A delegation of German-Jewish leaders arrived here today to present plans to a private conference of Jewish leaders next week for expatriating German Jews.
The conference was called to set up the Council for German Jewry to supervise emigration of 100,000 Reich Jews over four years under proposals made by a delegation of British Jews headed by Sir Herbert Samuel while in the United States.
The German Jewish leaders are Max Warburg, Hamburg banker; Dr. Otto Hirsch, president of the executive of the Reich Representation of Jews in Germany, and Dr. Siegfried Moses, president of the German Zionist Federation. Their proposals will include plans for vocational training of German Jewish youth and for emigration overseas.
Meanwhile, the World Zionist Executive today completed separate plans for presentation to the council. These deal with colonization schemes centering on Palestine.
Discussion of the projects will commence in earnest with the arrival here of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, who is on his way from Jerusalem, and representatives of the Joint Distribution Committee as well as other central Jewish organizations.
The three American members of the council, Felix M. Warburg, New York banker and philanthropist; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, and Paul Baerwald, chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, when unable to attend the sessions will be represented by privately selected substitutes.
The council will be established on a fifty-fifty principle, including four Zionists and four non-Zionists with Sir Herbert serving as ninth member and chairman. The Zionist members will include Dr. Weizmann, Dr. Wise and Simon Marks. The non-Zionists will include Mr. Warburg, Mr. Baerwald, Lord Bearsted and Sir Osmond D’Avigdor-Goldschmid.
For the United States, the council will have only the function of advising on distribution of funds, since fund-raising is being handled by the United Palestine Appeal and the Joint Distribution Committee. In England, however, the council will serve both to raise funds and advise on their allocation.
The chief issue of the conference will be allocation of the $15,000,000 to be raised over the four years. The Zionists are prepared to demand at least half of the total for Palestine, while the non-Zionists are at present opposing such division.
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