Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress, today urged “all peoples and nations” to dedicate themselves to the fulfill spent of the aims and promises contained in the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights. In a message for the celebration of Human Rights Day, tomorrow, Dr. Goldmann called upon governments to implement the Declaration by the following specific actions:
1. They should give prompt and effective recognition to the right of all persons under their jurisdiction to liberty and security of person and to the right not to be subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention.
2. “They should abide by the provisions of the Universal Declaration to grant everyone freedom of movement within the country and the right to leave the country whenever anyone so desires, ” and should “set free everyone arrested or condemned without a fair trial and let those who so desire go to the land of their choosing. “
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the American Jewish Congress, warned in a statement against the campaign now being waged by “short-sighted and self-seeking men” to villify or distort the Declaration of Human Rights. The Declaration, Dr. Goldstein noted, has “added poignance” for the Jewish people, since it represents “a firm and urgent protest by the combined member states of the United Nations against the atrocities and persecutions which have victimized so many millions of human beings, and particularly, the Jewish people, over the centuries. “
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