The Federation of Jewish Communities in Yugoslavia has been assured by an official of Yugoslav’s ruling Socialist Alliance that a Yugoslav representative who denounced Israel at a meeting in Cairo had not been authorized to make any such statement, according to information received here. The development was reported in the current issue of the Jewish Review, the official publication of the Federation, a copy of which arrived here. The Yugoslav official, described as “high ranking,” told the Cairo meeting that the “Moslems of Yugoslavia were absolutely ready to join in a holy war against Israel, the tribe cursed by Heaven.” The secretary-general of the Socialist Alliance told the Federation that the representative had no authority to make such a statement on behalf of Yugoslav Moslems. He also said he would arrange to have his explanation published in the Yugoslav press.
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