The Jewish Labor Committee and the Jewish religious labor organization Poale Agudath Israel of America yesterday called on United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to reject the West German nomination of Peter Pfeiffer as its observer-representative at the UN because Pfeiffer had been a Nazi Party member and aided the Hitler cause.
The JLC pointed out to Mr. Hammarskjold that the appointment of an ex-Nazi ran counter to the very ideals on which the UN was based. It called Bonn’s appointment “shocking.”
UN officials here, meanwhile, said that they had not yet received Pfeiffer’s credentials. The German appointee had served as Hitler’s counsel general in Algiers until shortly after the Allied landing in North Africa when he was captured.
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