Birthday greetings to Dr. Chaim Weizmann have been received here from Prof. Solomon Mikhoels and Itzik Feffer, leaders of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee in Moscow, it was announced today by the committee organized to celebrate Dr. Weizmann’s birthday. The message from Mikhoels and Feffer, who toured the United States last year as representatives of the Jews of the USSR, says.
“We cordially congratulate you on your seventieth anniversary. It is being marked in these days of heavy trials for our people but also in days when on the sky of our long suffering people have appeared rays of victory over the treacherous enemy. We have a right to say with pride that the Jewish people has not wavered in the minutes of mortal danger but united its forces in the struggle against the enemy. The traditions of the Maccabees and of Bar Kokhba have come to live with new force in the ranks of our finest sons and daughters.
“United with all freedom-loving nations and our destiny linked with the destiny of progressive mankind, with the heroic Red Army and the armies of Great Britain and the United States, we courageously look forward to the tire when in the family of the free nations Jews of the whole world will attain to a happy, creative and free life. We wish you many years of health and fruitful activity.”
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