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American Council for Judaism Challenges Right of Jewish Leaders

January 21, 1957
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The authority and right of leaders of various organizations of American Jews to speak for their memberships on “specific, geo-political” aspects of the Arab-Israel problem, was challenged today by the American Council for Judaism.

The challenge was contained in a letter sent to Henry Cabot Lodge Lr., as United States Representative to the United Nations by Clarence L. Coleman Jr., ACJ president. Mr. Coleman explained that his letter was motivated by a recent action of the leaders of seventeen organizations of American Jews which called for United Nations support for the Israeli position on the question of withdrawal of Israeli troops from territories occupied during recent hostilities.

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