The United States will be entitled to 70 of the 300 delegates at next August’s world Jewish congress, according to additional details of the Paris conference of the Executive for the World Jewish Congress last weekend released today by the American Jewish Congress. The statement, dated Paris, said the exact date and place will be set by an implementing Committee of the Executive.
Clarifying accounts of the meeting, it was explained that while Louis Lipsky opposed direct ballot in the United States in election of delegates to the congress, he maintained that the system of organization representation was democratic.
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