U.S. Jews Hail Declaration of Allied Nations on Nazi Massacres in Europe

The American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee today hailed the joint declaration issued yesterday by the Allied Nations condemning the Nazi slaughter of Jews in Europe and pledging retribution.

The American press, including the New York Times, New York Post, The Nation, The New Republic, carry articles describing the Nazi massacre of Jews and asking action to force the Nazis to halt their extermination of European Jewry. “It is good, but not good enough, that the United States has formally joined with ten other governments and the Fighting French in dennouncing the systematic extermination of the Jewish people in Europe,” the New York Post editorial declares. “It is not good enough because it will not stop the extermination. The serious purpose to stop the extermination on should result in a serious plan, capable of doing so. The proposal to deal out ‘retribution’ after the war to those responsible for the mass murder does not meet the conditions for a serious plan.” The New York Times, in its editorial stated that “the most tragic aspect of the situation is the world’s helplessness to stop the horror while the war is going on.”