Anti-Semitism was assailed as “the most cowardly thing in the whole world,” by Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of the Czechoslovak Government-in-Exile, speaking yesterday at the annual donor luncheon of the women’s division of the American Jewish Congress at the Hotel Astor here. Mr. Masaryk also stated that a Jewish national home in Palestine was a necessity and a debt owed to the Jews.
Other speakers included the French playwright Hanri Bernstein, who lauded the heroism of Leon Blum and Georges Mandel at the Riom trials, Sir Norman Angell, British writer and lecturer, Dr. George Shuster, president of Hunter College here, and Dr. Stephen S. Wise. Mrs. Wise was re-elected president of the women’s division.
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