Leaving the Jewish problem for the Jews alone to solve is “unjust as it is manifestly impossible,” declared James G. McDonald, an editor of the New York Times and former League of Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Coming from Germany, in a broadcast address tonight.
He spoke over a Columbia Broadcasting System network in one of the three radio programs in connection with the celebrations of the 25th anniversary of Hadassah held by 350 chapters throughout the country. Mr. McDonald was introduced by Mrs. Felix M. Warburg.
“What have we who are Christians done to mitigate the wrongs perpetrated against the Jews throughout the centuries?” he asked. “The time has come when the Jewish problem can no longer be regarded as the particular problem of the Jewish group for it alone to carry and to solve.”
He condemned the race theories put into effect by Chancellor Hitler in Germany and indicated that Palestine was a solution to the problem of homeless refugees. His subject was “The Challenge of the Refugee Problem.”
First Lieutenant Rae D. Landy, of the U.S. Army Nurses’ Corps, sent to Palestine by Hadassah in 1913 as the first trained nurse to establish a modern American nurses’ settlement in the Holy Land, spoke from Manila in a broadcast over an NBC network. She described some of her experiences in Palestine. On the same program Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt spoke from Washington on “Public Health.”
Mrs. Edward Jacobs, national president of Hadassah, Miss Bertha Landsman, who organized the Hadassah child welfare service in Palestine, and Mrs. Alexander Lamport, spoke from New York.
Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman spoke on “Broader Horizons for Women” over the Mutual Broadcasting System.
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