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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Genocide Pact Remains Unratified by U.S
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
WASHINGTON — Congress will
adjourn in a few weeks again with-
out 'having ratified the United Na-
tions Convention on Genocide and
other human rights pacts with one
minor exception. The year 1968 was
designated by the UN and • the
United States as the International
Year for Human Rights. It'vas
year in which Russia, Poland,
Egypt and Syria singled out Jews
for discrimination .
;However, the U.S. could not ask
those countries to respect their
ratification of UN conventions out-
lawing discrimination. While the
U.S. has failed to ratify eight of
the nine anti-bias measures, the
pacts that would theoretically pro-
tect Jews were ratified by Russia,
Poland, Egypt and Syria. The only
one of the nine approved by the
U.S. Senate this year was the
treaty on abolition of slavery. The
slavery measure was ratified be-
cause American Negro groups put
pressure on Senators in this elec-
tion year.
Genocide and freedom of asso-
ciation have been stalled by the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee since 1949. In 1966, former
UN Ambassador Arthur J. Gold-
berg signed the Convention on
the Elimination of All Forms of
Racial Discrimination. But Pres=
ident Johnson has never trans-
mitted this convention to the
Senate.
Among the other conventions
awaiting official transmittal are
pacts aimed at discrimination in
employment and education. These
would apply directly to the anti-
Jewish measures instituted during
1968 in Poland.
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Sen. William W.. Proxmire, Wis-
consin Democrat, has almost daily
taken the Senate floor to urge ac-
tion on the genocide pact and other
conventions. He is ignored. The
news media no longer cover his
appeals.
Arguments are heard that other
nations could exploit American ra-
cial turbulence by using the UN
as a forum to hear complaints by
Negroe s, Mexican-Americans,
Puerto Ricans, American Indians,
and -other minorities. -
At the time that he signed the
UN Charter in 1945, President Tru-
man - called for an International
Bill of Rights, including genocide
and anti-bias pacts. He said that
"Unless we can attain those ob-
jectives for all men and women
everywhere — without regard to
race, language or religion — we
cannot have permanent peace and
security." The convention on the
prevention and punishment of the
crime of genocide was adopted by
the General Assembly in 1948 with
strong U.S. support. Truman sub-
mitted it to the Senate in 1949. A
report and a declaration was pre-
pared by a subcommittee of the
Foreign Relations Committee but
no final action was ever taken by
the full committee.
The convention on the freedom
of association and protection of
the right to organize is of great
potential importance to Soviet
Jewry. Yet Russia has ratified this
convention while the U.S. has not.
Therefore, the U.S. government( is
hardly in a position to demand
Russian adherence to a pact that
the Senate has ignored since 1949
when Truman sent it to the Senate.
Interested groups may be able
to achieve at the coming political
conventions and platform hearings
some steps toward accomplishing
in 1969 what they failed to_ do in
1968. .Yet there is no evidence of
any momentum in this direction.
Friday, July 12, 1968-21
Council for Judaism Confirms Resignation
of Its Spokesman, Rabbi Elmer Berger
NEW. YORK (JTA) — Officials adverse publicity in connection
of the American Council for Jud- with the visit here of Rabbi' Ye-
aism have confirmed that Rabbi huda Leib Levin of Moscow at
Elmer Berger, its executive vice. the council's invitation.
president and principal spokesman
Rabbi Berger's resignation fol-
since 1943, has severed his , con- lowed by a matter of weeks the
nection with the anti-Zionist, or- resignation of the council's exe-
ganization,. but they declined to cutive director and another staff
disctiss the circumstances.
member.
Rabbi Berger, 68, a bitter foe
In a statement made following
of the state of Israel and of the
his resignation as executive direc-
Zionist
movement,
submitted
his
By RABBI SAMUEL J. FOX
resignation to the council board tor Dr. Norton Mezvinsky charged '
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
last 'week. According to. Clerance that Rabbi Berger had given
What is the origin of the ex- L. Coleman, board chairman, it speech • writing assistance to the
pression "Jerusalem of Gold?" was accepted "with regret." Coun- Syrian ambassador to the United
In the Ugaritic inscription& we cil officials termed "preposterous" Nations.
find an article of jewelry worn by reports that Rabbi Berger's res-
a certain queen and called a "city ignation has been precipitated by
of gold." In the talmudic litera-
ture we find a number of refer-
ences to a piece of jewelry worn Italian Cotirt Will Decide
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