Dr. Alexander Shafran, Chief Rabbi of Rumania, was received today by Mrs. Kleanor Roosevalt to whom he presented an English rendition of a sermon he delivered in the Great Temple in Bucharest on the day President Roosevelt was buried. Mrs. Roosevelt said she would add the sermon to the other important writings about the lats President reposing in the library at Hyde Park.
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