“Doing justice to the Jews will be one text of a juster world order,” declares the Archbishop of Canterbury in his preface to the report of the “Commission of Churches for International Friendship and Social Responsibility,” published today, which contains a statement on the problems of Jews.
“A true international order will be solicitous of the rights and needs of minorities,” the Archbishop writes. “There are both racial and religious minorities and both have been persecuted. Probably the most difficult single problem confronting the world today in the sphere of minorities is that of the Jews, because they are partly a racial group and partly a religious one – capable alike of complete assimilation and of the most stubborn particularity.”
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