GERMAN ATROCITIES

Grey River Argus, 26 March 1943, Page 2

GERMAN ATROCITIES

In Treatment of Jews

8.0.W. RUGBY, March 23. The Archbishop of Canterbury, in the Lords, moved in view of the massacres and starvation of Jews and others in enemy-occupied countries, that the House desires to assure the Government of its fullest support for immediate measures on the largest and most generous; scale, compatible with the requirements of military operations and security, for providing help and temporary asylum to persons in danger of massacre, who are able to leave enemy-occupied countries. Doctor Temple said: We are confronted with an evil the magnitude and horror of which it is impossible to describe in words. The Archbishop proceeded to give information of 'recent atrocities against Jews, saying, for instance, that Hitler had ordered that all Jews must be cleared out of Bohemia and Moravia. After further examples, the Primate added: “I believe part of the difficulty in rousing ourselves and our fellow countrymen to a degree of indignation that these events merit, is the fact that imagination recoils before it.”

Lord Cranborne, replying for the Government, said the question raised bv the Primate was one of the very first importance, but he thought it would be a naistake to throw undue emphasis on the Jewish side of the question. It was a most horrible feature, but it was only a. feature of a much better problem which must be faced as a whole. Lord Cranborne contniued: It is up to us to do all we can, consistent with the military situation and the safety of our own people. The question of the plight of the oppressed and persecuted people in Europe had been takbn up by Mr Hull and Mr Eden as a matter of great urgency. Lord Cranborne concluded: All we can do, and what we must do, is to keep pegging away in the hope of doing something to alleviate the plight of this unhappy people. That will continue to be the British Government’s policy. I am glad to accept the Primate’s motion as a symbol of essential unity which inspires the country on this terrible problem.