UN to Debate Religious Freedom Issue
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provide the means for their
purchase or production.")
Calvocorressi of Great Britain
Other religious rights spelled
announced that they have prepared
texts of their own. Both their texts out in the Abram text—all at pres-
ent
denied to Soviet Jewry—would
are also considered liberal al-
though not as sharp as the one guarantee freedom to establish
and maintain charitable and edu-
presented by Abram.
cational institutions, freedom to ob-
Ktyzynski then told the chair-
serve holy days, with everyone
man, Hernan Santa Cruz of
having the right to travel abroad
Chile, that he, too, has a separ-
for such observances and legal
ate draft. His text follows the
protection for places of worship
Soviet policy calling for freedom
and the practice of religious rites
for atheism. Santa Cruz told the
and ceremonies.
group he would name a working
group to consider all the drafts.
Also mentioned are the right to
The Abram text calls for inter- maintain religious burial grounds,
national action to insure religious freedom to organize and main-
freedoms upon all governments in tain local regional, national and
the world to "preserve, protect international assiciations in con-
and defend the right to freedom of nection with religious rights and
thought." It then spells out a num- practices, and finally protection
ber of religious freedoms which of the law "against the promo-
are notably ignored or suppressed tion or incitement of discrimina-
in the Soviet Union as regards the tion on the ground of religion or
USSR's 3,000,000 Jews. Among belief by any public authority or
these freedoms mentioned speci- public institution, national or other-
ficly are:
wise, and against violence or in-
"1. Freedom to worship, to as- citement to violence on grounds of
semble and to establish and main- religion or belief of private per-
thin places of worship or assembly. sons or groups."
"2. Freedom to teach, to dissem-
One article in the Abram text,
inate at home and abroad and to against which the Soviet and Pol-
learn their religion or belief, in- ish representatives were sure to
cluding its sacred languages and react called for the right - of per-
traditions (pointing to the fact that sons or groups whose religious
Hebrew is a forbidden tongue in freedoms are curtailed or endan-
the Soviet Union):
gered to appeal to an "internation-
"3. Freedom to observe the rites, al tribunal." This clause could
dietary practices and customs of subject - Soviet anti-Semitism and
their religion or belief and to pro- anti-Jewish actions elsewhere
duce the objects, foods and other around the world to the scrutiny
articles and facilities customarily of United Nations organs.
used in their observances and
In presenting his text, Abram
practices with freedom to import
told the subcommission that in
such articles from abroad if neces-
his opinion "suppression, perse-
sary."
cution and discrimination in the
-(This article points particular-
field of religious freedom is
ly again at the Soviet Union,
without mentioning the USSR,
where restrictions have been
placed on baking of matzoth and
the making and supply of Hebrew
prayer books, mezuhas and
calendars. This articles adds:
"Where the state controls the
means of production and distri-
bution, it shall make these
articles and foods available or
wrong. Unhappily, such acts are
in some places a continuing
tragedy."
Abram concluded by telling the
subcommission that as an Ameri-
can he was "proud" to introduce
the text for the religious freedom
convention. "I have often in this
forum," he declared, "acknowl-
edged that American society fre-
quently lapses from the ideal of
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good human relations though our
cause tends consistently to the
progress which has been unmis-
takably and dramatically evident
in our country. However, in the
field of religious freedom, no
American need apologize for the
record of his country."
If the subcommission adopts the
draft convention, it will have to
submit it to the UN Commission
on Human Rights by March 1965.
It will then go to the UN Economic
and Social Council, which in turn
will pass it to the General Assem-
bly.
Earlier, a plea for international
action against anti-Semitism and
for freedom of religion was filed
before the subcommission on be-
half of the Coordinating Board of
Jewish Organizations, composed of
Bnai Brith and the Board of Depu-
ties of British Jews, and which
enjoys consultative status at the
subcommission. Label A, Katz is
head of the Coordinating Board.
The memorandum pointed out
that, for more than two years, the
subcommission has failed to act
on a proposed resolution.
Constitution, said Abram.
Abram later referred explicitly
to the situation of the Soviet Jews.
He quoted his correspondence dur-
ing the whole year of 1964 with
Boris Ivanov, Soviet member of
the subcommission, in which
Abram asked Ivanov's opinion as
to the publication of a state or-
ganism, the Ukrainian Academy
of Sciences, of the anti-Semitic
book by T. Kichko, "Judaism
Without Embellishment."
The only answer which Abram
obtained was a press communique
of the Soviet Embassy in Washing-
ton, explaining nothing, neither on
the moral or on the legal plane.
The Soviet member of the sub-
commission answered that "Juda-
ism Without Embellishment" was
an isolated case, not reflecting the
official attitude of the Soviet goir-
ernment on these matters. He also
asked the subcommission to be
careful in using nongovernmental
papers which can prejudice official
governmental publications.
Juvigny underlined the impor-
tance which he attached to the
work done by nongovernmental or-
ganizations, which, in his view, do
not minimize the importance of
governmental documents but, on
the contrary, complete them.
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tries anxious to expand their mari-
time trade with the rest of the
world have begun to establish rules
that "evade" the Arab's economic
boycott against Israel, it was
learned here.
The report, in the New York
Times, stated that the Arab
League's Central Boycott Office,
in Damascus, Syria, now explicitly
permits foreign cruise ships carry-
ing tourists to sail directly from
an Israeli port to an Arab port.
Under a previous ruling, such
ships were forced to stop at some
"neutral" port before proceeding
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of thousands of Jewish families
separated after the Second World
War.
"Could there be a more humane
impulse for those fragmented
families 'than to be reunited again,
one part of the family living in
the USSR and the other in Israel?"
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Abram expressed serious
doubts as to the objectivity of
an official Ukrainian document
recently presented to the United
Nations, concerning the ways
and means utilized for the eli-
mination in Ukrainia of all
forms of racial and religious
discrimination. Each problem
has to be faced frankly and
openly, and not by quoting the
Arabs Ease Boycott
on Cruise Ships Out
of Ports in Israel
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by T. Kichko, Juvigny said that it
was probably the intervention by
some nongovernmental organiza-
tions interested in those problems,
that has drawn world attention to
an affair which the government
concerned might have had other-
wise neglected.
Agreeing that this might be in-
dulging in a hypothesis, the French
delegate said that it is doubtful
whether the measures finally
taken against "Judaism Without
Embellishment" would have been
the same without this intervention.
Dr. Krishnaswami also under-
lined that international opinion
forced the authorities of Ukrainia
to disavow officially the anti-
Semitic book.
During the same session, Dr.
Marmor, observer for Israel, spoke
on the subject of a paragraph con-
cerning the right of everyone to
leave any country, including his
own. Marmor mentioned the case
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