A resolution asking for the revision of the present immigration law to eliminate “its discriminatory national origins quota system and other repressive features “was adopted here unanimously at the annual convention of the B’nai B’rith Anti-Defamation League which closed its four-day session today.
The resolution also called for the Refugee Relief Act to be amended to carry out the purpose for which it was enacted. “The ADL urged that this Act under which 214,000 refugees from Europe are to be admitted to this country be administered sympathetically intelligently and humanely”
Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas addressing the convention at the Waldorf Astoria today said that “the basic problem of the world is the racial problem American he stated, has a unique contribution to make in having demonstrated what a multi-racial nation can do”
Philip Klutznick, B’nai B’rith president and a delegate to the recent international conference of non-governmental agencies on the eradication of prejudice and discrimination, held in Geneva, reported that “it became evident there that good people were getting more worried about freedom of thought–discrimination and prejudice against a ma ### because of his race, creed or color but because of his thoughts and his views.
Henry Edward Schulte ADL national chairman called for an attack on the institutions of discrimination which make it easy for people to practice their prejudices without being publicly exposed to the charge of bigotry the institutions the permit discrimination in housing employment education and public accommodation: Mr. Schultz said that the social bars which are maintained against minorities in restricted clubs and organizations are “at the core of the power structure” in most communities and “makes it possible to maintain the discriminations in industry, housing employment and education.”
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