New credits in the amount of $175,000 will be granted to Jewish institutions in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania and Roumania by the American Jewish Joint Foundation, it was decided at a meeting of the Foundation held here under the Chairmanship of Sir Leonard Cohen.
Reports were delivered by Dr. Bernard Kahn and M. Louis Oungre, man###ing directors of the Foundation. Dr. Kahn, who is the European director of the activities of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, described his personal impressions of his recent visit to East European countries, including Soviet Russia.
Bernard Flexner of New York was
elected vice-president of the Foundation. Mr. Flexner, who is president of the Palestine Economic Corporation, takes the office left vacant by the resignation of Governor Herbert H. Lehman of New York, who resigned his offices upon assuming his duties as the chief executive of the State of New York. Governor Lehman remains, however, a member of the Council of the Foundation.
Three new members elected to the Council of the Foundation are Alexander Landesco of New York; Eduard Baerwald of Frankfurt; Jacob Trokenheim of Warsaw.
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