Right Honorable ROBERT BRISCOE

"The Lord Mayor of Dublin speaks"

People have asked why I, the Lord Mayor of Dublin,
should be so concerned with the United Jewish Appeal.

country, and for others forced to live as second-class
citizens in various North African countries.

Perhaps the fact that I am a Jew is enough to explain
my interest in this life-saving work. But the fact that I

The main hope to attain freedom of these new refugees

—well over 100,000 of them—is Israel. The United Jewish

have spent a good part of my life in the effort to gain

Appeal is helping them to get there and begin life anew

freedom and independence for my own country, Ireland,

also has a great deal to do with my feelings in the matter.

in the dignity of self-respect the Creator intended for
all men.

As I see it, the United Jewish Appeal offers a chal-

The free people of Israel are ready to risk everything

lenge to every man who values his own freedom, because
there is no better test of a man's real devotion to freedom

they have to make a place for the thousands of refugees

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than his readiness to help others escape tyranny and

who seek safety and a decent life in this struggling, but
gallant, little country. I am certain-Americans will want to

injustice.

do all they can to help them in this noble work of rescue.

The United Jewish Appeal has this year launched a

$100,000,000 Emergency Rescue Fund — for Jews who

are being drivers out of Egypt by a dictator, for refugees

from Communist oppression in Hungary, for victims of
new anti-Semitic excesses in another Eastern - European

You can help — directly and importantly — by support-.
ing and working for the United Jewish Appeal in this

present . emergency. Stop and realize that every $1,000
saves another life for freedom and I know you will give

all you can to see that every life that can be saved is saved.

100,000 LIVES MUST BE SAVED IN

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