The delay in implementing the recommendations of the Anglo-American inquiry committee that 100,000 displaced Jews be transferred to Palestine is “bringing the refugees to a state of psychological despair whereby they fee mankind has forgotten them,” Palestine Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog warned today at a press conference here following an eight-day tour of DP camps in the U.S. zone of Germany.
Later, Rabbi Herzog told a Jewish Telegraphic Agency correspondent that he had delayed a trip to Holland in order to meet with General Sir Frederick B. Morgan, UNRRA chief in Germany, and Maj. Gen. Morl E. White, who is commanding the U.S. forces in Europe during Gen. Joseph T. MoNarney’s temporary absence, and to discuss the DP situation with them.
Rabbi Herzog also said that he “was moved to see that after all they had suffered,” the waste majority of the surviving Jews “still retained hope in life and in the moral progress of humanity.” He said the refugees and displaced Jews have one great desire–“to join hands with their brethren in Palestine.
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