American Jewish Leaders to Discuss Urgent Problems of Displaced Jews with Unrra

Jacob Blaustein and Judge Philip Forman, members of the delegation of the American Jewish Committee who are here to defend Jewish rights at the Peace Conference, left today for Geneva to discuss with Fiorello LaGuardia, head of UNRRA, various urgent problems affecting the position of displaced Jews. During his stay in London, Mr. Blaustein conferred with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine.

Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the World Jewish Congress, who was scheduled to leave for Geneva with the members of the American Jewish Committee, decided to remain in Paris to attend the crucial meetings of the Jewish Agency executive which are to be resumed this week after an interruption of several days. Rabbi Philip Bernstein, advisor on Jewish affairs to American military headquarters in Europe, is flying today from Frankfurt to join the discussion between the American Jewish Committee leaders and LaGuardia.

DELEGATIONS WANT IRONCLAD GUARANTEES ON JEWISH RIGHTS FROM RUMANIA

Jewish delegations who have been meeting here to draft memoranda to the Peace Conference on equal rights for Jews are devoting particular attention to the Rumanian treaty.

There is extreme reluctance to rely upon the discretion of any Rumanian Government to protect the fundamental rights of Jews. Therefore, the delegations would like to see ironclad guarantees of such rights written into the treaty, and provisions for enforcement of the statutes.

The round-table discussions of the various Jewish representatives have been intensified, and with the arrival of Prof. H. Lauterpacht, of Cambridge University, who has been named legal consultant to the American Jewish Committee delegation, work is expected to begin on the draft of the demands to be made by the Jewish groups.

These demands will have to be presented in the form of amendments to the draft treaties and can be introduced only by one of the 21 nations meeting here. Private discussions are therefore proceeding among the Jewish leaders as to how best to secure the support of certain governments for the amendments affecting Jews.