and Nahum Sokolow, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and of the World Zionist Organization.
“Several precedents exist in recent history for world cooperation on a humanitarian question of this type and magnitude,” the statement points out in referring to steps necessary to meet the problem raised by the dislocation of Jewish life in Germany.
At the same time, a report to the British Board of Jewish Deputies by Neville Laski, president of the organization, and Norman Bentwich on their recent visit to Geneva reveiled that negotiations are proceeding in League of Nations circles to effect some sort of international cooperation to cope with the problem. The International Labor Office, it is hoped, will aid in solving the problem of refugees.
Organization and funds for the settlement of refugees, however, will have to come mainly from the Jewish people, it is pointed out, but the expert knowledge available to the League, its influence with the various governments concerned and its machinery for facilitating migration and settlement will be invaluable.
Dealing with the proposed world Jewish conference, the statement of the Joint Foreign Committee expresses the hope that invitations will be issued for a meeting in October at which many vital questions will be discussed, including the settlement of refugees, particularly in Palestine, the spontaneous desire for a boycott of German goods while discriminations against the Jews continue, and generally, the best methods for assisting the Jewish victims of Nazi persecutions.
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