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The importance of HIAS-ICA work in Europe was emphasized at a meeting last night in the Picadilly Hotel arranged by a group of prominent refugees from Europe who succeeded in reaching the United States recently with the aid of the HIAS-ICA office in Lisbon.
The principal speaker at the gathering, which was called for the purpose of expressing thanks to the HIAS-ICA for making it possible for many writers and political refugees to reach the United States, was Dr. Friedrich Adler, a leader of the Second International. Dr. Adler related how the HIAS-ICA office in Lisbon was instrumental in saving him from being deported from Portugal back to France, where he was in danger of general secretary of the HIAS-ICA. Other speakers, including the historian A. Cherikower, and the painter Mane Katz, spoke in the same vein.
Dijour reported that the HIAS-ICA had so far succeeded in helping thousands to emigrate from Europe to overseas lands, but many thousands more were still seeking a way to emigrate. The duty of American Jews, he said, is to contribute to the funds of the HIAS, one of the principal organizations associated with the HIAS-ICA.
Abraham Herman, president of HIAS, and Dr. John L. Bernstein, director, urged newly-arrived Jewish leaders of political and cultural life in Europe to join in the activities of the HIAS in America.
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