Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt today urged support of the “wonderful work” of Jewish relief organizations, addressing about 2,000 women at the opening campaign rally of the Women’s Division of the United New York Appeal of the Joint Distribution Committee and National Refugee Service at the Hotel Commodore.
Praising the activities of the relief organizations, Mrs. Rossevelt said: “I hope you will be able to keep doing that kind of work. I hope that we in this country will not allow any one group to do exclusively for its own. I hope that many other people in this country will help you to do your work.”
“Mrs. Joseph Stroock, chairman of the Women’s Division, called upon the audience to “follow Mrs. Roosevelt’s example of service to humanity by dedicating themselves to active participation in the 1941 campaign.”
The scope of relief and refugee aid programs conducted by the J.D.C. in more than fifty countries and the rehabilitation and resettlement programs conducted by the N.R.S. in this country, were described by Morris C. Troper, European director of the J.D.C., and Ephraim R. Gomberg, campaign director of the N.R.S. Mrs. Roger W. Straus, chairman of the executive committee of the Women’s Division, and Miss Ethel Wise, co-chairman, also spoke. Mrs. Stroock presided.
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