It has been definitely established to the satisfaction of American Ambassador Edward S. Crocker in Baghdad that there have been no deaths or trials of Jews in Iraq for Zionist activity, a State Department spokesman said today.
The seven sentenced to death and 15 to imprisonment were definitely sentenced in absentia, the State Department added. All these men are now believed in Israel. United States investigation did bring out that one Jew was hanged in Iraq in January for alleged Communist activity, along with two Moslems and one Christian.
(At Lake Success, Economic and Social Council president James Thorn told newsmen that a World Congress petition to that body to take action in the Iraq situation had been submitted too late for the Council, which will adjourn tonight, to consider it, The W.J.C. branded the sentencing of seven Jews to death for alleged pro-Zionist activities “a violation of the (U.N.) Charter and human rights” and asked U.N. action at the earliest moment.”)
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