A memorandum setting forth a plan for the dispatch of food and medicaments to the Jews in the ghettos of Nazi-held Poland has been transmitted from here to the State Department in Washington by Lowell C. Pinkerton, American Consul-General in Palestine, it was revealed here today.
The memorandum was prepared by the Representation of Polish Jews here following a communication received from Washington stating that the Government of the United States will give sympathetic consideration to concrete proposals on the sending of food to the starving population in occupied Poland, providing that the Nazis will not benefit from such shipments. The communication was sent to the Representation of Polish Jews in reply to an appeal to President Roosevelt.
“The question of sending supplies to areas where suffering exists as a result of the war, is receiving continued sympathetic consideration by the Government,” the official communication stated. It informed the Representation of Polish Jews that “if means can be found to assist the civil population in the conquered European countries without having such assistance inure to the benefit of the Axis Powers, you may be assured that proposals of this character will receive sympathetic consideration by the Government of the United States.”
In submitting concrete recommendations on the question of permitting the export of adequate quantities of medicaments and food for the Jews in the ghettos, the Representation of Polish Jews here suggested in its memorandum that the task of dispatching these articles should be entrusted by the U.S. Government to the American Red Cross following an agreement with the International Red Cross.
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