Members of the Jewish Agency executive met here this week with leaders of major American non-Zicnist and other Jewish organizations and discussed the possibilities of united action at the fortheoming session of the ##. General Assembly on Palestine.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learns that all participants at the meeting, including the representatives of the American Jewish Committee and the Agudas Israel of America, agreed on the demand that the General Assembly recommend an interim solution providing for the implementation of the Palestine Mandate by the British Government, They also were inclined to agree that the Jewish Agency should be the only ##dy to ask for a hearing at the Assembly. If its request is granted, the Agency will consult with the other organizations, which include the American Jewish Conferrence and the World Jewish Congress, in preparing the text of its presentation.
Informal conferences will continue to take place among all the groups represented at the meeting. It is understood that leaders of all major Jewish orgenizations will, as a result of the meeting, urge that the terms of reference of the factinding commission to be set up by the General Assembly mention the obligations of the British Government under the Mandate, Jewish rights in Palestine, and the need for Jewish immigration. They will also request that full hearings by the factining commission be guaranteed to Jewish groups.
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