A three-day national conference to consider methods of meeting the new political developments affecting Israel through greater aid to that country will open here tomorrow at the Mayflower Hotel. Designated as the National Leadership Conference, the meeting, sponsored by State of Israel Bonds, will be attended by 400 key American Jewish leaders, at sessions extending through Sunday.
The central purpose of the conference will be the mobilization of the American community behind Israel’s program of industrial and agricultural growth as one of the most effective means of answering the attacks on Israel and the Jews by the countries in the Communist orbit.
Jewish leaders at the conference will undertake as intensive evaluation of Israel’s economic progress during 1952. At a special session devoted to Israel Bond campaign problems, they will develop plans for mobilizing the full support of Americans for the 1953 campaign for these bonds which are the central source of investment capital for the development of Israel’s industry and agriculture, the construction of roads, harbors and railways, and the development of a nation-wide irrigation system.
Among the principal speakers who will address the Conference are; Senator Robert A. Taft, Majority Leader of the United States Senate; Senator Herbert H. Lehman; Dr. Dov Joseph, Minister of State of Israel; Abba S. Eban, Israel Ambassador to the United States; Dr. Nelson Glueck, president of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion; Theodor Kollek, Director-General of the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, and Henry Morgenthau, Jr., chairman of the Board of Governors of the Israel Bond organization.
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