Jewish newspapers, welcoming the arrival of two American Jewish relief representatives, declared today that starvation among Polish Jews was far more acute now than in the post-war period when the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee supplied the Jewish population with bread, milk and rice.
Dr. Bernhard Kahn, European director of the American relief body, and David J. Schweitzer, its financial administrator, arrived here yesterday to survey the Polish-Jewish situation and confer on ameliorative measures.
The newspapers said the position of Polish Jewry was so miserable that simple charity was more needed at this time than constructive relief. They cited inability of local Jewish charity organizations to cope with the pressing need for free meals and clothing.
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