USSR Backs UN Condemnation of Nazism but Attacks Measure
on Jews
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GENEVA (JTM—The United Na-
tions Commission on Human
Rights. currently in session here.
adopted unanimously last weekend
a resolution sharply condemning
Nazism and calling upon all states
"to take immediate and effective
measures against any such mani-
festations of Nazism and of racial
intolerance."
The resolution had been intro-
duced by Poland. one of the 32
members of the commission, and
included originally also a denun-
ciation of neo-Nazism, aimed at
such resurgence in West Germany.
But, as finally adopted, the reso-
lution failed to mention neo-Naz-
isni, after amendments eliminating
such mention had been co-spon-
sored by the United States, Brit-
ain and France.
Earlier. the Soviet Union
sharply attacked—while Great
Britain warmly supported—an
American statement made here
calling upon all governments to
cease persecuting the Jewish mi-
nority, extend cultural and reli-
t gious freedoms to Jews, and per-
mit them to emigrate for pur-
poses of family reunification to
Israel and ther countries.
The address was delivered be-
fore the commission by Charles
It Silver, former president of the
New York City Board of Educa-
tion. and a member of the United
States delegation of the commis-
sion.
While Silver did not -name any
country, the fact that his target
was the Soviet Union was empha-
sized by a rebuttal voiced by the
USSR member on the commission,
Yakut) A. Ostrovski. He told the
commission that the , United States
was not a government to raise
human rights issues at a time
when it is engaged in "aggression"
in Vietnam and in the use of
bombs in the Vietnam war.
After Ostrovski's comments, Sir
Samuel Hoare, Britain's chief dele-
gate to the commission, told the
32 - member group: "I wish to asso-
ciate my delegation with every-
thing said by the delegation of the
United States. It was a general
statement, given in inoffensive
terms. There are still countries
where religious discriminations are
practiced against minorities and,
in particular, against the Jewish
minority."
In another development at the
commission session, the Polish del-
egate, Zbigniew Resich, proposed
an amendment to a draft resolution
on banning for all time any stat-
utes of limitations concerning the
prosecution of Nazi war criminals
and persons who had committed
crimes against humanity.
Silver earlier made an impas-
sioned ph-a for full freedoms and
equality of treatment in the re-
ligious, cultural and other hu-
man rights fields, for Jews all
over the world.
The plea was linked to the pres-
ent commission's "record in oppo-
sition to apartheid and to all vio-
lations of human rights."
After rioting the progress made
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by the commission toward spell-
ing out many human freedoms, he
said:
"In the world today, many racial
strains and cultures are uniformly
acknowledged and actively encour-
aged to develop their native lan-
guage, literature and art, while
others, particularly the Jews, have
been singled out to be confronted
with obstacles and oppression.
Even in areas where they have
been recognized as an ethnic group
within the national structure, con-
tinuing obstacles and oppression
have confronted them.
"The world has observed re-
straints on religion which have re-
sulted in the closing of many his-
toric houses of worship and the
imposition of obstacles to the train-
ing of future religious leaders and
teachers. The inevitable result is
a - spiritual and intellectual loss to
future generations.
"Whenever the printing of prayer
books, the publication of literature,
the production of dramatic or musi-
cal performances, the teaching of
history and religion to the young
have been restricted, the result is
that the vital resources of a rich
cultural legacy are being stamped
out.
"In a number of cases, censor-
ship has prevented sympathetic
co-religionists in other nations
from sending teachers and reli-
gious publications to their breth-
ren. Whole communities have
been isolated from their kinsmen
in other parts of the world. Their
members have been prevented
from rejoining their relatives in
Israel and elsewhere. Govern-
ment action has prevented the
renewal of bonds to the pitiful
remnants which still remain of
families that were torn apart by
the tragic events of recent his-
tory.
"We plead for equality for ev-
ery ethnic and racial group. We
urge that Jewish citizens every-
where be permitted to enjoy the
same privileges accorded to all
peoples.
"We urge the restoration and
maintenance of synagogues and
churches, cemeteries, social and
welfare institutions, communal or-
ganizations, schools and semina-
ries. . . .
"And finally, we hope that per-
mission will be granted to families
of Jews and other minorities sep-
arated during the war to be re-
united with their loved ones with
out undue hindrance or distress.
We hope likewise that families sep-
arated through apartheid and sim-
ilar practices will no longer be
denied the right to a family life.
"We ask the same measure of
freedom—no more or no less—that
is granted to all other people in
a civilized society. We put forth
this statement in the confident be-
lief that it benefits the dignity of
man."
A sharp exchange involving
charges of anti-Semitism against a
Soviet representative took place
Tuesday between Morris B.
Abram, chief United States dele-
gate to the UN Human Rights
Commission, and Yakub A. OstroV-
ski, head of the Soviet delegation,
during debate on the question of
the establishment of an office of
High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
The exchange began when Os-
trovski directed the comment at
Abram that he was not here at a
meeting of the American Jewish
Committee. Abram, who as a Jew-
ish leader in the United States,
serves as president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee, replied to
the anti-SemitiC outburst sharply
but in a dignified manner. He re-
called that the Soviet delegate had
made a similar remark three
weeks ago.
"I deeply regret," Abram said,
"that my Soviet colleague has
exceeded the normal standard of
conduct here by twice making
reference to my Jewish connec-
tion. I understand also that he
has indulged in religious impli-
cations with respect to another
member who is Jewish in the
deliberations of a working party.
"I have many private connec-
tions with foundations, colleges and
universities, one of them a Negro
college, and numerous civil rights
organizations and bar groups in the
United States. The Soviet delegate.
however, has now twice referred in
two caustic and sarcastic terms to
my connection with the American
Jewish Committee. Of that affilia-
tion, as with all others — Jewish
and non-Jewish—I am proud.
"The American Jewish Commit-
tee is the world's oldest human
rights organization, having been
founded in 1906, to fight Czarist
anti-Semitism and its struggles
against all forms of man's inhu-
manity to man and for all people—
regardless of race, color or creed.
"The Soviet delegate knows this
well for he has several times used
the American Jewish Committee's
great human relations library,
which contains one of the world's
best resources in the field. I, my-
self have seen him in the AJC
library in New York.
"It is a disgrace that in this
place, the Human Rights Com-
mission, and at this session at
which we have passed the his-
toric draft convention for the
Elimination of All Forms of Re-
ligious Intolerance, that the
Soviet delegate should raise this
crude implication," Abram con-
tinued.
Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg,
chief United States delegate to the
United Nations, warmly endorsed
on behalf of his government the
draft International Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Religious Intolerance, adopted in
Geneva last week by the Commis-
sion on Human Rights. He also
voiced the Washington administra-
tion's "commitment" to ratifica-
tion of the UN Genocide Conven-
tion, which was adopted in 1948
but has not yet been ratified my
the U.S.A.
Ambassador Goldberg made his
statement, dealing with all human
rights, at the annual meeting of
the Conference of United Nations
Representatives of the United Na-
tions Association—U.S.A., attended
by more than 100 representatives
I
dice, specifically including anti-
Semitism. And it provides that
acts of violence against adherents
of any religion, or incitement to
such violence, or incitement It
hatred likely to lead to such vio-
lence, shall be punishable by law."
Speaking in connection with the
commission's observance, Tuesday,
of International Day for Elimina-
tion of Racial Discrimination, Dr.
Maurice L. Perlzwig, representa-
tive of the World Jewish Con-
gress, chided the majority of UN
member states for having failed,
thus far, to ratify the UN's anti-
racism convention, adopted 18
months ago.
Monday, the commission de-
cided to refer to the General As-
sembly for a final decision the
draft convention on the elimina-
tion of statutes of limitations in
cases involving prosecutions of
war crimes. The commission was,
unable to agree on certain legal
points in the short time available,
accredited h United Nations
At its meeting, the conference
reelected . William H. Kore y
to a second one-year term as
chairman. Dr. Korey is the UN
representative for the Coordi-
nating Board of Jewish Organi-
zations, comprised of Bnai Brith
and the Board of Deputies of
British Jews.
In speaking of the Human Rights
Commission's action on religious
freedoms, Ambassador Goldberg
lauded Abram as "one of the
principal authors" of the religious-
freedoms document, Goldberg said:
"His skill and persuasiveness had
much to do with the unanimous
adoption of the convention in the
32-member Human Rights Com-
mission. That unanimity is a good
augury for its final adoption by
the General Assembly."
The religious-freedoms instru-
ment is scheduled to be fleshed
Alexander Marmorek, a 19th
out with articles of implementa-
tion by the next session of the Century Austrian-Jewish obstetri-
cian
and bacteriologist, as a pioneer
assembly. The instrument, Gold-
berg said, "pledges the signatories in the discovery of serum against
to take positive educational mea- streptococci for the treatment of
sures to combat religious preju- scarlet fever.
14 — Friday, March 24, 1967
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