The American Jewish Conference, tentatively scheduled to meet during the first week of July, has been deferred until the latter part of August, it was announced here today following a meeting at the Hotel Biltmore of the Conference’s executive committee.
The executive committee voted also to convene the Conference in New York City or in a neighboring community. The announcement emphasized that local elections for delegates to the conference must be held by June 30 in accordance with the original plans. The executive session approved the application of the New Zionist Organization on condition that the group lists itself in the elections not as NZO, but under the name of Zionists-Revisionists.
During the interim period the business of the Conference will be directed by a national presidium elected by the executive committee and composed of Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the American Jewish Congress, Henry Monsky, president of B’nai B’rith, and Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee.
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