Free World Raises Cry for Iraq Jews' Exodus

LONDON (JTA)—Even before meats of Egypt and Syria to per- the Safety of Jews in Arab Lands,"

The decision to plant the forest,

which announced that its first task the officials said, followed a
new reports of executions in Iraq mit their Jews to leave as well.
In Amsterdam, the Holland- will be to use all means at its "flood" of requests to JNF offices
this week, the Bureau of the
across the United States that trees

Socialist International adopted a
resolution urging the governments
of Iraq, Egypt and. Syria to
allow Jews in those countries to
emigrate. It also - endorsed a
resolution of the International
Council of Social Democratic
Wonien condemning "the recent
shameful events in Iraq which have
aroused horror the world over."
The women were alluding to the
execution of nine Jews and five
others on charges of spying for
Israel."
'tit was announced early Thurs-

day that Iraq has executed five
more- persons on charges of spy-
lag for_Israel. AU of the seven
were Moslems.
(Four of the victims were hung,
and one was shot, before their
bodies were displayed in a public
square—as had been done earlier
with the -14.)
The • sentences were handed
down Feb. 11 by a three-man
"revolutionary court," Baghdad
Radio said. Col. Hadi Witwet, the
same Iraqi officer who had sen-
tenced the first 14 men, announced

Israel Society and the Catholic
Peopled Party, the largest polit-
ical party in the Netherlands, have
urged high level intervention in
Arab countries to secure permis-
sion for emigration by Jews whose
lives are endangered.
The Catholic Party called on the
Dutch government to act. The So-
ciety asked the local Red Cross
to request intervention by the In-
ternational Red Cross in Geneva
to speed the departure of Jews
from Iraq, Syria and Lebanon.
A group of prominent French
political and community figures
has established a "Committee for

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UN Groups Rally
for Iraqi Jews

In Toronto, seven oustanding
Canadian churchmen appealed to
the Canadian government to help
the Jews of Iraq, Egypt and
Syria to settle in Canada and to
Invite' and assist Arabs suffering
hardship in the refugee camps to
settle here.
The text of the telegrams sent

to the minister of external affairs,
Mitchell Sharp, and made public,
stressed that Canadians "as an af-
fluent people, cannot stand idly by
while families live in daily fear
for their lives, or are enduring the
constant agony of hunger and

need."
Signatories included the

Most
Rev. Alexander Carter, president
of the Canadian Catholic Confer-
ence and Bishop of Sault Ste.
Marie; the Right Rev. Louis S.
Garnsworthy, Anglican Suffragan
Bishop of Toronto; Dr. Robert B.
McClure, moderator of the United.
Church of Canada; and the Right
&iv. Clifton J. Mackay, moderator

or

the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church of Canada.
Bucharest Choral Temple was
lammed Monday with 2,000 wor-
shippers who recited Kaddish for

the

nine Jews executed in Iraq.
Rosen said
Romanian Jewry protested "the
barbaric act of the Baghdad au-
thorities." He recited the 137th
Psalm dealing with the Jewish
exile in Babylon, ancient site of
present - day Iraq. "We hung our

Chief Rabbi Moses

harps upon the willows in the
midst thereof. They hanged our
Mothers in the same place," Rabbi
Rosen said.
The Board of Deputies of Brit-
hh Jews has prepared a national
petition aimed at the rescue Of
the remaining Jews of Iraq and
ether Arab countries. Alderman
lachael M. Fidler, board presi-
dent, announced ihat the peti-
tion would be addressed to
Vatted Nations Secretary Gen-
eral U Thant, urging him on be-
half of "the men and women of
Mean" to use his good offices
10 persuade the Baghdad govern-
ment to permit the immediate
emigration of Iraqi Jews.
The petition will also call on

Thant to call upon the govern-

RIO DE JANEIRO (DNS) — A
large delegation, representing the
General Zionist Organization in
Brazil, will participate in the Pan-
American Zionist Conference, as
well as in the Conference of the
Latin-American Confederation of
General Zionists. Both conferences
will take place in Miami Beach.

disposal to secure the right of emi-
gration for Jews in Araq and other be planted in memory of the nine
Arab countries where they are op- men publicly hanged in Baghdad
and Basra.
pressed and threatened.
Chairman of the group is Jacques
Mercier, a Gaullist member of
Parliament, who presided at a
public meeting in Paris at which
establishment of the committee was
announced. He shared the platform
with Chief Rabbi Jacob Kaplan,
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and former French Defense Min-
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Mercier pledged, "We shall not
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basic human rights until they are
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Egypt to the Jewish plight under
the Nazis. The new committee is
also _opposed to President Charles
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In Jerusalem, American stu-
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nine Jews in Iraq on charges of
spying for Israel and demanded
more active U.S. intervention to
save the remaining 2,500.3,590
Jews of that country.
The • orderly demonstration was
organized by the Yad Vashem, the
Heroes and Martyrs Remembrance
Authority.
Later, a delegation went to Tel
Aviv to deliver a petition signed
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all day. Speakers included Dr.
Ezra Spicehandler of the depart-
ment of Hebrew literature and Dr.
Jack Cohen, director of the Hillel
Foundation on the Hebrew Univer-
sity campus.
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Hundreds of Christians of various
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churches attended an interdenomi-
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national Christian prayer service
for the well-being and deliverance
of Iraqi Jews at the Dominican
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marked the first time that common
prayers by Christian denomina-
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The Jewish National Fund an-
nounced that it will plant a Memo-
rial Forest for Iraqi Martyrs in
Israel. Herman L. Weisman, presi-
dent, and Dr. Milton Aron, execu-
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the new verdict at the end of a
four-hour radio broadcast of tapes
of portions of the trial, monitored
In Beirut.)

Former Austrian Vice Chancel-
lor Dr. Bruno Piterman said the
bureau decided to place the Mid
East question on the agenda of the
triennial congress of the Socialist
International next June.
In Belgrade, the Federation of
Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia
adopted a resolution deploring as
barbaric the recent Iraq execu-
tions. The organization also said
It was "anxious about a just and
peaceful solution to the problems
of the Middle East."

Brazilians to Attend Parley

wrap'

Representatives of more than
400 nongovernmental organiza-
tions accredited to the United
Nations come together at emer-
gency meeting to discuss, viola-
tion of human rights and due
process as exemplified by the
Iraqi mass trials and hangings.
The meeting, sponsored by the
human rights committee of the
Conference of UN Representa-
tives of the United Nations Asso-
ciation-USA, was held at the
UNA Communications Center in
New York. The Rev. Herschel
Halbert (right), officer for inter-
national affairs, Executive Coun-
cil of the Episcopal Church, was

chairman. Sen. Jacob K. Javits
(R. N.Y.) was a speaker. The
group called upon the UN Com-
mission on Human Rights to
establish "appropriate machinery

for investigating human rights
violations in Iraq."

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