The American Jewish Congress called today for a vigorous campaign by national Jewish groups for an amendment to the Mutual Security Act that would deny foreign United States economic aid to any nation that discriminated against Americans because of creed or color.
In a report to the AJC national governing council, Mrs. Thelma Richman, of Philadelphia, newly appointed chairman of the organization’s Commission on International Affairs, noted that such an amendment had been passed by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on May 10, by a vote of 22 to 0.
Pointing out that the Senate version of the new Mutual Security Act, still in committee, contains no anti-bias provision as adopted by the House group, Mrs. Richman called on Jewish groups to wage an intensive effort for inclusion of the House amendment in the final Mutual Security Act, “to the end that our country shall serve notice on all nations discriminating against American citizens on racial or religious grounds that they do so at the peril of depriving themselves of American aid, paid for by the taxes of all American citizens.”
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