The United Rumanian Jews of America yesterday withdrew from the American Jewish Committee, at the same time vigorously attacking its leadership.
In a statement read by Leo Wolfson, president, at the society’s twenty-sixth annual convention in the Broadway Central Hotel, and adopted by acclaim, Dr. Cyrus Adler, James Marshall and former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer were severely criticized for their stand against the proposed World was adopted endorsing “the pro-Jewish Congress and for their attitude against Jewish nationalism.
Later in the day a resolution gram and activities of the King of Rumania and his government in their attempt to stamp out bigotry and anti-Semitic activities practiced by the Iron Guard and other disturbing groups in Rumania.”
In his report, Mr. Wolfson stressed the unsettled state of the Jews, by declaring that “up to this
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