courtesy on some other occasion to reply to what you say anent the character of the Congress. One thing I must categorically deny: We certainly do not seek to antagonize and estrange men of influence. No one is more keenly aware than we of the American Jewish Congress of the imperative necessity of mobilizing all Jewish and non-Jewish forces in what is perhaps the greatest crisis that has confronted us in all the centuries of the diaspora.
The members of the American Jewish Committee and those of the B’nai Brith—many of them men of outstanding achievement, who command the confidence and respect of the American public, can, in many directions, be of enormous help — even if they do not always see eye to eye with the members of the American Jewish Congress. It is, indeed, our supreme duty at this time to marshall all our forces against the enemy, and it is the prayerful hope of us all that a way will soon be found. But this duty, supreme as it is, does not contravene the ever present duty of kindly tolerance and of every possible effort really to understand one another. What with a ###dly measure of such tolerance and understanding, and a grim and un##ding determination to fight hand ###nd, the battle may yet be won. ###ed) Israel N. Thurman.
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