Dore Schary, national chairman of the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith, today instituted legal action to fore Robert Moses, president of the World’s Fair Corporation, and Newbold Morris, New York City Commissioner of Parks, to cancel the lease of the Jordanian Pavilion at the World’s Fair unless that government removes its “anti-Semitic” mural from the exhibit walls.
An order directing Commissioner Morris and Mr. Moses to show cause why the mural should not be removed or the Jordan Pavilion lease canceled was signed today by Justice Joseph A. Sarafite of the State Supreme Court. In his petition, Mr. Schary charges that the Jordanian display “casts aspersions on all Americans of the Jewish faith and incites to hatred against them. Its continued maintenance, ” he says, “is deeply offensive to Jews and as such violates both its lease and the chief purpose of the Fair. “
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