Charles P. Taft, chairman of the State Department Advisory Committee on Voluntary Aid and the first lay president of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, this week-and declared that “the approaching winter will be the most critical for Europe’s Jews since liberation.” Speaking at an annual meeting of the Southweot Region of the J.D.C., he werned that “unless increased American aid is forthcoming, the progress of Europe’s Jews towards revival may be dissipated.”
Edward Warburg, J.D.C. chairman, who also spoke, said that “no governmental plan for European relief has been proposed, which will appreciably benefit Europe’s Jews, adding that the Marshall Plan applies only to Western Europe and specifically excludes the DP camps.” A.I. Lack, of Houston, was re-elected chairman of the Southvest Region.
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