The World Jewish Congress is “introducing much confusion by trying to represent the Jews of England though it is not an organization of British Jewry,” it was charged here today at the annual meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association at which Leonard Stein was re-elected president, and Chief Rabbi Hertz and Anthony de Rothschild vice-presidents.
Lord Nathan, addressing the meeting, said that the World Jewish Congress should follow Stalin’s example in international affairs, implying that the Congress should disolve itself. Jewish achievements in Palestine were praised at the meeting by a number of speakers who also expressed the hope that the British Government will not implement the White Paper which closes the doors of Palestine to Jewish immigration after March, 1944. Chief Rabbi Hertz asserted that the Joint Foreign Committee of the Board of Jewish Deputies must remain the chief representative of British Jews.
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