Jewish Congress Urges Truman to Veto Omnibus Immigration Bill

Concern over the passage of the Walter Omnibus Immigration Bill by the House of Representatives was expressed here today in a resolution adopted by the National Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress at the close of its two-day mid-year conference. The bill was passed in the House last Friday by a vote of 206 to 68.

In its resolution, the American Jewish Congress called upon the Senate to defeat the companion measure, the McCarran Bill. It urged President Truman to veto the measure, in the event that it was passed by the Senate, “as violative of American principles of justice and humanitarianism, as unresponsive to the urgent human needs of large numbers of people in many lands, and as prejudicial to the moral leadership which our country is giving to the free peoples of the world.”

The conference also adopted a resolution demanding the immediate deportation of General Walter Schreiber, former Nazi Wehrmacht medical chief, discharged some months ago from his research post with the United States Air Force as a result of public indignation arising from the exposure of his criminal medical experiments on Nazi concentration camp inmates. The resolution also called for the discharge from employment in U.S. defense and military services of all former responsible Nazi government officials or military officers, regardless of their special abilities or skills, and demanded that those now in the United States be deported.

In a third resolution, the conference called upon the Administration to take leadership in securing Senate ratification of the U.N. Genocide Convention. Another resolution requested that the U.S. delegation to the U.N. support procedures for the enforcement of the Human Rights Conference by extending the right of petition to non-government organizations, in order to broaden and render more effective the machinery for international protection of human rights.