The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, recalling participation of members in the 1942 American landings that ended Vichy control of Morocco and facilitated subsequent independence, today asked Moroccan Ambassador D. El-Mehdi Ben Aboud to request his Government to abandon anti-Jewish policies.
Citing the previous liberalism of Moroccan leaders, the JWV national executive director, Joseph F. Barr, in a letter to the Ambassador, charged that current Moroccan discrimination was even more severe than some policies of Nasser’s United Arab Republic. The JWV leader suggested that King Mohamed V and Crown Prince Moulay Hassan be reminded that Nasser permitted Egyptian Jews to emigrate to Europe and America while Morocco holds its Jewish citizens “captive and incommunicado. “
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