Jews will take a prominent part in the celebration of the third anniversary of the Home Guard, which will be marked here tomorrow. Large numbers of British Jews have been members of the Guard from the first day it was organized and many refugee Jews joined later, when it was decided to admit foreign-born persons.
Many Jews hold high ranking positions in the organization. Leaders of the Jewish community are among those serving either as officers or in the ranks. They include Justice Lionel Cohen, who organized a unit in the Ministry of Economic Warfare, before he was appointed to the bench, and Leonard Stein, president of the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Deputies of British Jews.
This afternoon a new service club sponsored by the Jewish residents of London was formally opened by the Lord Mayor, Samuel Joseph. The club will be open to men and women of all ranks in the forces of the United Nations. A special welcoming committee, which collectively can speak the languages of all the Allied nations, has been formed.
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