Hailing President Kennedy’s proposal for the creation of a permanent Youth Peace Corps to aid, by their technical skill, underdeveloped countries, Max Bressler, president of the Zionist Organization of America, tonight issued an appeal to American Jewish young men and women to enlist in the Peace Corps giving as their preference service in the underdeveloped areas of Israel such as the Negev, the hills of Judea and the Eastern Galilee.
The ZOA president spoke at the opening plenary session of a four-day meeting of the National Executive Council of the Zionist Organization of America, the ruling body of the organization between annual conventions. He emphasized that the appeal of President Kennedy for the establishment of a youth peace corps “refutes for all time the trumped-up false notions of dual loyalties by those who lack confidence in our democratic system or misunderstand its social texture. “
Mr. Bressler asked all young men and women who possess the skill and the capacity to help meet the demands of the swiftly evolving economy of Israel in the villages, in the towns and factories of Israel and are interested to aid that country through the peace corps, to communicate with the Zionist Organization of America.
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