The City Council of Toronto today is in receipt of a message from Acting Under-Secretary of State for External Affairs Dr. Hume H. Wrong, commending it for adopting a resolution condemning the persecution of Jews in Nazi-held countries. Mr. Hume said that the recommendations contained in the Council’s resolution, a copy of which was sent to Prime Minister Mackenzie King, would be carefully considered.
The text of the resolution reads; “This Council does emphatically condemn the brutal policy of murderous extermination of Jewish and other racial and religious groups in Nazi-Fascist occupied territories, and further, that this Council does declare that these heinous crimes against humanity shall strengthen our resolution to defeat the Nazi-Fascist enemy of civilization, secure the liberation of all oppressed people and bring freedom to the world, and that this Council ask the Federal Government to act in unison with the United Nations in protesting the Nazi atrocities against a helpless people and to cooperate with the United Nations in the efforts to secure a haven for those victims who can be saved from the grip of Hitlerism at the present time.”
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