(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Jewish immigration to Palestine continued during the month of May. One thousand seven hundred and fifty immigrants landed during the month, according to figures made known today.
SAMUEL, EINSTEIN, DEEDES, TO SERVE ON ROSENBLOOM MEMORIAL COMMITTEE
Sir Herbert Samuel, Professor Albert Einstein, and Sir Wyndham Deedes have consented to serve as members of the Committee which is to have charge of the building of the Sol Rosenbloom Memorial at the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus. Palestine, according to an announcement made by Dr. Stephen S. Wise.
In a letter to Mrs. Rosenbloom, who established a fund for the erection of the building in memory of the late Sol Rosenbloom, Sir Herbert Samuel wrote: “I am deeply impressed by the generosity of your gift and by the wisdom of its allocation. I am glad to be in a position to accept your kind invitation to be a member of the Committee which is to advise on the administration of your most generous gift to the Hebrew University at Jerusalem.”
“It is certainly a magnificent memorial which you are raising to your late husband, worthy altogether of the great interest which I know he took in the work of building a National Home in Palestine. Although I feel quite unworthy to act as a member of the Advisory Committee, I find myself unable to refuse; the more so as it will give me great pleasure to do anything to keep alive the very warm memory that I retain both of yourself and your late husband,” Sir Wyndham Deeds wrote.
In his letter Professor Einstein declared: “I beg to offer you my joyous appreciation of the fitting memorial which you are building to your late husband, and for the gift which you have made to the Jewish people. Such an attitude will do much to bring our people to spiritual blossoming once again, and to win honor for the Jewish name. I gladly accept the appointment as a member of the Advisory Committee for the Sol Rosenbloom Hebrew University Memorial.”
Wake Forest College, Wake Forest, N. C., conferred the degree of doctor of laws on Walter Lippman, chief editorial writer of The World, who delivered the annual literary address at the ninety-third annual commencement of the college.
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