Raymond B. Fosdick, American representative at the deliberations of the League of Nations Committee on Refugees from Germany, returned to the United States yesterday on board the Manhattan.
Mr. Fosdick, who substituted for Professor Joseph P. Chamberlain at the meeting in London on May 2-4, told the Jewish Daily Bulletin he felt all delegates had shown an “earnest desire to remove the handicaps under which the refugees from Germany are living.”
WEIGH PASSPORT PROBLEM
Delegates from twelve countries, he said, gathered to receive the report of High Commisioner James G. McDonald on his observations in the various countries harboring refugees as well as in Germany itself.
The committee also discussed problems relating to passports for refugees and to the status of stateless exiles, Mr. Fosdick explained. “I came away from the meeting feeling a number of problems have been ironed out,” he added.
Discussion took place in some detail on the question of colonies for the refugees, the delegate said.
“Our meeting spent much time on Palestine,” said Mr. Fosdick, “but so many factors are involved that it is impossible to generalize on the matter.”
Mr. Fosdick, who is a brother of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick, is a lawyer in this city and has been active in political affairs. He is the author of several books on civic matters.
DR. ZUELZER ALSO ABOARD
Another passenger arriving on the Manhattan was Dr. George Zuelzer, German physician fleeing from Nazi persecution. Dr. Zuelzer was forced to leave professorships at two universities and a post as chief of the department of internal medicine at a Berlin hospital when the Hitler government proclaimed restrictions on the Jews.
Dr. Zuelzer, who is accompanied by his wife, has done much experimental work on hormones, and is known for his perfection of eutonon, used in treating angina pectoris and other cardiac diseases.
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