Lehman Speaks Today in Cause of Reich Jewry

More than one thousand men and women will gather at dinner tonight at the St. George Hotel, Brooklyn, to honor Governor Herbert H. Lehman, as part of the program to raise Brooklyn Jewry’s quota toward the $1,200,000 campaign of the United Jewish Appeal for German Jewish relief.

A sum of $50,000 is expected to be made available as a result of the dinner, at which tribute will be paid to Governor Lehman’s leadership in the effort to raise funds for the relief and rehabilitation of German Jews and for settlement in Palestine. The Governor is honorary chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

Borough President Raymond B. Ingersoll will attend the dinner and officially welcome Governor Lehman to the borough and as-sure him of the interest of all of its citizens in providing aid for the refugees from Germany. Justice Edward Lazansky will preside. Other speakers will include Morris Rothenberg, one of the co-chairmen of the national campaign; Aaron William Levy and Albert Schanzer, co-chairmen of the dinner committee.

LEHMAN’S HOPE

Governor Lehman’s speech will be broadcast by Station WOR beginning at 10:15 P. M.

The hope that Brooklyn Jewry would give a maximum amount for the cause of the refugees was expressed by Governor Lehman in a message to the officers of the Brooklyn committee. He said, in part:

Jewish life in Germany has been devastated. Nearly half of one of the proudest, most productive and creative Jewries of the world has been rendered destitute. Many of them have had to flee to lands where they could find asy-lum. Those who have remained in the land which they love have been reduced to the lowest spiritual level, living in continuous uncertainty of what new discriminations, what new outrages the morrow may bring forth. Public opinion is helpless to defend them in their extremity which they are facing with real Jewish fortitude.

ON A WORLD FRONT

“They turn for help, as is their right, to us, their co-religionists who are so happily situated in America, where democracy and liberalism are regnant public forces, where honorable ambition is untrammeled. And, because the battle of Nazism is not merely against them, but against all the Jews of the world, we owe it to them, as we owe it to ourselves, to align ourselves with them in their struggle to survive and to save Jewish values for all humanity.”

The sponsors of tonight’s dinner include: Aaron William Levy and Albert D. Schanzer, co-chairmen; Hugh Grant Straus; Honorary Treasurer, and Ralph Jonas, Judge Edward Lazansky, Judge Harry E. Lewis, Israel Matz, Judge Mitchell May, Benjamin H. Namm, Walter N. Rothschild, Judge Meier Stein-brink, Herman S. Bachrach, Joseph J. Baker, Judge Alexander H. Geismar, Judge Louis Goldstein, Max Kiss, Oscar A. Lewis, Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, Judge Algeron I Nova, Hyman Schorenstein, Irwin Steingut and Harry Zeitz.