President Ongania paid tribute this Rosh Hashana to Argentine’s Jews and to their “spiritual and material achievements. ” In a message to the DAIA, the central representative body of Argentine Jewry, he greeted “the entire Jewish community” and said:
“The Argentine Jewish community, which has been living in our fatherland for more than 100 years, has stood out at any time by its labor in the field of spiritual and material achievement and has given the country Argentine Jews who have honored it in letters, arts, sciences, technology, industry and commerce.” “The native and immigrated Jews have participated in the advancement of the country and have been loyal servants of the nation.”
He told the Jewish community that there was for them reserved “a position of honor in the common reconstruction and we do not doubt that with your constant capability and firm tenacity, you will collaborate in the work in which we are all pledged to achieve the republic’s greatness.” This, he declared, was the place “which fate has given us both to implement our destiny and our dignity as men.”
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