The National Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress today adopted a resolution expressing its “sense of utmost disquiet” over the fact that the Finaly children, abducted in France and irregularly baptized despite the clear wishes of their parents that they be reared as Jews, have not yet been returned to their relatives.
The resolution asserted that “a large measure of responsibility rests on the Spanish Government, within whose territorial jurisdiction the children have been for several months and on the Vatican, supreme authority of the Catholic Church, whose functionaries have been actively and dishonorably involved in the affair.”
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