The plight of hundreds of Jews detained in Tangiers and Tetuan following the Moroccan Government abrupt withdrawal of permission for Jewish emigration was discussed here last night at a meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association. R. N. Carvalho, president of the Association, said it was regrettable that there had been no easing in the problems of these unfortunates.
The leader of the Anglo-Jewish Association told the gathering that while great efforts had been made in Morocco and Tunisia to give Jews security, reports indicated a tendency by those governments to seek control of Jewish institutions and Jewish communal life.
Maurice Edelman, a member of Parliament and chairman of the Association’s Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed “deep concern” about the recent police demonstrations in Paris, during which anti-Semitic manifestations found expression. He called this a sign of the reassertion of certain “authoritarian fascist traditions in France which in the past had resulted in such infamous activities as the Dreyfus case.”
He urged the Governments of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco to bear in mind that if they wished to benefit from Western liberal sympathies in their struggles for national freedom, they should not deny human rights to any minorities under their jurisdiction, specifically the rights of Jews who might wish to emigrate.
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