Dissemination of Anti-jewish Propaganda Brought to U. N. Attention

Complaints of Jewish communities in Australia and Turkey against the spreading of anti-Semitic material in these countries were brought to the attention of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights here by Dr. Maurice Perlzweig, representative of the World Jewish Congress.

The WJC representative urged the Commission on Human Rights to give immediate support to the establishment of world-wide clearing house to expose the “international conspiracy” against human rights and particularly against the Jewish people. He appealed to the United Nations and to the Commission on Human Rights for “practical help and support” in two projects aimed at fighting prejudice.

1. The summoning of a second conference of non-governmental organizations affiliated with the United Nations “to concert practical measures” in the field of human rights and “to make recommendations to the appropriate organs of the United Nations.” The United Nations last summer summoned the first Non-Government Organization Conference on Discrimination, which was held in Geneva. The parley, Dr. Perlzweig noted, “had given full consideration to the theoretical study of discrimination and the techniques by which it could be fought. The time has come for practical action.”

2. The creation, by the non-governmental organizations affiliated with the UN, of “a central international organ, a sort of specialized agency of the non-governmental organizations, which would collect and collate material on prejudice and collate material or, prejudice and discrimination, and record it publicly.” In addition, Dr. Perlzweig urged, a panel of distinguished jurists whose function would be to receive complaints of violations of human rights ought to be established. The panel would have no authority to act; it could however, register and publish the complaints and bring them to the notice of all governments concerned.