Jewish Groups from Many Countries Will Gather in London to Discuss Future of Jews

The Anglo-Jewish Association today announced that a number of Jewish communities in various parts of the world have accepted invitations to send delegates to a conference in London to examine the future of European Jewry. The conference has been arranged by the Anglo-Jewish Association in cooperation with the American Jewish Committee, and will open on Feb. 23.

The proceedings of the conference will be held in camera, the announcement said. Among the organizations attending will be the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the Alliance Israelite Universelle, the Central Representative Council of French Jewry, the Council of Australian Jewry, the Jewish Central Committee of Poland, the Jewish Consistory of Belgium, the Federation of Jewish Communities in Czechoslovakia, the Jewish Consistory of Bulgaria, as well as the Jewish communities of Rome, Stockholm, Budapest and Buenos Aires.

(In New York it was announced that the delegation of the American Jewish Committee will include Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president; Jacob Blaustein, chairman of the executive committee; Edward A. Norman, vice-chairman of the foreign committee; and Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president.)

The resolutions which the conference will adopt will not be binding on the bodies attending the gathering. A full exchange of views will take place among the delegations, which will also compare methods of fighting anti-Semitism with a view toward coordinating defense activities in the various countries. Other problems scheduled for discussion include rehabilitation of Jewish communal and cultural life in Europe, repatriation of Jewish refugees and identification for Jewish property confiscated and looted during the Nazi occupation of many European countries.