Joint Distribution Committee Being Reorganised: to Be Reincorporated Under Charter: Meeting of Counc

The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, of which Mr. Felix M. Warburg is Chairman, the largest Jewish welfare organisation in the world for overseas work, will be reorganised, according to an announcement just made here by Mr. James N. Rosenberg, Vice-Chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee and Chairman of its Reorganisation Committee.

The Organisation, which since the war has expended over eighty million dollars on relief and reconstruction work among Jews in foreign lands, will be reincorporated under a charter which will provide for a large and representative National Council made up of Jewish leaders in various parts of the United states and Canada. The National Council will be composed of 250 men and women, prominent in Jewish life, and will constitute the membership of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. A Board of Directors of 48 will be chosen from the Council with an Executive committee of 15.

A meeting of the Council is planned for the middle of March. The work of the new Council will be to further the present programme of economic and social reconstruction work among the Jews in Eastern and Central Europe.

The late Louis Marshall was the Chairman of the Reorganisation Committee until his death, Mr. Rosenberg being chosen as his successor. The members of the Reorganisation committee include Mr. Felix M. Warburg, Dr. Cyrus Adler, Mr. James A. Becker, Mr. David M. Bressler, Mr. David A. Brown, and Mr. Hugh Grant Straus.

The National Campaign for raising a sum of 2½ million dollars in America for reconstruction work on behalf of the Jews of the countries of Eastern Europe, will be started soon, says another announcement made to-day by the Joint Distribution Committee.