4, 000 Attend the “third Seder” in New York; Honor Memory of Martyrs

More than 4,000 guests attended tonight the 26th annual Third Seder of the National Committee for Labor Israel held at the grand ballrooms of the Waldorf-Astoria and Commodore Hotels. Sir Leslie Plummer, Laborite member of the British Parliament, was guest speaker at the affair.

Paying tribute to Israel on the achievements of its ten years of life, the British par liamentarian told the holiday audience: “It is my view that Nasser is working steadily and implacably towards the production of the third round. He believes that if he can weld the Arab states, these countries whose people have fallen into the most dismal ignorance, superstition and poverty into some semblance of a united nation, he will then have the power once again to challenge Israel.”

The British parliamentarian expressed regret that this idea has been “encouraged by governments outside the Middle East who ought to have known better.”

“For years friends of Israel, like myself in Britain, have clamored for a four-power declaration of the integrity of the frontiers of the Middle East, both Israeli frontiers and Arab. We have said that the germs of the Third World War may well lie in the Middle East and that the way in which to kill those germs is to use the prophylactic of a guarantee of the respective frontiers.”

A feature of the Third Seder was the lighting of six candles in memory of the six million Jews who perished during the Hitler era. Alexander Kahn, general manager of the JewishDaily Forward, delivered the eulogy, while 15-year-old Edmund Leisten, who had been born in a Polish ghetto and survived the holocaust, lit the candles. Cabled messages from the State of Israel were received from President Itzhak Ben Zvi, Foreign Minister Golda Meir, and Minister of Labor Mordecai Namir. Israel Consul-General Simcha Pratt extended greetings on behalf of the Israel Government.