The Rabbinical Alliance of America, an Orthodox group, announced today that it dissociated itself from the planned “mobilization of clergy” the end of this month in Washington to protest the war in Vietnam. Rabbi Abraham B. Hecht, president of the organization, reiterated the Alliance’s “full support of the Government’s policy in Vietnam.”
Asserting that the organization had consistently supported the President on the Vietnam struggle during the past few years, Rabbi Hecht declared: “We deplore the efforts by the so-called ‘Guardians of the Faith’ organized under the name of clergy and laymen concerned about Vietnam to embarrass our Government and its elected officials, having prejudged and condemned our Government and its policies beforehand.”
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