The Archbishop of Canterbury last night advised the British people to “prepare for the worst and hope for the best” in 1939, in a New Year broadcast. He referred to “the thousands turned adrift into the world by the relentless persecution perpetrated by a highly civilized state” as a sign of “a return to the dark ages.”
“I propose to continue to remember the Jews in prayer and sympathy,” the Dean of West minister declared in commenting on an attack made by Der Stuermer, German anti-Semitic weekly, on the Archbishop of Canterbury in which the Archbishop was confused with the Dean because of the latter’s special prayer for Jews during Armistice Day services. The Dean said the attack was “full of gross inaccuracies and doubtless a sample of the standards of Nazi journalism.”
Hundreds of letters from Jewish war veterans in Germany, Austria, Italy and Czecho Slovakia, requesting assistance for settlement overseas, are being received by the Jewish Ex-Servicemen’s Legion of Great Britain, it was reported today at a meeting of the legion’s executive committee.
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