Norman Bentwich, professor of international relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and former Attorney general of Palestine, will arrive on the Statendam of the Holland-American Line, in order to aid the United Jewish Appeal to raise $3,250,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of Jews in Germany and other lands and for the settlement of Jews in Palestine, it was announced yesterday.
Dr. Bentwich is now associated with the League of Nations High Commission for Refugees. One of the foremost scholars among the Jewish people today, Dr. Bentwich is noted for various books on international law, as well as history and philosophy.
JUNIOR DIVISION MEETS TO ORGANIZE FOR DRIVE
The initial organization meeting of the junior division of the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal will be held tonight at the home of Miss Pauline Baerwald, 9 East Eighty-eighth street. Jewish young men and women from the five boroughs will be present as well as representatives of the various Jewish youth organizations in the metropolitan area.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise, who recently returned from a visit to Germany, will report on his observations of the conditions of the Jews in that country and there will be addresses by Edward M. M. Warburg, vice-chairman of the junior division; Carlos L. Israels and Miss Baerwald, who is the national chairman of the junior division. Leonard M. Wallstein Jr., chairman of the junior division, will preside.
MESSERSMITH DUE TODAY
George Messersmith, United States minister plenipotentiary to Austria, will arrive in New York today on the Washington.
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