The British Poale Zion party today called on the Soviet authorities to allow Russian Jews the freedom to maintain contact with Jews in other lands and to facilitate the reunion of Jewish families. The resolution on Soviet Jewry was adopted at the closing session of a two-day conference of the party here attended by some 215 delegates. Other resolutions appealed for labor unity in Israel and called for controlled disarmament in the Middle East.
Israel Ambassador Arthur Lourie told the delegates that while “it may be true that Israel was now becoming industrialized and has acquired some of the less attractive features of the affluent society,” there is, nevertheless,” “a spirit of pioneering and sacrifice and this spirit is best manifested in the towns and villages of the Negev. ” Among the leading British personalities who addressed the conference were George Woodcock, general secretary of the Trade Union Congress, and Tom Williams, secretary of the Labor party.
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