The Jews have been the supreme victims of the war, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt declared in her syndicated article today. Admitting that she does not know “what we can do to save the Jews,” she asserted all will be sufferers, “if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them.”
“The Jews,” Mrs. Roosevelt wrote, “have suffered in Europe as has no other group. The percentage killed among them in the past few years far exceeds the losses among any of the United Nations in the battles which have been fought throughout the war.
“Many of them, for generations, considered Germany, Poland, Rumania and France their country and permanent home. This same thing might happen to any other group, if enough people ganged up against it and decided on persecution. It seems to me that it is part of common sense for the world as a whole to protest in its own interest against wholesale persecution, because none of us by ourselves would be strong enough to stand against a big enough group which decided to treat us in the same way,” the article points out.
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