President Eduard Benes today received Edward M.M. Warburg, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, and Dr. Joseph Schwartz, J.D.C. director in Europe.
Later, they met with Zdenek Fierlinger, vice-Premier, and other Czech statesmen, after which Warburg declared that the government plans to continue its support of Jewish efforts toward rehabilitation in Czechoslovakia and would not change its attitude toward emigration of Czech Jews. He said that the government would continue its financial assistance to Polish Jewish refugees entering the country.
The Czech leaders also told Warburg that they expected a solution of the refugee emigration problem soon, pointing out that a positive solution was vital. They expressed satisfaction at the efforts of Jewish leaders to reconstruct Jewish life and institutions in the country and said they hoped the restitution procedures would be improved shortly. The J.D.C. party left for Vienna this afternoon.
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