More than 6,000 fraternal and benevolent organizations affiliated with the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of New York will open their 1948 campaign to raise their share of the national goal of $250,000,000 after the Passover holidays, it was decided here today at a meeting of representatives of the organizations.
Speaking to more than 2,000 delegates, Bartley Crum, former member of the Anglo-American Palestine Inquiry Committee and chairman of the national Council of Americana for Haganah, declared that if the United Nations decision on the partition of Palestine is negated, then “we will negate all hopes for world peace and security.”
Goldie Meirson, head of the political department of the Jerusalem section of the Jewish Agency, told, the parley that the Jews in Palestine are determined to defend “to the last man, woman and child” their right to a home and haven. “We want peace, as we have always wanted peace,” Mrs. Meiraon asserted. “If we have to fight for the right to live and the right to bring hundreds of thousands of Jews into the country-we will fight for it.”
Discussing the relief and reconstruction activities of the Joint Distribution Committee overseas, Dr. Jonah B. Wise, co-chairman of the national U.J.A., told the meeting that there are two major areas of need which require American Jewry’s immediate assistance: the Jewish communities in the Moslem countries and Rumania.
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