Scores of Jewish men and women wept openly here today when they were forced to leave a train which was about to start them on their journey to the United States. At the last minute, after 315 displaced Jews had boarded the train bound for Bremerhaven, they were informed that there was no ship available to take them from the German port to New York.
It is expected that a vessel will not be available until some time next month. Many of the refugees expressed the fear that now they would never get to the United States.
At the same time a second group of 201 displaced Jews set out on a Journey to new homes in Palestine. They included 72 men, 91 women and 38 children up to the age of 17, all with relatives residing in Palestine. The total number of Palestine-bound immigrants to leave Munich since Jan. 1 of this year, excluding today’s group, was 184.
GEN. CLAY APPEALS FOR SOLUTION OF DP PROBLEM
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, American commander in Germany, today reiterated at a press conference in Frankfurt that no more displaced Jews can be absorbed into the German economy without risking the revival of anti-Semitism.
He asserted that although it was not in his province to say what should happen to the Jewish DP’s in Germany, he nonetheless felt that the problem was one which “every major civilized nation should have to face and find a solution for, since the present situation is not tolerable and can be expected to get worse instead of better.”
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