President Roosevelt has invited eight nationally known persons to meet with him on Wednesday to map a program for cooperation of private organizations in furthering the plan, in which 24 nations have expressed a desire to participate, to extend emergency aid to political refugees from European countries.
Catholics, Protestants and Jews are among the invited. They are: Raymond B. Fosdick, head of the Rockefeller Foundation; Prof. Joseph P. Chamberlain, professor of law at Columbia; James G. MacDonald, former League High Commissioner for Refugees from Germany; the Rev. Samuel McC. Calvert of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America; the Most Rev. Joseph F. Rummel, Archbishop of New Orleans and chairman of the Catholic-Episcopal Committee for German Refugees; Lewis Kennedy, president of the National Council of Catholic Men; Henry Morgenthau Sr., father of the Secretary of the Treasury, and Bernard Baruch, financier.
Meanwhile, the State Department announced that the Republic of Honduras, Central America, has replied favorably to its invitation.
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