The fifteenth anniversary of the issuance of the Balfour Declaration will be celebrated with a mass meeting at the Hotel Pennsylvania on Wednesday evening, November 16th, Morris Margulies, Secretary of the Zionist Organization of America, has announced. The exercises are part of the nationwide celebration by American Jews of the anniversary of the document that laid the political foundations for the rebuilding of the Jewish National Home in Palestine.
Speakers at the meeting will include Louis Lipsky, Stephen S. Wise, Nathan Straus, Jr., Robert Szold, Abraham Goldberg and Carl Sherman, President of the New York Zionist Region, who will preside.
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