After spending seven weeks in the United States on a mission for the Jews of liberated France, Dr. Leon Meiss, Dr. Joseph Fischer and Rabbi Jacob Kaplan, leaders of the Representative council of the Jews of France, left today for Paris.
Prior to leaving New York, Dr. Meiss was informed from Paris that he has been reinstated as of July 1, 1941, as a judge, a position of which he was deprived by the Vichy regime and will new act as vice-chairman of the Seine Tribunal, the District Court of the French capital.
During their stay in the United States, the French-Jewish delegation, headed by Judge Meiss, conferred with various Jewish organizations on problems concerning Jewish activities. Members of the delegation also reported to numerous Jewish gatherings on the life of the Jews in France during the German occupation and on their needs and hopes now that their country has been liberated.
The departure of the delegation was marked by a farewell tea at the Plaza Hotel arranged by the World Jewish Congress. Capt. Guy Alphonse de Rothschild, who arrived with the delegation, left for France last week. The delegation came to the United States as delegates to the War Emergency Conference of the World Jewish Congress which was held at the end of November in Atlantic City. Due to transportation difficulties it reached the United States just a few days after the conference concluded.
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