The World Jewish Congress is expected to oppose Rumania’s bid for membership in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization at the annual UNESCO conference which opens Friday in Montevideo, it was learned here today.
The WJC is expected to charge the Rumanian Government with violating the aims and principles of the organization by its persecution of Zionist and Jewish communal leaders. The Congress, it is understood, will submit that the policy and actions of the Communist government of Rumania in condemning Jews for engaging in Zionist activities and for maintaining contact with Jewish groups abroad are incompatible with the “unrestricted pursuit of objective truth” and with the “free exchange of ideas and knowledge”–tenets of UNESCO.
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