THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 3, 1966-5
State Dept. Denies Beligion Is Factor in Hiring Foreign. Aides
NEW YORK—The State Depart-
ment, in a letter to the American
Jewish Congress, has corrected an
'erroneous" assertion by a depart-
ment official that religion is a fac-
tor in the assignment of U.S. dip-
lomatic personnel abroad.
The action came in a letter from
William J. Crockett, deputy under-
secretary of state for administra-
tion, released last Friday by Dr.
Joachim Prinz of Newark, past
7esident of the Congress and now
tairman of its commission on in-
ternational affairs.
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Issuance of the letter came fol-
lowing a meeting at the State De-
partment between Crockett, Dr.
Prinz and Phil Baum of the Ameri-
can Jewish Congress to discuss
charges that the State Department
barred Jews from service in Arab
countries.
"My purpose in writing this
letter," Crockett said, "is to
make clear_ beyond any doubt
that the department's policy and
practice with respect to the as-
signment of its personnel neither
provides for nor tolerates as-
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By BORIS SIVIOLAR
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE: The question whether American Jewry
should launch a $500,000 drive to coordinate and intensify the cam-
paign for securing equal cultural and religious rights for Jews in the
Soviet Union is now developing into an issue in numerous Jewish
communities throughout the country . . . The qUestion was originally
discussed—but not made public—at the recent national gathering in
Philadelphia of the American Jewish Conference on Soviet Jewry
which represents 24 major Jewish organizations . . It provoked
there a good deal of heated arguments for and against the proposal,
and I wrote about it in one of my recent columns published in this
paper . . . As a result, I have received many letters from readers
from various parts of the country . . Letters were also received
by me from Detroit, where my column appears in The Detroit Jewish
News, from Pittsburgh, where the column is published in the Jewish
Chronicle as well as from other cities . . All of them are in favor
of raising a $500,000 fund and some of them even go so far as stating
that they want to be "counted in" if and when such a fund is raised
. Perhaps the most interesting letter came from a student of
Columbia University . . . This student, Lenore Weitzman, emphasized
that she and "other Columbia students" feel that "every effort should
be made on behalf of Soviet Jewry" and that "even more than $500,000
should be raised to combat Soviet oppression of Jews."
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VITAL VIEWS: The scope, the emphasis and the priorities of
programs under Jewish communal auspices must change, if they are
to keep pace with the changes of their environments . . . This is
the opinion of William Avrunin, the newly-elected president of the
National Conference of Jewish Communal Service, the organization
of Jewish communal workers . . . Mr. Avrunin, who is the executive
director of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, bases his
opinion on the spirit of the deliberations at the NCJCS convention
which was held in Washington . . . He cites the fact that the years
between the New Deal and the Great Society are characterized by
continuous adjustments of private welfare services to the growing
welfare program of the government . . Similar changes and adjust-
ments to developments in Jewish life are also seen by him . . He
notes that, during those years, American Jewry helped to empty the
DP camps in Europe, saved lives, struggled with absorption in
America as well as in Israel, developed an impressive community
relations program, and has undergone a shift toward greater concern
with Jewish identification and Jewish survival . . . The primary focus
of Jewish social workers has during that time been on: How do
private Jewish communal services relate to the changing social scene?
.. . And Mr. Avrunin points out that the convention of the Jewish
communal workers in Washington was similarly devoted to discussions
on how do administrators and practitioners in Jewish communal agen-
cies see the problems and prospects for Jewish services as the
programs of the Great Society unfold . . . The new NCJCS president
believes that Jewish professionals in the field of communal work
must not only implement but help shape the Great Society.
signment limitations on racial
or religious. grounds."
Crockett referred to a letter
from Assistant Secretary of State
Douglas MacArthur II last January
to Pennsylvania Congressman Ric-
hard S. Schweiker in which Mac-
Arthur had said that "the religion
of (State Department) employes .
is regrettably a factor which can-
not be ignored in the case of cer-
tain countries."
Commenting on IVIacArthur's
statement, Crockett said:
"The language implies that an
employe's religion is taken into
account when assignments are
made.
"I should explain that this let-
ter was in error with respect to
policy and practice."
In his letter to Dr. Prinz, Croc-
kett summarized the State Depart-
ment position as follows:
"Assignments are made on the
tive and our embassies have taken
the matter up with other govern-
ments on a number of occasions.
We believe that our efforts are
contributing toward our goal of
eliminating racial and religious
distinctions from international re-
lations and travel."
The State Department undersec-
retary said the department had re-
ceived "a number of letters . . .
on the subject of the department's
assignment criteria for overseas
posts, particularly with respect to
those countries in the Middle East
which discriminate against persons.
of the Jewish faith."
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