Evening star., 1938-11-20
Justice Brandeis Sees
Roosevelt on Aid
For Jews in Reich
Phillips and Lindsay
Also Talk With
President
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Assoc lated Press.
The plight of the Jewish popula-
ton of Germany received renewed
attention at the White House yes
terday at the end of a week in
which American relations
suffered a severe strain.
Justice Louis D. Brandeis, deeply
stirred by the latest outburst of
anti-Semitic measures in the Reich,
called to confer with President
Roosevelt on the best means of
bringing relief to panic stricken
refugees.
The President talked also with
Ambassador William Phillips, Amer
ican envoy to Italy, where repres-
sive measures against the Jews are
under way, and with Sir Ronald
Lindsay, the British Ambassador.
The Jewish resettlement problem
was believed widely to have been
the subject discussed during Sir
Ronald's unannounced visit to the
White House. Ambassador Phillips
is IN this country on vacation.
Emergency Farley Called.
The United Palestine Appeal an
nounced, meantime, that Jewish
leaders in seaboard States from
Maryland to Florida had been sum-
moned to an emergency conference
here today Ito consider the British
governments proposed plans for
the mass settlement of refugees
made homeless by new waves of
anti-Semitic oppression in Ger
many
These leaders. meeting under the
auspices of this American agency
for Jewish resettlement and re-
construction of Palestine, were ex-
pected to demand no cessation of
Jewish migration to the Holy Land
despite Arab resistance which has
led to great bloodshed.
while broad settlement pro-
gram in outlying parts of the Brit
ish dominions would entail huge
expenditures for preliminary de-
velopment and preparation, Pales-
sine settlement can be carried out
Immediately with far lower costs
owing to the extensive reconstruc-
ton achievements of the Jewish
community of 45O,OO0 already set
tied there the United Palestine Ap-
peal said in statement last night.
The conference at the Hamilton
Hotel will get under way at 1890
this morning. Rabbi Edward L.
Israel of Baltimore, chairman of the
Seaboard Region for the Appeal,
and Henry Monitor. national execu-
tive director, will be the principal
Speakers)
Myron Taylor to Sail.
Myron C. Taylor, former head OF
the United States Steel Corp, is
scheduled to sail this week for Lon
don to confer with other members
OF the ntergovernmental commit
tee set up there to deal with politi-
cal refugees. Secretary Hull said
today that the past weeks develop
ments in Germany had redoubled
the urgency of finding new homes
for hundreds of thousands of per-
sons, but that despite requests, Ger
many had shown no readiness yet to
meet the American delegate, George
Rublee. for conferences.
At the Germany Embassy it was
said yesterday that Ambassador
Hans Dieckhoff, who has been re-
called to Berlin to report on this
Government S attitude, had not yet
decided definitely when he would
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late this week
Ambassador Dieckhoff has not yet
asked for a farewell appointment
with Secretary Hull, such as Ambas-
sador Hugh Wilson made at the
Berlin foreign Office prior to his de-
parture for America in response to
similar order to report and con-
suit with the President.
Few Public Appearances.
Justice Brandeis' appearance at
the White House indicated his great
concern for the members of his race
abroad. He makes few public ap-
pearances, and during his % years
on the bench has made it a point to
take part in no public activity except
court affairs.
Following another White House
conference on the same subject in
mid-October, the justice refused
to say whether there was any truth
in rumors that he might resign to
devote his full time to the Jewish
refugee problem.
Neither the 82-year-old justice nor
the White House threw any light on
conclusions reached at the confer
ence
Another development was an ap-
peal by the Womens International
League for Peace that President
Roosevelt call a special session of
Congress to increase immigration
quotas as they apply to "the vic
TINS of European pogroms."
1--WE are confident" said state
ment from the league, that all po-
litical parties would cooperate in
this humanitarian effort. We rec