Declaring that Bulgaria has had ample time in the two and a half months since signing an armistice with the United Nations to take steps to halt discrimination against Jews, the American Jewish Committee today appealed to the Governments of the United States, Great Britain and Russia “to do everything in their power towards removing discriminations still in force against the Jews and restoring to them their rights and possessions.”
In letters to Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., Lord Halifax, Britain’s Ambassador to the United States; and Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, said that “aside from all considerations of justice and decency,” the continuance of fascist imposed anti-Semitic discriminations in Bulgaria, “derides the power and prestige of the three great and progressive nations that are in control.”
Pointing out that although Bulgaria severed relations with Germany more than four months ago and signed the armistice with the United Nations more than two and a half months ago, news reports indicate that today there are “forty-five thousand Bulgarian Jews who are destitute and on the verge of starvation.” Judge Proskauer charged the Bulgarian Government with making “promises to the Jews which it does not honor.”
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