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Show JEWS DEMAND .EOUjyifiHTS Urge Nationalization in Whatever Land They May Reside. One of Demands to Be Pressed on the Peace Conference. F'lnLADKr.I'fHA, Dee. H. Nationalism Nation-alism of .k-ws in whatever la ml they may reside, anri that, they be g'wvn thn right of rt'iire.rff ntatiun, wax urged at today's ffsiifns of the American Jewish congress con-gress as ono of thn demands that should. ho pressed noon thn peace conference in France. It whh alnn proposed that the eongress, which has been willed to de-mean?) de-mean?) whereby the .lews of all land a may oh tain civil, religious and political righU, and tiie abrogation of discriminatory laws, call a permanent international or universal congress to represent and act for tho Jewish people throughout the world. These proposals, among many others, were referred to committees which are oxpec.ted to make a report tomorrow, along with one providing for a commission commis-sion to go to France and represent tho claims of tho .lews to tho peace conference. con-ference. Those, commit toes will make recommendations regarding Jews in .Palestine, litimania, Poland, (ialicia, Kirssia, Lithuania, Ukrainia, and the new Slavic lands. Hopes of the Jews. Reports were read on the aims and hopes of thn race in many countries. 'Pro lessor Isaac Hourwirh, New York, reporting on affairs in .Russia, said the many factions of .lews in that country are. all agreed tthat they want, in addition addi-tion to liberty and equal rights, to be recognized as a nationality and to be entitled to minority representation. Joseph Baron d ess, commissioner of education. New York, in a report on Rumania, said 'the .Jews also want recognition rec-ognition as a nationality with minority representation, but also want tha peace conference to givo an absolute guarantee guaran-tee that Rumania will carry out tho promises it will make in the future. Want Equal Rights. It, was stated by Leo Wolfson, representing repre-senting the Amorieau union of Rumanian Ruma-nian Jews, that Rumania is making claims that it has emancipated the Jews. Tie urged that the, peace conference con-ference annul tho clause in the recent treaty of Bucharest relating to Jewish naturalization on tho ground that it enfranchises hut 20 per cent of tho race in that country, and that the poace delegates substitute another giving the J ews equal rights. The report on Oalicia recommended that, the Jews in that territory be recognised recog-nised as a separate nationality or en-titv. en-titv. ' Abraham P. Schomcr, New i ork, struck a responsive chord when he advocated ad-vocated an international or universal congress in order that the Jews might have one central head to urge upou the world the claims of the race. The falure of all Jewish conferences throughout through-out the world to attain their aims in the centuries of struggle, he said, has been duo to lack of unitv powerful enough to bring about recognition of the claims of Jews. He was loudly cheered when he proposed a committee- of twenty-five to carrv out tho idea. His proposal was referred to committee. |