A committee representing all groups in the United Palestine Appeal will meet with Henry Morgenthau Jr. in an effort to settle the dispute over leadership of the 1949 United Jewish Appeal campaign. The committee will report on Its conference with Morgenthau to a meeting of the U.P.A. board of directors called for Monday.
The decision that such a committee be appointed by Herman L. Weisman, acting national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, was adopted last night at a meeting the U.P.A. national executive committee which continued for about five hours. It is understood that the committee will seek the cooperation of neutral Jewish leaders in bringing about a final solution of the problem of U.J.A. leadership. The name of Herbert H. Lehman was mentioned as one of the prominent figures who may be asked to ?act as conciliator.
The resolution to appoint such a committee was offered by the Silver-Neumann group and received 18 votes. Another resolution–offered jointly by Baruch Zuckerman, Labor Zionist leader, and Louis Lipsky, leader of the Committee for Progressive Zionism–urged acceptance and implementation by the U.P.A. executive of the decision on the U.J.A, taken by the Jewish Agency executive which brought about the resignations of Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and Dr. Emanuel Neumann from the Agency’s executive. However, the Zukerman-Lipsky resolution received only 14 votes.
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