Rep. Samuel Dickstein (Dem.,N.Y.) today introduced a resolution calling upon President Roosevelt “to express the abhorrence of the Government” against brutal treatment of Poles and “to solemnly protest against the continuance of such conditions and to take such other steps as the circumstances may warrant.”
Dickstein, who last week told the House of atrocities in Poland as revealed by Jewish Telegraphic Agency dispatches, again spoke on the floor about Nazi terrorism. He said that human decency demanded that the American people, through the President, make it clear to the world, and particularly “to the Government responsible for these brutalities,” that they as a nation are “aghast at such inhuman treatment of minorities.”
The resolution was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. It will be called to the attention of the State Department for recommendations before it is placed before the House as a whole. There is the possibility, of course, that it will be quickly pigeonholed.
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