Israel Consul-General in New York, Arthur Lourie, addressing 3,000 delegates attending a conference of the Council of Organizations of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, declared today that “the present situation in Israel in the immigrant camps is so serious that it is taking on the character of a calamity which is liable to affect the very existence of Israel.
“Tens upon tens of thousands of refugees who have at last reached their goal — a homeland where they can live and work and bring up their families in decency and in hope — are condemened to idleness and to frustration of spirit and to moral despair in the sub-human conditions of the immigrant camps because we have not the means to bring in the materials and to provide the machinery and the wherewithal to build homes for them,” he stated. Other speakers included Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York and Samuel Hausman, a general chairman of the New York U.J.A. 1950 campaign.
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