The executive of the World Jewish Congress today called upon the British Government to move in Parliament for ratification of the United Nations Convention on Genocide. In a letter to Minister of State Selwyn Lloyd, A.L. Easterman, political director of the congress, noted that “it has been some disappointment to us that the British Government should for so long a time after adoption of the convention not have seen their way clear to recommend to Parliament the ratification of this most important international instrument designed to protect groups against such crimes as mass annihilation which the German Nazi regime committed against Jews and other groups in Europe.”
The letter recalled the historic scene in Parliament in 1942 when Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden informed the House of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis and pledged the Allied Powers to punish the crime, and declared that Parliament would not find any difficulty in accepting a Government recommendation to ratify the convention.
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