The split between the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the Anglo-Jewish Association reached its climax today with the formation of a separate Committee for Foreign Affairs by the Anglo-Jewish Association which will function parallel with a similar committee existing in the Board of Deputies.
The decision to form its own Committee for Foreign Affairs was adopted at a general meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association today following weeks of fruitless negotiations with the Board of Deputies. Only two members of the Association voted against the establishment of a separate committee. The new body will seek to cooperate with the foreign committee of the Board of Deputies, it was decided at the meeting.
Prof. Selig Brodetsky, president of the Board of Deputies, speaking for his organization, said that the Board will do nothing to widen the gap between the two organizations and urged that the Anglo-Jewish Association act in the same spirit, in order to enable cooperation at a later date. Leonard Stein, speaking for the Anglo-Jewish Association, said that the Association has no intentions of following an anti-Zionist policy. “Should the Association embark on such a course, a number of members, including members of the executive, will leave the organization, but this is not the case,” he declared.
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