The debating team of the British Zionist Federation, which is to meet in debate with teams of six chapters of the Avukah, American student Zionist organization, was welcomed on its arrival on the Berengaria, Friday, by a committee of forty citizens, headed by Health Commissioner Louis I. Harris. The British debaters will be officially received by Mayor Walker at City Hall on Monday.
On the Reception Committee besides Dr. Harris were: Susan Brandeis, Samuel Borowsky, Gedaliah Bublick, Congressman Emanuel Celler, Rabbi Jacob Cohen, Dr. David De Sola Pool, Abraham I. Elkus, Michael Friedsam, Abraham Goldberg, Judge Alexander H. Geismar, Israel Goldberg, Professor Alfred Goldfarb, Professor Pichard Gottheil, Mrs. Richard Gottheil, Henry Hurwitz, Dr. David J. Kaliski, Dr. Horace M. Kallen, Professor I. L. Kandel, Rabbi Modecai M. Kaplan, Mrs. Alexander Kohut, Dr. George Alexander Kohut, Justice Mitchell May, Mrs. Anna Moskowitz Kross, Rabbi I. H. Levinthal, Judge Julian W. Mack, Dr. Samuel Margoshes, I. D. Morrison, Judge Grover M. Moscowitz, Emanuel Neumann, Congressman Nathan Perlman, Judge Otto A. Rosalsky, Samuel J. Rosensuhn, Morris Rothenberg. Maurice Samuel, Carl Sherman, Nathan Straus, Jr., Mrs. Robert Szold. Dr. Israel Wechsler, Meyer Weisgal and Peter Wiernick.
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