Friday,

Rep. Walter' Congressional Committee
Asks U.S. Aid Emigration of African Jews

that a total of 200,000 Jews
from that area might desire to
move to Israel within the next
five to six years, depending, of
course, on political developments
which are taking place in that
area. The amount of violence
that seems increasingly to enter
into these developments will
have considerable bearing • on
the attitude of the Jewish popu-
lation of French North Africa.

"At the present time the
Republic of Israel is bearing
the brunt of all the expenses
involved in the moving and
resettlement of migrants from
French North Africa. Volun-
tary contributions, a consider-
able part of which originates
in the United States, and ef-
forts of the Jewish Agency,
only partially alleviate the ec-
onomic burden placed upon
the young State of Israel.

"If international cooperation
in the field of migration is not
to remain an empty slogan, it
does not appear to this sub-
committee that Israel should be
called upon to continue to re-
ceive Jewish immigrants — in
fact, refugees — from French
North Africa at its own expense,
with only voluntary contribu-
tions making its difficulty easier.
In the opinion of this subcom-
mittee, Jewish migrants from
French North Africa could jus-
tifiably claim the status of refu-
gees, fleeing their centuries-old
abodes in fear of persecution 6n

account of race or religious be-
liefs. These migrants are not
much different from refugees
fleeing to escape Communist
persecution and they therefore
appear to be deserving of inter-
national support and assistance.

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"It is recommended that the
U.S. delegation to the forthcom-
ing session of the Council of the
Intergovernmental Committee
for European Migration recom-
mend that ways and means of
assisting Israel, a member in
good standing of ICEM, be found
— under special provisions, in
accordance with Article 1 (3) of
ICEM's Constitution — so as to
render assistance in the move-
ment of Jewish migrants from
t err i t o r i e s administed by
France."

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For a government in Israel
to yield to this demand, he said,
would not only be a violation .
of Israel's' Declaration of Inde-
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Pale- pendence, but would "compro-
stine Jewish Colonization Asso- mise Israel in the eyes of the
ciation (PICA) will spend more world." He declared that "Israel
than 1,000,000 Israel pounds on will not stand for religious
a variety of agricultural, indus- blackmail:"
trial and educational projects
this year, according to an an-
nouncement here by Robert
Gottlieb, general director, and
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M. Rowe, Israel director.

PICA's major proects will in-
clude agricultural experimen-
tation, and industrial expan-
sion-. PICA will also undertake
the financing of the archaeolo-
gical excavations at Hazor,
which will be carried out by Dr.
Yigal Yadin. The excavations
will be named for James de
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
State Department declined to
comment on a proposal by Rep.
Francis E. Walter, chairman of
the House Immigration Sub-
committee, that the United
States assist in the movement of
Jews from North Africa to Is-
rael. The proposal was made by
Rep. Walter to Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles in a
letter dated Sept. 2.
A high State Department
source said "that the Depart-
ment's views would be set forth
in a reply to Rep. Walter, who
plans to visit Israel early next
month. It was not indica t ed
when this reply could be ex-
pected. The full text of Con-
gressman Walter's letter to Sec-
retary Dulles reads:
"I am fully aware, of course,
of your terribly crowded sched-
ule but in view of the fast
deteriorating situation in French
North Africa, I believe it my
duty to draw your personal at-
tention to one part of a report
which I have submitted to the
House of Representatives just
before adjournament. I have in
mind the complex and pressing
problem of the mass exodus of
Jews from French North Africa
to Israel.
"In connection with the
forthcoming visit in Washing-
ton of Mr. Tittman, the di-
rector of the Intergovernment
al Committee for European
Migration, and that committee's
semi-annual session scheduled
to open in Geneva on Oct. 17,
I wish to request that the
United States delegation be in-
structed to carry out the
recommendations of the House
report and to lay before the
member governments the
•necessity of ICEM's immediate
participation in assisting in
the removal of Jews desirous
to leave French North Africa
because of fear of persecution
or of physical danger.
"A perusal of ICEM's consti-
tution shows that Clause 3 of
Article I authorizes the commit-
tee to concern itself with the
migration of refugees from areas
other than Europe, and such
function of the committee would
in my opinion be in accord.
with the basic aims of those of
us who have conceived , and
founded. ICEM in Brussels in
1951.
"More than that — ICEM
would again assert and fortify
its position among the various
organizations dedicated to inter-
national cooperation if it would
accord higher priority in its mi-
gration activities to a humani-
tarian action, rather than to con-
tinue to stress migratory move-
ments of manpower prompted
solely by economic factors. I
might add that my report and
the recommendations therein
contained met with the unani-
mous approval of the Committee
on the Judiciary, and that no
dissension to it has been voiced
by any member of Congress."
The subcommittee report to
which Rep. Walter referred
stated: "According to observa-
tios made by this subcommittee,
the political unrest in French
North Africa, particularly • in
Algeria and in Morocco, has
caused a rather widespread feel-
ing of fear among the Jewish
population of that area. It is not
difficult to observe there a very
definite trend toward migration
from the disturbed areas, and
the direction of that trend is
Israel.
"In the past, Israel has as-
similated, in addition to the
migrants who arrived from the
West ,over 200,000 Jews from
the Near East, to wit: approx-
imately 33,000 from Libya,
50,000 from Yemen, and 125,-
000 from Iraq. Leading ex-
perts from the Jewish Agency,
which is the organization
handling migration to Israel,
estimated, in informal conver-
sations with members of the
subcommittee, that facilities
would have to be found for
the moving of upward of X0,000
migrants annually, or more,
- from French North Africa to
Israel.
"The same sources estimated

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