The campaign to raise $1,250,000 will be launched here on April 28 by the United Jewish Appeal for the relief of the Jews of Germany and other lands and the settlement of Jews in Palestine, it was announced yesterday by I. Edwin Goldwasser, Nathan Straus and Michael Schaap, chairman of the New York division of the Appeal in which the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the American Palestine Campaign are represented.
The opening of the New York drive, in which the Jewish committees of all five boroughs and leaders in the various trades and industries are to participate, will take place at a dinner to be held at the Hotel Commodore, at which a number of outstanding Jewish leaders will speak.
BENTWICH SEES REFUGEE PROBLEM COMPLICATED
Permanent settlement of thousands of refugees from the Reich in countries where they are presently abiding temporarily is an extremely complicated problem, it was stated yesterday by Col. Norman Bentwich, who is associated with the League of Nations High Commission for Refugees Coming from Germany.
Col. Bentwich, who is a former attorney general of Palestine and is professor of international relations at the Hebrew University, arrived in this city Tuesday on the S. S. Staatendam for a protracted stay in this country to aid the United Jewish Appeal drive for $3,250,000.
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