Dr. William Wexler, of Savannah. Ga., was re-elected to a second three year term as president of B’nai B’rith, the international Jewish fraternal and service organization, at the close of its triennial convention here yesterday. Elected treasurer was Eugene L. Sugarman, deputy controller of New York City, who won a close contest with Myron E. Herzog. a Chicago insurance executive.
The B’nai B’rith convention ended with the adoption of a long series of resolutions ranging from the condemnation of anti-Semitism in Poland to a call for the enactment of firearms registration laws on Federal and state levels.
The delegates called on the United States and other democratic nations to meet Israel’s security needs by immediately resuming the shipment of arms to Israel as the best guarantee to maintain peace in the Middle East. They called on all Governments to make known to Poland their opposition to the violation of the human rights of Polish Jews and on the U.S. specifically to deprive Poland of its most favored nation status in view of the Warsaw regime’s continuing anti-Semitic campaign. Another resolution hailed “the courageous stand of the Czech people” against the Soviet occupation of their country and urged men of good will everywhere to use their moral influence to deter suppression of Czechoslovakia’s small Jewish community. Rumania’s treatment of its Jewish citizens was lauded in a resolution that expressed appreciation to the Bucharest government. The convention also adopted a resolution proposing the establishment of an international court to deal with crimes against humanity, including anti-Semitism.
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