Friends and associates of Felix M. Warburg, banker and philanthropist, and chairman of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, are arranging a dinner in his honor to welcome him on his return to this country from his world tour. Mr. Warburg will arrive in New York on the Aquitania June 18. The dinner will be held Thursday evening, June 23, at the Hotel Astor.
Invitations to the dinner, which is being tendered as a personal tribute to Mr. Warburg, are being issued in the names of Louis Marshall, David A. Brown, national chairman of the United Jewish Campaign; Paul Baerwald, treasurer of the Joint Distribution Committee; Col. Herbert H. Lehman and James N. Rosenberg, vice-chairmen of the Joint Distribution Committee. Mr. Marshall will serve as chairman of the banquet.
It is expected that Mr. Warburg will report on the present situation and outlook of Jewish life in the countries he has just visited. His tour, which occupied six months, took him by way of the Far East through Manchuria and Russia to Eastern Europe, Germany, and England. He is at present in London.
Mr. Warburg will also present to the American leaders the results of his conferences with Dr. Berhard Kahn. director of the Joint Distribution Committee work in the countries outside of Russia, and with Eastern European leaders.
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