The first contingent of 115 students and teachers from the ORT engineering school in Berlin arrived in England last week and will reorganize the school in Leeds, it was announced yesterday by Philip E.H. Samuel, son of Lord Samuel, addressing a luncheon in his honor given by the American ORT Federation at the Lawyers’ Club. Mr. Samuel arrived here on the Queen Mary on Monday en route to Hong Kong.
George Backer, president of the American ORT, replying to Chancellor Hitler’s condemnation of “the Jewish plutocratic and democratic upper crust,” asserted that “if to be a democratic advocate of freedom is a crime, then we all must plead guilty before the bar of history. I for one am willing to face the charge, for the Jew has his own special cross to bear–the swastika.”
Other speakers were Paul Felix Warburg, treasurer of the ORT Reconstruction Fund; John Goulston, a leader of the Australian ORT, and Louis B. Boudin, who presided.
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