The sixth anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising was commemorated here last night at a mass rally sponsored by the British section of the World Jewish Congress. Among the guests who joined in the tribute to the Warsaw heroes were diplomatic representatives of Israel, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Huntary, Finland, Ethiopia, Cuba, Bolivia, United States, Denmark, Poland and Yugoslavia.
Attorney-General Sir Hartley Shawcross, attacking “those who preach Nazi doctrines in England,” said: “These things cannot always be dealt with by law. Hitler intended to exterminate the Jews, but failed. What he did, gave final impetus to the establishment of a Jewish state. That state is now established and we wish it well, hoping that in peaceful and tolerant cooperation with the peoples of the Middle East and of the rest of the world it will make a contribution to peace, prosperity, human dignity and understanding.”
Sir Maxwell Fyfe, chief British prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials, asserted that “as long as human hearts are warm and human minds think, the story of the Warsaw Ghetto will live forever.” Other speakers included Sidney Silverman, M.P., and Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie.
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