N.c.r.a.c. Chairman Reports on Implementation of Maciver Report

Significant and specific steps already have been taken to implement important basic recommendations in the MacIver report for better and more effective coordination of community relations work among national and local Jewish agencies, “it was reported here by Irving Kane, chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory Council. He spoke here at a dinner at the Fairmont Hotel sponsored jointly by the San Francisco Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Oakiand.

Mr. Kane told of events leading up to the study by Prof. Maclver more than a year ago. He discussed the MacIver report itself and told of its consideration at the Atlantic City sessions of the N.C.R.A.C. last November. “There were differences between the Jewish agencies–strong differences–divergent views that were based on moral principles–principles that seemed too strong for compromise. But in the end leaders with divergent views recognized that they were engaged in a common cause, and therefore accountable to the entire Jewish community. In that spirit they agreed to a set of commitments in principle for the improved organization of this field of work, “he reported.