An urgent appeal by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith was made today for immediate government action to relieve the desperate plight of Egyptian refugees.
The League’s national executive committee concluded its two-day meeting at the Waldorf Astoria here with the adoption of a resolution calling upon the United States “in keeping with its time-honored tradition of giving sanctuary to the victims of religious and political persecution, to admit a fair share of the refugees from Egyptian terror to our country, “under the emergency provisions of our present immigration laws.
Henry Edward Schultz, national chairman of the ADL, pointed out that the U.S. could employ the same “careful screening procedures that were used in connection with Hungarian refugees admitted to this country under the same emergency parole admission provisions of the Immigration Act of 1952.”
Paying war tribute to the government’s action in giving haven to Hungarian refugees, the League urged that the United States participate, as it did in the Hungarian situation, “with other Western democracies in assisting in the resettlement of the expellees from Egypt.” The Nasser regime, the ADL resolution declared, has expelled “large numbers of Jews under cruel and heart-rending circumstances. Many of these have turned to the United States for admission especially those who have relatives in this country.”
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