Intensify Morocco Battle Against Israel
_picked up on a street in Rabat cially the Teachers Training In- tolerate, far less authorize or World Jewish Congress Plea
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condone, such violations of the In Defense of Moroccan Jewry
countries take up arms again and taken into custody. These stitute.
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basic
rights and freedoms of a
arrests
were
believed
to
be
the
The
failure
to
make
army
against "Israeli colonialists and
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world Zionism." Commenting first of their kind in Rabat, service obligatory upon Tuni- section of its citizens. It is
TEL
AVIV — Moroccan au-
hoped,
therefore,
that
the
gov-
on the recent Arab Foreign although many similar incidents sian Jews, said M. Guetti,
"may make the Moslem popu- ernment may take the necessary thorities were urged Tuesday by
Ministers Conference in Bagh- have occurred in Casablanca.
lation distrustful of the Jews." and appropriate public meas- the World Jewish Congress to
An opposition Moslem trade
dad, the commentator also sug-
The writer pointed out; that ures to allay the anxieties of check anti-Jewish inciting propa-
union announced its member-
gested that "to keep Israeli col-
while one Jew is usually in. Moroccan Jewry and to assure ganda now being disseminated
ship had unanimously adopted
onialism in check" the Arab
eluded among the members of all elements of the Moroccan mainly by the Moroccan press.
a resolution protesting against
countries should form "a single
The organization also called
various public bodies, that population that their personal
"the
acts
of
repression
of
bloc."
security
and
human
dignity
will
on
the Moroccan government to
practice
is
followed
only
so
The Governor of Casablanca which our Jewish fellow-
that the country might not be be fully respected and safe- defend Moroccan Jews from
met with members of the Jewish workers have been victims."
charged officially with anti- guarded. The police acts re- such acts as kidnaping of Jew-
Council here for a discussion of The union's resolution de-
ferred to preceded the tragic ish girls, unjustified arrests, mal-
Semitism.
clared
that
the
arrest
of
in-
the situation of the Jewish com-
sinking of the ship Pisces, re- treatment of Jews by police and
nocent
people
and
acts
of
re-
A
large•
part
of
the
120,000
munity, following recent events
in the loss of 43 Moroc- similar acts, and to safeguard
pression against them were in- Europeans who left Tunisia sulting
in Morocco.
can Jewish men, women and fully the civil and human rights
with the principles since that country won its in-
Toget
The Governor, Commandant compatible
of Moroccan Jewry.
democracy. It called for an dependence in 1956, are Jews, children.
mentable inci •
nstra
Medboh, expressed regret, dur- of
inquiry
into
the
recent
anti-
most
of
them
now
living
in
that the
of Morocco are
ing the two-hour meeting, over Jewish actions and the punish-
restrictions of their
the arrests of Moroccan Jews. It ment of those responsible for metropolitan France, Jewish subject `
circles said here. The statement ele
y freedoms, including
was also learned that the Jewish
was made after a Tunisian news- the
for
ienable human rights to
Council of Fez met with the them.
paper
reported
that,
since
1950,
PARIS,
(JTA)—Foreign
Min-
anted legal acilities, to
Governor of Fez to register a
120,000
of
the
country's
180,000
reunited with
eir familie
protest against the arrest of 20 ister Maurice Couve de Murville
ay
sire
Jews during a walk to the syna- has informed the Foreign Af- European residents have d with whom the
.-
fairs and Security Commission parted:
live in oth
s. T
CO
gogue.
the Senate that the French
At the same time reports
denial o th
'gh and
e-
A minor demonstration, mean- of
Government is concerned over ing that the expected rode nd- doms
tes
an suff ing
while, took place on Boulevard the anti-Jewish discriminations
not and
ent regime in Algeria w
en ' • for
fu-
Mohamed V in Casablanca, in
• by the Moroccan Gov- discriminate against n -Mos- ture
ea
a d we
of
front of a shop window which practiced
were
on the
displayed a "Travel by El Al" ernment, the Quai d'Orsay re- lems, Jews or Christian ewish Moroccan ws. Rely"
accepted by French
humanity, nderst
ing a n d
advertisement. The demonstra- vealed.
The
Foreign
Minister's
state-
leaders
as
"reassuring."
sense
of justice o
e King and
tion followed publication of a ment was made to a closed ses-
orocco, the
Afrique • Action, con dered Government a
demand in a newspaper of the
current dividend
of the Senate body. It fol- close to the Algerian reb
of Jewish Or-
who World Confer
political opposition that the au- sion
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lowed
sharp
criticism
of
the
Mor-
ganizations
tions
urges
the
Tu-
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the restraints on
to ensure the immediate removal Pineau, former Foreign Minis- nisia, declared that "ther will removil
the
li
ies
of
their
Jewish
citi-
s-
be
equality
for
all
in
Algeri
19186 James Couzens
of the advertisement.
ter; M. Brocas, a Senator repre- suring all minority groups
nd the restoration to them
In accordance with a decision senting right-wing groups; and that they will remain in inde- of the freedoms enshrined in
of the Moroccan Ministry of _ others. Attention was focused on pendent Algeria."
the United Nations Universal
Information, scenes depicting the Moroccan anti-Jewish meas-
Declaration of Human Rights."
The
newspaper
added,
how-
the extermination of Jews were ures by the tragedy last month
eliminated from a film, "Mein when some 40 Jews lost their ever, that the leaders of the Al-
Kampf," now being shown in lives trying to leave Morocco gerian rebels would have to
"make a number of concessions
a Casablanca the at e r. The clandestinely.
to reassure the minority groups
showing of the scenes had led
Jacques Soustelle, former Vice
to numerous incidents between Premier and de Gaulle aide who as to- the treatment they will
receive in independent Algeria."
Jews and Moslems.
broke with his leader on North
•
Subsequently, it was reported African policy questions, charg-
that Crown Prince Moulay Has- ed in an article in the publica- Jewish Organizations
san, the Vice Premier of Moroc- tion of the Committee for Demo-
co, was expected to remove the cratic Defense and Action, that Issue Plea for Removal
Casablanca chief of police from the anti-Jewish policies of the
UP
strain
office in order to allay_ the appre- Moroccan authorities were linked of Liberti
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The Casablance police chief, that the • National. Liberation
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Jews
in
Moro
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summoned the police chief to a
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meeting to discuss the role of them from being put into rac-
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behalf of a ew-
confer ce
the Casablanca police in recent tice. -
ons affilia with
re- ish organiz
weeks. .
Meanwhile, danger sign isia
it rea
Meanwhile, the Jewish corn- garding the Jews in
ence of
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of another police measure in fluential Tunisian news
s
the
anxious-
.
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in
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symposium
on
the
Jewish
both the wives' of rabbis, were
erious attacks by
world at t
arrested on their way to the tion in Moslem North Africa
of Casablanca against
Jewish quarter. They were taken
Serge Guetti; prominent Tuni-
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CASABLANCA — Reliable Moroccan citizens, if not in fact,
"These police assaults against
sources here indicated Wednes- then at least in law.
peaceful and guiltless Jewish
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unhappily
must
tend
•
to
incite
"summit
conference"
and
which
It was reported that the
Council would devote itself ex- was preceded and accompanied ill feeling between Moslems and
clusively to this problem and by wholesale arrests of Moroc- Jews — a development which
that a decision of great impor- can Jews, was not a state visit. would be deeply deplored.
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tance could be expected. The He will come to Morocco in
Jewish
Organizations
is
most
April
in
response
to
an
official
possibility was reported that
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Moroccan
government
would
revision at the meeting of the the King of Morocco.
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