A resolution calling attention to the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union and urging world public opinion to speak out against the liquidation of Jewish institutions in that country was adopted here last night at the concluding session of the fifth congress of the Socialist International. The resolution was introduced by the French delegation.
Dr. S. Levenberg, director of the Jewish Agency office in London and a Mapai member, told the congress that “we are deeply disturbed about the enforced assimilation policy carried out towards the Jewish population of the Soviet Union.” He pointed out, however, that he was raising the question on purely humanitarian grounds, and that he wanted to keep this issue from being involved in the general East-West conflict.
In another, special resolution, the congress called for the Arab states and Israel to meet in a peace conference-without prior commitment and to reach a settlement based on sovereignty and territorial integrity of all the states concerned. It further urged freedom of passage of the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Akaba for the ships of all nations including Israel.
The Socialists expressed their appreciation of the constructive achievements of Israel under the Socialist leadership of the Mapai Party. Introduced by the British Labor Party, the resolution called for economic development of the Middle East under UN auspices. The Jewish Socialist Bund and the Japanese Socialist Party representatives abstained.
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