Many letters have been received at the offices of the Joint Distribution Committee praising its reconstructive efforts on behalf of the Jews in Germany, the refugee lands, Palestine and eastern Europe. Among the organizations which have commended the activities and achievements of the J. D. C. are bodies engaged in similar endeavors here and abroad.
One letter is from James L. Fieser, vice-president of the American Red Cross, who wrote from Washington headquarters:
“The efforts of the Joint Distribution Committee represent a tremendous volume of work of outstanding importance, particularly in the light of the new and tragic developments in connection with the Jewish population of Germany and refugees there-from.”
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Dr. Henry Smith Leiper of the Universal Christian Council wrote:
“I take pleasure in expressing my admiration for the work as a whole and in particular for the manner in which you carry it on.”
Dr. Edwin R. Embree, president of the Julius Rosenwald Fund, wrote:
“I am tremendously impressed. The great work of aiding needy groups, begun in 1914, has assumed proportions which stagger the imagination.
“The amount of comfort and rehabilitation that has resulted from your great expenditures comprise an epic of human history.
“More impressive even than the huge sums collected and expended are the resourcefulness and imaginative planning which your group have furnished in what amounts to making over the lives of the great groups of people throughout Europe and the Near East.”
The Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced German Scholars, commenting on the report of the Joint Distribution Committee for 1933 and the early months of 1934, wrote:
“It is an exceedingly interesting and valuable statement of the problems following the advent of the National Socialist regime in Germany.”
The Comite Voor Joodsche Vluchtelingen at Amsterdam wrote:
“Although on the one hand, for those who understand, it is a terrible tale of Jewish suffering, still, it is also a wonderful record of what has been done to eliminate the sufferings.”
Mrs. Gerard Van Tijn, the secretary of this organization (Committee for Jewish Refugees), adds this:
“Personally, I am full of admiration of what the Joint has done and thankful that this organization exists.
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