Eighty-eight delegates left New York to attend the National Conference on Palestine which opens its session Saturday night at the Hotel Statler in Boston. One thousand delegates are expected to be present from cities throughout the country.
The Conference is regarded as of particular importance because it is the first national gathering in the history of American Jewry at which non-Zionists as well as Zionists are to be represented in the discussion of the welfare of Palestine.
Felix Warburg, promient philanthropist, will be one of the principal speakers at the Conference. Other prominent non-Zionists will also be in attendance.
Election of officers for the United Palestine Appeal, the united fund-raising agency for Palestine in America, is one of the important items on the agenda of the Conference. A national campaign quota for the coming year will also be adopted. The address by Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of the World Zionist Organization, will be de voted to a review of the situation in Palestine at the present time.
Jonah J. Goldstein has been chosen honorary chairman of the United Palestine Appeal Campaign for the New York Downtown Section. Mr. Goldstein succeeds in this post the late Joseph Barondess. The annual conference of the Downtown United Palestine Appeal workers will be held Sunday, December 16, at the Hotel Pennsylvania
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