Judge Morris Rothenberg, acting national chairman of the United Palestine Appeal, disqualified himself yesterday when three persons charged with disorderly conduct at the mass picketing of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin–who arrived here earlier yesterday–were brought before him in Mid-Manhattan Magistrate’s Court. Refusing to accept a plea of guilty from one of the three, Judge Rothenberg said:
“I have such a feeling of sorrow for the tens of thousands of survivors of the Nazi terror whom Mr. Bevin prevented from finding refuge in the Jewish homeland and caused to be imprisoned in the island of Cyprus, where they endured long months of further sufferings and humiliation, that I do not feel I can properly exercise the Judicial function in these cases.”
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