U.S. Jews Must Assume Financial Responsibility for Jewish Recovery, Dr. Schwartz Says

Declaring that although the future of Europe’s Jewish survivors will in the last analysis be determined by the effectiveness of the U.N. Palestine decision, the Marshall Plan and the passage of legislation which admit additional displaced persons to the United States, Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, European director of the Joint Distribution Committee asserted yesterday that American Jews must be prepared to assume major financial responsibility for implementation of these developments.

Addressing a group of New York Jewish communal leaders at a meeting arranged by the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York at the Hotel Biltmore, Dr. Schwartz, who returned to this country last week for consultations, said: “We can look forward, that this time, with some degree of hope, to the establishment of a Jewish haven and a homeland in Palestine and a concomitant increase in European Jewish immigration in that country. This situation creates an urgent and immediate need for tremendous ##ms of money for transportation to Palestine, for the resettlement and rehabilitation of immigrants, and for the defense and security of the Jewish community there.”