Canadian Jewish Congress Told Catholic-jewish Relations in Dominion Have Improved

A report disclosing that the relations between Catholicsand Jews in Canada have improved greatly was submitted to the national convention of the Canadian Jewish Congress being held here, by Joseph H. Fine, cochairman of the public relations committee of the Congress.

“There are within the Catholic Church in the Province of Quebec, as well as in other provinces, a considerable number of communicants and leaders both acclesiastic and lay, who keenly feel the sin and condemn the wrong of anti-Semitism,” the report said. “Their attitude is not prompted by sentimentality alone, but appears to be a direct outgrowth of their creed and sense of responsibility. In reality, there is no innovation in the active friendship which many Catholics in Canada are showing to the Jewish people, for to them its seeds lie deep in the teaching of the Church.”

Mr. Fine also cited the current discussionson the Bill of Rights and on Fair Employment Practices acts and said that the courts have supported the pleas of the Canadian Jewish Congress and have outlawed anti-Jewish discriminatory clauses in property deeds. In Toronto, the civic authorities have made it illegal to bar any person from admission to public places on grounds of race or religion.

DR. NAHUM GOLDMANN ATTACKS GLORIFICATION OF PALESTINE TERRORISTS

Addressing the conference last night, Dr. Nahum Goldmann charged that “the terrorists in Palestine and those who glorify them are the greatest danger to the realization of our hopes for a Jewish National Home in Palestine.”

Discussing the forthcoming U.N. inquiry, Dr. Goldmann said that “from the United Nations must come a final solution of the Palestine problem, and the only solution must be a Jewish state. We must be prepared to compromise on many things in order to get a final solution now,” he added. The Zionist leader stressed the need for Jewish unity. He praised the acitivities of the World Jewish congress in fighting for the political rights of Jews in Europe and elsewhere.