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Prominent American Catholics Protest Against Soviet Anti-semitism

February 13, 1953
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Forty prominent American Catholics, including Secretary of Labor Martin P. Durkin, two Senators and three college presidents, have signed a public statement denouncing the Soviet anti-Jewish campaign and urging worldwide protests by governments and the United Nations, it was revealed here today by Commonweal, a Catholic magazine.

The current issue of the publication carries the statement, the list of signatories and an editorial which declares: “It is particularly important that non-Jews speak, for there must be solidarity of free men in something like this. When Jews are threatened, we are threatened.”

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