Synchronization of the national defense endeavors of the B’nai B’rith and the American Red Cross “by coordinating our respective divisions of military and naval welfare service” was announced yesterday by Norman H. Davis, chairman of the American Red Cross, as he received the 97th anniversary award of B’nai B’rith at a covenant breakfast at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel.
In presenting the award, President Henry Monsky declared that “the machinery of the 900 B’nai B’rith units throughout the country and the manpower of their 150,000 men and women have been placed at the disposal of the Red Cross.” Honored in recognition of his humanitarian services as head of the American Red Cross and his insistence that Red Cross relief supplies in the German-controlled areas of war-torn Europe be distributed on a completely non-sectarian basis, Davis asserted that any other policy but impartial distribution of Red Cross relief supplies “would have made mockery of American mercy.”
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