The 60th annual national convention of the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. opened here today with 2,000 delegates from 40 states. The convention will last a week and will discuss, among other matters, various problems concerning the fight against religious bias and native Nazism.
President Kennedy, in a message to the convention, said: “Today, those who protect freedom are besieged from many directions, are forced to face many demands. But when Americans see their duty and respond to it, as the Jewish War Veterans have done for well over half a century, then freedom need have no fear.”
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