Jewish leaders expressed gratification at the address delivered yesterday by the Archbishop of Cantorbury, in which he stressed the importance of keeping alive the spirit of indignation and compassion concerning the persecution of the Jews.
Addressing the Council of Christians and Jews, Dr. Temple said: “It is one of the most terrible consequences of war that the sensitiveness of people tends to become hardened. We could hardly live these days if we felt the volume of suffering of others in the world as acutely as we felt in peacetime. “There is a great moral danger in the paralysis of feeling that is liable to be brought about. It is most important for our own moral health and vigor that we express horror at the persecution of the Jews.”
The Archbishop concluded by saying that the persecution of Jews on the Continent, and particularly in Poland, “almost baffles imagination and leaves one horrified at the power of the evil that can show itself in human nature.”
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