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THE JEWISH NEWS

Friday, November 2, 1945

JDC, UPA Mapping Plans
To Assure Relief Programs

Given NRS Post J. N. F. Produces 'Land of Hope',
New Palestine Film in Color

NEW YORK, N. Y.—The rela-
tionship between the develop-
ment of Palestine as a Jewish
Homeland and the rehabilitation
and resettlement of Europe's sur-
viving Jews is dramatically
shown in "Land of Hope", a new
sound film on Palestine, in color,
which will soon be seen by Am-
erican motion picture audiences.

Executives Preparing Unprecedented Activities to Enable
Them to Extend Efforts in Europe, Palestine;
End of War Chest to Bring Concerted Drives

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Special Correspondence to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK.—National leaders are concerned over the
status of fund-raising and plans are being formulated to
inspire the raising of the large funds that will be necessary
to assure the continuation of relief and rehabilitation pro-
grams in Europe and in Palestine.
Joint Distribution Committee and United Palestine

Appeal executives are preparing,
unprecedented activities to en- grant of
of $200,000 from the In-
able them to extend their efforts tergovernmental Committee for
in Europe and to organize . large vocational projects."
colonization schemes in Palestine.
The failure of some War Chest
Separate Campaigns
communities to reach their goals
They are especially cognizant has proven especially discon-
. of the fact that the War Chest certaing to national Jewish lead-
drives are coming to an end, that ers, but local community leaders
separate campaigns henceforth have given assurances that they
will have to be conducted in will do everything possible to
communities like Detroit where, live up to their obligations to
in the past three years, Jewish the needs of world Jewry.
drives were merged with com-
Irving I. Rhodes of Milwaukee,
munity chests, and that sums
gathered heretofore will be in- Dr. Joseph L. Brin of Boston,
adequate to meet the needs of and Leo Frisch of Minneapolis,
who were here this week in the
the times.
This correspondent learns that interests of the American As-
the JDC is compelled to raise a sociation of the English-Jewish
loan of $14,000,000 to meet the Newspapers, have reported that
their communities are firm in
deficit for 1945.
UPA leaders have indicated their determination to carry on a
• that Palestine's needs this year program of relief and rehabilita-
will be in the amount of $51,000, 7 tion. Similar assurances have
000, and JDC authorities have been received from other com-
shown that the great suffering munities.
of European Jewry will call for
at least two or three times the
amount of this year's- expendi-
ture of $35,000,000.
Unjustified Rumors
This correspondent also learns
that there is serious disturbance
QUITO, Ecuador (JTA) — At-
in some quarters over the over- torney General Alfredo Perez
lapping of activities, over un- Guerrero has recommended to
justified rumors of failure of re- the Ecuadorean government that
lief workers to carry their tasks it admit 500 Jewish children from
to a finish and it is pointed out Europe, provided that the Hias-
that JDC workers are exerting Ica Emigration Association,
their efforts to distribute relief, which has requested the admis-
to provide the needy with neces- sion of the young refugees, posts
' sities which have been shipped a bond of $100,000 to guarantee'
from Palestine, this country and that the children will not become
other lands and to enroll the public charges.'
active cooperation of UNRRA of-
This sum would be returned
ficials and the various govern- at such time as the youngsters
ments.
have learned a trade and become
Moses A. Leavitt, secretary of self-supporting. In the event that
the Joint Distribution Commit- a child dies, or leaves the coun-
tee, has issued an important try, $2,000 would be returned to
statement with regard to the the Hias-Ica. The attorney gen-
situation in Italy; Mr. Leavitt's eral also recommends that the
statement to this correspondent Jewish organization pay $20 per
reads:
month to the Ministry,of Educa-
"In recent months, the situa- tion for the maintenance of each
tion in Italy has become very young immigrant.
much aggravated. Some 13,000
It is pointed out here that Dr.
displaced persons have crossed Guerrero's suggestions should not
the border from Austria into be interpreted as indicating op-
Italy—some officially, but for position to Jewish immigration,
the most part, unofficially.
but are motivated only by the
These people left the camps in
legal an financial problems in-
Germany and Austria and volved
in admitting the children.
started their trek to the South
He has frequently expressed
of Italy.
sympathy with Jewish causes,
"If they remain in the camps and last year forestalled a ban on
set up by UNRRA and the the Zionist .Organization here,
Allied Commission, their main- over the opposition of the For-
tenance is assured. But they eign Office.
refuse to stay in the camps,
and as they travel from town
to town, they apply to the local
Jewish community organiza-
tions for aid. These organiza-
tions have only the funds
which the MC makes available
Schetiler
for help to the local people. It
was necessary, therefore, to in-
crease the budgetary allot-
Drug Stores
ments for Italy to $120,000 a
month.
are
"Every effort is being made
Pleasant Stores
to keep the people in the camps
because the burden of taking
care of them while on the move
A safe and reliable
is more than we are able to
store for prescriptions,
meet. We have about 1,500 in
Hachscharah centers, where
Schettler's are pleas-
conditions are satisfactory and
ant
stores to visit for
where the people have Under-
taken agricultural training
all drug needs.
work, as well as industrial
projects. The great majority
Friendly Pharmacist s
of these refugees are headed
and Clerks will serve
for Palestine. There are now
in Italy about 18,000 foreign
you promptly. You will
refugees and about 35,000
like our clean, friendly
Italian Jews.
stores.
"UNRRA is functioning, but
until they can organize a sup-
ply line to the camps, we have
had to make emergency grants
for aid. Naturally, every effort
is being made to have UNRRA
take over the basic relief care
.
-io re.5
of these displaced persons,
and we have also requested a

Urge Ecuador Admit
500 Jewish Children

OrtIrttler',.0

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MAX STERN

Appointment of . Max Stern as
director of the Community Re-
lations Department of the Na-
tional Refugee Service, was an-
nounced by William Rosenwald,
honorary president of NRS. Mr.
Stern is coming to NRS from
Syracuse, N. Y., where he has
been executive director of the
Jewish Welfare Federation and
Jewish Social Service Bureau for
the past eight years. The NRS
Community Relations Depart-
ment, which 'he will head, main-
tains contact with local refugee-
assistance committees in 900 cities
and towns throughout the coun-
try, aiding and advising_ them in
the work of speeding the adjust-
ment of New Americans.

Political Refugee
Gets Nobel Prize

Dr. Ernst B. Chain, German
political refugee, son of a former
Mohilev Jew, is one of the three
Nobel Prize winners as discov-
erers of penicillin and as co-
worker in penicillin research.
Dr. Chain, a Brtish citizen since
1939, is in this country for the
Medical Research Council o f
Great Britain on a confidential
mission involving the chemistry
of penicillin. He expects to return
to England Nov. 12.
He left Berlin in 1933 and join-
ed Sir Frederick - Gowland Hop-
kins, another Nobel Prize scient-
ist, in research work in Cam-
bridge. He has collaborated with
Sir Howard Walter Florey, an-
other 1945 prize winner. The third
prize winner is Sir Alexander
Fleming.

Produced under the auspices
of the Jewish National Fund, the
new film had its preview in the
Chanin Building Auditorium in
the presence of a gathering of
distinguished personalities and
metropolitan press representa-
tives. Joudge Morris Rothen-
berg, president of the Jewish
National Fund, presided.
Dramatic Scenes
"Land of Hope" is chockfull of
dramatic scenes of history in the
making. It portrays the catas-
trophe that has befallen European
Jewry under the Nazi regime, de-
picts the plight of the survivors
who remained homeless six
months after V-E Day - and gives
expression to their urgent and
fervent hope for admission to
and settlement in Palestine.
Based on events photographed in
Palestine, the „film tells the epic

story of Jewish Palestine's rural
and urban development during
the war. The scenes are laid
principally in the agricultural
colonies which have been estab-
lished on the land of the Jewish
National Fund, in the vicinity of
Lake Huleh, Galilee, and in
Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv and Haifa.
McDonald Commentary
Narrated by Jose Ferrer, noted
Shakespearean actor and pro-
ducer, "Land of Hope" is prefac-
ed by a commentary of Hon.
James G. McDonald, former
League of Nations High Commis-
sioner for Refugees and Chair-
man of President. Roosevelt's
Committee on Political Refugees.
The script was written by Sgt.
William Zimmerman, formerly
with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The
Palestine scenes were photo-
graphed by Lazar Dunner, under
the direction of the Keren Kaye-
meth head office in Jerusalem.
Palestine Hebre* songs, recorded
by the HashomerHatzair Choir.

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