The Israel Government will send a quantity of oranges and will initiate a clothing collection campaign in Israel for the benefit of Holland’s thousands of flood victims, it was announced last night by Acting Premier Pinchas Lavon at a session of Parliament at which various government leaders expressed their sympathy for the hard-hit people of the Netherlands.
Speaker of the House Joseph Sprinzak reviewed the centuries of “heroic struggle” against the elements which the Dutch people had waged to build their “splendid cities and a great culture.” He pointed out that the people of Holland had showed a great “breadth of heart and heart-warming sympathy” in “our own hour of distress.” The Knesset session was attended by Netherlands consul M. von Karnebeek and his wife, both of whom were dressed in black as a sign of mourning.
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