The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ today made public a program for financial assistance and havens in neutral lands for European Jews, which will be presented to the Governments of the United States and Great Britain for consideration at the forthcoming Anglo-American refugee parley in Ottawa.
At the same time the Council designated May 2 for observances in churches of a “Day of Compassion” for the Jews of Europe. It also urged Christians throughout the country to give “their moral support to whatever measures afford promise of rescuing European Jews whose lives are in jeopardy.”
The proposals which will be submitted to the British and American delegates at Ottawa are as follows:
“Offer financial assistance for the support of refugees that neutral governments (for example, Switzerland or Sweden, Spain, Portugal and Turkey ) may receive from areas under Nazi control, as a result either of infiltration across their borders or of negotiations with the Axis powers, with the expectation that, after the war, such refugees would be repatriated in their own countries.
“Provide places of temporary asylum to which refugees whom it may be possible to evacuate from European countries may be removed, these refugees to be supported in camps for the duration of the war, with the understanding that they will then be repatriated in their own country or be provided with permanent homes in other ways.”
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