Ambassador Dinitz Brings Message of Courage to Campaigners (Continued from 'Page 1) heard about that comment and while he had lunch with Abba Eban on March 14, as the third call from him reached him that day, he told Kissinger: "You have your- self filled half of my own quota of calls for a day." Dinitz declared at the out- set that "strength is needed to win the peace," and he added that "we would not have been able to win if it had not been for your and America's help in 1973." "Do not take Jewish sur- vival for granted," he ad- monished the audience. He declared that the Arabs, with the Ihelp of the Soviet Union, are stronger than ever before and that "there has not been the acquiescence from the Arab states to accept the existence of Israel." Never- theless, there was a lesson for Sadat in the October war, because "with all the unity of Arab forces, with all the help from the Soviet Union, his forces were not able to advance more than five miles from the Suez Canal, while Israel's forces reached with- in 18 miles from Damascus and 50 miles from Cairo." "Therefore," Dinitz said, "to come to terms he must meet with Israel at the con- ference table." "The Jewish state will not be beaten and will stay for- ever in the Middle East," Dinitz declared. He added that Israel, too, has learned a lesson from the October war and that his government is determined that "the disparity must not be renewed" as it did in the surprise attack of Yom Kip- pur. "We have every deter- mination to win wars if they are inflicted upon us," he declared. Analyzing the role of Rus- sia, and the encouragement Andrei Gromyko has been giving the Arabs in their aim to destroy Israel while the USSR remains as a partner in the Geneva conference, Dinitz said, "They are wait- ing to catch us weak enough to accomplish what they aimed for on Yom Kippur. They have purchased Africa, At Final Campaign Dinner they have irritated Europe and have scared some Amer- icans. But we have faith in America's friendship. Israel is determined to survive and the Jews of America are our bulwark. We'll need wisdom for what is essential for life in Israel. We need talent to negotiate." "It is the strength of our society that will matter," Dinitz asserted, "to avoid war and to win the peace," he said. "Don't mind our say- to you do not stop instead of thank you. Ahead of us are difficult battles. Wash- ington is watching our every move to know how people re- act to our needs. The United States government must con- tinue to learn that our people are behind them in the sup- port of Israel, and that can be attained by your doing what you have done and will continue to do. I speak to you not out of despair but with hope for the coveted peace. I don't know if I inspire you, but a lot of inspiration comes to us - from you and your ded- icated labors." Zuckerman and Grossman supplemented the pledges for continued efforts, after Di- nitz's address , by assuring him that there will be no cessation in the labors in Israel's behalf. In a concluding address, Avrunin gave high praise to the co-chairmen, Davidson and Grossman, and expres- sed appreciation to his staff, to Samuel Cohen, Federation administrative director; Sol Drachler, campaign director; Harold Berke, Emanuel Mark and others who labored de- votedly with the volunteers for the success of the 1974 philanthropic tasks. Commenting on the view that Detroit and Cleveland are the top communities in the country in fund-raising for Jewish causes, Avrunin reported that this year for the first time Detioit has exceeded Cleveland's achieve- ments and he implied a hope that the order in which he mentioned the cities, "De- troit and Cleveland." will continue in years ahead. Avrunin utilized the occa- sion to mention another co- worker, the pioneer in local social service, Esther Prus- sian, who was observing her birthday that evening. The gathering joined him in ap- plauding a dedicated worker in the ranks of welfare serv- ices. Davidson, in his opening remarks, emphasized contin- uity for the drive in the com- munal determination to attain maximum results and assur- ing Detroit Jewry's "readi- ness to identify with Jews everywhere, to understand Jewish life, enrich it and pro- tect it." He pointed to the especially impressive labors in the drive of Arthur How- ard and George Zeltzer, who had just returned from partic- ipation in the Israel mission with Prime Minister Golda Meir, and the many division heads who led their groups to the great success of the 1974 drive. Daniel Honigman and Irv- ing Seligman presided over the portion of the meeting during which division reports were submitted. Among those reporting were: Sol Cicurel, mercantile; Irving Laker, services-arts and crafts; Mar- vin H. Coleman-, industrial and automotive; Milton Bar- nett, real estate and building trades; Bernard Weisber„7, food; Bruce E. Thal, profes- sional; Burton D. Farbmaa, junior; Morris Asher, metro- politan; and Mrs. Merle Hal- ris, women. Campaign leaden; _ably commended for their devoted labors included Phillip Stoll man, campaign treasurer Samuel Hamburger, Willian i Sherr, Graham Orley Philip Warren and Norman Wacu ler, among others. The concluding dinnei meeting of the campaign was an occasion for reuni, of a number of pioneer work- ers. Alex Schreiber, an Allieci Jewish Campaign leader in the 1920s through the 1956s, now a resident of Los Angeles, was among the guests. Dr. Richard C. Hertz gave the invocation. Difficult Tasks Ahead for Genocide Convention By JOSEPH POLAKOFF (Copyright 1974, JTA, Inc.) WASHINGTON—If Senate ratification of the Genocide Convention, dead for the re- mainder of this session of Congress, is not voted next year the likelihood of it ever winning approval will become extinct. This opinion among informed senatorial sources must come as a shock to those elements, particularly Jewish organizations, which have fought so hard and so long for the U.S. adherence to the United Nations treaty that resulted from world hor- ror at the Hitlerian holocaust that numbered 6.000,000 European Jews among its vic- tims. Hopes ran high for ratifi- cation after two unprecedent- ed actions took place in the contemporary Senate. The first was the 10-4 vote by- the foreign relations committee in March of 1973 to report it to the Senate. The second was the actual debate within the Senate itself this January and February. At no time in the 26 years since the -U.S. government signed the con- vention in 1948 has the Sen- ate gone that far towards ratification. But a filibuster- ing Senate minority prevent- Mercantile division chairman Sol Cicurel is shown mak- ed a vote to take place and ing his closing renort at the Monday evening event at blocked two attempts at clo- Temple Beth El. From left, in upper photo, Joseph Garson ture to end it. of services-arts and crafts, and Marvin H. Goldman and Party lines were obliterat- Milt Barnett of the industrial and automotive division await their turns to report. At the back dais are, from left, ed . in the two votes on cloture. Lewis S. Grossman and William M. Davidson, AJC-IEF Of the 95 senators who voted, chairmen. Next to the podium, are UJA general chairman 39 Democrats and 18 Repub- Paul Zuckerman, Israel Ambassador to the U.S. Simha licans opposed the filibuster Dinitz and Federation Executive Vice-President William and 15 Democrats and 23 Re- publicans backed it. The fili- Avrunin. At a front table in the capacity crowd are, from left, buster opponents mustered Mrs. William Davidson, Mrs. Alan E. Schwartz, food divi- 55 votes on each ballot but sion, associate chairman Thomas Klein, Mrs. Paul Zucker- actually 57 voted against it. man, Mrs. Samuel Frankel and Federation treasurer George Two senators who did not M. Zeltzer who had just returned from the special UJA vote on the first ballot did mission to Israel. on the second and made up Some Jewish Welfare Federation business is accom- for two absentees. Three ad- plished before the AJC-IEF closing dinner Monday evening ditional senators who were as -Federation President Mandell L. Berman confers with not present at all were re- vice-president Samuel Frankel. Frankel headed the 1973 corded as opposing the fili- drive with co-general chairman Paul Randleman. buster had they been present. Thus, altogether the anti-fili- buster senators totaled 60— seven shy of the theoretical two-thirds minimum of 67 re- quired, if all 100 members were voting, to both shut off debate and adopt the treaty. The pro-filbuster senators totaled 36 the first time. These stayed intact on the second- ballot and they were joined by two additional members. The fact that the pro-filibuster array increased its strength prompted the leaders of those backing the treaty (Senators Jacob K. Javits, R. N.Y., Frank Church, D. Idaho, and Wil- liam Proxmire, D. Wis.), to postpone their fight and an- nounce their intention "to use the next few months to engage in public education on the real meaning and im- portance of the Genocide Treaty" because "during the debate it became apparent that a great deal of misinfor- mation about the treaty had been circulated and totally unwarranted fears about the treaty were generated." Hope for success next year rests in part on the fact that four of the senators who voted to continue the filibust- er have announced their re- tirement at this session's end, including Sam Ervin, (D., N.C.), the opposition's leader and principal spokes. man whose reputation as a constitutional expert strength- ened the minority. Despite these factors, it is recognized that failure again after all these years of trying will ex- tinguish the enthusiasm that will bring two-thirds of the Senate to vote affirmatively. Senator Claiborne Pell, (D., R. I.), whose father was the U.S. representative to the United Nations Crime Com- mission, was in great part responsible for the U.S. posi- tion that genocide should be considered a war crime, has put the issue in these forms: "I am told by some op- ponents of the convention that `if you vote for the Genocide Treaty, you are a traitor to your country.' If that were true then every American President since Harry Tru- man, Democrat or Republi- can all of the secretaries of state, the attorney general of the United States, the majori- ties of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee — and I could go on and on listing groups of impeccably loyal American — would fall into the category generally reserved for such people as Benedict Arnold . . I do not suggest that even the most benighted opponents of the convention by their op- position approve of genocide. Yet the implication remains that those who oppose the convention are indifferent to its basic tenet that the killing or destruction of peoples, be- cause of race or other rea- sons, is a horrible crime." Senator Church, chairman of the foreign relations sub- committee on Genocide, de- clared the treaty to be "a significant statement of man decency—a code of con- duct, if you will, for nation' to observe in dealing with their religious, ethnical, -- cial or national constituk parts." With the opposition having argued that many of the 76 nations that adopted the treaty had wrapped them- selves in reservations, Church pointed out that he himself had offered a reser- vatiorithat "states in a simple and straight-forward way" that by ratifying the treaty the United States retains th- right "to bring to trial be fore its own tribunals any of its nationals for acts com- mitted outside the United States." The job ahead, calls for language, persuasion and in- finite devotion to the concept that genocide is a crime. Howard Confers With Rivlin Arthur Howard, right, was greeted by Moshe R ivIn director-general of the Jewish Agency, during the specii mission sponsored by the United Jewish Appeal. Howar and Federation treasurer George M. Zeltzer were among_ top national leaders who participated_ in the mission la week. 56—Friday, March 22, 1974 THE DETROIT JEWISH FIN