Responding to the warning of Louis Lipsky, national chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, that the activities of the Jewish Agency for Palestine face a collapse unless American Jewry immediately provides funds, Nathan Straus, Jr. has given a check for $5,000 for immediate transmission to Palestine, paying a pledge months in advance before it was expected, according to an announcement made by the American Palestine Campaign headquarters.
Commenting upon Mr. Lipsky’s frankness in revealing the serious financial stringency of the Jewish Agency, Mr. Straus declared that “Jews here are entitled to know the facts as to Palestine. Much of our distress in America today has been made sharper because of the tendency to gloss over and distort the basic facts. The American people were sufficiently mature to have been told the truth. We Jews must learn from that experience.”
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