Creation of a neutral, fact-finding international commission, under the aegis of the United Nations, to investigate religious discriminations in any part of the world was proposed here tonight by Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg. The jurist was the principal speaker at the inaugural dinner of the Jewish Center for the United Nations, to be constructed as an expansion of the present Sutton Place Synagogue, in the shadow of the UN complex.
Justice Goldberg called attention to the anti-Jewish discriminations in the Soviet Union, and told the assemblage of ambassadors, government officials and clergymen of various faiths that his proposed commission “might well destroy much discrimination by exposing it to the cold light of world public opinion.”
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