U.S. to Continue Efforts to Secure U. N. Condemnation of Anti-semitism

Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, head of the United States Delegation to the United Nations, said last night that the U. S. Government will continue its efforts to secure U. N. condemnation of anti-Semitism in spite of earlier setbacks in this area. Last month, the Social Committee of the General Assembly killed a U. S.-Brazilian amendment condemning anti-Semitism as part of the draft convention against discrimination.

In an address at a dinner of the American Jewish Congress, at which Ambassador Goldberg was presented with the AJC Stephen Wise Award, the chief American U. N. delegate said that “there will be other opportunities for us to raise the question of anti-Semitism by name in connection with future human rights proposals. This we shall do, “he declared, “whenever, wherever it is appropriate, even as we will also denounce every other form of discrimination.”

In presenting the award, an engraved bronze medallion, Dr. Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress president, cited Ambassador Goldberg for “advancing human freedom.” Awards also were presented to Samuel Bronfman of Montreal, chairman of the North American Section of the World Jewish Congress, who was cited for “strengthening Jewish life,” and to Monroe Goldwater, president of the United Jewish Appeal of Greater New York, for “exemplifying humanitarian service.”