The three-day annual conference of the National Community Relations Advisory Council, which represents six national Jewish organizations and 38 local Jewish Community Councils, concluded here last night with the adoption of resolutions calling for the elimination of the national origins quota system and asking the U.S. Government to admit a "fair share" of Jewish refugees from Egypt, under the parolee provisions of the U.S. immigration laws. Other resolutions asked for:
1. The U.S. Government to refuse to tolerate discrimination by foreign states against U.S. citizens on religious grounds, as is done under the treaty covering United States use of the airfield at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
2. Vigorous presidential action to assure that "desegregation as the law of the land is obeyed and that the shocking resort to violence and intimidation in many communities is halted."
3. Exercise by all governmental agencies, Federal, State and local, of their full authority to prevent interference with abridgements of constitutional liberties.
4. Enactment of the civil rights bill pending in Congress, without "crippling amendments," such as that proposing jury trials in cases of contempt of federal court orders issued pursuant to the proposed law.
5. Intervention by the Federal Government in court proceeding a to vindicate the right of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People to function without unreasonable restraint."
6. Withholding of government aid to schools under religious control, for transportation, textbooks or other purposes. "We are not opposed," this resolution states, "to the use of any school for the provision of lunches, medical and dental services to children."
Another resolution reaffirmed the commitment of the constituent organizations "to cooperation in the common cause of better Jewish community relations" and expressed "regret that certain national Jewish community relations agencies are not participating in the cooperative process" and again inviting those agencies to join.
David L. Ullman, of Philadelphia, was elected chairman of the National Community Relations Advisory Council at the closing session. He succeeds Bernard H. Trager, of Bridgeport, who served four successive terms and now becomes a permanent member ex-officio of the NCRAC executive committee.
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