National Council of Jewish Women Asks Legislation to Implement Civil Rights Report

The necessity for expediting Congressional legislation to implement the report of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights, which urged national and state laws to prohibit racial and religious discrimination in employment, education and housing, was stressed in a telegram from the National Council of Jewish Women to President Truman, the organization announced today.

In the telegram, Mrs. Joseph Welt, president, declared that fulfillment of the report’s recommendations — to correct “denials and violations of civil liberties to minority groups in this country” — would be a service both to American unity and the cause of democracy throughout the world. “The publication of the report bears testimony before all the world of the strength of a democracy that can publicly acknowledge its failings,” she asserted. “But the essential vitality of American democracy will be measured by its insistence on correcting its shortcomings.”