A demand for social justice and elementary freedoms for all citizens of countries throughout the world was contained in a declaration of policy issued tonight by the executive committee of the British Labor Party. The declaration does not refer specifically to Jews, but a spokesman for the executive said this clause included Jewish citizens.
“Lasting peace depends on social justice within states no less than on political justice between states,” the declaration said. “The necessary vigor and power of growth will be lacking if the individual citizen is treated as a slave of the State or denied such freedom of opinion, speech and faith as is compatible with the freedom of others. These elementary freedoms should constitute a new world-wide declaration of the rights of man.”
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