Goldie Meirson, political leader of the Jerusalem section of the Jewish Agency, will depart for Cyprus tomorrow with a number of Agency immigration officials to attempt to settle a dispute among the interned visaless Jews.
The problem started when the visaless immigrants offered one month’s certificates to the Exodus refugees. The Palestine Government refused to accept the offer, but set aside the month’s certificates for mothers and children to be admitted out of turn. The internees objected, insisting that they had made the offer to the Exodus Jaws only.
(Morris Kaplan, director of the Joint Distribution Committee’s medical departrent, returning to Paris from Cyprus, today reported that the rainy season which has just begun on the island threatens the internees with ep##ics. Adding to the overcrowded conditions, the mud and unfavorable temperatures are endangering the health of the 18,000 Jews.
(He disclosed that there are eight doctors, three dentists and eleven nurses among the 50 J.D.C. employees aiding the internees. He also said that the birth rate at the camps excceds 70 per month. Finally, he stated that the J.D.C. has spent nearly $1,000,000 to aid the Jews, including food shipments weighing more than 450,000 pounds.)
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