Celebration of Israel’s tenth anniversary this year is “neither sectarian nor parochial,” Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said here last night. Justice Frankfurter was one of the speakers at a dinner at the Waldorf Astoria culminating a series of Israel birthday events conducted during the last six weeks by the American Committee for Israel’s Tenth Anniversary Celebration.
Making one of his rare appearances on a platform, Justice Frankfurter declared that “history, democracy and civilization are vindicated by the beginning of the second decade of Israel. The conscience of the world must be relieved by the ingathering of the exiles achieved by Israel. That country is a shining manifestation of a free, true democracy and a stout member of the free world. Israel represents science, harnessed to social wisdom, pursued with pertinacity.”
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