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Last week the American Jewish Congress asked the United Nations to do what could be done to save 5,000,000 Jews in Europe from extermination this year. Anyone who thought that the Congress exaggerated the danger had only to read Adolf Hitler's prophecy to Nazi Party members last week: "This struggle will end . . . with the extinction of Jewry in Europe...
...Those things one sees in the East, in high circles, in both parties. It's all cheap, cheap, cheap! The sight of these cheap statesmen is certainly painful when one thinks of the terrible need to . . . save this country from the real faults of administration and from a political theory heading us to the rocks...
...Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews for war prisoners through neutral countries. Nearly a quarter-million Britons bought the pamphlet, contributed thousands of pounds for Jewish relief. A deputation including the Archbishop of Canterbury and Cardinal Kinsley, leader of British Catholicism, approached Home Secretary Morrison with a plea...
...Victory cannot save civilization. It can merely prevent its destruction by one spectacular method. Since civilization was well on its way to destruction before the war began, success in war will not automatically preserve...
Eloquent Savior. By the third day, a Government crisis was just around the corner. Some M.P.s thought that Winston Churchill, sick abed with a cold and fever, would have to appear to save his Government. But a Laborite saved the day: wiry, grey-haired Home Secretary Herbert Morrison actually made no more concessions than Sir John or Sir Kingsley had made, but he stated the Government case with eloquent common sense. Morrison's clincher: Out of 23 Beveridge proposals, the Government had rejected only one (conversion of industrial insurance from a private to a public function); of the remaining...