In order to prevent the spread of European anti-Semitism to the United States, the National Conference of Jews and Christians has named a Protestant minister, a Roman Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi to tour the nation together during the next three months and preside at inter-denominational discussions of religious tolerance in thirty-seven cities.
The three clergymen selected were the Reverend Everett R. Clinchy, director of the conference and former pastor of the College Church at Wesleyan University; the Reverend J. Elliot Ross, C.S.P., of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Baltimore, former Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, and the Reverend Dr. Morris S. Lazaron, rabbi of the Baltimore Hebrew Congregation of Baltimore.
Plans for a nation-wide campaign against intolerance were announced after a meeting of Newton D. Baker, Professor Carlton J. Hayes of Columbia University and Roger W. Straus, the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish co-chairmen of the conference.
Mr. Baker refused to comment on the recent declaration made by Representative Samuel Dickstein that the Nazis were seeking a foothold in the United States, but admitted that the campaign had been inspired by concern over “the outbreak of intolerance abroad.” He said that the campaign would be carried on in an “utterly unspectacular fashion.”
Mr. Baker also announced that a committee of three women, representing the Protestant, Catholic and Jewish faiths, would be selected soon to aid the campaign. Mrs. Dorothy Canfield Fisher, noted author, has been chosen as chairman of the women’s advisory council.
The New York meeting will be held on October 30 and 31 at Teachers’ College, Columbia University. The chairmen of the meeting will be Charles H. Tuttle, former Justice Joseph M. Proskauer and Martin Conboy.
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