An international tribute under the auspices of the United Jewish Appeal will be accorded this Saturday evening at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel to U. S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman for his nearly 50 years of leadership and service in Israel and humanitarian causes. Ambassador Abba S. Eban, representing Israel Samuel Bronfman of Montreal, head of the Canadian Jewish Congress, and William Rosenwald, general chairman of the UJA, will lead more than 750 guests in honoring Mr. Lehman.
A four-time Governor of the State of New York, the director general of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), and United States Senator from New York since 1948, Mr. Lehman will be honored for his long-time record in American and international efforts to ease the plight of refugee and distressed men women and children regardless of their race, nation or creed. The tribute will also take cognizance of the Senator’s many special voluntary efforts in behalf of Israel and distressed Jews overseas. The Senator is an honorary chairman of both the New York UJA and the JDC.
The testimonial dinner to Mr. Lehman will also inaugurate a month-long national big gifts drive by the UJA preparatory to the formal launching of its 1956 nationwide campaign February 26 at Miami Beach, Fla. Big gifts in amounts exceeding those given in previous years will be sough in the month-long drive to meet a $105, 283,000 goal for the regular 1956 campaign; and to fill an extraordinary Special Fund for which the UJA has an objective of $25,000,000.
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