D’avigdor Goldsmid, former President of the Board of Jewish Deputies in London and chairman of the Executive of the Jewish Agency, arrived in New York yesterday on the S.S. Majestic. He will participate in a number of conferences here on the situation of the Jews in Germany and also on the Jewish problem in Palestine.
“I have arrived in New York in order to have a private interchange of views with some of my American friends with regard to the situation in Germany, and in that connection, various Palestine problems will also be discussed,” the noted English-Jewish leader declared in an interview with a representative of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency on his arrival.
“My colleagues on the other side of the Atlantic felt that full and accurate knowledge of American Jewish opinion would be of the utmost value to them and would doubtless enable them to direct their policy and energies along parallel lines. I need hardly repeat here as you are probably quite familiar with our views, that the efforts of Anglo-Jewry are being directed against the discrimination on grounds of race or creed exercised by the German Government, and it is our determination to do our utmost to prevent the German Jews from being permanently degraded to a position of lower class citizens,” declared Mr. Goldsmid, adding that “all shades of public opinion in England, are practically without exception, in full sympathy with our views.”
Mr. Goldsmid was greeted at the pier by Felix M. Warburg, his host during his stay here, and by Joseph C. Hyman, general secretary of the Joint Distribution Committee. Arriving on the same boat with Mr. Goldsmid were Dr. Maurice Hexter, member of the Executive of the Jewish Agency in Palestine and director of the Palestine Emergency Fund, and Leib Jaffe, director of the Keren Hayesod, who left directly for Canada, where he will speak before many Jewish communities in behalf of Palestine settlement.
Mr. Goldsmid will be the guest at a meeting of the American representatives of the Jewish Agency at the Astor Hotel on Saturday evening.
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