Colonel Samuel Harden Church, president of Carnegie Institute, announced yesterday that he has resigned as honorary chairman of the Committee for a Jewish Army because he feels that a separate Jewish army now “does not conform with the British policy” in the present situation. “I believe that no one of us should strive further to add to the responsibilities of England in the vast and heroic service she is performing in the world struggle for liberty,” Col. Church declared in a letter to Gabriel Wechsler, national secretary of the Committee.
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