A delegation of twenty-three American Jews will visit Europe this summer as the representatives of the American Jewish Congress to participate in the World Conference on Jewish Rights. This Conference, which is being called jointly by the American Jewish Congress and the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris, is scheduled to take place in Geneva beginning August 18th.
The election of the American delegates was held Thursday afternoon at a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Congress at the Hotel Astor. The delegation is to be headed by Judge Julian W. Mack, who was the first President of the American Jewish Congress and Chairman of the Committee of Jewish Delegations in 1919 which was responsible for the minority clauses that were incorporated in the post-war treaties. The other members of the delegation are: Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Judge Gustave Hartman, Dr. A. J. Rongy, Emanuel Hertz, George I. Fox, Dr. J. Tenenbaum, Carl Sherman, Max D. Steuer, S. J. Rosensohn, Max L. Hollander, Leo Wolfson, Bernard G. Richards, Philip Wattenberg, Herman Speier, Louis Lipsky, Mrs. R. Gottheil, David Shapiro, Mrs. A. Silverman, Providence; Judge Hugo Pam, Chicago; Jacob Ginsburg, Philadelphia ; Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner, Cleveland; Rabbi Max Heller, New Orleans.
The delegation was authorized by the meeting to add to its number or to make substitutions in the event any of those named are prevented from attending the conference.
Dr. Stephen S. Wise, who presided at the meeting, announced that the delegation will meet shortly to discuss the program of the Conference.
The meeting of the Executive Committee also heard reports of the latest developments in connection with the persecution of the Jews in Roumania and censured the activities of Col. Lytton G. Ament, who having just returned from Roumania where he was an official guest of the King and Queen, is now engaged in “whitewashing” the Roumanian Government. Various letters from Roumania were read showing that Col. Ament interviewed Roumanian Jews in the presence of police officials and thus obtained the “denials” of persecution and excesses, which he is now publishing in a New York newspaper.
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