Vatican Action Could Help Stem the Anti-Semitic Tide, AJC. Head Says WJC Supported by Curacao Jews NEW YORK (JTA) — Favorable Ecumenical Council action on a The development of a unied definitive declaration exonerating comunity in Curacao and steps to the Jewish people of the ancient strengthen the content of Jewish charge of deicide could help arrest life in the community were dis- the growing tide of anti-Semitism,. cussed at World Jewish Congress in South America, Morris B. Abram, headquarters in New York during president of the American Jewish the visit by Rabbi. Simeon J. Committee, said. Maslin, minister of the United Se- He based his statement on a sum- phardic Congregations of Curacao. mary he made at a press confer- Rabbi Maslin told World Jewish ence of the results of a three-week, Congress officials that there are 15,000-mile study made by leaders now 700 Jews living in Curacao in of the AJC in four Latin American a total population of about 125,000. countries. The present community was but a Stressing the gravity of the shadow of the considerable Jewiih population that had existed until situation in Argentina, Abram said about a century ago. Rabbi Maslin that the 450,000 Jews of that coun- said that there are about 90 Jewish try feel more insecure today than children in the community and he they did sir years ago, when an and his assistant have inijiated other AJC delegation visited South Jewish education classes for the America. "While we do not doubt the good will of the Argentine lead- children as well as for adults. Discussing the situation of the ership in government, of the small Caribbean Jewish communi- Catholic. Church and of the press, ties generally, Rabbi Maslin re- their techniques in opposing anti- Ported on his attempts to strength- Sernitism are ineffective," Abram en Jewish life in the area. He ex- declared. He said that, although the pressed the belief that improved Argentine penal code outlawed by contacts between the various small name the anti-Semitic Tacuara and communities would help each in its Guardia Restauradora Nacionalista organizations in May 1963, "there Jewish survival. Jewish leaders from Argentina has been a proliferation of such and Uruguay were . the guests of groups, and increased violent ac- the World Jewish Congress at a tivities with ineffectual enforce- luncheon in Congress House Sept. ment of the law." The AJC leader said that more 2. They were: Jose .Kestelman, Ar- than 150 incidents of violence gentinian economist and under- against Jews involving death, , secretary of the DATA (Delegation de Asociaciones Israelitas Argen- bombings and other outrages tinas), the representative body of have been reported in the last three months without any arrests ' Argentinian Jewry, which is affil- iated with the World Jewish Con- I and with minimal exposure in the press. Some members of the gress; Herbert Treitel, honorary Argentine Chamber of Deputies, president of the Uruguayan Jewish Central Committee, also a World he noted. have publicly question- ed the patriotism of Argentine Jewish Congress affiliate; and Dr. Nella Rost-Holander, he g - d of Jews and the propriety of Jewish members of the chamber serving WJC's office in Montevideo. ) in such national positions. He The visitors , were welcom'd to World Jewish Congress he dquar- said that one deputy has even ters by Monty Jacobs, ecutive proposed an _investigation of "Zionist" activities in the court- director of its North American try. executive, and Dr. Natan Lerner Abram stressd that Argentina of the WJC's international affairs was a democratic country, not ordi- department. . narily given to violence. For that very reason, he said, the increasing incidents of violence toward Jews were of serious significance. He emphasized the importance of gov- ernment and church leaders taking affirmative action to deal with the potentially explosive situation. "If economic conditions continue to deteriorate as they have been doing in Argentina, Brazil and Chile," Abram declared, "reaction- ary elements from within and out side the South American continent would find it relatively easy to use the Jews as scapegoats." This was especially true, of Argentina, where the situation "is potentially grave because neo-Fascists have been en- couraged and financed by agents of the Arab League." These agents, he said, "are spend- ing enormous sums of money to set group against group and divide the Argentine people. They have adopted the outworn cover of anti- Zionism as a way of expressing anti-Jewish sentiments, and are using this tactic in an attempt to promote hatred against the Argen- tine Jewish community, as well as against other Jewish communities in South. America.'' He noted that Jews and Arabs have lived harmoniously together in Argentine, and that these new ten- sions are the result of Arab League provocation. He said the efforts by agents of the Arab League had ap- parently faired so far in Brazil, and that they were completely in- effectual in Chile and .Peru. The delegation, Abram declared, found a "critical shortage of quali- fied rabbis, teachers, social work- ers, youth leaders and other pro- fessional persons whose services are greatly needed by Jewish coin- ' munities everywhere in South America." Members of the delegation in- cluded Joseph Ross of Petroit, vice president. "Ift is important for the develop- ment of a growing child that he be given things to break. Rabbah often bought imperfect earthenware for his little ones to break if they wished."—The Talmud (Huilin, 24) 64 CHEVROLETS Sale. or Lease "Service Is Important" Best Location in Area • Best Deal All-Ways • SEE UN1-2300 BR 2-2470 M. 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