Presidents Conference Says Member Groups with Travel Programs to Mexico to Determine Own Policies

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said last night that its constituent bodies with travel programs to Mexico were now considering whether or not to resume those programs. In a statement. Rabbi Alexander M. Schindler. chairman of the Presidents Conference, said:

“Our special subcommittee on Mexico has issued a unanimous report expressing satisfaction that ‘a decided reversal of Mexico’s attitude toward Zionism, Israel and the Jewish people, has in fact taken place.’ The report has now been transmitted to our member organizations and it is up to them, as autonomous organizations, to determine their own policies. The Conference of Presidents itself does not operate tours to Mexico or any other country. Consequently, and despite erroneous press reports, the Conference did not call off’ any ‘travel boycott of Mexico’ because we never imposed one in the first place.