“Modern Deborah” is the title which Dr. Chaim Weizmann gave last night to Dorothy Thompson, noted columnist, in a brief address at a dinner given in Miss Thompson’s honor at the Hotel Astor at which 2,500 persons were present. The dinner was sponsored by a committee of 1,000 including Gov. Lehman, Mayor La Guardia, Prof. Einstein and Marshall Field.
Dr. Weizmann emphasized Mise Thompson’s interest in protecting small nations and what she had done for the Jewish people, who constituted the weakest nation in the world.
Dr. Frank Kingdon, chairman of the dinner, read a letter from a Belgian Jewish refugee, Isidors Lifshitz, in which he expressed his gratitude to America for the freedom he has found here and attached a $5,000 check as appreciation for Miss Thompson’s fight for democracy, appealing to others to follow his example and establish a “Dorothy Thompson Fund” to be used for fighting Nazism.
Miss Thompson, in an impressive address, offered ten articles of her “personal and social faith” as the basis of a new defense and reconstruction movement to which she asked the audience to subscribe and emphasized that one of her articles of faith was her “belief in basic equality of all persons, nations and races.” To each person accepting these articles of faith, Miss Thompson offered a duplicate of a ring which she wore on her finger, designed, she said, as a symbol of hope and brotherhood. She asked each subscriber to find two other persons who would accept the creed and the ring.
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