American Jewish groups today condemned the “wanton hanging” of the two Jews in Egypt. A resolution characterizing the execution as “a blow to humanity and to peace” was adopted at today’s session of the Hadassah national conference now taking place here. A statement denouncing the hangings was also issued by Mortimer May, president of the Zionist Organization of America.
Rabbi Irving Miller, chairman of the American Zionist Council, which represents all the Zionist groups in the United States, sent a telegram to the Egyptian Ambassador in Washington stating that the Egyptian Government “stands condemned in the eyes of all mankind for its brutal disregard of human decency” in rejecting the counsels of clemency and justice voiced by governments and individuals through-out the civilized world.
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