Yaacov After, general manager of Mashbir, central body of Histadrut cooperatives, today accused Czechoslovakia of having murdered Charles H. Jordan, executive vice-chairman of the Joint Distribution Committee, whose body was discovered in a river at Prague after the JDC official’s mysterious disappearance last week.
The charge was made by Mr. After in a cable consigned by Asher Yadin, a member of the secretariat of Histadrut, the Israel federation of labor, to the central committee of the International Cooperative Association. In the cable, they notified the ICA that they would not attend the ICA’s central committee meeting, scheduled to be held at Prague, next month, and demanded that the ICA hold its session elsewhere because “Jordan’s murder was part of a wild anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish campaign conducted by Czech authorities.”
At the same time, Zeev Harring, head of Histadrut’s international department, announced that Mr. After and Mr. Yadin, who had been named as the Israeli delegates to the ICA session, have withdrawn from the scheduled Prague meeting “as a result of the mysterious death of Mr. Jordan.”
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