American Jewish Committee Names Advisory Committees

The appointment of several standing advisory committees, whose function it will be to give close study to matters coming within their scope and advise the Executive Committee from time to time as to such action as they may deem opportune, was authorized by the executive committee of the American Jewish Committee at a recent meeting. The Standing Advisory Committees will be as follows:

A committee on foreign affairs, with sub-committees on Poland, Central Europe, Russia, Balkan countries, and Baltic countries, and on Federal legislation, State legislation, immigration and naturalization, anti-Jewish manifestations, finance, and office. In view of the recent establishment of the extended Jewish Agency, no committee on Palestine will be appointed.

The executive committee also discussed the recent meeting between Dr. Adler and the Roumanian Minister to the United States, Carol A. Davila, the new regulation of the Bureau of Naturalization under which applicants for naturalization are classified according to race or people, the classification including “Hebrews,” and the statement made by Judge Nathan Clayton of Washington, D. C. regarding criminality among Jews. In connection with the last subject, the results of a further investigation by the Statistical Department of the Committee were presented.

The Committee also discussed conditions among the Jews in Russia, Poland, Turkey, and the Yemen.

Morris Wolf of Philadelphia was elected a member of the executive committee. The meeting was attended by Dr. Cyrus Adler, president; Judge Horace Stern, chairman of the executive committee; David M. Bressler, Judge Benjamin N. Cardozo, Max J. Kohler, Judge Abram I. Elkus, Cyrus L. Sulzberger, Judge Eli Frank, Judge Irving Lehman, James Marshall, Felix M. Warburg, Morris D. Waldman, the secretary, and Harry Schneiderman, assistant secretary.