The Joint Distribution Committee has opened an office in London which will work in cooperation with the Intergovernmental Committee on Refugees as well as with central Jewish relief bodies in England, it was announced here today by Joseph C. Hyman, executive vice-chairman.
The office in the British capital, Mr. Hyman said, will be headed at the outset by American personnel transferred from the Joint Distribution Committee’s European headquarters in Lisban. In addition to Lisbon, American workers of the J.D.C. are presently stationed in Spain, Tangier, Algeria, Iran, Turkey, Palestine, Argentina and Uruguay.
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