Rabbi J.X. Cohen, president of the New York Board of Jewish Ministers, has declined an invitation of the International Business Machine Corporation to take part in its peace-promotion program on May 13 at the World’s Fair because of the action of the president of the corporation, Thomas J. Watson, in accepting the Order of The Eagle from Adolf Hitler, it was announced today.
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