A resolution calling on American Jewry to provide increased financial support to the United Jewish Appeal which for the past 25 years has been “the instrument through which American Jewry has engaged in one of the greatest privately financed rescue and life-building operations in history,” was adopted unanimously today at a meeting of the Administrative Committee of the Zionist Organization of America.
The 225 ZOA leaders, in another resolution, urged the Congress “to correct the discriminatory abuses under the present McCarran-Walter act and to provide for permanent and adequate provisions for the allocations and quotas for refugees which would alleviate situations of emergency and stress as they occur.” The resolution charged that the immigration and nationality act of 1952, also known as the McCarran-Walter Act, “discriminates in its limitation on immigration from many countries under the provision of a national origins quota system.”
Dr. Max Nussbaum, ZOA president, urged President Kennedy “to place the question of the security of Israel and the entire Middle East situation on the agenda of his discussions with Premier Khrushchev of Soviet Russia with a view to reaching a Joint agreement for the demilitarization of the entire Middle East.” He referred to discussions which would be made possible by the forthcoming creation of a direct wire between Washington and Moscow.
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