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Conference of Catholics and Protestants Will Discuss Palestine Problems

December 11, 1942
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A national committee of Christian leaders numbering about 500 Catholic and Protestant clergymen and laymen will hold an all-day conference at Hotel Pennsylvania next Monday to discuss various phases of the problem of Jewish immigration into Palestine and the re-establishment of a Jewish National Home in the Holy Land, it was announced here today.

Among the subjects that will be presented for discussion will be the temporary Jewish problem and its relation to Palestine; the Arab-Jewish problem; and Palestine and the Post-War World. The prinicpal speakers will be Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, Prof. S. Ralph Harlow of Smith College, Northampton, Mass., and Prof. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary, New York, Mrs, Walter C. Lowdermilk of Washington, D. C. and Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the American Emergency Committee for Zionist Affairs, will also speak. The Conference will be called upon to elect permanent officers as well as to adopt plans for future activities of the Committee.

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