Delegates from various New England communities began to arrive here tonight to attend the New England Conference for the United Jewish Appeal, which opens Sunday afternoon at the Hotel Statler.
The three principal speakers will be Morris Rothenberg, president of the Zionist Organization of America; Joseph C. Hyman, executive secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee, and Judge Jacob J. Kaplan, chirman of the Appeal campaign in the Boston area. Elihu D. Stone, prominent Zionist and New England Appeal chairman, will preside.
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The addresses will emphasize the situation among the Jews in eastern and central Europe and Palestine and lay stress on the tragic needs of the Jews of Germany and refugees.
The conference will launch the Appeal drive throughout New England. Last year $2,169,892 was raised throughout the nation for the relief of the Jews of Germany and the other countries and the settlement of Jews in Palestine.
Mr. Stone said today the Appeal has settled nearly 30,000 refugees from Germany in new homes. Of this number, he asserted, 12,000 have been settled permanently in Palestine.
“There are still thousands of refugees who have left their native land, seeking homes elsewhere; thousands who want to go to Palestine to begin life anew, who appeal to American Jewry for help in these dark hours of degradation and mental despair, he declared.
“There is need also to reconstruct the lives of the Jews who have remained in Germany and to help the Jews of Poland, whose conditions today are tragic and calamitous. All these issues will be discussed.”
Mr. Rothenberg is national co-chairman of the Appeal and it is in this capacity, rather than as president of the Zionist Organization, that he will attend the parley here.
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