Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has agreed to accept the post of World Patron of the Youth Aliyah movement, Moshe Kol, Jewish Agency executive member in charge of Youth Aliyah, announced here today. He revealed that Mrs. Roosevelt succeeds the late Marshal Jan Christian Smuts in the post.
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