Creation of a Four Freedoms Library as a memorial to Franklin Delano Roosevelt was announced yesterday at the annual meeting of the Women’s Supreme Council of B’nai B’rith, representing 56,000 women throughout the country.
“To be established in the new National Headquarters Building of B’nai B’rith Millel Foundations at the University of Illinois in Champaign, Illinois, the Four Freedoms Library will serve as a permanent repository for originals or copies of all documents and other material relating to the Four Freedoms as well as books, pamphlets, brochures, art objects, and other material concerned with human freedom and intercultural unity,” the announcement said.
Over the entrance to the Four Freedoms Library will be inseribed Mr. Roosevelt’s words–“In essentials unity; in non-essentials liberty; in all things charity.” These words were contained in a letter addressed to B’nai B’rith by Mr. Roosevelt on the occasion of the dedication of the Sara Delano Roosevelt House in New York, established through B’nai B’rith in the former town houses of Mr. Roosevelt and his mother as an interfaith student center for Hunter College.
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