A Brief for the Jews

A statesmanlike program to get a better break for the Jews after the war was launched last week by the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress, of which not invariably statesmanlike, emotional, politics-dabbling Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is respectively president and chairman. Announced was a project which may be of vast benefit to world Jewry--an Institute of Jewish Affairs to survey the state of Jewry and draft political plans for a more auspicious future.

Four million Jews, or one out of every four in the world, have become victims of oppression. Said Rabbi Wise: "A victory of the democracies will not automatically make it possible for Jews to live as free men again. It will have to be followed through. In the peace of 1919 the two factors which did most to guarantee the Jewish future, namely, recognition of minority rights in Central and Eastern Europe, and the establishment of the Mandate for Palestine, were won only after intensive effort by Jewish political bodies. The Jews will have to achieve their salvation by a vigorous prosecution of just claims before the council of nations and the conscience of the world. For that, however, they will require a brief, and it is to prepare that brief that the Institute of Jewish Affairs has been called into being."

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