The European head quarters of the American Jewish Committee here today sent a cable to the Moroccan Premier, Si Bekkai, expressing satisfaction with the appointment of a Jew, Dr. Leon Ben-Zaquen, to membership in the Moroccan Cabinet. A message of congratulation was also sent by the AJC to Dr. Ben-Zaquen.
(Zachariah Shuster, European director of the AJC, upon his arrival today in New York from North Africa, said that, despite the fact that the new governments of Morocco and Tunisia have promised to wipe out ancient discrimination against Jews and to give them full equality of rights, there is still a feeling of insecurity among the Jews there, and many of them are seeking to emigrate. He urged that there be “no shutting down of opportunities for those Jews who, for economic and other reasons, should want to make their lives elsewhere.”)
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