The Federation of Belgian Jewish Soldiers and Resistance Fighters urged the Belgian delegation in the United Nations today to “strongly support the paragraph condemning anti-Semitism” in the proposed convention for religious freedoms now under consideration by a General Assembly committee. The appeal was contained in a cable signed by Roger Katz, president of the association, and Maurice Pioro, president of the Jewish Deportees Association.
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