World peace must have as its foundation economic justice, Senator Borah, the Chairman of the Senate Commission on Foreign Relations, said at a mass meeting held here last night, which marked the opening of a New York campaign to raise a million dollars as New York’s quota in the 2½ million dollar drive of the Joint Distribution Committee for the relief of East European Jewry.
Peace can only come with economic health and sanity, and all the armies and navies in the world, Senator Borah continued, cannot give us security with one-half of the world in economic distress. Every dollar distributed by the Joint Distribution Committee in Eastern Europe to elevate the living conditions there, he said, is the best security against war.
Other speakers were the former Attorney-General, Mr. Albert Ottinger, a brother-in-law of the late Mr. Louis Marshall, and Republican candidate for the Lieutenant-Governorship of New York in the last elections, who is chairman of the New York campaign of the Joint Distribution Committee, Colonel Herbert H. Lehman, the Lieutenant-Governor of New York State, who was the successful candidate opposing Mr. Ottinger, and who is Vice-Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee of America, and Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, the National Chairman of the present Joint Distribution Committee campaign.
Messages of greeting and encouragement were received from President Hoover and from ex-Governor Al. Smith, of New York.
An army of a thousand volunteer workers, Mr. Ottinger announced at the meeting, will start to-day a canvas over the whole of New York for contributions to the campaign.
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