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United Nations for Victory Rally
Stanley S. Jacobs, Publicity Director
130 North Wells Street.
Tel.: FRA. 2221

FOR RELEASE ________:

As a feature of a nation-wide tour to bring the aims and accomplishments of the United Nations to the American public, Chicago civic, patriotic and service groups will present three United Nations speakers at a rally the night of March 30 in the Mural Room of the Morrison Hotel, Judge Oscar S. Caplan, committee chairman, announces. The meeting will be open to the public.

The rally under the slogan, "United Nations for Victory," is sponsored by numerous groups including the Cook County Council of the American Legion, the 40 & 8, Kiwanis Club, Lions Club, Chicago B'nai B'rith Council, Catholic War Veterans, Spanish-American Veterans, Veterans of the Siberian AEF, and the Polish Legion of American Veterans. 

Principal speakers will be Miss Lee Ya-Ching, known as China's No. 1 girl flyer; Prof. Boris Furlan, advisor to the Royal Jugoslavian Government; and the Rt. Hon. Margaret Bondfield, member of the British House of Commons and the first woman to serve as Britain's Minister of Labor. The daring Miss Ya-Ching has served as a co-pilot for China's Southwestern Airline and after Japanese aggression began against her country, she did relief and hospital work in Shanghai, Hongkong and Canton. As a representative of the United China Relief, she has toured the United States flying her own plane, explaining the need for supporting China's resistance against our common enemy, the Japs.

Professor Furlan, a noted emigre from Nazi-occupied Jugoslavia, was a faculty member of Ljubljana University and is known as an expert on international affairs. He fled Jugoslavia in March, 1941, when the government capitulated to the Axis invaders, and has since expounded his nation's anti-fascist philosophy as United States representative of the Jugoslavian Government-in-Exile.

Margaret G. Bondfield is known affectionately in Great Britain as "Our Maggie" to labor circles. She served the Labor Government as Minister of Labor, and as the only woman member of the Privy Council. Trade unionists know her as an indefatigable worker on their behalf, and she is familiar to American labor circles by virtue of having served as advisor to the International Labor Conference in Washington in 1919. In 1938, she toured the United States studying social security legislation and labor problems.