Unalterable opposition to the proposed World Jewish Congress was unanimously voted yesterday at the twenty-eighth annual convention of the American Jewish Committee at the Hotel Astor, which was attended by more than 500 delegates from seventy cities in the United States.
Opposition to a world congress was strengthened by the address of Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, who reported that the responsible Jewish bodies in Great Britain, France, Netherlands and Belgium were firmly opposed to the idea.
In his exhaustive report of the activities of the Committee during the past year, Dr. Cyrus Adler, president of the organization, declared:
RIGHT TO APPROACH OFFICIALS
“The Committee believes that as American citizens, Jews have the right, individually or associated in groups, to approach the government of the United States and solicit its good offices in behalf {SPAN}o#{/SPAN} the betterment of the lot of oppressed Jews in other lands. The Committee does not believe, however, that it is consistent with these principles for them to associate themselves with the citizens of other countries in creating an international body which will assume to attempt to speak for the Jews of the country.”
Despite all reports to the contrary, all religious groups in Germany and especially the Jews continue to be oppressed, Dr. Adler reported in discussing the situation in Germany. Other sections of the report dealt with the situation of Jews in other countries and the anti-Jewish agitation in the United States by Hitler propagandists and their allies.
In describing conditions in the Reich, Dr. Adler stated that: “The
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