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Friday, September '12, 1947

THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Twenty.

Orphan Wonders

Morgentlutu Calls DP Plight
Worse Than at War's Close

Butzel Asks Full Support
10f State UJA Conference

Full support to the Michigan State Conference of the
The United Jewish Appeal "They served this country honor-
$170,000,000
United Jewish Appeal which will be held Sunday,
ably
and
well
during
the
war
and
agencies spent more than, $105,-
Sept. 21, at the Durant Hotel in Flint, is urged by Fred M.
000,000 in Europe, Palestine and are upstanding citizens today in
Butzel, conference chairman. The deterioration of economic
the United States since the be- every community where they
conditions in many countries of Europe coupled with the dras-
ginning of 1947 to provide for the have settled."
tic curtailment of governmental assistance to the destitute
A prediction that the colony
I chef, rehabilitation and reset-
Jewish survivors overseas con-
1ement needs of 1,500,000 Jewish of European refugees who have
fronts them with increased suf-
survivors of war and oppression been stranded in Shanghai since
fering as they aproach their post-
overseas, Henry Morgenthau, Jr., before World War II will be prac-
war winter. American generos-
gone! al, chairman of the United tically liquidated in 1948 was
ity is the major hope in this
Jewish Appeal drive for $170,000,- voiced by Edwin Rosenberg.
acute crisis," Butzel declared.
Little Jewish orphan girl, eating
"Shanghai will be the first ma-
000, reported at the opening ses-
The state conference will cli-
sion of a two-day conference of jor Jewish refugee problem to be her cereal, wonders when she will
elp from U.S.
max the observance in this re-
American Jewish leaders in New cleared up since the end of the leave her orphanage to join her
war," he said. Refugees from friends who have left for Palestine.
York.
"Factories first, food next" is gion of the "Ten Days of Re-
The $105,000,000 figure, Mor- Shanghai are now arriving at the Child is maintained at Joint Dis- the call of the Jews of Bulgaria membrance" which this year will
rate
of
1,000
a
month,
Mr.
Rosen-
g•nthau said, represents the larg-
tribution Committee orphanage as they mark the third anniver- mark the High Holy Days in all
est -sum ever spent by the agen- berg reported.
by American Jewry sary of their liberation from Naz- Jewish communities of the coun-
suported
"Several hundred people have
cies of the United Jewish Appeal
through the $170.000.000 cam- ism in a valiant effort to effect try, Butzel said.
--the Joint Distribution Commit- already received visas based on paign of the United Jewish Ap- genuine revival, it was reported
In order to bridge the gap left
by Manuel Siegel, JDC Director
tee, the United Palestine Appeal the United Service affidavit. The
peal. She is one of Europe's 120,- for Bulgaria, who returned from by UNRRA liquidation and the
and the United Service for New office of the JDC in Shanghai is
000
Jewish
children
who
must
be
Europe after more than a year inadequacy of the IRO program,
Americans—in any similar period working with the U. S. Consulate
fed clothed, housed by JDC.
the Jewish communities in this
to process the rest."
overseas for the JDC. He said:
in previous years.
country are redoubling their ef-
"Three years ago, on Sept. 9,
Morgenthau welcomed the
forts to realize the UJA goal.
Bulgaria was freed from Fascism,
UNSCOP report, characterizing it
A number of prominent speak-
but it remains a poverty-stricken,
as a "silver lining" of hope for
ruman 3 new ear creetin g
famine-ridden land. Yet the Jew- ers will address the meeting and
the homeless and displaced Jews
ish population seeks help that will present first-hand reports of the
of Europe. "But until the General
President Truman has issued the following New
make its members self-support- dilemma facing the bulk of the
Assembly acts to bring its recom-
Year message to the Jews of America:
ing. They stand ready to subsist Jewish survivors.
mendations to fruition," he added,
"Upon this memorable anniversary, I extend to my
on meager diets if only they are
it is the task of the Jews of
fellow citizens of the Jewish faith sincere greetings for
helped to find opportunities for Palestine Pavilion Planned
America, through the United
the New Year.
security. This is one of the Joint For Exhibition in Bulgaria
Jewish Appeal, to sustain their
SOFIA—A Palestine pavilion,
Distribution Committee's chief
morale and improve their exist-
Let us all, of whatever religious faith, strive to-
goals in its assistance programs organized by the Jewish Agency,
ence."
gether in good works to the end that a just peace, based
I in Bulgaria, programs for which will be established at the inter-
Among the other principal
on the essential rights of man, shall reign throughout the
the JDC has appropriated this national fair which is to be held
speakers were William Rosen-
world."
in the city of Plovdiv.
year more than $270,000."
wald, national chairman of the I
United Jewish Appeal and hon-
orary president of United Service
for New Americans: and Edwin
Rosenberg, president of United
Service.
Situation Desperate
Describing the plight of the
Jewish survivors of Hitlerism as
desperate, Morgenthau warned
that the assistance which they
required would have to be cur-
tailed unless additional funds
were made available to the United
Jewish Appeal.
of
liquidation
the
Since
UNRRA the Joint Distribution
Committee has had to shoulder
incrcasingly heavy burdens in
central Europe," he said. The area
of operations where the demise
of UNRRA has resulted in greater
responsibilities for the agencies
of the Unitecl•JcWish Appeal is
the DP camps and centers in
Germany and Austria, he pointed
The laughter of a scattered family at a reunion . • •
out.
In these countries, Morgenthau
said, large quantities of clothing
which were formerly provided by
The greetings of men on their way to work .. .
UNRRA must now be supplied by
JDC. Work projects must be in-
creased to give employment to
40.000 displaced Jews. There are
The voices of children tumbling out of a school bus .. .
38,000 children who require con-
tinued educational facilities.
More PDs Since War
After surveying the desperate
The singing of people at a picnic . .
Jewish situation in Poland and
Hungary, Morgenthau said:
"In many respects the situation
of the Jews in Europe is worse
than it was two years ago when
These are the sounds of a free people enjoying their "pursuit of happiness." -
there were no more than about
50,000 Jews in the DP camps
as against 250,000 today. Those
who manage to get to Palestine
Motor transportation played a part in making such sounds more common now than
arrive in pitiful condition, with-
out any means at all and very
in the America of yesterday.
often without any clothes. The
United Palestine Appeal must
have adequate resources to give
the refugees who come to Pales-
And the thing that played the biggest part in making motor transportation so
tine via the detention camps at
Cyprus every opportunity to
common was the hard work of a lot of men.
shake off the tragic past and take
their proper place in the Jewish
homeland."
Men like those at General Motors who have done their best to give more of every-
Morgenthau also pointed out
that United Service for New
thing in a car—to make more and better things for more and happier people.
Americans must expand its pro-
gram to provide for the needs of
refugees who are entering the
United States at the rate of 2,000
a month.
William Rosenwald told the
conference that "the world is
watching the United States for
a cue in dealing with the refugee
problem on a just and humane
"More and Better Things for More People"
basis."
Restoration to Normal Life
"Restoration to normal life is
one of the major international
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problems of the present day," he
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said. Emphasizing that the refu-
gees who have entered this
country have become good Amer-
icans, Rosenwald continued:

Bulgarian Jews
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