The European executive of the Agudas Israel Organization today cabled the organizers of the Zurich conference of Jewish groups asking that the parley be postponed to await further developments in Moscow in view of Premier Stalin’s serious illness. Earlier, the Agudah had announced that it would not be represented at the Zurich conference.
The Anglo-Jewish Association, which had been hesitant about participating in the Zurich conference, last night decided to join the other Jewish groups participating in the conference and to send two representatives to it. The AJA Council voted 18 to five to participate. The delegates who were appointed on condition that they would have full rights to dissent or abstain on any issue and that their votes would be recorded by the conference, were instructed to seek the formation of a conference steering committee consisting of the representatives of five non-governmental groups and the Jewish Agency.
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