The establishment of HELP–Holyland Emergency Liaison Program–to aid the Palestine Arab refugees was announced here this week-end. Among the officers and members of the executive board of the new organization are Lessing J. Resenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism, who will serve on the executive board, and Alfred M. Lilienthal, counsel to the Council for Judaism, who will serve as secretary of the new group.
The stated purpose of Help is “first, and above all, the Arab refugee problem must be solved and solved now. Our concern is not how or why the Arab refugees came into being. They exist, and the Holyland Emergency Liaison Program, to be known as HELP, intends to focus public attention on their plight.”
Other officers of HELP are: Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin, former president of Union Theological Seminary, chairman; Rep Christian Herter of Massachusetts, vice-chair-man; Edwin J. Locke, Jr., treasurer, and William E. Hocking, Harvard University Professor Emeritus, honorary chairman. Members of the executive board include: Kermit Roosevelt; Barclay Acheson, of Reader’s Digest; Allen W. Dulles, New York attorney; and Douglas S. Freeman, historian and publisher. Dr. Bayard Dodge, former president of the American University at Beirut, and well known opponent of Israel, will act as special adviser of the organization, which will maintain headquarters in Washington.
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