Harold E. Stassen, United States Director for Mutual Security who late last week visited Israel with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on the first leg of a month-long tour of Middle East countries, will address the United Jewish Appeal’s emergency National Action Conference in Washington, it was announced here today. The Conference will take place on June 6 and 7.
The two-day emergency conference, with an expected attendance of more than 750 regional, state and local leaders, will terminate the UJA’s current special drive for $25, 000, 000 in cash launched on May 1 to provide this summer for the urgent financing of critical immigration, settlement and rehabilitation programs in Israel and other parts of the world.
Joseph Holtzman, a national campaign chairman of the UJA, said today that the conference, in addition to terminating the short-term cash drive, will also mark the mid-way point in the United Jewish Appeal’s yearlong campaign. The UJA this year requires $144, 524, 250 to meet revue, settlement, welfare and rehabilitation needs in Israel, Europe, Moslem lands and the United States.
In addition to Mr. Stassen, the conference will hear from Israel Finance Minister Levi Eshkol, who arrived in this country yesterday. Senator Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Israel Ambassador to the United States Abba S. Eban, Jewish Agency chairman Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Edward M. M. Warburg, UJA general chairman.
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