Arthur Goldberg Puts Human Rights Issue Back on Agenda
By SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at the UN
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
Something of historic importance
to Jews the world over is about to
develop here, thanks to the United
States government and its chief
delegate here, Arthur J. Goldberg.
He has voiced publicly a solemn
pledge that the U.S.A. will work
actively in the next session of the
United Nations Commission on
Human Rights to put through of-
ficial UN condemnation of anti-
Semitism. The U.S.A. is a member
of that commission.
Furthermore, its representative
on that body is a famous civil
libertarian who happens to be also
president of the American Jewish
Committee — Morris J. A b r a m.
One more assurance that the move
will be seconded, and vigorously,
before the commission, lies in the
fact that Israel, too, is now repre-
sented on the commission. Israel's
delegate to the commission is
Supreme Court Justice Haim
Cohen.
Both Abram and Cohen will
voice not only the attitudes of
the respective governments that
have assigned them to the commis-
sion — they will certainly, be-
cause of their personal involve-
ment, fight hard. And it will be a
fight — since the move will be op-
posed, probably with equal vigor,
by no less an adversary than the
Soviet Union.
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The proposal that the United
Nations formally condemn anti-
Semitism goes back several years.
It was started during a session of
the Economic and Social Council.
The move was launched formally
by a surprise resolution introduced
by the U. S. representative in
ECOSOC at the time, Mrs. Marietta
Tree.
Under debate at the moment
was endorsement of a draft dec-
laration and convention for the
elimination of all forms of racial
intolerance. Dr. Isaac Lewin, re-
presenting the World Agudath Is-
rael, took the floor — his organ-
ization has consultative status
before ECOSOC, giving it the right
to a voice but not to vote. He
requested the addition in the anti-
racism draft of an amendment that
would condemn anti-Semitism.
His reasoning was simple: He
saw anti-Semitism as an attack
against an ethnic group. The draft
had already mentioned protection
for ethnic groups. Right there and
then, Mrs. Tree followed through
on Dr. Lewin's suggestion. With
out even consulting the other mem-
bers of her own delegation or the
official, expert advisors from the
State Department sitting behind
her, she drafted a resolution in
long-hand, presented it as an
amendment to the draft opposing
racism.
A couple of years went by. The
U.S.A., once having committed it-
self, would not let go. President
Johnson, indeed, proclaimed pub-
licly that he supported the move
generated by Mrs. Tree on a hu-
mane impulse. Then, last fall, it
looked as if the drive had col-
lapsed. The Soviet Union had seen
to that — through trickery, seek-
ing to equate anti-Semitism and
Zionism with Nazism.
The Kremlin cabal got a mem-
ber of the Soviet bloc and a mem-
ber of the Moslem group to in-
troduce a resolution banning the
naming of all and any "ism" (ex-
cept apartheid, which was already
listed for severe condemnation).
The ploy worked. "Isms" were out-
lawed. The USSR had its "victory."
But Moscow did not figure on
Goldberg's persistence. Speaking
before the Bilai Brith Anti-Defama-
tion League recently, Goldberg
referred to the UN's adoption of
the International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Intolerance. Through the
adoption of this instrument, he
noted, the world knows now that
"We can no longer talk about
how much we loathe discrimina-
tion. The test of our loathing must
be the speed and effectiveness with
which each and every nation
turns up the lights in its own
house, and thereby, forever, ends
the darkness in which discrimina-
tion breeds and dwells." He said
"the United States delegation at
the UN will continue the fight by
raising the issue once again in
the Human Rights Commission."
The Human Rights Commission
will convene its next session here
on March 8, continuing until April
4. The Soviet Union has notice.
So have Abram, Cohen and other
supporters of the move an-
nounced by Goldberg. Their work
is cut out for them.
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Israel Army Smoothes Rough Edges
Off Near-Illiterates in Brief Course
"Something that the United
States should learn from Israel"
—as U.S. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff
termed it—is the Israel Army's
Marcus School.
Named after U.S. Col. David
(Mickey) Marcus, killed during
Israel's War of Independence, the
school has as its students soldiers
who are awaiting discharge after
compulsory national service. They
are young men who had not com-
pleted elementary school before
being drafted. Some are near-
illiterates.
The U.S. Army rejects such
near illiterates, but the Israel
military accepts them and, in
three months, at the end of their
service, tries to teach them the
basic elements of general cul-
ture.
Their teachers, about 150 of
them, are girls of the army edu-
cation corps, recruited into service
after graduation from teacher
seminaries.
The three-month course on Mt.
Cannel ' overlooking Haifa Bay
isn't expected to work miracles,
but according to the army's chief
education officer, Col. Mordecai
Bar-on, "we hope when these
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Yiddish Still a Power
Among Jews, Parley Told
LONDON (JTA) — Yiddish has
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it still remains a powerful in-
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tries around the world, Aaron
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participants representing vital sec-
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Argentina.
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former envoy to several Latin
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