Joel Gross, leading Newark attorney who is a member of the executive committee of the Joint Distribution Committee and the National Refugee Service, as well as a member of the administrative committee of the United Palestine Appeal, will soon leave for Turkey, India and other countries as a special emissary of the J.D.C. in the Middle East, it was announced here today. Mr. Gross has volunteered his services.
In making the announcement, Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, said that specific objectives of Mr. Gross’ trip are “to help in the supervision of the J.D.C’s program of did to hundreds of thousands of polish Jewish refugees in Asiatic Russia and to act as a liason between the J.D.C. and other agencies in facilitating the migration of refugees to Palestine.”
Declaring that the J.D.C. is now concentrating its efforts on sending food and clothing from Iran and Palestine to individual refugees in Russia, Mr. Hyman said: “The problem of securing adequate food supplies in that part of the world is, under present conditions, naturally fraught with many difficulties. In order to tap every possible resource and thus increase aid to the refugees in Russia, we are accrediting Mr. Gross to Turkey and other lands, including India.” Another important purpose of Mr. Gross’s mission will be to gauge the trend of Jewish emigration from the Balkan countries and Persia to Palestine and to make recommendations for J.D.C. assistance in this direction. He will be in close touch with the International Red Cross, the Jewish Agency for Palestine and other groups interested in expediting this movement.
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