The Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker, president of The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, today voiced his endorsement of the four-point pledge recently proposed by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, president of the American Jewish Committee, for inter-group accord.
The pledge, originally suggested by Judge Proskauer in a radio address on January 11, has already been approved by the Most Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York. In announcing his support of the pledge, Bishop Tucker said.
“The fourfold pledge which Judge Proskauer suggested in his radio address delivered on January 11th is a basis on which all men of goodwill can make their personal influence count for justice and brotherhood. The proposal is altogether admirable. If all the members of our churches would act in the spirit of Judge am very happy to associate myself with his suggestion that we all adopt this modern equivalent of the Hippocratic oath.”
Judge Proskauer expressed satisfaction at the endorsement of his pledge by leading representatives of the Protestant and Catholic churches. he stated today, “I am delighted to see that, through the leadership of Archbishop Spellman and Bishop Tucker, the oath which I suggested as one means of combating the divide and conquer’ tactics of our Axis enemies has now become a truly American inter-faith pledge.”
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