“The appalling economic chaos of Europe has provided a fertile seed ground for the revival of group hostilities,” Dr. James W. Parkes, internationally known British clergyman and author who is active in the fight on racial, bias, declared today at a press conference arranged by the Anti-Defamation League of the B’nai B’rith. He called upon Jews and Gentiles “to fight determinedly against a growth of anti-Semitism.”
Dr. Parkes, who visited Palestine last year to lecture at the Hebrew University and to make a study of Arab-Jewish problems there, said that he believes that England must drop her Palestinian mandate immediately and permit the Arabs and Jews to come to some mutually satisfactory arrangement of dividing up the troubled country.
Dr. Parkes came to America at the invitation of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, to deliver the Charles William Eliot Lectures on “Relations Between Judaism and Christianity” at the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. He will also visit several cities outside of New York to lecture under Anti-Defamation League auspices.
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