Delegates to the conference of the South American executive of the World Jewish Congress approved today a broad-ranging program to fight anti-Semitism on the South American continent and to enlighten public opinion on the issue through the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
The delegates also adopted a declaration stressing the need to call on world public opinion to intensify efforts for full implementation of democratic principles to assure a harmonious co-existence between nations, peoples and religions.
The governments and peoples of the American continent were urged to act “inflexibly” but in accordance with the principles of law to repress the activities of “those who endanger the fraternal co-existence of all sections of the populations and their moral progress.”
The delegates also decided to convene at the end of this year the fourth conference of Jewish communities in Latin America to give special attention to educational and cultural problems. They stressed the importance of meetings of Jewish university students, citing the success of such a gathering held recently in Uruguay.
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