The executive committee of the American Jewish Committee today announced that it has issued a call to its members and to the Jews of America to give their unstinted and generous support to the Allied Jewish Campaign. The executive committee, of which Judge Horace Stern of Philadelphia is chairman, is composed of Dr. Cyrus Adler, James H. Becker, David M. Bressler, Leo M. Brown, Judge Benjamin M. Cardozo, Abram I. Elkus, Hon. Eli Frank, Max J. Kohler, Lt. Gov. Herbert Lehman, Hon. Irving Lehman, James Marshall, Julius Rosenwald, Lewis L. Strauss, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Felix M. Warburg and Morris Wolf.
The call of the executive, after pointing out that the American Jewish Committee in 1914 initiated the nation-wide effort of the Jews of America to come to the aid of their brethren in Europe and gave the sum of $100,000 as the first contribution to this relief and recalling that in 1918 it greeted the Balfour Declaration and pledged its support to those who seek to establish in Palestine a center for Judaism, urges its members and all other Jews to support the Allied Jewish Campaign and whole-heartedly endorses the purposes of the campaign.
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