Abdel Nasser and to negotiate

French aid to the United Arab Republic. Bettencourt, who is the
minister in charge of the prime minister's office, will reportedly
carry a personal letter from president Pompidou to President Nasser.

