The Central Conference of American Rabbis today strongly endorsed Senator Wayne Morse’s continuing efforts to write into the Mutual Security Act a provision opposing aid to any country which practices discrimination on religious grounds against American citizens. In a letter to Senator Morse, the organization of Reform rabbis said:
"It is tragic that our Government should permit a foreign power to discriminate against American citizens on religious grounds; it is altogether intolerable that our Federal authorities should cooperate in such procedures. It should be noted also that at least one foreign Government which excludes American Jewish military and civilian personnel from its territory, also imposes severe restrictions on the religious liberty of American Christians."
The Civil Rights Committee of the American Federation of Labor- Congress of Industrial Organizations in Massachusetts today voted support of Sen. Morse’s amendment to the Mutual Security Act after hearing a report by the Jewish Labor Committee on the discrimination practiced by Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries against American Jews.
The Committee noted that the amendment spells out "the sense of the Congress" that financial assistance under the law should not be furnished to any nation which "creates distinctions because of their race or religion among American citizens in the granting of personal or commercial access or any other rights otherwise available to United States citizens generally."
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