The executive committee charged with the task of preparing for a world Jewish congress, today decided at a closed meeting to convene the congress not later than the Autumn of 1935, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned today.
WORLD CONGRESS SET FOR 1935 AS GENEVA CONFERENCE OPENS
Consolidation of the boycott movement against Nazi Germany on a world-wide scale, regulated through a central clearing house, was urged yesterday by the Boycott Committee of the American Jewish Congress in a cable addressed to the conference of Jewish leaders which opened its four-day sessions in Geneva yesterday.
Two specific requests were made. The first urges the establishment of a central bureau to serve as a clearing house for boycott activities throughout the world. Dr. Tenenbaum, head of the Boycott Committee, in his cable declared that this was absolutely imperative in order “to deal with the international aspects of the boycott work.” This he defines as “the prevention of the camouflaging of imports and the falsification of labels”; and the withdrawal of “contemplated credits designed to bolster up German exports as well as to secure the import of raw materials into Germany.”
The Geneva conference is further urged to “issue a solemn manifesto setting forth the moral issues involved in the boycott and urging universal adherence thereto as a preventive to war and as a means of safeguarding civilization.”
The hope is expressed that the conference will be able to devise means aimed at securing the lifting of boycott activities now directly or indirectly banned in such countries as Turkey, Poland and Jugoslavia.
The conference adopted a resolution to create a chair at the Hebrew University in honor of the memory of Dr. Motzkin. It will be known as the Motzkin Chair for the Study of the Jewish Minorities Problems in the Diaspora.
In addition to the delegates, official representatives of the League of Nations and the International Labor Office and diplomats from several countries were present at the session.
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