In a telegram addressed to President Roosevelt, the General Executive Board of the Jewish National Workers’ Alliance today pledged the unqualified support of its membership and branches to the Government in the present war effort. At the same time the organization announced that it has purchased $25,000 in Defense Savings Bonds, and that on Monday it will dedicate an X-Ray ambulance unit for service with the Allied armies in the Near East.
In Brooklyn a gift of $2,000 to equip and maintain a room in a nursing home for bomb-shocked children in England was presented today by the Brooklyn Jewish Center to the Jewish Section of the British War Relief Society. The presentation was made by Rabbi Israel H. Leventhal to Captain Humphrey Cotton Minchin, personal assistant to Sir Gerald Campbell, director-general of British Information Services.
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