The United States was urged today to instruct its delegation to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights to call a special session of that body “in order to fully discuss and investigate charges made by Jewish refugees arriving in Naples,” Italy, from Cairo and Alexandria that they were led through the streets of those Egyptian cities in handcuffs while Arab mobs stoned and spat at them.
The request was made in a telegram to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles signed by Adolph Held, national chairman of the Jewish Labor Committee. “These inhuman acts in addition to the establishment of infamous concentration and internment camps for Jews, deserves the widest condemnation from our government and the free world,” the telegram said.
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. permanent United States representative to the United nations. today assured Farband-Labor Zionist Order of the deep concern of the United States Government over the reported persecution of Jews in Egypt. In a letter to Louis Segal, general secretary of Farband, Ambassador Lodge stated that the United States has gone on record in the General Assembly “as abhorring such practices as have been alleged.” The letter was in answer to an urgent inquiry addressed by Farband to the United States Delegation to the UN concerning American action to stop “the inhuman treatment of Egyptian Jews by the Nasser Government.”
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