Dr. Abba Hillel Silver called upon the United States government tonight to take “forthright leadership” in the United Nations to achieve a permanent peace settlement in the Middle East. He said that “our government should not wait until there is armed aggression,” but “should press most energetically in the United Nations for action which will bring the representatives of the governments of the Near East together around a conference table for the settlement of all the outstanding issues.”
Dr. Silver spoke at a dinner sponsored by the metropolitan regions of the Zionist Organization of America and the Israel Bond Organization honoring him for “fifty historic years of Zionist devotion.” He is chairman of the board of governors of the Israel Bond Organization. Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, who presided at the dinner, told the more than 750 persons who attended the testimonial at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel that $1,250,000 in Israel Bond investment funds had been raised in a special campaign conducted by the metropolitan regions of the ZOA in honor of Dr. Silver. Rabbi Miller and Dr. Emanuel Neumann, president of the Zionist Organization of America, joined in presenting Dr. Silver with a plaque.
Asserting that the “real testing of the United Nations is yet to come, Dr. Silver told the dinner: “it will soon come in the Near East, and on its outcome will depend the very survival of that international organization which was called into existence to preserve the peace of the world.”
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