President Roosevelt, in a message to the national chairmen of the United Jewish Appeal, today endorsed the $32,000,000 nation wide campaign of the U.J.A. to provide funds to rescue Jews from Europe and to aid them in establishing themselves in Palestine and elsewhere. The President’s message reads.
“The distress and suffering brought upon innocent victims by our Nazi enemies present a challenge to the American people. The false philosophies which have caused such widespread racial and religious persecutions are fully as abhorrent as the dreams of world conquest which have motivated the Nazi regime. They are in fact part and parcel of these insane ambitions.
“The United Jewish Appeal is one of the agencies through which the American people can make their contribution to the fight for decency, human dignity, and freedom for all to live in peace. The work of relief and reconstruction here and abroad envisaged by the appeal is an important part of the humanitarian front.”
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