More than $1,000,000 was made available here today to the United Jewish Appeal, to save Jews from countries where anti-Jewish propaganda is being conducted by Communist Governments, at a conference launching the UJA campaign in the Southwest. Leaders from Jewish communities in Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana attended the parley.
The delegates adopted a resolution debunking Soviet “espionage” charges against the Joint Distribution Committee. “These fantastic charges are utterly and completely false,” Morris Laub, assistant secretary of the JDC told the conference. “No one can discredit the 38 years of humanitarian and life-saving work of the Joint Distribution Committee. And there is also the fact that the JDC has long since ceased to carry out its program in many countries behind the Iron Curtain.”
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