A call for “urgent, universal prayer for the sorely tried Jews” was voiced here today by Lord Cosmo Lang, former Archbishop of Canterbury, addressing a United Service prayer for the Jews in Westminster Abbey. Representatives of churches, embassies and of the United Nations heard Lord Lang ask aid and prayer for “the people to whom the Christians owe the priceless heritage of the Old Testament.”
In the House of Commons today Donald Scott, Conservative, asked Foreign Secretary Eden what arrangements have been made to transfer Jewish refugee children in Spain and Portugal to Palestine. Eden replied that there were only few such children in those countries and that Britain is attempting to secure transportation for them.
A demand by several members that the Allied declaration pledging reprisals for the atrocities committed upon Jews be broadcast for several hours daily, for thirty consecutive days, drew the reply from Eden that the declaration had already been given all possible publicity.
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