American Jewish Committee Members Actively Opposing Alien Registration Proposals

Members of the American Jewish Committee throughout the country are actively engaged in opposing various bills now pending in Congress, providing for the registration of aliens, according to a statement of Morris D. Waldman, secretary of the Committee. A number of the national organizations affiliated with the Committee are also cooperating through their respective branches in the same direction. Among the active organizations are the National Council of Jewish Women, the National Conference of Jewish Social Work, the Women’s League of the United Synagogue of America, United Roumanian Jews of America and the United Synagogue. At the request of the Committee, the Independent Order B’nai B’rith has also agreed to cooperate.

Among those members who have been reporting on the results of their communications with members of Congress are Nathan Cohn of Nashville, Tenn.; Rev. Dr. Edward N. Calisch, Richmond, Va.; Herbert J. Hannoch of Newark, N. J.; Henry Lasker, Springfield, Mass.; Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer, Des Moines, Iowa; Isaac H. Kempner, Galveston, Texas; Joseph H. Schanfield, Minneapolis, Minn., and Henry J. Stern, Rochester, N. Y.

The Committee has supplied all its members and cooperating bodies with copies of a memorandum on the registration of aliens prepared in the office of the Foreign Language Information Service, and of pamphlets compiled by Max J. Kohler, who is the chairman of the Commitee’s Standing Advisory Committee on Immigration and Naturalization.