The Israel Maritime League last night held its first annual dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria here to mark the Jewish state’s “return to the sea.” The League is a beneficiary of the American Fund for Palestinian Institutions. The 250 guests who attended the dinner paid $100 per plate.
Rear admiral Gordon McLintock, superintendent of the Kings Point Merchant Marine Academy, told the dinner guests that Israel was the “first nation to appear on the maritime scene since the early founders of the United States began to send its merchant fleet out of Boston and New York harbors.” Commander Joshua L. Goldberg, chief chaplain of the Third Naval District, told the meeting that Israel was at present concerned with the need for “well-trained manpower to bring the present plan of maritime expansion into being.”
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