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- 6 - 12 Masaryks. Following the signing of the ceasefire, an American Jewish Congress met in Philadelphia. "Since he represented three million Jews, he had the character of a grandiose manifestation of Jewish harmony and solidarity. The delegation he chose to send to the Peace Conference, thanks to its special relations with the American delegation and President Wilson himself, was destined to play a very important role in the work of the committees of Jewish delegations at the Peace conference" (Feinberg, p.34). When the first meeting of the "Prince Council" of the victorious powers was held in Paris on January 1 9 and, with the official opening of the peace conference from all over the world, the delegates gathered in Paris, additional Jewish delegations also arrived from different countries. The "Zionist Conference" took place in London (often in order to map out the common Jewish march route at the Peace Conference), which, on its initiative, all the Jewish delegations of the individual countries agreed on, and on 25 March 1969 in Paris constituted a joint representation under the name "Committee of the Jewish Delegations at the Conference of Peace". This'Committee of Jewish Delegations at the Peace Conference' included delegates from the Jewish community of the United States, Italy, Palestine, East and South-East Europe, including Czechoslovakia, as well as representatives of the Zionist World Organisations. Through this committee, the world Jewry was able to enforce its demands with great success the peace conference. Thus, during the Paris negotiations, the Jews became the initiators of minority rights protection, which was initially only to be initiated in its own right and only grew out of the conference on general minority laws for all eligible countries and ethnic groups. In the consciousness of the pervasive Jewish success, Feinberg wrote the proud sentence: "Based on the trust of 1 2 million Jews, the Committee of Jewish Delegates came before the Peace Conference and demanded not only the granting of religious freedom and equality for Jewish minorities by the masters of the world, but also national-cultural rights, which they deserve for their human and ethnic qualities.10