For the first time since the October revolt in Hungary, Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, will meet with Hungarian Jewish leaders. Dr. Goldmann announced at a press conference today that he is going to Zurich, Switzerland, where he is to confer with the president and vice-president of the Hungarian Jewish community. He will meet with the latter not only in his capacity as president of the WJC but also as head of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. (The Israel legation in Budapest, Hungary, has started publishing a picture magazine, with captions in Hungarian. The magazine is being issued as a monthly supplement to the legation’s mimeographed news bulletin.)
Dr. Goldmann said that, after conferring with the Hungarian Jewish leaders in Zorich, he will go to London to preside at the meeting there of the World Jewish Congress. At that session, representatives of 20 countries will discuss the problems of Jewry in Eastern Europe; the problems, especially cultural, facing North African Jewry; the return of sequestrated property to Egyptian Jews; and the plans for the formation of a new world Jewish organization.
From London, Dr. Goldmann will go to Bonn for a conference with the West German Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Adenauer, and with other leaders of the West German Government. Then he will fly to South America to open a campaign in Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay. Finally, he will return to the United States to discuss questions of a territorial Zionist federation and participation of non-Zionists in the work of the Jewish Agency.
After having had three conferences with Israeli Arab leaders in Nazareth and in various Arab villages, Dr. Goldmann reported today that he found the Arabs speaking “calmly and objectively,” praising progress in the fields of education and health as was as economic progress, but showing “a tone of bitterness” in complaints against “in-equality” regarding various rights given Arabs in this country.
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