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Jewish Groups Advance Requests to Democratic Party for 1960 Platform

The American Jewish Congress called on the Democratic Party today to include a plank in its 1960 election platform that would protect American citizens against growing religious discrimination by foreign governments, Professor Samuel A. Hendel of the City College of New York, a spokesman for the A.J. Congress, called for “vigorous Government action in the […]

April 29, 1960
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The American Jewish Congress called on the Democratic Party today to include a plank in its 1960 election platform that would protect American citizens against growing religious discrimination by foreign governments, Professor Samuel A. Hendel of the City College of New York, a spokesman for the A.J. Congress, called for “vigorous Government action in the face of a continuing assault on the rights of American citizens of Jewish faith by Arab countries. “

Professor Hendel, who made the statement before a platform hearing of the Democratic National Committee, also urged the adoption of means to strengthen the Federal Civil Rights Commission to enable it to investigate vandalism against Jews and other minority groups.

A spokesman for the National Council of Jewish Women today urged, in testimony before the Democratic hearing, that the United States should withhold economic aid from the United Arab Republic “while it continues to use the Suez Canal as a political weapon.” Mrs. Saul Liss of Fairlawn, N. J. declared that the United States should insist upon .”the adherence of the UAR to its international obligations of freedom of passage of ships of all nations through the Suez Canal.”

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