(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
Dr. Leo Motzkin, formerly chairman and secretary of the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris, was chosen to head the work of the Council on Jewish Rights created at the Zarich conference last summer on the initiative of the American Jewish Congress.
This decision was taken at a session of the European members of the Executive committee of the Council, pre##ded over by Deputy Isaac Gruenbaum of Warsaw. This arrangement is to continue until the next plenary session.
This decision has called forth surprise in the circles of the American Jewish Congress. Mr. Bernard G. Richards stated that in was the intention of the Congress to concentrate the work of the Council in Genera, where Mr. Z. Abersohn is in change. The Berlin meeting be scared was held “rather unexpensedly and without sufficient notice to the American members.”
It was stated that the re## between the Geneva burean of the Council and the office of the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris, where Dr. Motzkin is in charge, were not harmonious in recent months. Much duplication in connection with the work of presenting reports on the situation of the Jewish minorities to the League of Nations, resulted from this friction. It appears that Dr. Motzkin strives to continue the work of the Committee of Jewish Delegations in Paris, not-withstanding the decision of the Zurich conference to concentrate the work in Geneva.
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