Pope Pius XII today blessed the efforts of the United Jewish Appeal agencies when he received 28 American Jewish communal leaders comprising the U.J.A. delegation touring Europe and Palestine to study the needs of the Jewish survivors on the Continent and the new Jewish state in Palestine.
After greeting each delegate personally, the Pope told the delegation: “This is not the first group of your much-tried people we have been pleased to receive here. ## welcome the opportunity of your visit to tell you once more how deeply our paternal earth has been moved by the manifestations of gratitude for what we were able and so happy to do to lighten the burdens of your people among so many others in the dark days of the war. We gladly invoke the blessing of God most high on all the charitable endeavors you may undertake in His name.”
The delegation, which arrived a few days ago from Germany and is en route to Palestine, was granted a 20-minute audience with the Pope. Irving Rhodes, chairman of the group, expressed the gratitude of American Jewry to the Pope for the assistance which Catholics gave Jews in Europe during the war.
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