The postponement of the national conference of the Jewish National Fund, scheduled to have taken place during the first week of January, in Chicago, was announced today by Judge Morris Rothenberg, president of the J.N.F. of America.
In lieu of the conference, leaders and key figures in JNF councils throughout the nation will gather at a three-day parley in New York which will open on January ?d at which the land program for the implementation of the Jewish State will be ?ented. The gathering will be climaxed by a public plenary session in Hotel ?sylvania, which will be addressed by Mayor Israel Rokach of Tel Aviv, Abraham ?feld, Palestine colonization expert, and Guatemalan Ambassador Jorge Garcia ?ados who played a leading role in bringing about the partition decision at the ?ed Nations.
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