A member of the British Government vent on record last night as urging that everything possible be done to bring about a reconciliation with the German people. Lord Pakenham, Minister for Civil Aviation and formerly Minister responsible for German affairs, told an audience at Hastings that “any Allied policy not based on friendship with Western Germany would be politically disastrous.” He expressed regret that “anti-German feeling is being promoted by certain quarters.”
The Board of Deputies of British Jews will go in all other religious and political public bodies which are not affiliated with any single political party in a campaign to inform the British public of the dangers of German rearmament. Dr. A. Cohen, president of the Board, told its meeting yesterday that they were realists “who appreciated the danger of placing weapons in the hands of a people which has given no evidence of remorse for the horrors and brutality it has perpetrated.”
British parliamentarian Richard H. Crossman told a Jewish meeting last night that the Jews, who suffered more than any other under Nazism, “have a special responsibility to lead the protest movement against German rearmament” and to make it clear to others what dangers such a course would involve.
The Laborite M.P. warned that to have the Germans fight, a higher price would have to be paid than at Munich. For the sake of six to eight German division, he said, they would have to “destroy the morale of every decent democrat.” The meeting, convened by the Poale Zion, adopted a resolution protesting against the rearmament of Germany and the release of convicted Nazi war criminals.
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