A resolution denouncing the suppression of Jewish cultural life in the Soviet Union and “in certain satellite nations of Eastern Europe” was adopted today by the resolutions committee of the Jewish War Veterans of the United States and will be presented to the 64th annual convention of the organization which concludes its sessions on Sunday.
The resolution calls on the United States Government “to use its good offices to appeal to the governments concerned to remove the restrictions preventing the full cultural and spiritual development of their Jewish communities, and to lift the barriers to permit the free emigration of those who may desire to go to Israel and elsewhere. “
Other resolutions on the agenda, certain of adoption, call for:
1. Cancellation of the United States agreement permitting Saudi Arabian discrimination against assignment of Jewish personnel at the American base at Dhahran Air Base.
2. Revocation of American visas held by Arab propagandists in this country.
3. “Vigorous” American governmental opposition to the Egyptian blockade of the Suez Canal against Israeli shipping, and to the Arab League’s anti-Israeli boycott.
4. The deportation of Andrija Artujovic, former Yugoslav collaborator of Hitler, who now lives in California.
Other resolutions deal with elimination of racial or religious bias in housing, support of the United Nations, and call on the United States Senate to ratify the United Nations Convention Against Genocide.
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