(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
The creation of a national federation of the various state federations within the Reich was decided upon today at the joint session of the Jewish federations in Germany.
According to the resolution adopted, the National Federation is to be composed of representatives of the state federations of the Jewish communities. A proposal by Zionist delegates that the members of the national federation be elected not by the local federation but in general democratic elections was defeated.
The federation of Jewish communities in Saxony advocated the adoption of a plan by which the German Jews be separated from the Eastern Jews who live in Germany in the communal elections and that the number of representatives to which the Eastern Jews are to be entitled be limited.
The Federal indictment against David Gordon, nineteen-year-old university student and poet, was dropped by motion of United States Attorney Charles H Tuttle.
For writing a poem, “America,” publlshed last year in the Communist Daily Worker, Gordon was convicted in the Court of Special Sessions and sentenced to an indeterminate term in the Reformatory. He was released on parole May 15.
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