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CAMPAIGN OFFICERS

PAUL BAERWALD
HENRY ITTLESON
HERBERT H. LEHMAN
Honorary Chairmen

EDWARD M. M. WARBURG
Chairman

CARL J. AUSTRIAN
GEORGE BACKER
I. EDWIN GOLDWASSER
HAROLD K. GUINZBURG
SANFORD JACOBI
EDWARD A. NORMAN
JONAH B. WISE
Co-Chairmen

MORRIS C. TROPER
Executive Vice-Chairman

MAURICE WERTHEIM
Treasurer

ABNER BREGMAN
Associate Treasurer

JOSEPH C. HYMAN
Secretary

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
JAMES N. ROSENBERG
Chairman

$2,040,000
GREATER NEW YORK 1938 J.D.C. Campaign
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE

100 EAST 42nd St.
NEW YORK, N.Y.
Phone: LEXINGTON 2-5200 

March 21, 1938

Jacques Seligman & Co. Inc., 
3 E. 51st St.,
New York City.

Dear Friends:

The battle-lines are extending and you and I are in it - whether we like it or not! The annexation of Austria, the intensification of discrimination in Poland, Rumania and Germany menace the well-being and security of Jews everywhere.

Let's be perfectly frank about such matters. You and I know that if we permit the Jews of Europe to crack under oppression and accept the status of second-class human beings, there will be repercussions that we prefer not to think about.

The Joint Distribution Committee makes no pretensions to solving the problem. What we are doing however, is of extraordinary significance. We are bringing the means of life to tens of thousands, aiding great numbers to become self-supporting in their own countries, and assisting many others to emigrate and establish themselves abroad. Equally important is the fact that we have been able to sustain the morale of an entire people subject to inhuman pressure. 

I feel I have said enough. Please respond quickly and generously in the enclosed envelope. Do it now when funds are urgently needed.

Sincerely yours,

Edward M. M. Warburg

Edward M. M. Warburg
Chairman

EMMW:AL

ACT NOW

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