A vigorous denunciation of the persecution of Jews by the Germans and pro-Nazi Hungarian government was voiced today by the Archbishop of York. “As I speak trainloads of unhappy Jews are crossing the Hungarian frontier to meet their deaths by machines and gas chambers,” the Archbishop said adding that “these crimes are committed by foul wicked men who are governing a totalitarian state which is now beginning to totter.”
The London press today comments editorially on the massacre of the Jews, with most of the papers stressing that vigorous punitive action must be taken in place of mere statement of of sympathy or protest. The Daily Mail says that speaking of postwar punishment of war criminals in general terms is insufficient. The Allied authorities, it states, should list the names of persons guilty of war crimes and specify what their punishment will be.
The Daily Telegraph asserts that “the failure of the judges to inflict condign punishment on the Germans who ordered and carried out the frightfulness of the last war is one of the main reasons of the infliction of worse horrors in these terrible years. Mankind,” it concludes, “cannot afford to let the guilty escape this time.”
The News Chronicle advocates that in the future any country which seeks to introduce racial and religious discrimination should be treated as an active disturber of the peace. It also urges that “inexorable punishment” be devised for persons oppressing racial and religious minorities.
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