Declaring that in his opinion the chief purpose of the Bermuda Conference on Refugees was to activize the Inter-Governmental Committee on Refugees, and this has been done, Congressman Sol Bloom of New York City, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee and one of the three American delegates to the Bermuda parley, today told 800 women gathered at the “Victory Donor Luncheon” of the HIAS at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel that “as a Jew I am perfectly satisfied with the results of Bermuda.”
Congressman Bloom added that the conference succeeded in doing even more than revitalizing the Inter-Governmental Committee but that he was bound not to reveal its accomplishments and recommendations. He appealed for unity within the ranks of American Jewry and indicated that he believed the Jewish problem could be solved by securing equality of races before the law and not by segregating the Jews in any one part of the world.
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