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XXXIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1958
NO. 2
64 Communities Raised
$63,564,502 for ’57
Israel Cabinet Crisis Settled;
Old Coalition Reestablished
NEW YORK. (JTA, — Jewish
communities in the United States
and Canada have scored impress
ive gains in their fund-raising
campaigns this spring, it has been
reported by the Council of Jew
ish Federations and Welfare
Funds. With only one exception,
every city of the 64 which have
thus far reported exceed their
levels of last year, the report
emphasized.
“Campaign totals for these
cities have reached $63,564,502,”
the CJFWF report stated. ‘“This
is 12.9 per cent over the amount
raised by the same cities in 1956,
($56,305,076), and 35.4 per cent
better than 1955 ($46,954,135).
These striking gains after the
years of decline since 1948 have
been attributed by Jewish com
munal leaders to a variety of
causes; the emergency immigra
tion into Israel; emergency flight
from several countries, and im
migration opportunities in other
lands; reflecting growing popu
lations in communities, shifts of
population, new advances in ser
vices, rising price levels; general
economic prosperity; strengthened
campaign leadership; and reorg
anization in community struc
tures.”
The bulk of the campaign total
came from the large cities.
Twelve cities reported fund re
ceipts of $43,343,097. This com
pares with $39,119,538 in 1956, an
increase of 10.8 per cent. (These
figures do not include New York
or Chicago).
Eleven cities in the 15,000 to
40,000 Jewish population group
raised a total of $9,778,606, an in
crease of 14.5 per cent over 1956.
In the group with less than 5,000
Jewish population, 26 cities re
ported a total of $3,966,233, an
increase of 25.6 per cent over 1956.
All four groups of cities achiev
ed a gain of more than one-third
over 1955, with the small cities
soaring to a plus of 49.2 per cent
and the large cities registering
just above a third (33.5 per cent)
over. The increase for all cities
over 1955 was 35.4 per cent.
These gains take a different
perspective when set against the
experience of the past 10 years.
With 1946 as the base year (100),
1957 campaigns stand at 109, or
9 per cent higher. In 1950 the
comparative figure was 105; in
1948, the peak year, 153. Thirty-
two of the cities surveyed showed
increased totals in 1957 over 1946.
These included a majority of the
large and intermediate cities.
Thirty-one, mainly small cities,
still fell short of the 1946 cam
paign level.
The larger cities achieved uni
formly more stable results than
the smaller cities. In 1948 all
groups went more than 50 per
cent over the base year (1946).
The 5-15,000 Jewish population
group, however, registered a 63
per cent increase over 1946 while
the 15-40,000 group showed a 58
per cent increase. Both the large
and the small cities did 50 per
cent better. In all other years,
however, achievement was great
est among the largest cities with
the narrowest gains among the
smallest cities, the CJFWF points
out.
Salk Offers Hope
For Cancer Cure
NEW YORK, (AJP) Having
found a successful vaccine againt
polio, Dr. Jonas E. Salk is pres
ently turning his time and at
tention to studies on ways to im
prove the production of an ele
ment that could lead to the long-
sought cure for cancer. Dr. Salk’s
latest researches were reported
in “Science,” the Journal of the
American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science. His stud
ies have created great interest
among cancer researchers who now
see the possibility of the pro
duction of a cancer vaccine which
might prove as successful as the
Salk polio vaccine.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
three-week old Israel Cabinet
crisis was resolved this week when
the same five parties in the old
coalition agreed to join again in
operating a government on the
basis of a revised platform. Pre
mier David Ben Gurion will ap
pear before Parliament tomor
row to ask for a vote of confi
dence in the new Cabinet. An
official government communique
announced:
“On January 8, five parties —
Mapai, Religious, Achdut Avoda,
Mapam and Progressive — agreed
to establish a government on the
basis, principles and coalition
agrement of the previous govern
ment. The collective responsibili
ty of all Cabinet members and
coalition partners, as well as the
secrecy of deliberations on se
curity and foreign affairs, as well
as any other matters so decided,
has been assured. With this in
view, a law will be submitted to
the Knesset applying also to news
papers which publish state secrets
or secret Cabinet deliberations.
The new Cabinet will be present
ed to the Knesset tomorrow.”
The announcement made clear
that Mr. Ben Gurion’s demand
for the ousting of Ministers who
violated secrecy has been modi
fied and an agreement that a
law be introduced providing for
the prosecution of editors and
newspapers which published ma
terial obtained through such
“leaks.”
On Jan. 12, a deputation of lo
cal newspaper editors called on
the Premier to protest his inten
tion of pushing through legisla
tion to punish them for publish
ing secret decisions. They only
extracted one compromise from
Mr. Ben Gurion — that represen
tatives of the newspaper industry
would be consulted when the bills
to protect Cabinet secrecy are
drafted.
Communist Germany Charges Bonn
With Giving Military Aid To Israel
BERLIN, (JTA) — The Com
munist East German radio has
charged collusion between Israel
and West Germany and attacked
both states, alleging they are ag
gravating Middle Eastern tension
and plotting against peace.
The broadcast said the East
German Foreign Affairs Ministry
has for some time been in poss
ession of “reliable information
that West Germany, contrary to
the terms of the so-called West
German-Israeli Reparations A-
greement of Sept. 10, 1952, has
been supplying materials and e-
quipment which directly or indi
rectly reinforms Israel’s military
potential.” It was charged that
this was done “by way of direct
deliveries and by the payment of
military supplies delivered by
other countries, such as Turkey.”
An East German Foreign Min
istry spokesman said: “As early
as Dec. 13, 1957 a representative
of Ben Gurion negotiated secret
ly with Adenauer about West
German arms deliveries to Israel.
The West German Government is
known to be planning to double
the payments made to Israel un
der the reparations agreement.”
Attacking Israel, the East Ger
man spokesman said: “The role
played by Israel in conjunction
with Britain and France as an
aggressor against Egypt is still
remembered. Numerous actions
and statements by leading Is
raeli politicians indicate that they
have not learned the necessary
lesson even after the failure of
the aggression.”
The broadcast alleged that “Is
rael is working to aggravate ten
sions in the Near East. In view of
this fact the proposed West Ger
man deliveries of particularly
dangerous arms to Israel can on
ly mean that the Bonn Federal
Government is taking a still more
active part in strengthening Is
rael’s war potential.” The broad-
east claimed that by its attitude
toward Israel, the Bonn Govern
ment was not considering the in
terests of the Arabs but rather
contributing to aggravation of
regional tension.
“For the sake of preserving
Middle East peace and of friendly
relations of the whole German
nation with the Arab peoples,
the GDR (Communist) Govern
ment most sharply condemns the
(Bonn) Federal Government’s at
titude toward Israel and reiterates
its demand to avoid anything
that imperils peace in the Near
East,” the official spokesman
said in his broadcast.
Bonn Denies Israeli Envoy
Visited Germany on Mission
Bartley Crum to Appear at J N F
Dinner in Atlanta January 27
Bartley C. Crum, widely known
as a Middle East authority during
the Roosevelt and Truman admin
istrations, will be the guest speak
er at the Rededication Dinner of
the Jewish National Fund on
January 27 at the Mayfair Club.
In announcing Mr. Crum’s ac
ceptance for the Atlanta talk,
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein, chair
man of the Atlanta JNF Coun
cil, stated “Mr. Crum is a fa
mous lawyer and newspaper pub
lisher who has seen official ser
vice for the United States as a
presidential envoy and has long
been a friend of Israel.”
Mr. Crum was the recipient in
1949 of the Wendell Wilkie “One
World Award” in recognition of
his outstanding record of liberal
ism in the spirit of one world as
an author, publisher and political
leader, his championship of civil
rights and of international jus
tice, and his valiant efforts to
perpetuate the American tradition
of crusading journalism.”
Mr. Crum was appointed in
1946 by president Truman as a
member of the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry on Pales
tine. His experiences with this
committee led him to write the
book, “Behind the Silken Cur-
BARTLEY C. CRUM
tain,” a best seller at the time
of its publication. The volume
was cited in the Newspaper
Guild’s annual award to Mr.
Crum in 1948 for distinguished
public service.
Mr. Crum previously was
named by Roosevelt as special
counsel to the Fair Employment
Practices Commission in 1942 and
subsequently as a State Depart
ment consultant to the United Na
tions.
Joseph Gross, co-chairman of
the Atlanta Council of the Jewish
National Fund, is in charge of
community organization for the
Council. He listed the following
organizational representatives to
date:
Ahavath Achim Congregation:
Mr. and Mrs. Dave Alterman;
Congregation Or Ve Shalom,
Joseph Franco, Morris D. Rousso,
James Arogeti;
Atlanta Zionist District, Robert
M. Travis, Ben Golden, Max Rob-
kin, Dr. Joseph Glazer;
Hadassah, Mrs. Louis Smith,
Mrs. Milton Saul, Mrs. Robert
Enteen, Mrs. David Levin;
Farband Labor Zionist Order,
Eli Grant, N. Karlick;
Pioneer Women, Mrs. Milton
Travis, Mrs. Eli Grant;
B’nai B’rith Women, Mrs.
Leonard Bagen;
New World ' Club, Clement
Molkner, Leopold Degen;
In addition a number of indi
viduals including: Rabbi Joseph
Cohen, Rabbi Emanuel Feldman,
Berry Rittenbaum, Mrs. Abe Gil-
ner, Mrs. Jack Franco, Mrs. Anne
G. Hopkins are giving active sup
port to the JNF Council.
FRANKFURT, (JTA) — Both
Israel purchasing mission circles
in Cologne and Bonn Government
sources denied today that Shimon
Peres, director general of Israel’s
Defense Ministry, who recently
visited Germany was here on an
official mission. It had been re
ported that Mr. Peres went to
Germany to negotiate for the pur
chase of arms.
Meanwhile, Dr. F. Shinnar,
head of the Israel purchasing
mission, called on Jews to be re
alistic in their relations with
Germany. “There is no Nazi dang
er in Germany today,” he empha
sized.
“The last two elections have
clearly shown this. I am con
vinced the German people today
are sincerely endeavoring to build
up a new community founded on
law and justice,” Dr. Shinnar as
serted. “A wholly new genera
tion is growing up in Germany,
whose principles, as far as can
be judged today, are democratic
and fully in line with those of
their government.”
He pointed to the fact that the
Israel-German reparations pact is
functioning without a hitch five
years after it came into force.
“Sixty per cent of West German
deliveries to Israel have consist
ed of capital goods designed to
assist Israel in construction of its
industry and agriculture. The rest
comprised mainly raw materials
and semi-finished manufactured
goods. We do not expect the re
parations agreement to undergo
any changes during the next sev
eral years,” he added.
Zionist Leader Saps
No Jewish Life
in Russia
BOSTON, (JTA) — Fred Mon-
osson, national Zionist leader,
has returned here from a visit to
Russia with a report that there
is no Jewish life in Russia. Every
where he went, he said, he look
ed for Jewish places but only in
the synagogues was he absolutely
certain that those present were
Jews.
“Since no books are published
in Yiddish and all Jewish cultu
ral institutions have been closed
down and do not function, there
is no Jewish life,” he reported.
He said that in a theatre in Odes
sa, he found 700 Jews who came
to see a play in Yiddish, adding
that he found that they wanted
to be together and to be among
Jews "even though many of them
did not understand a word of
Yiddish and parts of the play
had to be translated.” The pro
gram for the play was printed
in Russian, not Yiddish, he said.
On his visits to synagogues he
found “only elderly folks, from
65 years and up, no younger gen
eration." Asked whether he found
evidence that Russian Jews want
ed to go to Israel, he said: “The
elderly people, yes. But when it
comes to the present generation,
who for 40 years have absorbed
and lived completely under the
spell of Soviet rule, what do they
know about Israel and the new
life and happiness our Jewish na
tion could bring them.”