Henry Morgenthau, Jr., former Secretary of the Treasury and general chairman of the $170,000,000 United Jewish Appeal drive, left on a tour this week-and of major American cities that will take him to the South and Midwest where he will confer with Jewish leaders on the 1947 needs that must be met through the U.J.A.
Mr. Morgenthau will meet with the heads of Jewish communities in Richmond, Atlanta, New Orleans, Houston, Dallas, and St. Louis and discuss plans for the forthcoming drives in those communities to aid in the relief, rehabilitation and resettlement of large sections of the 1,500,000 Jewish survivors in Europe.
At a meeting of 2,000 delegates of fraternal organizations affiliated to the Greater New York U.J.A., “full support” to the $65,000,000 campaign in the metropolitan area was pledged yesterday. Among the speakers at the meeting of the Council of Organizations were Judge Jonah J. Goldstein, honorary chairman of the Council, William Rosenwald, honorary president of the United Service for New Americans, Dr. Israel Goldstein, national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, and George Alpert, member of the board of directors of the Joint Distribution Committee.
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