Reaffirming a 42-year stand against “anti-American doctrines,” 600 delegates to a mid-Winter conference of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States yesterday resolved unanimously to intensify the organization’s “historic militant opposition” to Communism by enlarging its standing committee against Communism.
The resolution, introduced by past-Commander William Berman of Brookline, Mass., directs the committee to continue its stand against Communism “to the end that this menace may be rooted out an destroyed.” Fifteen members were added to the committee by National Commander Isador Worth of Camden, N.J., including seven past-commanders and other officers.
“For many years past,” the resolution said, “the Jewish War Veterans of the United States have, at every annual convention and at every possible opportunity, not only warned the American people against the insidious spread of Communism, but have exerted every effort possible to eradicate this menace from American life.”
In introducing the resolution, Mr. Berman said: “Let us not forget the dangers of Nazism and Fascism, but let us remember, as the Jewish War Veterans have remembered at our annual conventions ever since 1933, that Communism continues to threaten all those things which mean liberty and democracy for America.”
Other resolutions adopted provided for establishment of a committee to aid refugees of all faiths, reaffirmed the organization’s faith in democracy, attacked Nazism and Fascism and widened the J.W.V.’s Americanization program.
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