The executive of the World Jewish Congress today opened its annual meeting here to discuss various problems affecting Jewish life, especially the growing revival of Nazism and anti-Semitism in Germany.
Prior to the opening of its session, the World Jewish Congress submitted a memorandum to the United Nations Economic and Social Council, currently meeting here, opposing a suggestion before the Council that it liquidate its Subcommission on the Prevention of Discrimination and the Protection of Minorities and hand over its functions to the Human Rights Commission.
The proposal was made by an Ad Hoc Committee on Organization which asserted that the Subcommission had made little effective progress on the problem of discrimination. The W.J.C. memorandum insists that the proof of the Subcommission’s effectiveness is to be seen in the fact that with one single exception all recommendations of the body have been accepted by the Human Rights Commission and the Economic and Social Council. Discontinuance of the Subcommission would be interpreted by public opinion as a “symptom of the United Nations’ diminishing interest in the protection of vital human rights,” the Congress memorandum warned.
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