Problems facing Jews throughout Europe and North Africa, the Middle East crisis and its impact on the United States, organized anti-Semitism in this country and its political strategy, as well as the forces shaping Jewish communal affairs in the United States will be considered at the three-day annual meeting of the American Jewish Committee which opens here tomorrow. More than 500 leaders of American Jewry representing 44 cities in which the organization maintains local chapters will attend the conference.
President Eisenhower, in a message to Irving Engle, AJC president, congratulated the organization for its "championship of civil rights and civil liberties." The President stressed that the Administration "welcomes such support in its program in these fields" and that "considerable progress has already been achieved in the reduction of discrimination in education, employment and public housing.
Premier Si Bekkai of Morocco, in a message to the American Jewish Committee meeting, emphasized that "independent Morocco will remain faithful to the traditions of non-discrimination either racial or religious. He reaffirmed that "Moroccan Jews, like their Moslem compatriots, will have the same rights and duties and will assume all responsibilities inherent in their capacities as Moroccan Jews. Institutions and traditions of Moroccan Judaism will be safeguarded within the framework and respect for unity of the Moroccan nation."
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