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63rd Convention of Order Brith Ahraham Opens in Atlantic City; Truman Sends Greetings

President Truman declared he would “rather have lasting peace than be President” in a special message to 600 delegates attending the 63rd annual convention of the Independent Order Brith Abraham read today at the opening session of the three-day conclave of the American-Jewish fraternal organization. Grand Master Louis Weissman in his annual message pledged support […]

June 12, 1950
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President Truman declared he would “rather have lasting peace than be President” in a special message to 600 delegates attending the 63rd annual convention of the Independent Order Brith Abraham read today at the opening session of the three-day conclave of the American-Jewish fraternal organization.

Grand Master Louis Weissman in his annual message pledged support of the order’s 350 lodges throughout the country to work for world peace. He emphasized the need for preventing German nationalism from “taking a foothold in Germany,” and recommended the appointment of a commission to investigate the reported tendencies of American Allied Government officers not to press the denazification plan. He also urged the United States to “amend the Constitution making it a crime to incite racial hatred by publication or speech.”

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