In these grim days, when Israel was being squeezed as never before, the one ally on whom she could unfailingly rely was diaspora Jewry, David Mann, chairman of the South African Board of Jewish Deputies, told a Beard meeting here in reporting that South African Jewry was exerting itself to the utmost to give Israel all the help and support it could. In addition to the unstinting aid and commitment by the Jewish community there, was also understanding and sympathy In the general community, Mann said. Church leader and persons prominent in academic and industrial circles protested the Arab treatment of Israeli POWs and urged the Red Cross to intervene.
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