The French government today officially expressed its solidarity with the world-wide Jewish fight for the maintenance of political and economic rights in a special message sent by Foreign Minister Louis Barthou to the World Jewish Conference which opens here tomorrow in the presence of ninety delegates from twenty-five countries.
Emphasizing that the “world’s heart will hear the voice of the Jewish people,” Minister Barthou’s message declared that “the Jewish world is gathering for the highly important task of proclaiming the human and legal equality of all religions and races.
“It is deplorable to be compelled to reproclaim this when the French revolution carried out this emancipation a long time ago,” the message continued. “However, new events necessitate the rescue of civilization from the dangers of reactionary movements.”
Senator Justin Godart, French statesman and president of the French Palestine Committee, in a message to the conference, ap-
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