A citation for “distinguished services and leadership in behalf of world Jewry” was presented to Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish Committee at the inaugural dinner of the 1952 Joint Defense Appeal campaign of New York.
The dinner, held at the Hotel Pierre, marked the start of the J.D.A. effort to raise half of the national goal of $5,000,000 in the New York area. The money will be used to combat religious prejudice and discrimination. In accepting the award Mr. Blaustein said: “The decent, freedom-loving people of the United States realize that Americans have to fight bigotry if we want to fight for national existence as a free people.”
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