PALESTINE: Rescuer Pincus

"SCANDAL OF REFUGEES—Jerusalem's Relief Committee Starving Refugees'—The Attitude Toward Them Is The Same As Toward Beggars."

Thus recently headlined Jerusalem's leading Hebrew daily, Doar Hayom. It was not that funds were lacking to feed Jewish survivors of the Arab massacre which began at the Wailing Wall (TIME, Aug. 26 et seq.). Plenty of cash was in hand. Jews of the U. S. alone had collected over two million dollars. But the refugees were undoubtedly hungry.

For four weeks they had been fed by the British Government, a fact not gen erally known. Government rations included meat, vegetables, bread and milk daily...

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