A declaration welcoming the “reaffirmation of America’s traditional friendship for all the nations of the Middle East” and expressing the hope “that this Administration will succeed in advancing peace with justice and progress with freedom for all peoples of the region,” was approved unanimously today by the Hadassah Mid-Winter Conference held here.
The Conference also acclaimed President John F. Kennedy’s “Food for Peace” and “National Peace Corps” programs, as evidence of his determination “to wage war against man’s universal enemies–disease, poverty and ignorance,” by sharing “with those who need it, America’s abundant material and technical resources and skills.”
The Conference delegates also approved a resolution calling upon Congress “to remove the defects and inequities of the current McCarran-Walter Immigration Act; eliminate resentment, discrimination and injustice from our immigration law; and finally to formulate for the American people and the people of the world a generous, just and democratic solution to an urgent problem.”
The Conference was addressed by Yaacov Tsur, former Israel Ambassador to France and to Argentina and now world chairman of the Jewish National Fund. He told the delegates that “there are still many sore points in the Jewish world which, unfortunately, the recent World Zionist Congress could not discuss openly in view of the dangerous situation for the Jews in certain countries.” He stressed particularly the Moroccan situation and other problems in North Africa.
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