A modified expression of sympathy for persecuted Jews was unanimously voted this afternoon the House of Deputies of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States at its general convention here. Approval by the Bishops, which is confidently expected, is now required.
In its present form the resolution holds that “just as recourse to offensive warfare is to be unsparingly condemned, so, in the opinion of the general convention, persecution of minorities as an instrument of national policy is likewise to be branded as unworthy of civilized nations and as shocking to the sensibilities of all right-minded persons.
“To all Jewish people and to all other minorities who may have been victims of such persecution, the general convention, in behalf of church people everywhere, extends a fraternal greeting and a message of deep sympathy.”
The original proposal on minorities, as well as many others on a variety of subjects, were turned over earlier in the session to a special committee of ten. Its later report on all these matters was attacked by members on the floor of the convention as “straddling and reactionary,” and today some other parts of it were changed by the Deputies.
The wording first given to the committee, but modified by that body, offered “to the people of the Jewish race throughout the world profound sympathy for the sacrifices, impoverishment and suffering that they have endured at the hands of the nationalistic
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