A call for united support “behind our country’s leaders in the supreme task of democratic survival” was issued here today by the national executive committee of the B’nai B’rith following its annual three-day meeting which concluded last night at the Hotel Statler.
The delegates, representing the B’nai B’rith membership of 350,000, adopted a program which provides for the promotion of civil defense activities in more than 1,600 B’nai B’rith groups and for the intensification of the present B’nai B’rith services to U.S. armed forces and in American military and veterans’ hospitals.
Frank Goldman, national president of the organization, pointed out that the B’nai B’rith received citations in World War II from the United States Army and Navy Departments for its activities in furnishing rooms in army and naval training bases, equipping ships, and otherwise marshalling its members in an all-out effort to provide comfort and recreation for men and women in uniform wherever they were.
The current program contemplates special activities for men arriving at reception centers, for GI’s at ports of embarkation, and for hospitality units to greet returning soldiers, as well as special services for the sick and disabled.
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