Hope that the U.S. Government will extend economic aid to Israel is expressed in a scroll of greetings presented today to President Truman by a delegation of the United Synagogue of America, now holding its annual convention here.
Receiving the delegation at the White House, the President expressed his gratitude for the scroll. Samuel Rothstein, president of the United Synagogue, who headed the delegation, quoted Mr. Truman as saying that he would live up to the faith expressed in him by the wording of the scroll.
In a message to the 800 delegates attending the United Synagogue conference, President Truman described the central body of Conservative synagogues as an effective instrument for the building and developing of Jewish religious life in this country. The President urged in his message that every American join in the fight against “Communist, totalitarian aggression and the infiltration of its materialistic ideology of godlessness.”
Mr. Rothstein, in his presidential address to the convention last night, said that religion was chiefly responsible for the United Nations’ steps toward building “a world structure for peace and cooperation among the nations of the world.”
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