The expression of “regret and embarrassment” by the West German Government are not adequate responses to the manifestations of anti-Semitism that have appeared in West Germany, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said today in the Senate.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Minnesota Democrat, said eruptions of anti-Semitism in West Germany could no longer be dismissed as isolated and inconsequential. He told the Senate, in a speech on the floor, that “we have been rudely reminded of the fact that anti-Semitism is still a living force by the recent demonstrations in West Germany and in other countries, including our own. “
The Senator said that American guilt might not be as great as German guilt, “but we must face it. ” He stressed that “one desecrated synagogue in America is one too many. “
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