Severe criticism of the stand taken by the American Jewish Committee and its affiliated organizations regarding the scheduled demonstration for May 10, is made in an editorial in the Jewish daily “The Day”, of April 29.
The caption of the editorial is “When Fear Parades as Diplomacy”. The leaders of the American Jewish Committee are taken to task for their “policy of fear and silence”, and their “back-door diplomacy”.
“What do Messrs. Adler and Cohen propose?” the editorial asks. “Silence, and nothing else! They will not succeed. The demonstration will take place in a manner as great, as imposing and as worthy as befits a people that is determined to fight for its very life.
“The voice of the masses will be heard throughout America and will reach Washington where they will have to lend an ear to the voice of the four and a half million Jews in America.
“Not through back-doors do we wish to conduct our diplomacy but openly, freely and courageously as the times and our honor demand.”
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