A resolution calling for major revisions of the Immigration and Nationality Law of the United States in line with recommendations of President Eisenhower and the leaders of both major parties was adopted here today at the 28th annual convention of the Council of Organizations of United Hias Service. The meeting was attended by 1,500 delegates.
Another resolution passed by the delegates urged the Soviet Union and the Eastern European Communist countries to allow their Jewish nationals who wish to be reunited with relatives abroad to emigrate. Louis Gallack, chairman of the United Hias Council, who presided at today’s session, reported that Jews in many parts of the world still live “surrounded by danger and hostility.”
Gov. Averell Harriman, who addressed the convention, scored the “discriminatory national origins provisions” of the U.S. immigration law and charged that the “second class status” Imposed on naturalized citizens by that legislation was “evil and un-American.” At the conclusion of the Governor’s address, he was presented with a scroll citing him for “humanitarian interests.”
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