The governments of the democratic countries were again reminded today, on the occasion of the Jewish New Year, that they must act immediately to save European Jews from the Nazis. In a Rosh Hashonah proclamation issued today by the Jewish National Council of Palestine, it was emphasized that “the Jews of Palestine do not cease to summon democracies to aid Jews in occupied countries and have also summoned themselves for special rescue action.”
The proclamation speaks of the Jewish war contribution to the Allied cause and expresses the belief that “Hitler’s complete downfall will take place during the coming Jewish year.”
Chief Rabbi Herzog, in a Rosh Hashonah message, addressed “to the Jews all over the world,” calls for Jewish unity and for renewed Jewish faith and courage in the coming year. “Special Divine Providence has manifested itself in the miraculous escape of Eretz Israel from the horrors of war,” the message says, expressing the hope that the Jews will be rehabilitated in the countries where they are now suffering and that “international recognition will be achieved for Israel’s divine historic right to the land of our fathers.”
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