Prejudice and bigotry have no place in the 1960 political campaign, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones, president of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, warned here today.
In a statement issued on behalf of the NCCJ, Dr. Jones declared that “any appeal for or against any candidate, based on religion, is contrary to American principles.”
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