The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration which was making arrangements to hold its second conference at the Seigniory Club in Montebello, Quebec, is looking for another meeting place after it was learned that Jews are excluded from the Saigniory Club, the Toronto Daily Star reports.
“It has been reported” the paper writes, “that those making arrangements for the forthcoming meeting of the U.N.R.R.A. in Canada, have run into a difficulty. The plan was to hold the meeting at the Saigniory Club at Montebello, Quebec, but since this establishment excluded Jews, U.N.R.R.A. will go elsewhere. It must do this because Mr. Herbert Lehman, its director-general, is a distinguished member of the Jewish faith and there are probably others who would find it equally awkward to go to this hotel under the circumstances.”
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