Judicial Duties Prevent Judge Mack from Attending Zurich Conference

Judicial duties will prevent Judge Julian W. Mack from attending the conference on Jewish Rights which will open in Zurich on August 17. In a statment to the Jewish Daily Bulletin setting forth the reasons for his inability to attend the conference, Judge Mack gave his emphatic endorsement to the aims of the Conference.

“Answering your inquiry,” Judge Mack stated, “the sole reason for my not going to Europe to attend the conference called in Zurich and the Zionist Congress is the imperative need of considering and deciding a case the trial of which has just finished and has taken four months. Both in justice to the case itself and because of other judicial duties in the fall, this work cannot be postponed.

“I have sent to the Conference and shall send to the Congress an expression of my very deep regret that I cannot participate in the sessions. Despite the fact that some Jewish organizations have declined to participate in the work of the Conference, I regard the holding of the Conference highly desirable in order that there may be secured the largest degree of co-operation between Jewish organizations in the several countries engaged in endeavoring to translate into reality the paper rights secured to the minority groups and the individual members thereof through the so-called minorities treaties of 1919.

“A full and frank discussion and consideration of the best means and methods to be adopted to this end cannot, in my judgment, be prejudicial to the interests concerned and ought to mark a forward step toward the realization of the rights granted by these treaties,” Judge Mack said.

“It is to be hoped,” he continued, “that as a result of the Conference the work of the Committee of Jewish Delegations begun in 1919 may be strengthened and that those organizations which have deemed it best not to participate in the Conference may nevertheless thereafter work in close co-operation both with one another and with the Committee of Jewish Delegations as reconstituted and reorganized toward the achievement of those ends which they have in common and which are intended to benefit and protect their fellow Jews and equally with them the other minority groups and the individuals composing them in the new and enlarged countries of Eastern and Central Europe.”