Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath, president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, and Dr. John Haynes Holmes, Minister Emeritus of the Community Church of New York City, were presented today with the 1961 Ghandi Peace Award at a luncheon.
The awards were established last year by Promoting Enduring Peace, a non-political American religious and educational organization. Speakers at the luncheon were C.S. Jha, India’s Ambassador Plenipotentiary to the United States, Clarence E. Pickett of the American Friends Service Committee, and Socialist leader Norman Thomas. The award winners were honored for their efforts in seeking world peace through religion. The peace prize is represented by a permanent wood carving of Ghandi by Don Bernaron which is kept at City College in New York.
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