The annual donor luncheon of the Women’s League for Palestine, held today at the Hotel Waldorf-Astoria with 1,000 persons attending, was marked by presentation to the British-American Ambulance Corps of an ambulance especially designed for use in the desert and announcement that $25,000 would be sent to the league’s centers for young women refugees in Haifa and Tel Aviv.
Mrs. William Prince, president of the organization, presenting the ambulance, expressed the hope it would “in some small measure hasten English conquest in the Mediterranean.” William B.C. Ruxton, of the Ambulance Corps, expressed gratitude, declaring this was the first of the ambulances designed for use by the Anzacs in the hot weather of the desert.
Others on the speakers’ list were City Council President Newbold Morris, Baroness E. de Rothschild, Raymond Massey, Col. W. Stewart Roddie, Mrs. Archibald Silverman, Mrs. Charles I. Gilbert and Mrs. David L. Isaacs.
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