Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania started a letter campaign to draw wide public attention to the danger that the ratification by the United States of the Genocide Convention “is in jeopardy of dying through neglect.”
The Senator sent out letters to newspapers and figures in public life, enclosing a reprint from the Congressional Record into which the Senator inserted a column on this subject by JTA Washington correspondent Jessie Halpern. Senator Scott described the column as a “very important article.”
Senator Scott in his letter declared that “it would certainly be bitter irony if 1964–when the world is re-examining the horrors of Nazi exterminations–were to become the year that the United States permitted the genocide convention to fade into oblivion.”
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