Short-wave transmissions from “Voice of America” stations beamed to Hungary are calling on the Hungarian people to aid Jews to escape their Nazi persecutors.
The broadcasts warn that the puppet Hungarian regime is trying to make the Jews scapegoats for the Allied bombings to conceal the fact that it is sacrificing Hungarian blood for the Germans and that Hungarian factories are working for Germany.
One transmission heard here last night told Hungarians to do more than just show their sympathy for the Jews, citing President Roosevelt’s appeal to the people of Europe on March 21 calling on them to do whatever was in their power to save the Jews to “show the world they are worthy to take their place in the family of freedom loving nations.”
Circles here associated with relief and rescue work expressed the hope today that these transmissions would be continued, declaring they were bound to have a helpful effect.
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