Secretary of Argiculture Henry A. Wallace declared today that “in the long run the real peril to democracy may lie within our own nation, within our own groups, within our own hearts.” He addressed the Spring donor’s luncheon of Ivriah, women’s division of the Jewish Education Association, at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria.
“It is quite possible that 10 or 20 years hence the totalitarian states as we know them will be completely demolished and democracy will be even more threatened,” Secretary Wallace said. Other speakers were Rabbi David de Sola Pool and Mrs. Gabriel Hamburger, president of Ivriah. About 1,500 persons attended the luncheon.
Commenting on the luncheon in her syndicated column, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt praised “the worthiness of the cause” of Jewish education.
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