Willingness to participate in an informal comference to consider the fermulation of a unified Jewish post-war program has been expressed by the Jewish Labor Committee and the Agudas. Israel of America, two of the four organizations addressed by the American Jewish Committee last week in a plea for unity in espousing commissions on the protection of human rights, migration and statelessness “under the general provisions of the Dumbarton Oaks proposals,” it was announced here today.
Declination of the invitation to participate in this conferences was received by Judge Joseph M. Preskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, from the American Jewish Conference in a latter signed by Louis Lipsky, chairman of its executive committee.
Judge Proskauer, in an answering letter to Mr. Lipsky, expressed regret that the American Jewish Conference has taken the position that it alone “must be the sole representative of all shades of Jewish opinion.” Calling this position “unfortunate for the achievement of common objectives,” Judge Preskauer said that to say to all groups in Jewish life “that unless they agree on all points of a platform containing many planks which at the moment are not pressing, they should have no share of the responsibility for the achievement of generally desired aims, is to lose for Jewry the enormous asset of the personnel and ability not only of the Peace Problems Committee of the American Jewish Committee, but of various other organizations, besides the American Jewish Committee, not affiliated with the Conference.”
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