George Lansbury, laborite leader and peace advocate, today wrote to Pope Pius XII urging him to call religious leaders of the world, “including the leaders of Judaism,” to a conference in Jerusalem at Easter to discuss how to bring pressure on the statesmen of the world to end the present “insane march of destruction.”
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