Assurance that the 100,000 Jews in Algeria will enjoy equal rights with all other European-settlers there, under any agreement that will be concluded between France and the FLN–the Moslem National Liberation Front which negotiated for an independent Algeria–was given here today to Dr. Nahum Goldmann by French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville.
Tomorrow, Dr. Goldmann is to confer about technical details for implementation of the future status of Algerian Jewry with Louis Joxe, the French Minister for Algerian Affairs. Under the agreement between France and the FLN, the Algerian Jews will be considered an integral part of the new country’s European minority, will be granted protection by France for their religious and cultural freedom, and will receive guarantees for the continuance of the specifically Jewish institutions in the country.
(In Geneva, the current welfare problems of the Algerian Jews were reviewed yesterday and today by social work consultants and budget experts of the Joint Distribution Committee, following the return from Algeria of a JDC special representative, who has been holding discussions with Algerian Jewish leaders. Measures were adopted for further alleviation of urgent welfare needs among the Algerian Jews, arising from the present crisis in the Algerian situation.)
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