DR. GOLDMANN CONDEMNS RUMANIA FOR SECRET TRIALS OF JEWS
“The information which has reached the World Jewish Congress on the secret trials of about 100 Jewish leaders in Rumania will be received with horror and indignation not only in Jewish communities throughout the world but wherever men respect human dignity and believe in intellectual freedom,” Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the WJC, said in a statement here today.
“There is now, unhappily, no doubt that this brutal assault on the spiritual integrity of the Jewish community is an attempt to obliterate the last vestiges of spiritual autonomy in the Jewish community and to cut off all contact between the Jews of Rumania and their fellow Jews in other lands,” the statement continued.
“The claim of the Rumanian Government to have brought emancipation and religions freedom to the Jews of their country now stands exposed in all its hollowness,” Dr. Goldmann declared. “This is not a situation which the Jews of the world will be prepared to accept. We are confident that public opinion in every free country will join with us in condemning an act of state which seeks its only justification in the loyalty with which these men and women have served an ancient tradition and sought to maintain an honorable place in a fellowship consecrated by centuries of Jewish suffering and aspiration.
“It is in the power of the Rumanian Government to reverse a policy which must be condemned by the civilized world. We earnestly call upon them to halt the trials now in process and to restore to freedom the men and women who have already languished in prison,” the WJC president concluded.
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