S. Bertrand Jacobson, a member of the overseas staff of the Joint Distribution Committee who has been on relief assignments for the past three years, arrived today in New York from the Island of Jamaica where he had arranged for the welfare of 152 Jewish Polish refugees rescued by the J.D.C.
Mr. Jacobson, who was in the American consular service before becoming affiliated with the J.D.C., headed the J.D.C. branch office in Budapest, supervising operations for the Balkan area. When Hungary declared war on the United States, he left Budapest for Lisbon, where the J.D.C. headquarters are located. From Lisbon he went to Jamaica as escort for the Polish Jewish group.
Mr. Jacobson reported that the people of Europe, even those in the Nazi countries who want to see the Nazi tyranny removed, have gathered new hope since America became one of the Allies. “As for living conditions,” Mr. Jacobson said, “they are pretty frightful. Europeans are hoping that just as in the last war America will implement its military aid with all-out relief.”
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