A resolution appealing to political leaders and candidates to “repudiate publicly the efforts of hate-mongers to inject bigotry” into the election campaign and to spurn the support of any individual or group “which invokes racial or religious prejudice as a campaign technique,” was adopted here last night at the concluding session of the national executive committee of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. Another resolution endorsed President Eisenhower’s recommendations for re-examination of the national origins quota system as the basis of United States immigration laws.
The ADL forwarded to the State Department its report on Arab propaganda activities in the United States aimed at American Jews. In an accompanying letter to Secretary of State Dulles, the ADL’s national chairman, Henry E. Schultz, asked that the report be given study and consideration “in the hope that it will be helpful in our government’s efforts to check such divisive foreign propaganda attacks upon Americans of Jewish faith by representatives of foreign governments.”
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