Jewish World Congress Movement Initiated by Gathering of Jewish Journalists in Berlin: World Confere

A movement for the convocation of a Jewish World Congress has been initiated at a gathering of Jewish journalists which has been held here, among those present being Mr. Jacob Landau, Managing Director of the J.T.A., Mr. Jacob Lestschinsky, Mr. Michael Wurmbrand, Mr. J. Klinoff, Mr. Moses Waldmann, Mr. Daniel Tcharny, Mr. Hermann Swet, Mr. Otto Schick, and Mr. Leo Kreindler. It was decided in this connection to call a World Conference of Jewish journalists in Geneva at the end of July, in order to consider the position of the Jews throughout the world and to arrange for propaganda in favour of the convocation of a Jewish World Congress.

A Jewish World Congress is a need of the hour and is in the interests of the Jews and of the future of Jewry, was the view urged in the discussion. The idea of a Jewish World Congress is now held to be more actual than ever before among the most diverse-thinking Jewish centres, it was held by those present who unanimously pledged themselves to do propaganda on behalf of the idea of a Jewish World Congress. The movement, it was made clear, will be above-party, and the parties and movements to which the individual journalists belong are in no way to be bound by their attitude, and the initiative to bring up the question of a general Jewish Congress, it was unanimously agreed, has been taken neither on the initiative nor in agreement with any Jewish organisation.

A Jewish World Congress, it was felt, could examine the present position of the Jews and set up a synthetic programme taking account of every constructive effort towards alleviating the Jewish need, including Palestine upbuilding, the opening up of new immigration countries, the regulation of emigration, relief activities, the shifting of the occupational composition of the Jewish masses and Jewish settlement on the land, the legal protection of Jews, etc.