Message to Allied Jewish Relief Campaign
Representatives
(March 8, 1930)
Messsage sent to Felix Warburg on the day President
Hoover was supposed to greet the 800 representatives of Jewish groups
from the United States and Canada who had convened in Washington, D.C.,
to form an allied Jewish campaign to raise $6 million for reconstruction
in Eastern Europe and for use in Palestine. White House social functions
and public appearances were canceled upon the announcement of the death
of William Howard Taft.
Dear Mr. Warburg:
I understand that you and your colleagues of many
years are gathered here in Washington to take counsel among yourselves
for the continuance of the great and unselfish work in which you have
been so long engaged and in the course of which so much devotion and
so many millions have been expended.
The sad circumstances of the last few hours which have
plunged the Nation into mourning make it impossible for me to welcome
you other than with these lines.
I can only repeat what I have so often said to you
before that the work which you have done, apart from its evident humanitarian
aspects, is a large contribution to the cause of good-will between peoples.
History will properly appraise your efforts for posterity--the commendation
of your own consciences for today.
HERBERT HOOVER
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