A project for a Palestine exhibit at the New York World’s Fair in 1939, to be financed by a $250,000 fund raised by the Jews of America, and which would demonstrate the economic and cultural advancement of the Holy Land, was announced today.
The plan was announced following a luncheon conference yesterday in the Fair’s Administration Building, Flushing Meadow Park, at which Harold Jacob I and George Backer, co-chairman of the American committee for the pavilion, outlined the project to Grover Whalen, president, and other officers of the fair. Dr. Stephen S. Wise was among the other speakers.
The British Government is expected to accept officially the invitation to the Palestine Government to participate in the fair, permitting the American committee to proceed with its plans. A provisional governing board, having the cooperation of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, was established.
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