The prediction that the World Jewish Congress ?ll play a “vital role” in the present international situation was made here by Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the organization, addressing a group of Jewish leaders ?om a number of foreign countries who are now visiting the United States.
“To say that Jewish problems have diminished because 12 percent of the world’s Jews are in Judea’ is to face the problems of Jewish life unrealistically,” ?. Wise declared. “Meanwhile, 1,300,000 Jews remain on the continent of Europe between the Soviet Union and the British Isles, and those in Arab lands, in Latin America and in the United States will also remain a great problem to ourselves and ?e whole Jewish world.”
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the executive of the World Jewish Congress emphasized that there was never so great a danger for the Jewish people to be split ?to two halves as today by the division of the world into centers of American and ?assian influence. “In these circumstances,” Dr. Goldmann said, “the only instrument for overcoming this split and succeeding, in some respect, is the World Jewish Congress. Indeed, it is only a miracle that we have kept the bridge between the Jews of Eastern Europe in Rumania, Hungary and Bulgaria, and those in the West.”
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