A special meeting to consider a report on problems of relief arising out of present conditions in Germany has been called by the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, oversea’s welfare agency, and will be held Sunday afternoon at Temple Emanu-El, at 3 o’clock. Members of the Joint Distribution Committee and Jewish leaders in all parts of the country who have participated in the organization’s relief and rehabilitation work during the past eighteen years have been summoned to the conference.
An emergency fund has already been placed at the disposal of the Berlin office of the Joint Distribution Committee which is headed by Dr. Bern-hard Kahn, European Director of the organization’s overseas relief and rehabilitation work. The Committee has been in close contact with the situation through the Berlin office.
In a statement issued jointly by Dr Jonah B. Wise, National Chairman, Dudley D. Sicher, Chairman of its New York City Appeal, and Joseph C. Hyman, Secretary, it was pointed out that the Joint Distribution Committee is in a position to distribute aid promptly and efficiently through its neutral character and its policy of close cooperation with national and local welfare and social organizations.
“The Joint Distribution Committee is in close contact with the German situation through its Berlin offices,” the statement declared. “This office has not been molested and is in free and continuous contact with Germany as well as the rest of Europe since 1921 Dr. Bernhard Kahn, the head of the Berlin office is a German citizen and his assistant, Mr. David J. Schweitzer, is a citizen of the United States.”
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