A proposal that the Soviet Union permit an international commission to enter the country and study the situation of the Jews in Russia was voiced here today by Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the Zionist Organization of America, at a national conference of the ZOA Commission on Israel and the Middle East; Delegates from all parts of the United States attended the conference to discuss the Communist anti-Zionist and anti-Israel campaign, the Middle East political situation and American foreign policy on Israel and the Middle East.
Rabbi Miller asked the USSR to admit a commission from the smaller nations to reassure “the world that it has no intention of persecuting the Jewish people along Nazi lines. “The ZOA president also called upon the American representatives at the United Nations “to consider whether Russia and its satellites are not laying themselves open to a charge of genocide” in their treatment of minorities.
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, member of the Jewish Agency executive, said at the parley: “We look to President Eisenhower to exert his personal influence and the influence of the United States and use every means at his command to strengthen the position of the democratic republic of Israel, continuously threatened by her Arab neighbors and the mounting hostility of international Communism. We look to President Eistnhower to do all that lies in his .power to avert the growing menace to 2,500,000 Jews in Eastern Europe.”
Avraham Harman and Yaacov Shimoni, members of the Israel Embassy staff in the United States, reported on the political situation of Israel in the Middle East, as well as other Israeli problems,
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