JEWS WHO DIED FOR FRANCE
X monument to the 6,500 French Jews and. 2,000 foreign Jewish volunteers who died for France in the war was inaugurated by M. Campinchi, Minister of Marine, at Verdun recently. The Minister reminded his hearers that 32,000 of the 190,000'Jews of France and Algeria had been mobilised, and that 12,000 foreign Jews had served as volunteers. _ t . After recalling how the Grand Rabbi, Abraham Bloch, had been mortally wounded as he handed a crucifix to a. Roman Catholic officer on the field of battle, M. Campinchi said that France, in the words of the French-Jervish philosopher, Bergson, was not a closed corporation. Frenchmen, he continued, did not establish a ridiculous hierarchy between the races; they did not believe that some races were accursed, contemptible, or inferior. Every human being had the right to live as a free man, whatever the shape of his face or the colour of his skin. Such was the ideal for which the Jews of France, England, and the TJnited States had died in the war. Such was the French ideal.
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Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 7
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180JEWS WHO DIED FOR FRANCE Evening Star, Issue 23029, 6 August 1938, Page 7
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