The National Community Relations Advisory Council, as a result of the reorganization plan adopted at its recent Atlantic City plenary conference, “will emerge as a stronger and more effective organization than it has been at any time since its formation,” the Jewish War Veterans of America said in a statement today.
Joseph F. Barr, of Washington, who introduced the proposals adopted by the session, declared that “as proponents of the resolution adopted by the NCRAC, the Jewish War Veterans advocated that it be given a primary, rather than an exclusive, responsibility in the veterans area of the community relations field. As a member agency of the NCRAC, we stand ready to carry out such a responsibility. We recognize that the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League are also active in this area. However, the precise meaning of the resolution we sponsored at Atlantic City was that we were prepared to join with these two organizations, as well as with other national and local components of an appropriate standing committee of the NCRAC, in joint planning and an integrated program for this area of the community relations field. We are still prepared to do so, with the explicit understanding that such activity take place within the NCRAC.”
Joint planning and programming in the veterans field between the JWV, the American Jewish Committee and the ADL, he said, would consequently depend on the decision by the latter two organizations on their future relationship to NCRAC.
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