U. S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas addressed more than 500 leaders attending a New England Regional conference of the United Jewish Appeal here yesterday. Cash gifts brought to the conference from communities throughout New England totaled over $750,000, a new record for a New England UJA conference.
Dewey D. Stone of Brockton, Mass., outgoing UJA New England chairman and present UJA national campaign chairman, was presented with a scroll honoring him for his 15-year leadership in the UJA. Edward M. M. Warburg made the presentation. Philip W. Lown, incoming New England UJA chairman, presided.
Justice Douglas said that in all countries between Israel and India to the East, feudal dictatorships rule people. “Only Israel follows the ideals of freedom, justice and democracy we follow in America.” He said that in his travels in the Middle East he saw thousands of victims of Hitlerism building new lives in Israel with the help of UJA funds. There is no more moving cause than helping such people and new immigrants from poverty-stricken and tension-gripped North Africa, he declared.
(In Scranton, Penna., representatives of 100 Eastern Pennsylvania communities attended a UJA leadership parley yesterday in a salute to Israel, which later this month marks its seventh anniversary of independence. They heard Fannie Hurst, noted American novelist, who recently returned from a visit to Israel.)
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