Mayor William O’Dwyer today received a hand-Tooled silver Bible sent to him by David Ben Gurion, chairman of the Jewish Agency and Premier-Designate of the Provisional Jewish Government. The presentation was made at the Mayor’s official residence by Henry Morgenthau Jr., general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.
The gift for O’Dwyer was given by Ben Gurion to the U.J.A. delegation which retuned recently from a month-long tour of the Jewish DP camps in Europe and of Palestine. Mr. Morgenthau was accompanied by David Ha-Cohen, Palestine’s leading builder who constructed Britain’s Middle East defense during the war and who is now touring the U.S, on behalf of the current U.J.A. campaign.
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