San Francisco members of B’nai B’rith turned out last night to honor Richard E. Gutstadt, national director of the order’s Anti-Defamation League, who came following the grand lodge convention in Vancouver, B. C.
Gutstadt, former San Franciscan and past grand president of District Grand Lodge No. 4, told of the work of the Anti-Defamation League in combatting Nazi and other anti-Semitic propaganda and urged united support of all B’nai B’rith in the fight.
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