The danger of French public opinion becoming forgetful of this country’s sufferings under the Nazis was emphasized by Georges Wormser in his inaugural speech before the Paris Jewish Consistory, following his reelection as president.
In an obvious reference to the release last week of Xavier Vallat, wartime official of the Vichy Commissariat for Jewish Affairs, M. Wormser stated: “We witness too many pardons without justification, too many debatable acquittals not to be perturbed. I doubt whether our contemporaries remember the deliberate exterminations.”
Dr. A. Steinberg, representative of the World Jewish Congress here, was reelected last night for the fourth consecutive term to the standing committee of “TICER”–the Temporary International Council for Educational Reconstruction. The organization is comprised of 30 non-governmental bodies participating in UNESCO’s reconstruction programs.
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