Jewry to which I may add the lessons won from my recent trip to the Jewries of Central Europe may enable me to give information of great value to your organizations.”
Referring to the general European situation, Mr. Laski declared:
“As citizens of our respective countries we rejoice that the situation in Europe is easier. For European statesmen, peace is the paramount consideration. Jews constitute only one part of the multiform European problem. We must look at the Jewish problem in its true proportion and realize that we cannot expect it to obtain the same consideration from others as we Jews naturally give it.”
WIDER RELIEF URGED
Dr. Kahn, who will engage in a series of conferences with leaders of the Joint Distribution Committee regarding further activities in Europe, warned that constructive relief measures “on a larger scale than hitherto, must be organized for Jewish refugees from Germany.” He also described the Jewish situation in Poland, Lithuania, Rumania and other countries as having become worse, necessitating increased relief activity by the Joint Distribution Committee.
“A solution for all these problems will be sought, and let us hope, be found, now in New York during conferences with High Commissioner James G. McDonald, who is now in America, and with representatives of such organizations as the Jewish Colonization Association, British Jewish organizations and the Jewish Agency, all of whom are in New York,” he declared.
REPORTS NEW CREDIT
Dr. Kahn described J. D. C. activities in Germany for the rehabilitation of the Jews there and reported that the American Joint Reconstruction Foundation had granted an additional $100,000 for credit activities. The J. D. C., he said, had allotted $130,000 for free loan funds in Germany and had an annual budget of $300,000 for the work of readjusting Jews to new vocations.
Dr. Kahn also declared that heavier expenditures are necessary to cope with the refugee problem, especially to provide permanent settlement for refugees now stranded in France.
“It is most important that campaigns in America and in Europe, which will have to be continued, should give greater results than in past years in order to enable the Joint Distribution Committee, in conjunction with other organizations, to commence new projects to help the starving Jews of Poland and other countries where Jews are exposed to the dangers of economic discriminations,” he pointed out.
Dr. Kahn expects also, while here, to participate in the Jewish Agency sessions in connection with problems involved in bringing refugees to Palestine.
Dr. Rosen, who will join in the Joint Distribution Committee deliberations, revealed that his report to the committee will cover, among other subjects, the possibilities of settlement of foreign Jews in Biro-Bidjan.
Asked whether his attitude concerning the possibilities of Biro-Bidjan as a land for Jewish settlement had recently undergone any change, Dr. Rosen admitted that it had undergone some modification but declined to discuss it in advance of his report.
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