More than 1,200 Jewish leaders representing communities in every section of the United States will assemble here tomorrow to open the five-day national conference of the United Jewish Appeal at which the 1948 over## relief, rehabilitation and resettlement goal will be established.
The conference, which will take place at the Chelsea Hotel, will discuss plans ## the participation of American Jews in providing the financial support for the building and defense of the Jewish state in Palestine, as well as for the reception of an expected immigration to Palestine of 75,000 displaced Jews during the year.
The conference will also discuss at great length the needs of the Jews of Europe and the world-wide reconstruction problem of the Joint Distribution Committee. Plans establishing Jewish refugees in the United States under the auspices of the ##ed Service for New Americans will also receive consideration.
DR. WEIZMANN, GEN. MCNARNEY AMONG PRINCIPAL SPEAKERS
The problems involved in the migration of masses of homeless European Jews to Palestine and in the establishment of a Jewish state will be discussed by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, former president of the Jewish Agency; Eliezer Kaplan, Agency treasurer; and Moshe Shertok, head of its political department. Maj. Gen. John H. Hilldring, {SPAN}##ber{/SPAN} of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations and former Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas, will deal with the U.S. Government’s interest in the establishment of the Jewish state.
The problems of the displaced Jews of Europe and the need to sustain them until arrangements can be worked out for their transfer to Palestine will be analyzed by ## Joseph T. McNarney, former Commanding General of United States forces in Europe, ## Rep. James G. Fulton of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Social Sub-Committee on the International Refugee Organization.
Other speakers will deal with the problems of increased assistance to the remaining Jewish communities of Europe in view of the continued dwindling of inter-governmental assistance and with the possibility of a greater number of displaced ##ws finding a haven in this country during the coming year. Among the other speakers will be Henry Morgenthau, Jr.; former Gov. Herbert H. Lehman; Dr. Joseph J. ##wartz, European director of the J.D.C.; Maj. Gen. Walter A. Wood, Jr., chief of the Washington office of the International Refugee Organization; Dr. Israel Goldstein, William Rosenwald and Dr. Jonah B. Wise, national chairmen of the U.J.A., and others.
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