Three hundred representatives of all the major Jewish youth groups in Britain at a meeting here last night adopted a resolution protesting the rearmament of East and West Germany and the commutation of sentence on Nazi war criminals in the American zone.
The resolution urged the British Government to oppose this policy “since it can only lead to eventual disaster for Europe by fostering a militaristic spirit in Germany and by the inevitable re-establishment of the German war machine.” A copy of the resolution was forwarded to the Foreign Offices.
In Dublin, Chief Rabbi I, Jacobovitz of Ireland, addressing a large Jewish communal meeting, expressed the strongest protest “in the name of Irish Jewry” against the release of war criminals in Germany. Leniency towards these men, who are “guilty of so many atrocities, ” he stated. is a “misapplication of tolerance.”
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