American Jewish Congress Puts off Meeting to May 13

The problems affecting American as well as European Jewry, with particular emphasis on the unprecedented spread of anti-Semitism in Central Europe, will be discussed at the Eleventh Annual Convention of the American Jewish Congress, which will be held in New York City, May 13th to May 15th, instead of April 30th, in Washington, it was announced by Bernard S. Deutsch, President of the American Jewish Congress.

This change in date and place of the convention, Mr. Deutsch stated, has been affected at the advice of the various Jewish communities throughout the country and branches of the American Jewish Congress, which demanded more time in order to be properly represented at this most important gathering in the history of the American Jewish Congress.