Neville Laski, president of the British Board of Jewish Deputies, who is a captain in the British Army, and Vladimir Jabotinsky, who commanded the Jewish Batallion in the World War, are expected to participate in the first world conference of Jewish War Veterans which opens here tomorrow.
The conference will be officially welcomed at a reception to be given by the Paris Municipal Council. The ex-service men will make a pilgrimage to the battlefields of Verdun.
Delegates from the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Palestine, Czechoslovakia, Austria and South Africa, will participate in the conference.
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