Revision of the McCarran-Walter Immigration Act “so as to bring our immigration and naturalization laws into accord with our American ideals, ” was requested in a resolution adopted today at the closing session of the sixth annual assembly of the National Jewish Youth Conference at Cejwin Camp here. Ray Kosakoff of New York was elected chairman of the youth organization for the next year.
The assembly also adopted a resolution declaring the Conference’s “unqualified opposition to Communism and all other forms of totalitarianism” and denouncing “the employment of anti-Semitism by the Soviet Union which is using it to unite the enemies of democracy.”
Other resolutions call upon President Eisenhower, Secretary of State Dulles and the U. S. Senate to take those steps necessary to insure the immediate ratification of the Genocide Convention; condemn all efforts to curtail civil liberties and oppose all threats to “these basic principles of our free society”; assert that academic freedom is fundamental to our democratic society, and urge American Jewish youth to celebrate the centennial of the Jewish Community Center and YM-YWHA movement and the 300th anniversary of Jewish settlement in the United States.
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