Jewish leaders began a series of conferences today aimed at coordinating the work of expatriating 100,000 Jews from Germany in the course of the next four years.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, who arrived here today from Jerusalem, examined proposals prepared by the agency for submission to the projected nine-member Council for German Jewry.
Contrary to reports, it was learned, the members of the council have not yet been chosen, although it is understood that it will comprise four Zionists and four non-Zionists with Sir Herbert Samuel as chairman.
Dr. Weizmann took up various schemes for settlement of German Jews in Palestine with Simon Marks, vice president of the British Zionist Organization; Louis Lipsky, of Now York, honorary president of the Zionist Organization of America, and other Zionist leaders, including members of the Palestine delegation to the parley. These talks will continue tomorrow.
It was expected that Dr. Weizmann and Jewish Agency representatives would reach full agreement on final proposals to be submitted to the council in the name of the Zionists within a few days.
Meanwhile, it was learned that Sir Herbert and others associated with the council have been meeting daily to consider the as yet unsettled problems relating to the opening next Sunday of the British four-year drive for $5,000,000 for the German Jews.
The council will hold its first meeting on Wednesday. On Thursday it will confer with a delegation of German Jewish leaders, including Max Warburg, Hamburg banker; Dr. Siegfried Moses, president of the German Zionist Federation, and Dr. Otto Hirsch, of the Reich Representation of German Jews.
It was learned that the German Zionists would present a definite scheme for settling German Jewish youths in Palestine, estimating the amount of capital required for each.
The council will supervise raising and allocation of the $15,000,000, of which $10,000,000 will be raised in the United States, to expatriate 100,000 German Jews in four years under plans announced by a British delegation headed by Sir Herbert while in the United States last month.
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