The Board of Deputies of British Jews today cabled to the French Committee of National Liberation at Algiers expressing the thanks of British Jewry for the Committee’s restoration of the Cremieux Decree. “Not only British Jews, but Jews the world over will hail this action as a decisive step in the restoration of the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity for which the gallant soldiers of the Fighting French are battling in the ranks of the United Nations,” the cable stated.
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