The importance of carefully selecting the 500 refugee families to be settled in the Dominican Republic under the newly-signed colonization agreement was emphasized today by James N. Rosenberg and Dr. Joseph Rosen, respectively president and vice-president of the Dominican Republic Settlement Association.
Settlement of the refugees, they told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in an interview, must begin gradually. They cautioned also against raising of false hopes, especially among persons not fitted for colonization.
Both Mr. Rosenberg and Dr. Rosen paid tribute to Generalissimo Trujillo, former president of the Republic, for generously contributing the 24,000-acre tract “Sosua” to be used in settlement of the first contingent of refugees. The tract, they stated, was the first choice of the experts’ commission headed by Dr. Rosen after extensive travel and a through investigation of various other sites in the Republic.
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