Transcription of Article About Bloomfield's 1967 Histadrut Award
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[Montreal, 1967] Histadrut Award: Bloomfield to be Honored – Montreal Attorney and Author Louis M. Bloomfield will be granted the Histadrut Humanitarian Award at a special dinner in his honor Tuesday. Mr. Bloomfield, president of the Canadian branch of the International Law Association, will be the fifth Canadian to receive the award given for outstanding work in aid of pioneering Israel. Other recipients of the Histadrut award have included John Diefenbaker, Harry Truman, Eleanor Roosevelt, Arthur J. Goldberg, Samuel Bronfman and Claude Jodoin. Speakers at the testimonial dinner, set for Tuesday evening at Le Chateau Champlain, are E. Davie Fulton, Progressive Conservative MP and former minister of Justice, and Msgr. Francis J. Smyth, director of the noted Coady Institute of St. Francis Xavier University. Msgr. Smyth’s keynote address will detail the work of the institute, a valuable training school providing social leadership courses for students from underdeveloped countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The banquet is the 43rd annual dinner of the Montreal Histadrut campaign, now in the midst of its 1967 drive. Mr. Bloomfield, an executive of several hospitals and other public organizations, is the author of The British Honduras-Guatamala Dispute and Egypt, Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba, and co-author of Boundary Water Problems of Canada and United States. |
(FOA Case No. 8201020, US State Dept., 1982)