Mann Urges Aid for Refugees As Expression of Humanism

Hope that Americans would respond generously to the cases of “widespread need and suffering” among refugees from Germany was expressed yesterday by thomas Mann, Nobel Prize winner in literature, who arrived here a few days ago for a brief visit. His views were contained in a letter made public by Felix M. Warburg, national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal.

Mann characterized the Appeal, which is raising $3,000,000 for the relief and rehabilitation of refugees, as “an expression of a humanitarian activity in the midst of a morally bewildering world.” He said, in part:

“I would not want my brief visit to America to end without expressing my heartiest sympathy with your idealistic undertaking. Whatever outlook one has upon the political revolutions in certain countries of Europe, and whatever hopes or fears are bound up with that outlook, it is nevertheless certain that these events have caused unending sorrow and the most burdensome need to countless innocent people. It must also be said, unfortunately, that the world, on the whole, is all too ready to ignore these humanly shattering events and to pass them by with a certain fatalistic indifference. It is all the more essential to welcome a determined relief project such as is represented in your appeal and in your organizational activity, whose success can do so much to ease the widespread need and suffering.”

DINNERS TO RAISE $100,000

Two dinners that are expected to raise a minimum of $100,000 toward the $1,200,000 fund for German Jewish relief being sought in New York will be held June 12 and 13, it was announced yesterday by Charles D. Jaffee, chairman of the Clothing and Allied Trades Division, and by Dr. G. A. Lowenstein, chairman of the Food Division of the drive.

The dinner of the clothing trades will be held at the Metropolis Club, 105 West Fifty-seventh street, on June 12, with Michael Schaap, president of Bloomingdale’s, and chairman of the Trades Council of the campaign, as guest of honor. Judge Otto A. Rosalsky will be guest speaker.

A committee of one hundred leading restaurateurs in New York is sponsoring the dinner of the food industry, to be held at the Hotel Commodore on June 13, in honor of Felix M. Warburg. Officers of the committee include Abraham Krasne, treasurer.

GARDEN PARTY FOR VICTIMS

A garden party will be held today at the home of Mrs. Joseph Stroock, 998 Fifth avenue, the proceeds going to the United Jewish Appeal for German Jewish Relief. Mrs. Stroock is chairman of the Manhattan Women’s Division of the fund. Federal Judge Julian W. Mack will be guest of honor.

Members of the committee include:

Mrs. Charles J. Liebman, Mrs. Robert M. Ackerman, Mrs. Paul Baerwald, Mrs. Ira Leo Bamberger, Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard, Mrs. Myron I Borg, Mrs. Cecelia Coleman, Mrs. Herbert L. Carlebach, Mrs. Edwin S. Friendly, Mrs. I. Edwin Godwasser, Mrs. Fred H. Greenebaum, Mrs. Charles Guggenheimer, Mrs. H. A. Guinzburg, Mrs. Jerome J. Hanauer, Mrs. Mortimer H. Hess, Mrs. Lester Hofheimer, Mrs. Ernest Katz, Mrs. Paul Klingenstein, Mrs. George F. Kurzman, Mrs. Arthur Lehman, Mrs. Harold M. Lehman, Mrs. A Leventhal, Mrs. Samuel Levy, Mrs. Sam a. Lewisohn, Mrs. Walter H. Liebman, Mrs. Clarence H. Low, Mrs. Solomon Lowenstein, Mrs. Edwin I. Marks, Mrs. I. D. Morrison, Mrs. David de-Sola Pool, Mrs. Joseph M. Proskauer, Mrs. Alfred Rheinstein, Mrs. Sol Rosenbloom, Mrs. Ernest Rosenfeld, Mrs. Paul Rosenthal, Mrs. Benno Rosenwald, Mrs. Dudley D. Sicher, Mrs. Samuel A. Sicher, Mrs. Hugh Grant Straus, Mrs. Nathan Straus Jr., Mrs. Lewis L. Strauss, Mrs. Joseph Stroock, Mrs. Samuel Stroock, Mrs. Sol Strook, Mrs. David Hays Sulzberger, Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, Mrs. Paul M. Warburg, Mrs. Frank R. Wheeler, Mrs. John B. Wise and Mrs. J. J. Wyle.

ROCKAWAY DRIVE LAUNCHED

The Rockaway Division of the Appeal, headed by John L. Leibowitz, which has set a quota of $15,000, was launched with a dinner at the Jewish Community Center, Far Rockaway. The guest of honor, Rabbi M. Silvers, delivered the principal address. Other speakers include Mrs. Roger W. Straus, chairman of the Women’s Division of the Greater New York United Jewish Appeal, and Leibowitz.

James B. Morris, non-Jewish vice-president of the Morris Plan Industrial Banking Co., set a precedent yesterday by accepting chairmanship of a committee of industrial bankers to raise funds for the relief of German Jewish refugees.

Declaring it his duty as a Christian to make up for the wrongs committed by Christians in Germany, Mr. Morris announced his action at a luncheon at the Hotel Commodore, at which a bankers’ division of the Appeal was formed.

Those associated with Mr. Morris in the committee are Ralph Riddleberger, Nathan A. Bachelor, Meyer Schorr and G. Bertram Smith.