The thirty-third annual meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee will be held in New York City on January 3rd and 4th, it was announced yesterday by Edward M.M. Warburg, JDC chairman.
The meeting will mark the JDC’s completion of one-third of a century of aid to Jewish men, women and children in needy areas abroad as well as its accomplishments in 1947, the JDC’s greatest single year of activity. In the first eleven months of this year, JDC appropriations for its aid programs abroad amounted to $69,591,000.
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