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UN Discussion
End of Racial Discrimination
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—The United Nations Sub
commission on Prevntion of Dis
crimination and Protection of
Minorities — which last week
adopted a report upholding the
right of everyone to leave any
country, including his own —
today started consideration of a
draft declaration on the elimina
tion of all forms of racial dis
crimination.
Originally, the Subcommission
w.,8 to discuss not only racial but
also religious discrimination.
However, under pressure from
delegations from a number of
under-developed countries that
are primarily interested in elim
ination of racial discrimination,
the problem of racial bias was
taken up as a separate item, with
the problem of religious discrim
ination to follow.
The Soviet delegation also fav
ored such separation because its
expects strong charges against the
Soviet treatment of Jews and
hopes that the issue of religious
discrimination would not reach
the Subcommission ait its present
session, which must conclude on
February 1. Jewish organizations
have prepared data on the sup
pression of Jewish religion in the
Soviet Union and other forms of
anti-Jewish discrimination prac
ticed in the USSR for argumen
tation at the Subcommission if
the subject of religious discrim
ination is taken up.
Toe draft declaration on the
elimination of all forms of racial
discrimination which, the 12-
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Tol XXXVm ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1963 NO. 6
Soviets Accused of Permitting Blood Libel
Riots; Senators Urge U.S. to Act on Issue
Copyright, 1963, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Two
Senators demanded last week in
Washington that action be taken
to deal with the rising tide of
anti-Semitic developments in the
Soviet Union as fresh evidence of
that problem was revealed.
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, New
York Republican, declared in the
Senate that the United States
Government “should leave no
stone unturned in the United Na
tions and elsewhere to publicize
and document the infamy of Sov
iet anti-Semitism ” He indicated
support of the demand of the
Jewish War Veterans for speedy
action.
Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylania
Republican, called on Russia to
conform with its obligations
under the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights. He listed vari
ous anti-Semitic actions in Russia
and said that while other na
tions, including the United States,
“are called upon to answer
charges of racism within nation
al borders, the USSR—by the pe
culiar standard of international
double morality which has too
long been to its advantage —
seems exempt from this obliga
tion.”
Details In support of the Sen
atorial charges came from two
sources—Attorney General Rob
ert Kennedy in a speech In New
York and B'nai B’ritb president
Label Katz at a press conference
in Washington
Mr. Kennedy, sDeaking at a
tenth anniversary conference of
the Fund for the Republic, as
serted that more than 100 per
sons were executed in the Soviet
Union dring 1962 for alleged ec-
Kruger Again Mayor
Pro-tem of Fitzgerald
FITZGERALD—Abe Kruger,
prominent Fitzgerald merchant,
has been reelected Mayor-Pro-
tem for the city of Fitzgerald,
Ga. by a unanimous vote of the
members of the Board of Aider-
man. He will serve in that ca
pacity for the year 1963.
Mr. Kruger has been out
standing for decaaes in the
Jewish life of this area.
onoioic crimes, “most of them
Jews.” He cited a Soviet law
“branding as treason any un
authorized departure” from Rus
sia and described “the unhappy
story” of a Jewish woman in
Russia “sentenced to be shot last
February for ‘currency manipu
lation’ after a prior three-year
sentence in Siberia for trying to
escape to Israel long after seeing
her two daughters murdered by
the Nazis."
Katz charged at the press con
ference that Soviet authorities
hav» done nothing to apprehend
or punish local officals in two
cities in the Uzbek Republic
where tales of “blood rituals?
led to savage riots in 1961 and
196? against the Jews of those
cities.
He said that mob riots, spark
ed by dissemination of the anci
ent anti-Semitic superstition, ter
rorized the Jews of Margelan,
100 miles from Tashkent, Uzbek
Republic capital, two days after
Rosh Hashonah in 1961, and the
Jews of Tashkent shortly after
Passover last year.
He reported that B’nai Brith
had received reports of scores of
Jew.; being assaulted in the
streets and in their homes during
wild scenes of mob violence
while local authorities remained
passive or sided with the at
tackers when Jewish homes were
invaded and furniture and per
sonal belongings looted or des
troyed. He asserted that the out
rages were not reported in any
Soviet newspapers and that no
reprimand or punishment had
been meted out publicly to those
who instigated the violence or
the police and local prosecutors
who abetted them.
On September 14, 1961, an in
flamed mob in Margelan seized
Mazol Yusupova a Jewish wo
man, and charged her with kid
napping and murdering a two-
year-old son of Abdusaterov, the
mob leader, for “ritual murder.”
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Extradition Treaty With U.S.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel's Cabinet ratifed here this week,
at its regular weekly meeting, the extradition treaty between the
United States and Israel signed recently in Washington by United
States Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Israel’s Ambassador, Avra-
ham Harman.
Under the terms of the treaty, 31 extraditable offenses are listed.
Because Israel has abolished the death penalty—except in a case like
that of the late Adolph Eichmann—Israel may refuse, under die
terms of the pact, to hand over a person who faces “the maximum
penalty” unless Israel is guaranteed that the death penalty will not
be invoked in the U.S.A. in that case.
The treaty also provides ths right of non-extradition for per
sons charged with political offenses if one of the parties considers
the offense political or if the wanted person proves that the offense
charged against him is “in fact political.” Israel has similar extradi
tion treaties with Italy, France, Britain, Belguim, Switzerland, Lux
embourg, The Netherlands, Austria and South Africa.
Southeast Women Leaders to Confer in Atlanta
Tv/o prominent national leaders
will be in Atlanta on Febuary 7
for a Southeast Inter-city Wom
en’s Division Institute, sponsored
by the Council of Jewish Federa
tions and Welfare Funds.
Mis. Bernard Schaenen of Dal
las and Mrs. Beatrice Finkelstein
of New York will address the
conference, it was announced by
I. L. Kunian, Chattanooga, presi
dent of the Council’s Southern
States Region.
Mis. Schaenen is a member of
the CJFWF national Board of Di
rectors. A former vice president
of the Dallas Jewish Welfare
Federation, she is also a past
Board member of the National
Women’s Division of the United
Jewish Appeal. She was a founder
of the Dallas Women's Division in
1946 and served as general chair
man of the Dallas Federation’s
1949 campaign—raising mare than
$900,000—one of the few women
in the country ever to have head
ed a fund raising effort of such
magnitude.
At the institute Mrs. Schaenen
will deliver the keynote address
at a luncheon, speaking on “A
Woman's Commitment to Her
Community.”
Mrr. Finkelstein is administra
tive assistant of CJFWF. Included
in her staff assignments is pro
fessional responsiblity for the
Council’s national committees on
Women’s Communal Service and
Leadership Development. She will
addiess the institute at the open
ing session and lead a workshop
on year-round programming for
Women’s Divisions.
Other workshops will deal with
campaign organization and tech
niques of campaigning.
The institute will be attended
by women leaders from Atlanta,
MRS. FINKELSTEIN
Augusta, Columbus, Macon and
Savannah, Chattanooga, Knox
ville, Memphis, Nashville, and
Jacksonville, lie.
The Americana Motor Hotel
will be the institute headquar
ters.
M r s. Bernard Howard, Mrs.
Sidney Q. Janus and Mrs. Louis
Smith, all of Atlanta, are chair
men of the conference. They are
bein; assisted by a committee
from the Women’s Division of the
Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund.
US. SCHAENEN
MRS. SMITH
MSS. JANUS
MRS. HOWARD