B’nai B’rith president Philip M. Klutznick, a U.S. delegate to the United Nations, said tonight that Americans must approach the issue of earth satellites with “less panic, less scapegoating and more sober reflection that American ingenuity and technical advancement are not disintegrating” because the Soviet Union’s crash program succeeded.
Mr. Klutznick told a dinner meeting of the Joint Defense Appeal, fund-raising arm of the American Jewish Committee and B’nai B’rith’s Anti-Defamation League, that his personal experiences in the UN General Assembly clearly indicated American leadership among the free nations “rests as much with our moral behavior as with our economic strength and technological progress.”
Warning that racial disturbances were “damaging compromises” to the nation’s moral posture and “perhaps as great an issue in international politics as they are a dilemma in our domestic life,” the B’nai B’rith leader added: “We lose a bigger propaganda battle among the neutralist and noncommitted nations from such incidents as Little Rock than the Russians gain with their Sputniks.”
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
