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Dr. Holmes Sees Idealism in Zion

January 9, 1935
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More than 1,200 women who filled the main ballroom of the Hotel Statler at the eighth annual donors’ luncheon of the Boston chapter of Hadassah heard Dr. John Haynes Holmes of New York graphically describe Zionist activity in Palestine yesterday.

Dr. Holmes said “a nation is being re-created and revitalized” in the Holy Land.

“In Palestine you do not see the symmetry of soldiers,” the clergyman asserted. “You do not see the scandal of warships in its harbors, but you note a people that is uniting itself and dedicating itself to education, to religion, to healing and to the culture and ideals of social justice of the ancient prophets of Israel.”

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