The Council of the Anglo-Jewish Association last night decided to ask the Board of Deputies of British Jews to join it in a request to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany that a meeting of the policy committee of the Conference be convened in Europe to consider and delineate the functions of the various organs of the Conference. The A.J.A. also insisted that British Jewry be represented at such a meeting on a basis of complete equality.
The decision to ask for a policy committee meeting was adopted after the A.J.A. Council heard Rowland Landman, chairman of the Association’s foreign affairs committee, charge that the presidium of the Conference had “arrogated to itself the functions of the executive committee” and that British Jewry no longer had an adequate voice on policy matters within the Conference. (J.T.A. learns that at the meeting of the executive committee of the Conference, which was held yesterday in New York a representative designated by British Jewry was present.)
H.A. Goodman, a member of the Council and political secretary of the World Agudas Israel Organization, called the attention of the members to the trial of Philip Auerbach, former head of the Bavarian Restitution Office, which he insisted had opened in Munich in an anti-Semitic atmosphere reminiscent of the days of the Nazis. He expressed concern over the German court’s insistence upon beginning the trial on Passover. His proposal that the A.J.A. negotiate with the American Jewish Committee for the assignment of an observer to the Auerbach trial was adopted by the council.
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