Senate ratification of the United Nations Convention on Genocide was sought today by the Ad Hoc Committee on Human Rights and Genocide Treaties, which served notice at a meeting here that a national campaign will be waged to rally public opinion. The committee will be formed in every state of the union to advance educational efforts pertaining to the need for anti-genocide ratification by the United States Senate.
Members of the Ad Hoc group today told Senators that 67 nations, including Russia and West Germany, have ratified the U. N. document, but the Senate has failed nevertheless to act. They charged that the measure has been pigeonholed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for many years, and that the Administration has taken little initiative to bring the treaty to a vote. Many Jewish groups, along with those of other faiths, are active on the ad hoc committee.
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