Hadassah, women’s Zionist organization of America, today strongly condemned the murder by Arabs of two Jewish nurses attached to the Government hospital in Jaffa, Palestine and called for public protest against an act “which violates all laws of humanity and decent conduct.”
“Hadassah is profoundly shocked,” stated Mrs. Moses F. Epstein, acting president, “by the cabled report of the death of two Jewish nurses, killed by Arab terrorists in Jaffa.
“Hadassah established the first school of nursing in Palestine, and made possible for both Jews and Arabs of that country a modern nursing system for scientific care.
“We cannot believe that the world will look on unmoved at this kind of outrage, which violates all laws of humanity and decent conduct and makes a pretense of the standard which modern civilization has accepted for the conduct of one human being toward another.
“We trust that the conscience of the world will express itself in unqualified denunciation of this kind of act and thus exert a pressure on public opinion which will make impossible the recording of such incidents.”
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