Seven mobile canteens, as well a check for maintenance of six of them for a year were today presented by Lady Reading, on behalf of the Jewish Community of Mexico, to Lord Woolton, British Food Minister. In a presentation speech Lady Reading pointed out that Mexican Jews are anxious to extend the most practical aid to Britain in its fight against Nazism. Lord Woolton, who expressed the thanks of the Government, declared: “The spirit which prompts such gifts is an immense encouragement to the people of this country.”
Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, who participated in the presentation ceremony, together with Lady Erleigh, Simon Marks, Barnet Janner, Samuel Silvarman, M.P. Cyril Henriques and Dr. Ignacy Schwartzbart, gave a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in which he said:
“It is now more than two centuries since Great Britain intervened for the first time in behalf of oppressed Jews in other countries. Through this, friendship has developed between Jewish leaders and Great Britain. Now the rank and file of Jewry in all the free countries throughout the world have a faith in Great Britain that amounts to a religion. The Mexican Jewish community is young but this gift of the canteens indicates that it is the conviction of every Jew in Latin America as well as Anglo-Saxon America, that both the future of civilization and the survival of the Jews in Europe depend on a British victory. May that victory speedily be ours.”
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