Menahem Beigin, former commander of the Irgun Zvai Lsuni who is now on a visit to the United States, was honored here tonight at a $50-a-plate dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. (At the time the Bulletin went to press, neither Beigin nor any of the other scheduled speakers had delivered their addresses.)
On the eve of the dinner, three prominent clergymen of the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths addressed a letter to the nearly 100 Senators and Congressmen, and several hundred other prominent persons on a Beigin reception committee, asking them to reconsider their membership on the reception group.
The clergymen–Rev. Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, former president of Union Theological Seminary and one-time moderator of the Presbyterian Church of the United States; Father John La Forge, Catholic editor; and Rabbi Morris Lazaron of Baltimore asked the Congressmen and Senators whether they knew that the Irgun program runs “counter to United States policy, and to the positions taken by the Republican and Democratic Party conventions” on Palestine and the United Nations. Their latter also charged that the Irgun was responsible for “terroristic” acts in Palestine.
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