Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds throughout the country, exclusive of New York City, were today approached by the Dominican Republic Settlement Association with an appeal to contribute $150,000 towards the 1942 budget of $250,000 necessary to conduct the Jewish settlement work in the Dominican Republic, it was disclosed by James N. Rosenberg, chairman of the Association.
The appeal, signed by Leon Falk, Jr., president, James N. Rosenberg, chairman, and Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, chairman of the executive committee, points to the fact that the successful Jewish colonization in the Dominican Republic may have an important effect on post-war Jewish immigration in Latin-American countries. Three such countries are already conducting discussions with the executive officers of the Dorsa with a view of having Jews settled in their territories, along the same lines as this is being done in the Dominican Republic.
Mr. Leon Falk, Jr., who is returning tomorrow from the Jewish settlement of Sosua in the Dominican Republic, will, together with James N. Rosenberg and Dr. Joseph A. Rosen, appear next week at the General Assembly of the Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds in Chicago to personally support the appeal. The appeal which is also supported by a letter from James G. McDonald in his capacity as a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on Political Refugees, emphasizes that the Jewish settlement scheme in the Dominican Republic “is the only concrete result of the meeting of 32 nations convened by President Roosevelt at Evian in 1938.”
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