The Hadassah convention today accepted a budget of $244,500 for the Hadassah Medical Organization in Palestine next year, including maintenance of the Jerusalem medical center, and an additional $51,000 for child welfare.
Mrs. Rose Jacobs, former president of Hadassah. and now member of the Jewish Agency Executive, speaking from London in last night’s NBC broadcast, said a million Jews in Europe were living as in a concentration camp. she spoke of rumors current in England that an equable partition scheme was impossible, but added that we must assume that nothing irretrievable has happened yet.” regarding the new pales tine immigration schedule, she declared that although youth aliyah was unlimited, financial arrangements for youth immigration would certainly be carefully scrutinized.
It was unanimously decided to send an open letter to president Roosevelt thanking him for his championship of democracy and high morality among nations. Miss Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah, in a message from jerusalem, affirmed faith in the indestructibility of the settlement work achieved in pales tine.
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