Mayor Abba Hushi of Haifa was welcomed today by Mayor Vincent Impellitteri of New York at a City Hall ceremony witnessed by several thousand persons. Mayor Hushi was escorted to City Hall from the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in a ten-car motorcade.
Recalling his visit to Haifa last September, Mayor Impellitteri said that “great strides” have been made in the development of the new State of Israel. “Mayor Hushi’s administrative genius was leavened with the humanity so characteristic of his people and his major goal is that there be fashioned in his homeland the dream of his people for a happy, progressive, free state,” the New York Mayor said.
Mayor Hushi replied that he felt “very much at home” in New York, adding that his own city of Haifa and New York City have very much in common. “You are eight million and we are 200,000,” he said, “but our people are linked by the spirit of freedom and democracy which transcends distance and space. New York City is a symbol of metropolitan achievement to which our people aspire.”
As a token of the good will of the people of Haifa toward the people of New York, Mayor Hushi presented Mayor Impellitteri with a silver shield of the City of Haifa Following the City Hall ceremonies the motorcade, with motorcycle police escort, returned Mayor Hushi to the Waldorf-Astoria where 350 guests, including Mayor Impellitteri, participated in an official luncheon in his honor.
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