$2,048,000 in Gifts Set All-Time Record
For Opener of Allied Jewish Campaign
An all-time record for a semi-official opening of a philanthropic campaign
here was set Wednesday night, at a meeting of top contributors to the Allied
Jewish Campaign, at the home of C. William Sucher. The total subscribed that
evening by 95 contributors was $2,048,000, the highest gifts running into $200,000
figures.
This sum represents the regular gifts of $1,248,000 given by the same group
of men, as well as renewal of last year's additional special gifts of $442,000 to
the 1956 emergency fund and an additional sum of $358,000 to this year's UJA
Rescue Fund.
Max Fisher, campaign chairman, presided at the meeting. Mr. Sucher intro-
duced the guest speakers, Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman, executive vice-president
of the United Jewish Appeal, major beneficiary of the Detroit campaign, and
Dewey D. Stone, national chairman of the United Israel Appeal, major benefi-
ciary of the UJA.
Assisting Mr. Fisher in enrolling the contributors were Joseph Holtzman, a
rational UJA chairman; Irwin I. Cohn, Louis C. Blumberg and Leonard N.
Simons.
The best-ever beginning for a Detroit philanthropic campaign augurs well
for the 1957 drive, Isidore Sobeloff, executive vice-president of the Jewish Wel-
fare Federation, stated. He expressed the hope that this assures the raising of
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the minimum goal of $6,500,000 set for Detroit's 1957 campaign.
In his addwss to the gathering, Rabbi Friedman, summing up his 10-day
on-the-spot investigation of the critical Jewish refugee situation in Europe and
North Africa, declared:
"It is my opinion that the greatest refugee crisis in more than a decade,
created by the 'cold pogrom' of Colonel Nasser in Egypt and Communist tyranny
in Hungary, is now developing in Europe and the Middle East. The year 1957
may see more than 100,000 distressed . and dependent Jews in flight from Nas-
serism in Egypt, Communism in Hungary and serious dangers in other countries.
"Nasserism is Nazism revived. Egyptian Jews are being denied every civic
right. They are being subjected to a strangulation policy of calculated terror
including midnight arrests, imprisonment, confiscation of business and belong-
ings, and finally expulsion.
"A total of 10,000 Jews have already been driven out of Egypt and it is
common opinion that every single Jew in Egypt will be ordered out of the
country by the summer of 1957.
"The 1957 UJA must fully realize its Emergency Rescue Fund goal of $100,
000,000 to provide transportation and resettlement in Israel and other free lands
for the hundreds of ,thousands of Jews whi, will be forced to flee from terror
and conflict in 1957. American Jewry must rise to the fore and this monumental
humanitarian effort must succeed," Rabbi Friedman conclude&
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U. S. Position Shifting; Plan
Defense
Assurances
for
Israel
State Department Cancels
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
Sand's Trip to Jewish Doctor
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON—The State Department. Tuesday refused
to corminent on a report that it cancelled an appointment with
the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation for an examination of
Prince Mashur, six-year-old son of King Saud, to determine his
recovery from Polio.
The State Department had made an appointment previously
with the world-famous institute in West Orange, N. J., which
is directed by Dr. Henry J. Kessler, noted physician and leader
in Essex County Jewish activities.
King Saud brought his son on his present visit to the U.S.
expressly for the purpose of such an examination. However, it
became known Tuesday that the State Department cancelled the
appointment Monday. It is assumed that the step was taken
after it occurred to State Department officials that it would be
desirable to shield King Saud from Jewish contacts.
Lurie Heads Israel Basketball Committee
Col. Harry D. Henshel, of New York, chairman of the United
States Committee for Sports in Israel, chairman of the U. S.
Olympic basketball committee, this week announced the ap-
pointment of Nathan Lurie as chairman of the local committee
to assist in sponsoring the basketball game, on Feb. 24, at the
U. of D. fieldhouse, between the Israel Olympic basketball squad
and Michigan All Stars.
Detailed story of the Detroit -game on Page 32.
UNITED NATIONS—The United States in an apparent shift of position, favors
the adoption by the General Assembly now of a resolution providing Israel some as-
surances against renewed Egyptian belligerency before Israel withdraws Its troops
from Aqaba and Gaza areas.
A spokesman for the U. S. delegation here declared Tuesday morning: "We
have not closed our minds to action in the General Assembly prior to completion of
withdrawal of Israeli forces behind armistice lines."
The spokesman referred to that part of the statement made in the Assembly
Monday by American Delegate Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., in which Mr. Lodge cautioned
the Assembly against a "return to unsatisfactory conditions which helped to bring
about recent hostilities." Mr. Lodge's statement, according to the spokesman, does
not, however, "preclude action by the General Assembly prior to withdrawal."
While a cooling off process was under way Tuesday, with a number of delega-
tions, including Washington's discussing possible resolutions giving some of the as-
surances Israel desires, Mr. Lodge's stand was seen as an encouraging step by many
diplomats here, among them representatives of Britain and - France. C h r is ti an
Pineau, Foreign Minister of France, conferred with UN Secretary General Hammars-
kjold Tuesday and there was speculation that the subject of their talk may have in-
cluded the "Israel-Egypt situation.
The possibility that Mr. Lodge may h ave had in mind use of a UN navy in the
Aqaba waterway to bolster the UN Emergency Force was seen here Tuesday and
was not denied by spokesmen for his delegation. Mr. Lodge had spoken of the need
to use the UNEF to separate Israel and Egyptian forces "on land and sea."
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, pointedly refused an invitation Tues-
day to attend Secretary General-Hammarskjold's luncheon in honor of visiting King
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Lincoln Would Turn in His Grave!
New Israeli. Oil Pipeline:
— International Photo
A mechanical excavator for Israel's
new pipeline across the Negev desert is now in full operation. When completed, this
new pipeline will carry oil from the Aqaban port of Eilat to Beersheba, southern rail
center, from which point it can be transported to the Haifa refinery. Engineers say it
will be finished within six months and will be able to carry enough oil to relieve the
Suez Canal situation.
In this month of the birthdays of George Washington
and Abraham Lincoln, of the traditional observance of
Brotherhood Week whose purposes idealistic Americans
desire to spread throughout the world, the attention of
seekers of truth and justice must turn to the monumental
United Nations building in New York.
Our concern is aroused again by a famous saying of
Abraham Lincoln:
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not
for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long
retain- it."
Abraham Lincoln would literally turn over in his
grave if he knew what is happening today at the United
Nations, where his ideals now are being sacrificed to
false gods by the U. S. representatives.
A small people pleads for the right to live—not as
a matter of grace, but as a right. But so-called world
statesmen are indifferent to Israel's plight and cries for
justice. They are playing a game, and their dice are
loaded. Freedom seems to have little value, as long as
it is not backed up by oil deposits.
And in Washington, the most absolute monarch in
the world and the world's thief slave-holder gets our
Government's highest honors. All for oil!
Oil is important, but—must control of it be attained
at the expense of little Israel, whose cries for peace are
being stifled by international tribunals? Woe unto us if
we can not solve human problems the human way!
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27, 1992
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