“Protection against unemployment is a double protection that will guard our society from such psychological phobias as Jew-baiting, Negro-baiting and fascism,” Paul V. McNutt, chairman of the War Manpower Commission, stated last night addressing a dinner of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York at the Hotel Plaza.
“We Americans know that among the great evils of unemployment the most dangerous are hatred, fear, and race prejudice”, Mr. McNutt declared. “Full employment is the difference between a healthy society and an ailing society open to the virus of a new fascism and a new war.”
Emphasizing that the gigantic task of bringing help to the stricken multitudes of Europe must be shared by all agencies, private as well as governmental, Mr. McNutt said: “The question has been asked whether the United Jewish Appeal will duplicate the work of UNRRA. The answer is: No. UNRRA’s rehabilitation assignment is a gigantic one. It will need not only the resources of its forty-four associated governments, but the support also of public and private organizations, such as the United Jewish Appeal. The United Jewish Appeal with its four agencies–the American Joint Distribution Committee, the United Palestine Appeal, the National Refugee Service and the National Jewish Welfare Board–constitute a service that is desperately needed today.”
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