The Overseas Press Club of America, an organization of American journalists who have worked as foreign correspondents, today announced that British officials here have declined to take part in a forum on the Palestine question, which the club arranged.
The forum is to take place at Town Hall on Saturday. Although a speaker for the British point of view had been promised last week, the Overseas Press Club was informed that the British did not wish to say anything while the Anglo-American inquiry committee was still working on its report. Speakers at the forum will include Louis Lipsky, Zionist leader; Rabbi Elmer Berger of the American Council for Judaism; and Rabbi Beruch Korpf, representing militant Zionism. Dr. Khalil Totah, executive director of the Institute of Arab American Affaire and Mr. K. Khairy of the Arab Office in Washington are scheduled to give the Arab viewpoint.
Frank Gervasi of Collier’s Ralph McGill, editor of the Atlanta Constitution who has just returned from a trip to Palestine for the Overseas News Agency; Joseph Levy, for years chief correspondent of the New York Times in the Levant and Henry Noble Hall, newspaperman and writer of the recent booklet “Why Palestine,” will comment briefly on the forum speakers. W. W. Chaplin, president of the Overseas Press Club, correspondent and radio commentator, will act as moderator.
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