Dr. Nahum Goldmann, world Jewish leader, will make a new attempt for sending a World Jewish Congress delegation to the Soviet Union, he told a press conference here.
Dr. Goldmann, WJC president, plans to return to the United States after Israel’s Independence Day celebrations. At the press conference he pointed out that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s comments on the failure of the Jewish autonomous region set up by the USSR at Birobidjan do not clash with what the Zionists have been saying about Birobidjan. He underlined that Mr. Khrushchev’s remarks, during an interview with the Paris newspaper Le Figaro, constituted the first public Soviet utterance that a Jewish problem did exist in the USSR.
During his journey from Israel to the U.S., he said, he would sound out Zionists abroad on the proposed new financial arm of the world Zionist movement which, he said, would probably take the form of the original Jewish Colonial Trust. It is hoped to raise tens of millions of dollars for Zionist work in Israel through this set-up.
Dr. Goldmann revealed that an all-party committee set up by the recent session of the Zionist Actions Committee to coordinate Zionist movement activities with the Israel Government had completed its recommendations and would place them before Premier David Ben Gurion next week.
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