Pat Conroy, secretary-treasurer of the Canadian Congress of Labor, who recently returned here from a visit to Israel, declared today that “the Jews have a strong case for insisting on keeping the new city of Jerusalem.” He said the Jewish sector of the Holy City was a “fairy land built high on a mountain and modern in every respect in contrast to the squalor of the Old City.”
Mr. Conroy asserted that the Jews fought for Jerusalem and lost several thousands of their best youths. “It is hardly fair to ask them to put the 100,000 Jews who now live in the city under a regime which would deprive them of their basic democratic rights,” the Canadian labor leader said. He added that the Jerusalem issue was not a Jewish problem “since the most sacredly-revered places of all three faiths are located in the Old City, occupied by Transjordan.”
The New state is building a “social order which comes closer to the desires of human nature than any other ever attempted by any other country,” he declared. Mr. Conroy lauded the programs of the Histadrut in Israel and said it was the duty of all nations to aid Israel to absorb the now immigrants pouring into the Jewish state.
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