American Jewish Congress to Meet in Washington on Sunday, February 20

The annual session of the American Jewish Congress will open Sunday, February 20 at the Hotel Willard, Washington, D. C.

About four hundred delegates representing Jewish communities in fifty cities and representatives of Jewish national and fraternal organizations are expected to attend the three day sessions. The outstanding issue to come before the Congress will be the question of the persecution of Jews in Roumania, it was stated.

It is expected that the delegates will receive further authentic reports of the latest developments in Roumania, which would form the basis for the action to be taken by the Congress.

Isaac Gruenbaum, deputy in the Polish parliament, will address the opening session. He is arriving today on the steamer Mauretania. Other addresses on the subject of minority rights in Eastern Europe will be delivered by Judge Julian W. Mack, and Rev. Arthur J. Brown, chairman of the American Committee on the Rights of Religious Minorities.

At a banquet Sunday night, Senator William E. Borah, Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Dr. Stephen S. Wise, Max D. Steuer, and Carl Sherman will be the speakers.

One of the important decisions to be formulated by the delegates in Washington, concerns a proposed international conference on Jewish rights to be held next August in Europe. This conference is to be called by the American Jewish Congress and the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris.

The Executive Committee of the United Roumanian Jews of America elected President Leo Wolfson, Solomon Sufrin, and Herman Speier, Executive Secretary, to represent the organization at the sessions of the American Jewish Congress, to be held at Washington, on February 20-21.

Mr. Wolfson will report to the Congress on the present condition of the Jews in Rounania and the activities of the organization in connection there with.