More than 7,000 communities throughout the United States will participate in observing Brotherhood Week which starts on Sunday under the sponsorship of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, it was announced today by Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president of the National Conference. President Dwight D. Eisenhower is honorary chairman of the Week.
The special religious services held all through the week by American churches and synagogues will be marked by renewed appeals for understanding among Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Proclamations by the governors of nearly every state and the mayors of large and small cities have spurred civic bodies, schools, colleges and theological seminaries, fraternal organisations, veteran and youth groups to plan special activities related to the brotherhood ideal.
Television stations will carry brotherhood messages, while the nation’s 18,000 motion picture theatres have organized a Brotherhood Week campaign to enroll 250,000 new members for the National Conference of Christians and Jews. A special effort will be made to enroll children as junior members. An honor roll, to be displayed in the theatre lobbies all through the week bearing the signatures of the new members, will later be sent to President Eisenhower. The support of labor unions for Brotherhood Week has been pledged by George Meany, president, American Federation of Labor, and Walter P. Reuther, president, Congress of Industrial Organizations.
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