In a letter to the National Conference of Jews and Christians, which is sponsoring Brotherhood Day on April 29, President Franklin D. Roosevelt termed the occasion “an opportunity for concerted thinking on a vital problem of national welfare.”
Making public President Roosevelt’s indorsement, the Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, chairman of Brotherhood Day, announced that Jews, Protestants and Catholics in thirty-eight states have already made preparations for its observance.
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