General Sir Fredrick Maurice, president of the British Legion, veterans’ organization, inspected 5,000 Jewish ex-soldiers massed at the London Cenotaph, and in a speech delivered afterward extolled the valor of the Jews in the World War and decried present-day persecution.
“Now that members of the Jewish faith are being persecuted in other countries, it is well to remind our fellow countrymen that you are true citizens of the Em-
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