(Communication to the Editor)
Sir:
We have received many inquiries concerning the news item which appeared in the Jewish Daily Bulletin of December 16, 1927 stating that “the American Joint Distribution Committee is to resume its relief work in Tel Aviv; the first activity to be started will be the supply of food to children.”
The Joint Distribution Committee has made no new appropriation for this phase of activity. In all likelihood, the item in question refers to a possible balance of an appropriation made during the year 1927 by the Joint Distribution Committee for emergency feeding in Palestine and which, on the basis of our last reports, we had assumed was completely exhausted. The Joint Distribution Committee allotted on February 14, 1927, the sum of $33,000 on the basis of £ E1,100 a month for a period of six months for the feeding of children and adults. Some of this was used in Tel Aviv, and it may be that a small balance has been held over that is now being applied.
Sincerely yours, Joseph C. Hyman, Secretary, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee
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