The American Section of the World Jewish Congress today announced that it has embarked upon an intensified campaign to secure United States ratification of the Genocide Convention and of other human rights treaties.
Ratification has been bottled up in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 16 years despite appeals by Presidents and high governmental officials. So far 68 nations, including Soviet Russia, have ratified the treaty, which is designed to outlaw any attempt to massacre an entire people.
As part of the program to secure U. S. ratification of the Genocide Convention, the American Section of the World Jewish Congress will sponsor a series of public meetings throughout the United States. In New York City a meeting will be held on November 30, at the Astor Hotel with Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, as the principal speaker. The theme of the meeting will be “Never Again Auschwitz–United States Must Ratify Genocide Convention.”
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