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Show Board io Aid lews All Owle World Champ Clark Is Chairman; Plan to Ameliorate the Conditions of the Race i New York, Juno 18. What is in-tended in-tended ns a nation wldo movement for tho amelioration of conditions of the Jews n)l over tho world, partlcu- larly those In the belligerent Euro- L pean nations, was Inaugurated today with tho formal organization here of tho international Jewish emancipation emancipa-tion committee. Champ Clark, speak-or speak-or of tho houso of representatives, was elected Its presldont. Tho movement was started by proni Inent Hebrows In this city and the In fluence nnd nld of representative men In education and political circles was solicited. Hundreds of letters from governors of states presidents of colleges nnd universities, members of tho scnato nnd houso of representatives representa-tives expressing sympathy with tho proposed movement havo been received receiv-ed by Henry Green, oxecutlve occre-tary occre-tary of tho committee It is tho belief of thoso interested In the movement that tho question of permanently establishing tho civil and political rights of Jews throughout tho world can bo settled for all time through tho Influence that tho Unit-cd Unit-cd States will exercise nt the nego-tlaton nego-tlaton of peaco terms nt tho conclusion conclu-sion of" tho European war. To this end tho committee adopted a resolution resolu-tion declaring Its Intention to tako such stops as will Impress upon this government, under whoso Just Institutions Insti-tutions wo have flourished, thnt It is tho fervent and Innermost desire and sentiment of tho American peoplu that tho administration at Washington, Washing-ton, to which wo nro attached with unswerving fenlty, when cnlled upon to nit in tho councils of tho world peaco conference, shnll tako a firm and nil compelling stnnd upon this most vltnl nnd humanitarian question nnd do nil In Its power to procure for tho Jews gunrnnteca thnt will Plnco them sldo hy sldo with thy rett of mankind, equal before man nnd tho law ns ho Is boforo God. Speaker Clark recently wrote n letter to the committee in which he said: "I will bo glad to do what I can In aiding tho JowB to get n favornblo international agreement.' t |