A $30,000 check for completion of the third refugee girls’ center of the Women’s league for Palestine in Jerusalem was presented to Dr. Nahum Goldmann of the Jewish Agency today at a luncheon of the league in the Hotel Astor, attended by more than 1,500 persons.
Mrs. David L. Isaacs, chairman of the league’s Palestine Committee, in making the presentation, declared: “We are demonstrating our faith in England’s cause and our confidence in an ultimate English victory by completing our Jerusalem home at this crucial time. We feel certain that by building in Jerusalem now we are bolstering the morale of Palestine–a strategic factor in England’s defense.”
Sir Norman Angell, Nobel Prize winner, declared in an address: “the belief that the Jewish homeland can be defended must be kept alive as the British have managed to keep alive the belief that their homeland can be defended.”
Other speakers included Dr. Goldmann and Mrs. William Prince, president of the league. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, for whom a plaque will be placed in the Jerusalem home, and Dr. Chaim Weizmann were among those who sent messages to the luncheon.
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