The National Conference of Christians and Jews today called for an investigation by the United Nations into the trial of Archbishop Stepinac by the Yugoslav Government. The request was made in a letter submitted to the United States delegation to the United Nations.
The step was taken on the basis of a report prepared by the Human Rights Committee of the NCCJ, following a study made in connection with the trial of the Roman Catholic prelate, who was convicted of crimes against the state. James N. Rosenberg, prominent Jewish leader, is chairman of the committee. The other members are George M. Schuster, president of Hunter College; and Henry Noble MacCracken, president emeritus of Vassar.
Calling attention to protests against the Stepinac trial by Protestant and Jewish leaders as well as by Catholics, the report quoted statements which appeared during the war in American newspapers declaring that Stepinac protested Nazi racial theories and anti-Semitism, that he took refugee Jews into his own home, and encouraged his priests and others to do likewise, and that he refused to collaborate with the Nazi puppet Pavelic.
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