The charge that governments are refusing to extradite war criminals on the ground that they are political refugees and that Interpol–the international criminal police organization–has, in harmony with this attitude, refused to cooperate in tracking down Nazis accused of crimes against humanity has been made at the United Nations by the World Jewish Congress.
In a statement before a committee of the Economic and Social Council, now meeting at UN headquarters, Dr. Maurice L. Perlzweig, head of the International Affairs Department of the World Jewish Congress, said that these obstacles had frustrated the efforts of prosecuting authorities with whom the Congress was cooperating in the task of ferreting out Nazis who had secured asylum in various countries and in collecting evidence and finding witnesses.
Dr. Perlzweig made these charges in the course of a plea for “first steps” toward an international convention aimed at preventing the international dissemination of threats against groups of people because of their race or religion or of statements designed to promote racial hatred and violence.
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