With the launching of the United Jewish Appeal’s 1954 nationwide campaign just one week off, Edward M. M. Warburg, general chairman of the UJA, urged American Jews today to “prepare to contribute for larger sums than at any time in the past to assure that the people of Israel are not weakened economically at a moment in their history when everything cries out for their economic strengthening.”
“With Israel’s people more than half-way along the road to economic independence,” Mr. Warburg declared in a message to the more than 900 campaign contributors and volunteers who next weekend will launch the Appeal’s 1954 campaign at a National Inaugural Conference in Miami Beach, “greater support than ever must be made available if they are not to fall victim to the economic boycotts and blockades directed against them.”
Mr. Warburg termed “the hastening of Israel’s march to economic independence one of the most urgent tasks that has ever faced the Jewish communities of the United States,” warning that “any economic reversal at this time will not only impose severe hardships on the new State’s entire population but expose them to possible new assaults by a whole array of hostile nations.”
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