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Attempt to Bar Jewish Congress from I. L. O. Parley on Bias Fails

June 7, 1957
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Egypt sought yesterday to bar the World Jewish Congress from participating in discussions of discrimination in employment on the grounds that the Congress is a racial not an international organization.

The move, at a meeting of an interim committee of the International Labor Organization conference on discrimination, failed when ILO director general David Morse ruled that the WJC was an international organization with consultative status before the United Nations. The attempt to bar the WJC was made by Abdel Moghni Said Salama, a representative of the Egyptian Government.

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