Lessing J. Rosenwald was today re-elected for sixth term as president of the American Council for Judaism at the fourth annual deference of the organization which will conclude here tomorrow. Milton Binswanger Memphis was elected vice-president.
Today’s session, was addressed by Dr. William S. Bernard, executive secretary the Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, who stressed the role of Catholic ?d Protestant agencies in crystallizing community sentiment in favor of the entry displaced persons to this country.
“The United States has a moral responsibility to displaced persons of all ?siths who have suffered so long in detention camps,” he said. “It has the world responsibility to see to it that their present anomalous situation does not lead to ?ven graver misunderstandings between ourselves and the Russians. We cannot abandon ? staunchest allies to life in the camps, to the vicissitudes of the German economy, or to forced repatriation by the Soviets. Our only course of action is to see ?o it that our fair share are resettled here.”
Four new posts of regional vice-presidents of the Council will be filled by Edward Tonkon, Dallas, Texas; George L. Levison, San Francisco; Henry S. Moyer, Youngstown, Ohio; and Henry Loeb, New York. All other officers were re-elected unanimously.
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