_Philadelphia Firm Halts Catering to Arab Boycott

PHILADELPHIA (JTA)—A Philadelphia auto parts firm' has agreed to stop
a practice of sending sales letters- to Arab Middle East countries, containing
announcements that the firm did not engage Jews. The Parts Outlet Company
agreed to halt the practice, designed to help solicitation of export orders from

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Arab League countries, after the Philadelphia Commission on Hunian Relations
told the firm that the letters were a violation of 'the Fair Employment Practices
Law. The Philadelphia FEP law bans announcements of discriminatory hiring
practices.

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'Overt Anti-Semitism' Called
Unpopular in U.S.; Dangers
Revealed in Other Countries

Constitutional Expert Upholds
Supreme Court's Prayer Iltaling

BOSTON (JTA)—A Harvard University authority on constitutional
law declared here that the United States Supreme Court had been correct
in banning as unconstitutional the New York Regents prayer for public
schools, but had done so "for the wrong reasons."
The prayer should have been outlawed as an abridgement of religious
liberty, rather than as a violation of the principle of church-state separa-
tion, Prof. Paul A. Freund told 200 members of the national governing
council of the American Jewish Congress at the closing session of the
council's two-day meeting here.
Prof. Freund said that, while the prayer ceremony in New York
schools was "in form voluntary, the atmosphere of the school room and
the conformist psychology of school children are such that, in a mean-
ingful and realistic sense, such exercises are in fact coercive. They are
thus interferences with the free exercise of religion."
Warning that Americans were "not at liberty to undermine the insti-
tutions of the courts by reckless criticism charging bad motives and
usurpations of power," Prof. Freund also cautioned against expecting
the courts "to .do - our work for its in the field of civil rights and civil
liberties." Adding that there were areas which "must be left to the forces
of community sentiment and public policy," he said such organizations
as the American Jewish Congress played a key role.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, told
the meeting that Jews could not hone to escape anti-Semitism by remaining
silent on controversial issues, such as religious practices in the public
schools. He criticized "men of little faith in freedom" who, he said, had
' "raised fears of religious conflict" because Jewish groups vigorously
supported the Supreme Court decision banning the New York regents
prayer.
For the Jew as a citizen "to forfeit one iota of his duties and rights
as an American citizen," he added, "is a throwback to the ghetto mental-
ity of the European past, and it can serve only to hinder Jewish progress
and full Jewish participation in the public life of this nation."
He added that "the true security of the Jewish community lies not in
fearing to speak up, but in standing up for what we believe is fair and
just and right."

Reviews of the attitudes of non-Jews towards Jews at the present
time, presented at two national gatherings this week, revealed that "overt
anti-Semitism is unpopular today" in this country, and that dangerous
situations exist for Jews in a number of other countries.
Reporting to the national executive board of the American Jewish
Committee, at sessions held in Boston, Harris Berlack, chairman of the
AJC's foreign affairs committee, warned that "situations of danger" for
Jews and "major anti-Semitic threats" exist in a number of areas throughout
the world and that anti-Semitism is being exploited as a "political weapon."
In a statement made at the 19th annual convention of the National
Federation of Temple Brotherhoods, in Baltimore, Sylvan Lebow, the NFTB
executive director, discounted certain types of anti-Semitism in America
and declared: "Overt anti-Semitism is unpopular today, although social
anti-Semitism still exists."
Berlack said there is a close and direct relationship "between the
exploitation of anti-Semitism and the policies of totalitarian governments,
as well as fanatical nationalism and highly unstable regimes."
He pinpointed the major areas of anti-Semitic threats and practices
as South America, particularly Argentina, the Algeria-France situation and
"the most flagrant." the Soviet Union. He reported here to a session of
the American Jewish Committee's national 'executive board meeting at the
Kenmore Hotel.
Berlack charged that in the Soviet Union Jews are being used as
"scapegoats" for the USSR's economic - problems. In Argentina anti-demo-
cratic, anti-U.S. forces have taken advantage of "weak and unstable
. governments in an attempt to destroy democracy and with it the Jewish
community."
In Algeria "fear of a hostile Moslem regime" has caused all but some
10,000 Jews out of a total population of 115,000 to emigrate, mainly to
France where anti-Semitic tensions are growing.
In another address, Abba Eban, Israel's Minister of Education and
Culture, declared that small nations should play "an active and assertive
role" in the solution of great international problems. "They should behave
more as agents of historic process and less as its passive objects," he said.
He asserted that the world is moving away from domination "by two
centers of exclusive power" toward a "pluralistic world" marked by a broad
range of interests and ideas. Of particular significance in this tendency is
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joblessness, Property Confiscation
Worsen Status of AlgeriaAns in France

PARIS (JTA)—The annual rise of joblessness in France in the winter, and the

Algerian decree nationalizing property there abandoned by fleeing Europeans, has

worsened the already difficult situation for the estimated 100,000 Algerian Jewish
refugees in France, it was reported here by Fonds Social Juif Unifie, the major French
Jewish welfare agency.
The agency reported that the number of welfare cases already reported, as well
as the number of jobless and inadequately housed refugees, had risen considerably
in recent months, and would continue to increase during the coming winter. The
annual rise in unemployment has hit hard at refugees whose small savings or government
grants have been exhausted, and who are unable to find work or other means of support.
Refugees who had hoped to sell or rent businesses or homes in Algeria have found
that possibility blocked by the Algerian decree. The FSJU has accelerated a fund-raising
campaign to provide some of the families in most serious difficulties with the immediate
necessities of life.
• - Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan of France reported in London that 24 rabbis from
Algeria had already been placed in the refugee-swollen Jewish communities of France
as spiritual leaders. Dr. Kaplan made his report at a meeting of the standing committee
of the Conference of European Rabbis. He said that various French Jewish communities
had increased the number of Jewish religious and other personnel to meet the needs
of the newcomers.
More than $750,000 to aid North African Jewish refugees in France was pledged
to the recently formed Emergency Aid Fund of the Standing Conference on European
Jewish Community Services, at the organization's third annual assembly in Geneva
this week.
The funds, of which more than $300,000 has already been raised, were pledged
by Jewish leaders from 11 European countries. The money will be used to supplement
the aid given to the newcomers by the Joint Distribution Committee and the French
government in efforts to absorb some 180,000 North African refugees in France.

Golda Meir Charges UNRWA's
Dr. Davis Exceeded Authority

JERUSALEM (JTA)—Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister,
leveled a sharp attack in Parliament against Dr. John H. Davis, Commis-
sioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Pales-
tine Refugees in the Near East. She accused Dr. Davis of reaching
"political conclusions outside his terms of reference" in his recent submis-
sion of UNRWA's annual report to the UN General Assembly.
Mrs. Meir, opening a debate in the Knesset, on the government's
foreign policy, also attacked Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. She
declared that the latter's military intervention in Yemen, coupled with his
amassment of offensive armaments, confused "experts" abroad who "only
a little while ago hinted that the Nasser. regime would - concern itself
solely. with Egypt's difficult domestic problems, and would forsake actions
beyond its borders striving for expansion and hegemony." She expressed
"amazement" that the rest of the world seemed to have "acquiesced in
this risky precedent" of Nasser's actions.
Launching a full-scale examination of the Arab refugee problem,
the Foreign Minister referred to thoSe sections of the Davis report
which had declared that "Arab neonle" find resettlement of the refugees
unacceptable and that "works" programs for the integration of the
refugees are unfeasible.
"Dr. Davis," she alleged, "far exceeded his authority as self-designated
spokesman and judge of what the Arab refugees' aspirations are. He also
assumed the role of spokesman for all the Arab peoples. On the other
hand, Dr. Davis failed in his major task—namely to persuade the Arab
leaders to help check the UNRWA aid lists, to establish proper, identities,
and above all to examine possibilities for the rehabilitation of the refu-

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