Secretary of Labor Arthur J. Goldberg addressing the closing session of the United Jewish Appeal’s national conference last night, praised the UJA and termed it an extension of America’s traditional policy of assisting lesser developed countries.
“Israel is an excellent example of this American policy in action,” he said: “American citizens have been willing to invest their time, their money, their hearts and souls to help develop in a remote section of the world, a new life for countless people, a new life based on social principles inherited from our Biblical tradition and embodying the aspirations of mankind throughout the world–social justice, economic justice for people, the right for people to live in dignity and self respect. And this is what has been going on and is going on in Israel.”
Israel Foreign Minister Golda Meir told the conference that the conviction of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem was proof that “what one may not do to another human being, he may not do to a Jew. For the first time in a long, tragic history,” she declared, “we could say that the blood of Jewish children is as thick as the blood of other children.”
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