Non-Sectarian Foundation Plans for formation : Mixed archival material 1940.

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Book

Contributor:

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Jewish Life in America, c1654-1954

Language:

English

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1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2010.

Summary:

Non-Sectarian Foundation Plans for formation

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AMDigital Reference:P511/1/1/11.

Meeting 3/17/40, Plans for Formation of Non-Sectarian Foundation Meeting 3/17/40 at MEK's apartment, including many of the people who had been involved in the committee Incl. tribute to MEK as 'the person who has been the leader...with indomitableness and courage and energy' Update on the bill: it failed to pass, but by the time it got to that point, it had so many amendments that the NSCGRC was unsure about whether they wanted it passed They're starting a Non-Sectarian Foundation for Refugee Children (not GERMAN only) because the NSCGRC is too tied up with the Bill; the Foundation will organize funds to bring refugee children to U.S., even if it means only paying their steamship passage Honorary Vice Presidents would include Eleanor Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, Governor Lehman of NY, university presidents, a rabbi, bishops, ministers, etc. Already, before organization even started, raised $100,000-125,000 Testimonies by women who had been in Germany, presumably as social workers, on condition of children there and willingness of parents to send their children abroad DAR influential in defeating the Bill Many people are glad that the group is non-sectarian: 'I'm elated, therefore, Mr. Chairman, as an American and as a Jew, at the formation of this committee, over and above what it might accomplish for children, because of its implications in emphasizing that the problem of refugees isn't exclusively racial or anti-Jewish.' Statement by MEK: 'I'm just going to say a few words because I think that the inner men should be fed other than spiritually. What I want to say is that this meeting is only the culmination and crystallization of an idea that started in this room on Dec. 18, 1938, which will carry forward the ideals, the enthusiasm, the very real kind of cooperation which gave me a renewed faith in the things that human beings stood for. I never in my life have had the thrilling privilege before -- and I never need to have it again -- of realizing what this group has indicated to me that humans can get together and live and work as humans with no personal egos, no personal selfishness, no interest of a personal nature, but only a desire to help children.'.

Marion E Kenworthy Papers.

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