A resolution condemning treatment of racial and religious minorities in Germany “and other lands” was presented today to the House of Delegates of the American Bar Association. The resolution was signed by William L. Ransom, of New York, former president; former Attorneys General Homer S. Cummings and William D. Mitchell; Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of State; Frank J. Hogan, of Washington, association president and others.
“We express our deep regret and our strong protest that the rights of religious and racial minorities are being overridden by arbitrary power and without due process of law in lands whose cultural background had given cause for the belief that they were friends of human freedom,” the resolution said. “We express our sense of dismay that human beings have been systematically persecuted and proscribed by the formal acts of the Government of the German Reich and have been arbitrarily deprived of all rights and liberties and reduced to a mere existence in utter fear and want.”
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