Persecution of Jews was condemned in telegrams from Senator Key Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Carter Glass, which were made public today by the American Jewish Congress in connection with an emergency conference called for Sunday to take action on protecting the Polish Jews.
Senator Pittman was quoted as follows:
“Like every American citizen, I deeply abhor tyranny and persecution, both governmental and individual. Such persecutions are incomprehensible. Today peoples and those in control of many governments seem to me to be approaching hysteria bordering upon what appears to be a form of governmental insanity. Democracy today exists in very few countries. Queer ideas of nationalism, of the right of nationals and their liberties and the administration of government seem to be cropping up throughout the world. We think democracy is the best form of government and we cannot understand why peoples in many places have turned to some form of arbitrary, cruel and uncontrolled dictatorships.”
Senator Glass’s telegram stated:
“I have repeatedly gone on record as utterly opposed to all persecution of Jews, whether in Poland or Germany or elsewhere, and I sympathize with every movement in behalf of justice to them and in condemnation of discrimination against them.”
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