Negotiations for the purchase of the whole Shata village, near Haifa, have been begun by Cardinal Luigi Barlassina, representative of the Vatican in Palestine.
PAY TRIBUTE TO LATE DR. REICH AT NEW YORK MEETING; POLISH CONSULATE-GENERAL PRESENT
A gathering of 700 people paid tribute Wednesday evening to the memory of the late Dr. Leon Reich. Polish patriot and Zionist, at a meeting held under the auspices of the New York Zionist Region at the Institute of Religion. The speakers were Morris Rothenberg, vice-president of the Zionist Organization of America, Dr. Joseph Tannenbaum, president Histadruth Ivrith, Bernard Semel and Dr. Mieczyslaw Marchlewzki, Polish Consul-General of New York, who was the official representative of the Polish government at the meeting.
The chairman of the meeting was Morris Margolies, secretary of the New York Zionist Region. Prayer for the dead was said by Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt. The speakers dwelt on Dr. Reich’s work as a Jewish leader, Polish patriot and Zionist. A resolution of sympathy was adopted.
Communications were received from Louis Lipsky, president of the Zionist Organization of America, Benjamin Winter, president of the Federation of Polish Jews, and Bernard T. Richards, executive secretary of the American Jewish Congress.
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