-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy.jfk,alt.assassination.jfk Date: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 11:22 PM Subject: L.M. Bloomfield won HISTADRUT AWARD in 1967. >I went to the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC) in >Washington, DC and found the following newspaper clipping about Louis >Bloomfield marked DECLASSIFIED by a "James G. Sampas," Department of >State, 8-26-82, FOI Case No. 8201020: > >"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, Progressie 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-Guatemala Dispute" >and "Egypt, Israel and the Gulf of Aqaba" and co-author of "Boundary Water >Problems of Canada and United States." > >[Handwritten date of article appears to be April 6, 1967. No newspaper >name shown.] > >A handwritten note, dated 9-23-70 accompanied the newspaper article [FOI >Case No. 8201020]. It read: > >"You’ll find Louis Bloomfield to be intense, more inclined to talk than to >listen, but polite—almost courtly. > >He’s an expert on international boundary disputes – having written several >books on specific disputes. – see clippings. > >He and his brother Bernard (recently named Ho. Con. Gen. of So. Korea) are >philanthropists – built stadium in Tel Aviv which bears their name and >research center for Jewish General Hospital in Montreal. > >Married to daughter of Rabbi Sterne. (wife is approximately 20 years his >junior) > >Is unpaid advisor to opposition party in British Hounduras. > >Went to Belize 1968 at my urging to learn more about actual situation there." > >********* > >I thought it was particularly interesting that Harry Truman, Eleanor >Roosevelt and Sam Bronfman had also received the Histadrut Award. > >--- Dave Sharp > >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own >
