Formation of a Supreme Immigration Authority which would amalgamate the functions of all the Jewish Agency departments dealing with immigration and absorption was proposed today by Aryeh L. Pincus, chairman of the Agency.
Methods for fusing the immigration and absorption departments have been under consideration by the Agency for some time as part of several moves to streamline the various departments and saving expenditures and personnel.
Under the new plan, which Mr. Pincus laid today before the various political parties represented on the Agency executive, the new Authority would be headed by three members of the executive who would rotate among the various immigration-absorption offices now maintained in Jerusalem, Europe and New York. The new plan is to be submitted to the meeting to be held here by the Agency executive, September 1-9.
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