Solidarity with President Roosevelt and the United States Government in the war with Japan was expressed here today in a message from the British section of the World Jewish Congress to the American Jewish Congress, which will convey it to President Roosevelt.
Addressed to the people of the United States, the cable, a copy of which was handed to Ambassador John J. Winant, expresses the “horror” of British Jewry at the “brutal and unprovoked assault on the part of European Fascism against the great American democracy.” It stresses that the “Jewish people, who were the first victims of Nazi and Fascist savagery, are ranged with all civilized mankind in unswerving sympathy and support of the American nation in defending its life and liberty against totalitarian savagery.
“The British Section of the World Jewish Congress salutes the entry of the United States, under the leadership of its great President Franklin D. Roosevelt, into alliance with the world democracies to finally rid humanity of Fascist despotism,” the message concludes.
The letter accompanying the copy of the cable which was sent to Ambassador Winent reads in part:
“We believe that when the United States, Britain and her allies have finally crushed and rid humanity of the despotisms which seek to enslave it they will inaugurate a new world in which Jews, like other peoples, will secure justice and the full equality of citizenship.”
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