Maccabees and Boy Scouts in Salonica Settle Differences

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

A contlict between the Greek boy scouts’ organization and the Jewish Maccabees here which has arisen owing to the Maccabees refusal to recognize the authority of the Boy Scouts Headquarters is on the point of being settled due to the intervention of M. Iliacos, ex-Governor of Thrace and Commander of the Boy Scouts of Greece.

“Our Council is inspired with feelings of goodwill towards the Jewish people.” M. Iliacos writes to the Maccabee Executive Committee, “for no other people is so closely connected with the Greek people by bonds of common suffering. These two peoples have with the same heroism fought for the preservation of their freedom and have always sought to recstablish their independence. The Greeks as well as the Jews. driven from their homes and dispersed all over the world, contributed greatly to the development of our modern civilization. And if, as we hope. the Jewish people will again be reestablished in its anciem home, the Jewish state will be of great assislance to the Greek State with which,” M. lliacos concludes. “it will collaborate for the cause of the civilization of the East.”