James N. Rosenberg, president of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association, conferred with State Department officials today and afterwards announced that it would be necessary to raise additional funds to complete the work of settling 500 refugee families and several hundred unmarried young men and women in the Dominican Republic.
Rosenberg is attempting to iron out difficulties encountered in the chartering of a ship to transport the refugees from Europe to Rio Plata, the port where the refugees will disembark.
Meanwhile, the State Department has completed conversations in neutral countries to facilitate the careful selection of those families chosen for the pioneer settlement. The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee is cooperating in selecting the families, who are now residing temporarily in neutral countries.
“Token groups” will be taken from the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and the Scandinavian countries and concentrated in a neutral port, where they will embark en masse on the chartered American ship.
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