Hailing the establishment of the Harry S. Truman Village in Israel by the Jewish National Fund, Vice-President Alben W. Barkley expressed the hope tonight that the agricultural colony bearing the name of the President will “serve not only as a testimonial to President Truman’s efforts in behalf of the Jewish state, but also as a firm link which will bind together the oldest democracy in the New World with the youngest to be born after the World War, in a firm union against all aggression.” Vice President Barkley was the chief speaker at a benquet arranged by the J.N.F. of New England at which the Truman Village Project was officially launched.
The meeting also heard a message from President Truman addressed to Dr. Harris J. Levine, president of the J.N.F., in which President Truman–referring to the proposal to have a village in Israel named for him–declared that he was “higly honored” and “appreciated very much what the Jewish National Fund is proposing to do.”
Mendel N. Fisher, executive director of the J.N.F. of America, announced that the Fund in Jerusalem allocated 3,000 dunams for the Truman Village and that the goal for the project is $500,000 which will be raised from popular subscriptions. Jewish communities and children throughout the nation will make popular gifts through the traditional fund-raising program of the J.N.F., he added.
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