Meeting of Jewish Board of Deputies.

Mr. O. E. d’Avigdor Goldsmid, who recently consented to continue in office, was re-elected unanimously as President of the Board of Jewish Deputies at the annual meeting of the Board held this afternoon. Mr. Goldsmid expressed his thanks to the members of the Board for the honour and trust given to him by re-electing him as President, and said that he hoped he would serve the Board as he did hitherto. He congratulated Sir Montague Burton, the member for Harrogate, on the knighthood he has received in the Honours List.

In view of the forthcoming biennial meeting of the Jewish Agency Council, Miss Nettie Adler, Mr. d’Avigdor Goldsmid, Mr. Nathan Laski, Major H. L. Nathan. M. P., Lord Rothschild, Sir Meyer Spielman, and Mr. Walter Cohen, of the Economic Board for Palestine, were elected as the “non-Zionist” representatives of the Anglo-Jewish Community on the Jewish Agency Council.

A discussion took place on the conflict between Mr. A. Halevi-Hurvitch as representing the Russian Zionist Merkaz and its Association of Creditors and the Zionist Organisation with regard to deposits claimed to have been paid into the Zionist banks on behalf of a large number of Russo-Jewish families, some in Palestine and some still in Russia. A resolution was adopted that “the Board should endeavour that this conflict should be settled by an arbitration”.

The report of the Joint Foreign Committee, which was adopted, dealt with the situation of the Jews in Mexico, the elections in Roumania, and the question of calendar reform, in which regard the Secretary of the Board, Mr. J. M. Rich, has been authorised to accompany the Chief Rabbi, Dr. Hertz, to Geneva, to present the Jewish case before the meeting of the League of Nations Committee, which is opening to-morrow.