More than 10,000 communities in the United States and Canada will join in the observance of Brotherhood Week this week-end under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Christians and Jews. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is honorary chairman of the observance.
Religious services to be held during the week by American churches and synagogues will emphasize the brotherhood theme. Ministers, priests and rabbis will join in dedicating the people of the nation to the concept of the brotherhood of man. Abroad in the free nations of Europe, World Brotherhood Week will be simultaneously celebrated under the auspices of World Brotherhood, an organization formed in 1950 to lessen frictions created by national, religious and cultural differences.
Proclamations by the governors of nearly every state and the mayors of large and small cities will spur civic bodies, schools, colleges, and theological seminaries, fraternal organizations, veteran and youth groups to plan special activities related to the brotherhood ideal. This year marks the twenty-first annual observance of Brotherhood Week and the 26th anniversary of the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
The nation’s 18, 000 motion picture theatres have organized a Brotherhood Week campaign to enroll 100,000 new members for the National Conference. Newsreels to be shown in the theatres will bring news items about the observance to millions of viewers. Radio and television stations will carry brotherhood messages in song, story and discussions throughout the week, Roger W. Straus, national co-chairman of the NCCJ and a founder of the organization, will review its 26-year history over the MBS network on Sunday.
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