The Committee for a Jewish Army of Stateless and Palestinian Jews issued yesterday a statement in answer to the criticism made on the Senate floor on Thursday by Senator Lucas of Illinois concerning an advertisement inserted in The New York Times by the committee last Tuesday “condemning” the work of the recent international refugee conference in Bermuda.
“The attack on the floor of the Senate by Senator Lucas,” the committee’s statement said, “was centered around the fact that thirty-three Senators were listed in a box in the advertisement in question. The heading of that box was an appropriate quotation from the, Proclamation on the Moral Rights of the Stateless and Palestinian Jews, which was signed by every Senator listed. The heading read: We shall no longer witness with pity alone and with passive sympathy the calculated extermination of the Jewish people by the barbarous Nazis.*** It was marked ‘From the preamble of the proclamation on the Moral Rights of the Palestinian Jews.'” The statement said that “not one person whose name was included protested.”
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