Harold Glasser of Chicago, former assistant director of the U.S. Treasury’s Office on International Finance, who was advisor to Secretary of State Marshall at the Moscow meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers last year, was appointed acting director of the Institute on Overseas Studies established by the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, it was announced today by H.L. Lurie, the Council’s executive director.
“In heaving government service to turn his full attention and capacities to Jewish problems, Mr. Glasser will bring to his new assignment with the Council’s Institute on Overseas Studies a first-hand Knowledge of European Jewish affairs, since his experience in North Africa and Europe and with UNRRA brought him into intimate contact with overseas Jewish agencies,” Mr. Lurie said. “He has a background of familiarity with their programs, objectives and practical difficulties. At the same time, he is, of course, thoroughly conversant with governmental and inter-governmental agencies which play so large a role in determining the welfare of Jews overseas.”
The Institute was organized last year to carry on a continuing survey of Jewish overseas relief and rehabilitation needs “as a basis for long range planning by Jewish overseas agencies and the Jewish communities to meet overseas Jewish needs with maximum effectiveness,” according to Mr. Lurie.
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