The Nazi regime in Germany was scord as a denial of the American principle of freedom and a definance of the basic tenets of civilization by Rabbi Samuel Perlman, of the B’rth Sholom Corgregation of this city in an address before the Bethlehem Monarch Club.
”Lincoln’s and Washington’s birthdays call to mind the principles upon which our government has been forunded,” he said, ”and the ideals for which these leading Americans gave their have. America has always opended its doors to those who escaped from religious bigotry and presencution, from tyrants who denied them the right to speak their minds and hears.
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