A call to the United Nations to use its “full powers and moral influence” to put an end to belligerence in the Middle East and to arrange a “cease-fire on the economic front” as the first step to implementing a Middle East envisioned by the UN’s Palestine partition plan, was adopted here this week-end at the conclusion of a four-day international convention of B’nai B’rith Young Adults. Morton Plotnick, 20, of Wayne University of Detroit, was elected international president.
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