Various problems facing refugees and the National Refugee Service in 1943 will be considered at a special meeting of the members and directors of the National Refugee Service which will be held at the Astor Hotel on January 23, it was announced here today. The meeting will be addressed by Frederick P. Keppel, a member of the Presidential Board of Appeals on Visa Cases, and Earl G. Harrison, Commissioner of the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service. Reports of NRS activities will be presented by the president and other officers of the agency, as well as the executive director.
In calling the meeting, William Rosenwald, NRS president, pointed out that, “the problems of the agency are still in the category of unfinished business. They provide a continuing challenge to our ingenuity. At this moment no one can predict exactly what will happen in 1943. But, we know that the National Refugee Service – as the representative of the American Jewish community – must be ready to meet whatever the future will bring.”
By a vote of its Board of Directors, the German-Jewish Children’s Aid, founded in 1934 to rescue child refugees from Germany and which now aids children from all the oppressed countries of Europe, will be known in the future as the European-Jewish Children’s Aid, Inc. At the same time announcement was made of the election of the following new officers, Herman W. Block, chairman; Joseph C. Hymen, vice-chairman; Paul Felix Warburg, treasurer; Ethel H. Wise, secretary.
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