An editorial appearing today in the News Chronicle strongly attacks Gen. Menri Giraud’s recent statement pledging the gradual abolishment of the anti-Jewish laws in North Africa and rejects his claim that the Jewish problem in Algeria and Morocco is a purely internal matter of interest only to France.
“The Allies are fighting for the validity of certain principles, one of which is the right of Jews to the privileges accorded their fellow citizens,” the News Chronicle writes, adding that “to deny them that is to accept the assumptions of fascism.”
“Military action,” the editorial continues, “must conform to the acceptance of these basic rights, otherwise it has no meaning. Failure to recognize this has already done much harm to the Allied cause. The danger is that the world may take the North African affair as a precedent for Europe.”
The Daily Express today states that an exhaustive investigation by Red Cross authorities has failed to confirm reports appearing in the London press to the effect that Jewish children in several districts of Algeria have been barred from receiving milk sent into the country by the Allies. According to the previous reports, Jewish children in seven districts of Algeria were not given any of the relief supplies provided by the United States.
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