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THE JEWISH HERALD-VOICE
February 6, 1941
Your United Jewish Campaign Activities
12 NATIONS REPRESENTED AT CEREMONIES MARKING
1 ANNIVERSARY OF DOMINICAN SETTLEMENT PROJECT
National.
1'iudail Trujillo, Dominican Republic—Ceremonies which will
cover a period of three days began here today to mark the first an-
niversary of the signing of the agreement whereby a haven of settle-
ment was opened in the Dominican Republic for refugees from
hilropc.
Phc senes of receptions and conferences were held throughout the
d,ft and will be continued tomorrow. The climax will be reached
on Saturday, when Manuel de J. Troncoso de la Concha, President of
ttif Dominican Republic, will lead
th<- conferees in an automobile
from this city across country
to Sosua, the site lo the first set-
tlament established by the Domin-
ican Republic Settlement Asso-
ciation under the agreement.
Participating in the ceremonies
are the representatives of 33
nations who are members of the
Interguv ernmental Committee for
refugees, leaders at the Domini-
can Republic Settlement Asso-
< u non and officials of tbe Do-
minican Republic.
tbe sessions of the conference.
* inch began today, were presided
over by President Troncoso, and
*«ire devoted to a consideration
of plans for the further enlarge-
ment of tbe settlement work
which has been begun at Sosua
where more than 300 refugees
from Germany and the war area
arc already successfully coloniz-
ed,
In a public statement, Mr. Ros-
enberg. speaking for tbe Settle-
ment Association, pointed out that
an additional 1,000 settlers bad
been selected in Europe
the war and were ex-
pected at Sosua within tbe next
*1 should like to stress that we
art not viewing this undertaking
aa an effort to save a
of victims of Nazi op-
Our objective is far
greater It is to demonstrate in
this activity—so far only a test
tube experiment—that the right
kiad of hardworking, husky pion-
eers can come to the Western
Hemisphere and can in subtrop-
tc#i zones, produce things of
benefit to the economy of their
(■wry and the United States.
In the few months the settlers
hah* been at Sosua. they have
proved that what they want is a
fair chance to work hard and
'tart anew for themselves and
their children. The settlers are
in excellent health, gaining weight
strength under careful
schedules of working hours, sup-
ervised diet and proper safe-
riuurds for sanitary conditions.”
Discussion centered largely
around two major points: (1) the
achievements at Sosua where the
settlement work began six months
agp under the direction of Dr.
Joseph A. Rosen; and (3) the de-
velopment of the new adjacent
area of 90,000 acres recently con-
tributed by Generalissimo Rafael
L. Trujillo, who is at present in
the United States Generalissimo
Ttiujilloi gift also included a
mountain site for the establish-
ment of a vacation home for the
settlers. On Saturday, when the
visit Sosua. the settlers
will have an oppor-
tunity to take part in tbe dis-
Boeial functions scheduled, be-
*7Itejjeuttik
HERALD-V
Houston, Texas
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of March 8. 1879.
AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE HEARS REPORTS OF
CONDITIONS IN CONQUERED COUNTRIES OF EUROPE
sides the official reception of
President Troncoso, include a
reception by the Dominican Re-
public Statement Association, one
by tbe United States Minister
Robert T. Scotten and another by
British Minister Alexander S.
Paterson.
JUNIOR HADASSAH TO
CON8IDEB PALESTINE,
AMERICAN ISSUES
New York—The role of young
American Zionists in supporting
Palestine’s part against fascist ag-
gression and their activity in be-
half of democracy in America will
be tbe themes of a mid-winter
conference called by Junior Ha-
dassah, the Joung Women's Zion-
ist Organization of America for
Feb. 9. It will be held in the
Hotel New Yorker, New York.
Reports fro mthe organization’s
units in various parts of the
country indicate that the confer-
ence will be attended largely by
delegates from Eastern states, ac-
cording to Miss Ernestine Kir-
schner, of New York, chairman
of the meeting. About 300 young
women are expected to attend.
Mrs. David de Sola Pool, national
president of Senior Hadassah, will
be guest of honor.
The conference, which will be
held all day, will begin with a
discussion on leadership training
under the chairmanship of Miss
Sylvia Brody, national president
of Junior Hadassah. Duties of
officers and chairmen, effective
public speaking and ways to make
a meeting interesting and infor-
mative will be demonstrated in a
model session. How to present
dramatic programs will be shown
bjr Miss Sylvia Graff, of New
York.
The luncheon session will be
devoted to a full consideration of
the promotion of active interest
in American problems. Informa-
tion on current political and social
questions will be sent to aJf
members as a result of the con-
ference.
“Activity institutes" will be
held in the afternoon, groups to
meet separately to discuss ef-
fective methods of fund-raising
for Junior Hadassah’s Palestinian
projects, Youth Aliy ah and the
Jewish National Fund; member-
ship, education program and Am-
erican affairs program.
Palestine's defense against Axis
warfare and the participation of
Palestinian soldiers in the armed
forces of Great Britain will be
described in an address by Miss
Sulamith Schwartz, of New York,
who until the outbreak of the
war was a resident of Palestine
for five years.
(Continued from page 1)
establishment of the United Jew-
ish Appeal in 1941 in response to
“the overwhelming desire of the
Welfare Funds and their contri-
butors” throughout the country.
Although no united appeal may
materialize in 1941, local com-
munities should continue to do
their utmost in support of the
overseas and refugee agencies, the
majority report declared. It fur-
ther stated that joint fund raising
by local communities “is inherent-
ly correct and should be con-
tinued.”
A competent and intensive pro-
cess of fact finding both on pro-
grams of service and financial ex-
perience should be continued and
should be under fhe auspices of a
Council Committee, the report
continued. It advocated the es-
tablishment of “a mational bud-
geting service, advisory in char-
acter, which will help local com-
munities to evaluate the relative
needs of separate agency appeals.”
The report recommended the
appointment of a Committee with
proper facilities for study and
evaluation of agencies.
Replying to objections which
have been raised against a na-
tional advisory budgeting service,
the majority report emphasized
the advisory nature of the service,
mentioned that contracts between
national agencies and local com-
munities will not be eliminated,
and stated that it is possible to
give balanced consideration to
intangible items, such as ideolo-
gies, as well as to facts and fig-
ures.
The minority report objected to
tbe proposals and declared that
to act on them at this time would
be much too precipitate.
Following a report on the stat-
us of the General Jewish Council,
the Assembly passed a resolution
authorizing the president of the
council to appoint a committee
“to determine how the Council
can be helpful in working out
joint fund raising in the civic-
protective field.”
In his closing address to the
Assembly, William J. Shroder,
chairman of the Board, said that
public assurance had been given
the delegates, during the course
of the General Assembly, by rep-
resentatives of the three agencies
which constituted the United
Jewish Appeal—Joint Distribu-
tion Committee, United Pales-
tine Appeal and National Refugee
Service—that they would under-
take no independent campaigns
in welfare fund cities in 1941 but
would make application for fin-
ancial support to the welfare
funds.
New York—In spite of the imposition upon the conquered countries
of Europe of Nazi ideas and practices, including anti-Jewish legisla-
tion, the peoples of the Scandinavian and Low Countries, of France,
Czechoslovakia and Poland are courageously clinging to their tradi-
tional democratic ideals and resisting the encroachments of Nazism
by every means possible, according to the annual report of the Execu.
tive Committee of the American Jewish Committee, presented to
delegates at the thirty-fifth annual meeting held at the Hotel Astor.
Anti-Jewish agitation in America perceptibly declined and “struck
a new low of disrepute during the
past year,” the Committee noted
in its report, which was read by
Judge Horace S. Stern of Phila-
delphia.
Sol M. Stroock, prominent New
YoYrk attorney, was elected Pres-
ident of the American Jewish
Committee, which was establish-
ed in 1906 for the protection of
the civil and religious rights of
Jews throughout the world. Mr.
Stroock is the fourth President of
the Committee, and succeeds the
late Dr. Cyrus Adler, who was
President from 1929 until his
death last year.
Chief Justice Irving Lehman of
the New York State Court of Ap-
peals and Judge Abram L Elkus
were re-elected Honorary Vice-
Presidents. Carl J. Austrian, New
York attorney and Lessing J. Ros.
enwald, of Philadelphia, were
elected Vice Presidents, and
Samuel D. Leidesdorf, New York,
was re-elected treasurer.
Receiving the tragic plight of
Jews in various parts of the
world brought about by the pres-
ent conflict, the report stated that
the outside world “though dis-
mayed, was not surprised, by the
imposition upon the peoples of
the conquered lands of Nazi ideas
and practices which they pro-
foundly abhorred, beginning with
the attack upon the Jewish popu-
lations.”
“Except for Rumania, in which
the Jews have always been a
pawn in the game of foreign and
domestic politics,” the report con-
tinued, “all the countries con-
cerned regarded the adoption of
the Nazi way of life, with its
merciless attempt to destroy an
innocent and defenseless minority,
as a measure taken unwillingly in
the hope of appeasing the aggres-
sor.”
“How abhorrent Nazi doctrines
are to people raised in the demo-
cratic tradition is shown by the
resistance bravely offered by
large sections of the populations
of Bohemia-Moravia, Denmark
and Norway, Belgium and the
Netherlands,” the report con-
tinues. “We may be sure that the
people of France just as intensely
abhor and execrate Nazi bar-
barism.”
Reviewing the disastrous ef-
fects of the war upon five mil-
lion Jews who live in the sub-
jugated or vassal states, the re-
Launching the Campaign to meet Refugee needs in America during
1941, William Rosenwald, President of the National Refugee Service,
Inc., Rabbi David de Sola Pool of Shearith Israel, and Clarence E.
Pickett, Executive Secretary of the American Friends Service Com-
mittee, discuss the problems of the emigres at the meeting of the
Board of Directors of the NRS and other community leaders, held
in Cleveland on January 18-19. Initiating the fund drive to bring
victims of Nazi persecution from “refugee ship to citizenship” the
Board of Directors of NRS set $4,342,150 as the preliminary minimum
budget required for the relief, employment, resettlement, and social
adjustment of the refugees now in this country. Professor Joseph P.
Chamberlain, Chairman of the Board, stated that every indication
points to filled quotas for 1941.
port also pointed to the diffi-
culties confronting the 600,000
Jews in the Baltic states and that
part of Rumania taken over by
Soviet Russia.
Jews are suffering from the ex-
tension to these seized territories
of the Soviet anti-religious pol-
icy,” the report states. “As a
consequence of Communist hos-
tility to religion, Jewish religious,
community and religic-cidtural
activities are undergoing rapid li-
quidation. Many Jews are suf-
fering economically because of
suspected opposition to Commun-
ism or former anti-Communist ac-
tivities.”
Anti-Jewish agitation in Am-
erica, the Committee noted in its
report, “struck a new low of dis-
repute during the-past year. Even
at its height this agitation never
succeeded in making serious in-
roads on American public opinion
but always remained an under-
world movement, disapproved and
condemned by all decent Ameri-
cans. There was a perceptible
falling off of interest among
those sections of the population
which had formerly listened to
the mouthings or read the scrib-
blings of mischief-making rabble-
rousers and disguided fanatics.”
The report noted that in the re-
cent national elections, the few
candidates for office who were
associated in one way or another
with anti-Jewish activities, were
defeated at the polls by the Am-
erican people as a whole.
NATIONAL JEWISH HOSPITAL
TREATED 848 PATIENTS
DURING TEAR 1948
New York—For the 41st suc-
cessive year, tuberculosis patients
from New York City led those
of every other city in the United
States in the number of patients’
days care obtained at the Nation-
al Jewish Hospital at Denver, old-
est national non-sectarian insti-
tution for the free care of the
tuberculosis poor, according to
the hospital's annual report for
1940, prepared by Medical Direct-
or Dr. Charles J. Kaufman and
made public today by Paul Felix
Warburg, national vice-chairman.
A total of 848 patients were treat,
ed during the fiscal year, of
whom 428 were resident in the
hospital The patients professed
to nine different religious de-
nominations and creeds, in keep-
ing with the institution’s non-
sectarian policy.
OXFORD PARLEY AIRS
HANDICAPS IMPOSED BY WAR
ON JEWISH EDUCATION
London—A conference on “Jew-
ish Education under War-time
Conditions” was under way at
Oxford today with discussions
centering around the pedagogical
and financial difficulties resulting
from dislocation of the Jewish
educational system through aerial
warfare and evacuation. The con-
ference is being sponsored by the
Board of Deputies of British Jews,
the Central Committee on Jewish
Education and the Joint Emerg-
ency Committee. Neville Laski,
former president of the Board of
Deputies, presided at the open-
ing session, which was addressed
by Pro! Selig Brodetsky, presi-
dent of the Board, and others.
New York — More than 14,000
Jewish refugees of the total ad-
mitted into the United States
during 1940 received guidance
and assistance from the Hebrew
Immigrant Aid Society, according
to a statement made public today
by the HIAS. Of these, 5,097 re-
ceived temporary shelter at the
Society’s quarters in New York
prior to their departure for var-
ious parts of the country.
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