The second of two five-day Torah convocations has ended here at the former hunting lodge of Hermann Goering, which the U. S. Army put at the disposal of chaplains of all denominations as a “religious retreat house.” Two plane loads of servicemen stationed in Britain were flown here by the Third Air Force, while others came from as far away as Tripoli and Izmir, in Turkey.
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