Thirty thousand homeless Jews in Eastern Europe and Moslem lands must be moved to Israel in the next 60 days if the United Jewish Appeal’s emergency program for the mass transfer of 200,000 Jews to Israel is to be carried out before the expiration of emigration deadlines in some of these countries, Edward M.M. Warburg, general chairman of the United Jewish Appeal campaign, today told women delegates from all parts of the country. He spoke at the opening meeting of a two-day conference here which will launch the 1951 drive of the U.J.A. National Women’s Division.
Mr. Warburg told the delegates that the United Jewish Appeal in the last 30 days had made possible the movement to Israel of 15,000 Jews from Rumania, Iraq and Iran, but that only if necessary funds are on hand can the emigration program for the months of February and March be carried out. He urged the women delegates representing the campaign organization in more than 40 of the country’s leading cities to spare no time in launching the Women’s Division drive on their return home.
“The United Jewish Appeal,” he declared, “is faced with one of the greatest emergencies in its 12-year history. It must hasten the resettlement of 200,000 men, women and children who must be moved to Israel in the shortest possible time.” He related this crisis to mounting world tensions, asserting that “any breakdown of the world’s peace on a large scale will make impossible the transfer to safety and freedom of Jews who live in lands of fear and hate.”
Mr. Warburg was Joined in addressing the conference by William Rosenwald and Rudolf G. Sonneborn, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal; Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, U.J.A. executive vice-chairman; and Mrs. S. Alexander Brailove, chairman of the U.J.A. National Women’s Division, who presided. Dr. Schwartz lauded the Women’s Division for raising more than $70,000,000 in the last five years for support of the U.J.A.’s immigration, settlement and rehabilitation programs, asserting that “this record is unequalled by any other women’s group in the United States.” He warned, however, that “the job is still only half done.”
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