The sum of $40,000 for purchase of mobile field kitchens was presented at a luncheon to Essex House today by Dr. Stephen S. Wise to Frederick W. Gehle, chairman of the Fund-Raising Division of the British War Relief Society, representing the first contribution by the Jewish Section of the Interfaith Committee to Aid the Democracies.
Dr. Wise, who presided, said the organizations represented at the luncheon and Jewish communities throughout the United States were continuing efforts to secure these mobile field kitchens and hoped to present 200 of them to the British War Relief Society.
Gehle said: “It is a great encouragement to us to know that the Jewish Section of the Interfaith Committee to Aid the Democracies has so soon after its inauguration been able to make this splendid beginning in the fulfillment of the impressive program which it has undertaken. The Humanitarian traditions which have so long distinguished the Jewish community will, I know, be fully sustained by you and those who are associated with you in this work.” The Rev. Maurice Perlzweig, head of the British Section of the World Jewish Congress, was another speaker.
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