A room in the children’s ward of the “Jewish Hospital” in Brooklyn was selected yesterday by Viscount Halifax, the British Ambassador, to be dedicated in honor of his son Francis Hugh Peter Courtenay Wood, who was killed in action last year.
Lord Halifax, who was accompanied by Wendell Willkie and Sir Godfrey Haggard, British Consul General, made a tour of the pediatric wards before choosing the “Alice in Wonderland room.” In a brief talk Lord Halifax said he had been fascinated in the children’s ward and had been impressed by “the great works of mercy, kindness and duty carried on by this great Jewish community, in a sense symbolic of all the qualities that have made the best of human civilization – qualities for which it would appear there was no use in the Germany of today.”
“The problem of persecution inflicted on the Jews,” he continued, “is not mainly a Jewish problem, but it is not less a Christian question. The work in which we are all engaged today is a great extension into the world of the work that is being done day by day in this hospital.” Sir Godfrey expressed gratefulness to the Jewish community for gifts of ambulances and clothes for shipwrecked sailors and children, in behalf of the British people.
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