A large mass meeting will be held in Westminster Abbey on March 3 under the chairmanship of Lord Cosmo Lang, former Archbishop of Canterbury, to consider measures for aiding the Jews in Nazi Europe, it was announced today at a conference of the Council of the World’s Evangelical Alliance here. The Council at the same time released the text of a resolution urging the British Government to take practical steps to rescue the Jews in occupied countries.
A similar demand for speedy government action was voiced by Christian and Jewish clergymen and communal leaders addressing a large meeting in Hempstead. They demanded the admission of Jewish victims of Axis persecution to the British Empire. Flight-Lieut. Challens, who represents Hempstead in Parliament, sent a message to the meeting in which he stressed that the menace of anti-Semitism also hangs over England. Vicars of two leading Hempstead churches stated that their respective parochial councils had passed resolutions urging official action on behalf of the Jews, which had been forwarded to the Government.
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