The questions of Palestine and havens for displaced persons will be among the major problems under consideration at the third annual conference of the American Council for Judaism, which opens here tomorrow for a two-day meeting. Delegates from 21 states and the District of Columbia will attend.
Principal speakers at the conference will be Earl G. Harrison, dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and chairman of the Citizens Committee on Displaced Persons, who will speak on “Displaced Persons and the U.S. Immigration Policy;” Carlten Beals, author and writer, who will discuss “What Price Jewish Nationalism” Rabbi Irving F. Reichert of San Francisco, whose subject will be “The Jewish State and the Status of the Jew;” and Elmer Berger, executive director of the Council, whose topic will be “For Integration – Not Segregation.” The presidential address will be delivered by Lessing J- Rosenwald.
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