General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Army Chief of Staff, will be the guest of honor at the national conference which will be held at Washington on Saturday and Sunday to launch officially the $170,000,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal in 1947, it was announced today by Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury, and general chairman of the U.J.A.
General Eisenhower will address the Sunday morning session of the conference which will be held in the Shoreham Hotel, with the participation of more than 450 Jewish leaders from communities in every section of the country. It is expected that standard-setting gifts will be anncunced by the Jewish leaders attending the conference to lay the foundation for an intensive nationwide campaign that will reach into approximately 6,000 communities throughout the nation.
Among the other speakers will be Mr. Morgenthau, who will present a summary of the needs of homeless and distressed Jews overseas; Hon. Herbert H. Lehman, former Director-General of UNRRA; Mrs. David M. Levy, chairman of the National Women’s Division, who returned last week from a tour of Europe and Palestine; William Rosenwald, national chairman and Reuven Dafni, founder of the fishing village of Ein Geb in Palestine.
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