Praising the objectives of the United Jewish Appeal, Secretary of Defense James Forrestal today endorsed the nation-wide $250,000,000 camping of the U.J.A. in a statement addressed to Henry Morgenthau Jr. general chairman. The statement reads:
“Americans have never failed to respond to appeals for the alleviation of distress. Whether it is a flood in China, an earthquake in Japan, or a famine in Russia, the generosity which lies deep in the American consciousness has always made itself manifest. The United Jewish Appeal is a typical American response to the distress of less fortunate people and I wish you the utmost success in this effort on behalf of uprooted and dispossessed people of the Jewish faith.
“You have set yourself a goal of almost unprecedented size, but it is a goal commensurate with the scale and depth of the problem itself: To help the survivors of one of the tragedies of human history– help them to some degree to mend the broken patterns of their lives. Most important of all, perhaps, is the opportunity it will give them to shape new lives which shall have as their foundations the hope, the security of faith and of opportunity, that are the natural birthright of all men.”
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