Labelling the recent ratification by the Soviet Union of the United Nations Genocide Convention a “cynical step taken for the purpose of embarrassing the United States and deluding world public opinion, ” major national Jewish religious bodies and civic organizations, together with a large number of Jewish community councils throughout the country today sent a telegram to President Eisenhower urging him to use his “good offices in behalf of Senate ratification of the Convention.”
Continued United States failure to ratify the Genocide Convention, the message said, “exposes us not only to Communist propaganda but to the legitimate doubts of our friends throughout the world who look to us for affirmative moral leadership. ” The Genocide Convention, already in effect, binds the forty-three signatory nations to a treaty barring the mass destruction of any racial or religious group.
The telegram was sent on behalf of the American Jewish Congress, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans of the United States, central Jewish religious bodies and the Jewish community councils affiliated with the National Community Relations Advisory Council, joint planning body for all the organizations.
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