George Backer, American Jewish leader, Congressman Sol Bloom, one of the three-man United States delegation to the refugee conference and several British delegates, advisers and high American and British military officials last night attended the seder arranged here by the Jewish Welfare Board for American Jewish soldiers stationed in Bermuda. Congressman Bloom took the names, addresses and telephone numbers of scores of the soldiers, promising to write to their families when he returned to the United States.
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