R.N. Carvalho, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, tonight urged the Jewish organizations to pool their resources and develop a central plan for coping with the great influx of Jewish refugees from North Africa into France. He lauded the Joint Distribution Committee and local French Jewish Welfare groups for the work they have been doing until now to ease the situation arising from the heavy North African immigration into France.
Addressing a meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association’s Council here, tonight, Mr. Carvalho also deprecated anti-Jewish persecutions in Soviet Russia. “It is heartening to note,” he said. “that despite every effort made by the Communist regime toward complete assimilation and conformity, Russian Jewry has found the means, somehow, to preserve its identity. “
The recent Soviet ban on matzoh-baking in state factories, and the death sentences meted out against Russian Jews accused of “economic crimes,” he declared, “were really an attack against any kind of organized Jewish life in the USSR.” However, he advised, “public demonstrations” against Russian anti-Semitism are “purposeless.” Some efforts, he said, are being made privately, quietly, by various persons, and “we must pray that they will have some useful results. “
Mr. Carvalho also reported that there have been discussions here with the new Ambassador from West Germany regarding alleged resurgence of neo-Nazism in Germany. He said the Bonn Ambassador was “convinced that the German Government is anxious to maintain careful control over the resurgence of Nazi ideas and the danger from neo-Nazi organizations to the future of the country and the world.”
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