Bernard S. Deutsch was the presiding officer and principal speaker yesterday afternoon at the tenth of a series of fourteen world peace meetings being conducted by the World Fellowship of Faiths at the Hotel New Yorker. The topic for the day was “Nationalism and Internationalism.”
“Since this conference is under the auspices of the World Fellowship of Faiths, it might be well to mention the charge frequently directed at Jews that they have no conception of the meaning of nationalism. The charge is unfounded, and again requires an understanding of the background of a people,” Mr. Deutsch declared.
Rabbi Morton M. Berman of the Free Synagogue pointed out that the recent eruptions of hatred and violence within certain states should convince us we can not hope for international understanding and cooperation until those states have made it possible for their own diverse minorities to live at peace with each other.
Included among the speakers were Norman Hapgood, John Daniels, Consul General Arthur B. Lule of Latvia, Miss Jadviga Marcinoska, Theodore Heline, Mrs. Owen Heill Brown, Gobind Behari Lal and Rev. John C. Walker.
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