An agreement for displaced Jews from the Foehrenwald camp here to meet Wednesday with Moses W. Beckelman, European director of the Joint Distribution Committee and top members of the JDC staff in Germany, this week-end ended several days of demonstrations outside JDC headquarters. The DP leaders and the JDC officials will attempt to reach a satisfactory settlement of problems created by the proposed liquidation of Foehrenwald, the last DP camp for Jews in Germany. On Wednesday and Thursday from 100 to 200 disgruntled DP’s attempted to storm the JDC offices but were dispersed by club-swinging German police. Several of the DP’s were arrested.
(In connection with the demonstrations last week of Jewish displaced persons in front of the office of the Joint Distribution Committee in Munich, the American Jewish Socialist organization “Bund” in New York requested today that the JDC dismiss its representative in Munich for calling in German police against the demonstrators. The “Bund” also requested that the JDC in New York appoint a committee of responsible Jewish leaders to conduct an on-the-spot investigation of the situation and to publish a report on their findings.)
Meanwhile, a Munich Yiddish weekly has admonished the demonstrators for presenting their grievances “at the wrong address.” The newspaper points out that most of the complaints of the DP’s deal with matters in the province of the We German Government. Also, it suggests that regardless of the justice or lack of justice in the DP complaints, the problems could have been ironed out at a conference table rather than by “terrorist means.”
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