The suggestion that the United States open its doors to Jewish tuberculars or other chronically ill refugees and stateless persons as a contribution to the solution of the refugee problem, was made here today by Ben Touster, president of the United HIAS Service, at a press conference.
Mr. Touster said the U.S. should follow the example of the governments of Western European countries which have accepted a number of these “hard core” cases. He noted that with the acceptance of tubercular Jewish DP’s in the U.S. would open the way for several thousand healthy members of their families who cannot now enter the U.S. except by leaving their sick family members behind.
Mr. Touster met today with leaders of the Central British Fund for Jewish Rehabilitation to discuss a plan for the admission to Britain of a share of the European Jewish refugees in need of physical and economic rehabilitation.
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