Louis Lipsky, vice president of the American Jewish Congress, sailed for Paris tonight on the Berengaria to attend a meeting of the Executive Committee for a World Jewish Congress on February 22, where the date, place and agenda for this Summer’s World Jewish Congress will be drawn up.
Mr. Lipsky will later to to London to represent the United Palestine Appeal at a conference with Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of the World Zionist Organization, where plans of the British delegation, which was recently in the United States, for the transfer of Jews from Nazi Germany, will be discussed.
Mr. Lipsky stated before his departure, that neither the Jewish Agency for Palestine nor the World Zionist Organization is able to deal with the problems of Jewish life in the Diaspora.
He added: “At the first session of the World Jewish Congress thus to be summoned, plans will be considered for establishing upon a permanent, democratic basis, an authority in a position to speak and act on behalf of the whole Jewish people.”
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