The 26th annual observance of Brotherhood Week, sponsored by the National Conference of Christians and Jews to promote interfaith goodwill in this country, will start this week-end in more than 10, 000 communities throughout the United States.
Special religious services will be held this Saturday in synagogues and Sunday in churches. The services will emphasize the moral and spiritual values underlying the brotherhood ideal. Proclamations by governors and mayors will give official sanction to the observance, President Eisenhower, honorary chairman of the Week, issued a statement reading:
“Our abundant plains and mountains would yield little if it were not for the applied skill and energy of Americans working together, as fellow citizens bound up in common destiny,” declared the President. “The achievement of brotherhood is the crowning objective of our society. On this circling planet, with nations poised for mutual advancement or destruction, we must enlarge our spirit of brotherhood to include all men who live under the banners of liberty and law,”
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