More than 3,000 displaced Jews from the Lechfeld DP ?P, near here, turned out today to welcome the United Jewish Appeal delegates touring Europe and Palestine to study at first-head the requirements of the Jews in trope and the Jewish state in Palestine.
Earlier, the Jews in the Landsberg camp told the 26 American Jewish communal ?ders comprising the delegation: “You have helped us splendidly with material ?ans, now you must help us get out speedily.”
The delegates expressed admiration of the neatly-kept quarters in the Lechfeld ?p, as well as for the good spirits of the refugees and later toured several vocational retraining projects. A banquet in honor of the delegates was held last night ?y the Jewish Central Committee of Germany.
At a press conference today Irving Rhodes, head of the delegation, declared that Jewish displaced persons in Europe must be helped to emigrate and all possible must be provided for them while they are still in the DP camps.
Speaking in behalf of the entire delegation, Rhodes, who is publisher of the Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle in Milwaukee, said that American Jewry was confident that it would meet the U.J.A. 1948 quota of $250,000,000 despite the fact that the Jewish community in the United Stated had already raised $300,000,000 for the relief of the Jewish survivors and the upbuilding of the Jewish state. Denying that Communism was an issue in the problems of the Jewish DP’s, Rhodes said that most of the displaced Jews would not have left Soviet-dominated countries if they were communists.
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