Dr. Nelson Glueck was inaugurated as president Hebrew Union College here this week-end in a colorful ceremony attended by over 125 this, representatives of fifty academic and theological institutions and leaders in the walks of Jewish life. More than 1,000 persons later attended a dinner to honor Glueck, one of the world’s foremost archaeologists. More than $750,000 has been ###d toward, the College’s $8,000,000 Foundation Fund, it was announced.
Declaring that “peace in Palestine and peace on earth are ultimately indivisible, “Dr. Glueck, in his inaugural address, urged the immediate enforcement of the Union Nations plan for the partition of Palestine. He stated that abandonment of the partition plan while it is “literally under fire is to give freedom to frightfulness lend license to terror. The consequence of violence there will be visited upon entire world.” Dr. Glueck pledged the College to the task of bringing “the best our entire Jewish past and present to bear upon the America we have helped to create to whose development we are contributing.”
Speaking at the installation dinner, Judge Samuel I, Rosenman, former special wiser to both Presidents Truman and Roosevelt, asserted that “The United Nations is ##ing killed in Palestine.” Judge Rosenman criticized the State Department for “temporization” in the matter of Palestine partition, adding: “We got a little ‘boo’ from few Arabs and we have backed away. Unless we now back up the decisions of the United Nations, unless we allow arms to be sent to the pioneers of Palestine, unless refuse to sacrifice the settlers of Palestine as the League of Nations sacrificed people of Ethiopia and Albania and China, then the very life of the United Nations will be in danger and the consummation of peace perhaps forever frustrated.”
Paying tribute to the newly installed president, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the Jewish Institute of Religion, stated that “he, who can resuscitate the ?ry stones of Palestine can do even more to bring back to life and vitality some of the unvital tendencies of Liberal Judaism,” Dr. Wise declared that Dr. Glueck’s role ## to “make impossible further Jewish segmentation and fragmentation and sectarian##.” He remarked that “Dr. Glueck may some day be my successor as president of the Jewish Institute of Religion.”
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