The World Executive of the Agudath Israel, meeting here, today declined to accept the invitation of the American Jewish Congress to participate in the forthcoming world Jewish conference in Geneva on August 14th, to discuss the advisability and the feasibility of constituting a world Jewish congress.
The Executive voted against participating in this conference on the ground that the Jewish position is most difficult in any case and a Congress will only have an adverse effect and will make the Jewish position less tenable in various countries of the Diaspora.
“We do not oppose the idea when a suitable occasion arises,” the Executive stated, “which will permit various Jewish organizations to meet in order to discuss quietly various measures designed to ease the Jewish position without such a demonstration as a world Jewish congress or the creation of an extensive international organization entails.”
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