A nation-wide effort to raise immediately $500,000 has been launched here to finance the large-scale immigration of approximately 60,000 Jewish refugees from several Danubian ports to Palestine, it was announced today by the Tel Hai Fund Inc., of which Vladimir Jabotinsky is World President. The campaign will be known as the “Refugee Rescue Drive” and will be directed by A. Ralph Steinberg.
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