Dr. George N. Shuster, newly-appointed president of Hunter College and an editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal, today chided Americans for their callousness to suffering abroad, addressing 200 ministers at the fifth of a series of inter-denominational luncheon meetings at the Jewish Theological Seminary.
Dr. Shuster said: “Refugees from a dozen lands starve in prisons worse than those Vincent saw when he visited the jails of Tartary. But what are refugees to many of us but an added burden to the taxpayer?…Poland is a shambles, but one looks the other way when there is mention of Poland. One disposes of Hitler by references to the possible emergence of Goering as the leader in Germany, conveniently forgetting all that one has ever known about Goering.”
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