JEWS HONOURED
PART IN GREAT WAR FRENCH MINISTER'S TRIBUTE PARIS, June 23 While Jew-baiting was being intensified in Germany, in France a monument was unveiled to Jewish soldiers who fought in the French and Allied armies. The monument w:is unveiled in Verdun. Out of 190,000 Jews in France and Algeria during the Great War, 32.000 were mobilised and 6500 were killed. Of 12,000 foreign Jewish volunteers who fought in the French Army, more than 2000 were killed. The Minister for Marine, M. Campinchi, said at Verdun: "The French Revolution proclaimed that men must not bo judged according to the blood in their veins, bfit according to their moral and intellectual merits. The Republic will never abandon this high principle. France does not hound men because their ancestors were not born within hor frontiers. "We do not believe in establishing ridiculous hierarchies among ourselves," the Minister continued. "We do not hold that this or that peoplo must be reduced to slavery or destroyed. Wo believe that every human being lias a right to live, whatever his features or colour. Wo do not believe in inferior or despicable races."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23078, 1 July 1938, Page 11
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