The Lawrence MA Delegation Visits Witte

A delegation from Lawrence, MA presented an elaborately illuminated resolution, in Russian, signed by 612 members of the Lawrence Jewish community.

Walter Rushforth, editor and Arthur Bailey, both from the Illustrated Journal of Lawrence presented  the resolution to Witte and Rosen. It read in part,

“… we, Jewish residents of Lawrence, extend to[the Russian envoys] a brotherly welcome and devoutly pray that success may follow their efforts…We are not unmindful of the powerful nation you represent nor of the high and noble servivces you have rendered your country and humanity in the past.  Though Americans, we have the natural love of all people for the land of their birth and it is our earnest--our constant prayer and hope that the white dove of peace whall find an abiding place as a result of your deliberations, and that prosperity and happiness shall take the place of the bloodshed, riot, and discontent, not only at home but abroad everywhere." 

Signed: Louis H. Ginsberg, Samuel Kopelman, Arron Berenson, Harrris Gruber, Jacob Klein, and many others.