Friday, DecorAer IS, 1944

1,326 Distinguished Citizens
Sign World Bill of Rights

Leaders in Business, Religious, Political and Union Circles
Join Roosevelt and Dewey in Urging Prim'acy
of 'Humanity Throughout the World

An International Bill of Rights to serve as a postwar guarantee
of individual liberties for all persons throughout the world just as
the American Bill of Rights is the guarantee of individual liberties
for Americans, was asked by 1,326 Americans of all faiths in a state-
ment made public for the American Jewish Committee by former
N. Y. Supreme Court Justice Joseph M. Proskauer, president.
Issued on the occasion of the 153rd aniversary of the ratification
of the American Bill of Rights, the Declaration calls for the recog-•
nition of the individual human being "as the cornerstone of our
culture and civilization" and the establishment of the "new world"
on the basis of the "dignity and inviolability of the person."
The roster of endorsers includes persons prominent in govern-
ment, religion, business, the professions, and arts and sciences. It
includes 172 public officials, including representative governors,
mayors and members of Congress.
Declaration Approved by Roosevelt
Signed by Gov. Dewey and approved by President Roosevelt,
the Declaration of Human Rights has won the approbation of leaders
of all political faiths. William D. Hassett, secretary to the President,
•wrote in a letter to Judge Proskauer:
•
"While it is not the practice of the President to sign documents
of this nature, I can assure you that he fully sympathizes with all
popular movements in support of this policy which he himself has
affirmed on so many occasions."
Among the signers are: Vice-President Wallace; Supreme •Court
Justices Owen J. Roberts and Frank Murphy; the late Alfred E.
Smith; John W. Davis; James A. Farley; Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert,
general secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in
-America; Eric Johnston, president, U. S. Chamber of Commerce;
Robert Gaylord, president of the National • Association of Manu-
facturers; William Green, president of the AFL; Philip Murray,
president of the CIO; Sidney Hillman, chairman of the PAC-CIO:
11fatthew Woll, vice-president of the AFL; Sen. James M. • Mead of
N. Y.; the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Episcopal Bishop of the
N. Y. Diocese; the Rt. Rev. Francis McIntyre, auxiliary bishop of
.the Catholic Archdiocese of New York.
Detroiters who signed the Declaration
Detroiters who signed the Declaration include: Charles C. Barnes
of Wayne University, Leo M. Butzel, James I. Eilmann, Rabbi Leon
Frani, Dr. Leo M. Franklin, Dr. B. Benedict Glazer, Manley E. Irwin,
Div. Director of InStruction of Detroit Public Schools; Isadore Levin,
E. E. Milliman, president of Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
.Way Employes; William J. Norton, executive vice-president of Chil-
dren's Fund of Michigan; W. E. Scripps, president of Detroit News
Association; Mayor S. S. Skrzycki of Hamtramck; Abraham Srere
and Henry Wineman.
Others from Michigan included in the list are: H. J. Bylan,
Grand Rapids; Joseph G. Gauffman, sec'y-treas., Amer. Ass'n. of
Instructors of the Blind, Lansing; Mayor Ralph W. Crego, Lansing;
Rabbi Daniel Folkman, Grand Rapids; Rabbi Alfred L. Friedman,
Benton Harbor; Mayor George T. Gundry, Flint; Rabbi Jacob H.
Hurwitz, Temple Beth Israel, Flint; Julius H. Isenberg, Kalamazoo;
Dr. Edger Johnston, Bureau of Cooperation, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor; Rabbi Nathan Kaher, Jackson, Mich.; Mayor J. M.
Mudie, Pointiac; Prof. I. L. Sharfman, Dept. of Economics, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Ralph Van Hoesen, principal Lincoln high
school, Ferndale.
Religious Leaders Indicate Unanimity of Thinking
Paralleling recent statements on postwar political order and
religious freedom issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America and the National Catholic Welfare Conference,
the Declaration of Human Rights issued by the American. Jewish
Committee, indicates a unanimity of thinking on the part of re-
ligious thinkers of all faiths for "a world based on a recognition that
'the. individual human being is the cornerstone of our culture and
'civilization." The Declaration has been signed by 348 church leaders,
including 37 bishops of the Episcopal, Catholic and Methodist faiths.
The full text of the Declaration follows:
"With the inevitable end of Hitler, the struggle begins, not of
tahk and plane, but of heart and sou and brain to forge a world in
which humanity may live in peace.
"This new world must be -based on the recognition that the
individual human being -is the cornerstone of our culture and our
Civilization. All that we cherish must rest on the dignity and inviol-
ability of the person, of his sacred right to live and to develop
under God, in whose image he was created.
"With this creed as our foundation, we declare:
"1. That an International Bill of Human Rights must be promul-
gated to guarantee for every man, woman and child, of every race
and creed in every country, the fundamental rights of life, liberty
and the pursuit of happiness.
"2. No plea of sovereignty shall ever again be allowed to permit
any nation to deprive those within its borders of these fundamental
-rights on the claim that there are matters of internal concern.
"3. Hitlerism has demonstrated that bigotry and persecution of
a barbarous nation throws upon the peace-loving nations the burden
of relief and redress. Therefore it is a matter of international con-
cern to stamp out infractions of basic human rights.
"4. To those who have suffered under the Hitler regime because
of •race or creed or national origin, there shall be given fair redress.
"5. To those who have been driven from the land of their birth
there shall be given the opportunity to return, unaffected in their
rights by the Nazi despotism.
"6. To those who wander the - earth unable or unwilling to return
to scenes of unforgettable horror shall be given ala and comfort to
find new homes and begin new lives in other parts of the world.
This must be made possible by international agreement.
"Thus, anew, may we justify the ways of God to man. Thus we
ma' y take a vital step forward on the long road at the end of which
civilization seeks to create a • world based • upon the common father-
hood of God and the common brotherhood of man."

Palestine Self-Defenders'
Sentences Cut to 5 Years

JERUSALEM (JPS-Palcor)—Upholding the conviction of David
Solomon, 24, and David Epstein, 23, members of an isolated Has-
homer Hatzair settlement, found guilty by a military cuort on the
iharge of the possession of illegal arms, Lt. Gen. W. G. Holmes,
general officer in command of the military in Palestine, announced
however that he has reduced the sentences from seven years to five
years each.
New House of Commons Inquiries With Regard to Irgun
LONDON (Palcor)—The question of the terrorist Irgun Zvai
Leumi was once again brought up in. the House of Commons by
Squadron Leader Fleming, who inquired whether the Irgun was
controlled by the New Zionist (Revisionist) Organization "or any
other Jewish body in Palestine or elsewhere or whether it is an
entirely independent association, deriving its membership from all
other JeWish parties and organizations.'
In a written reply Col. Secretary Oliver Stanley stated that
the Irgun Zvai Leumi was formed in 1937 by the late Vladimir
Jabotinsky, founder and leader of the New Zionist Organization,
and that a representative of the NeW Zionist Organization "re-
cently declared that the Irgun does not accept its discipline and
'does not consult it regarding its activities." In his reply he' said,:
"I should prefer not to specify its exact affiliation, but it •is cer-
tainly. not controlled by any reputable or responsible Jewish body."

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THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Three

Weekly Review of the News of the World

(Compiled From Cables of Independent Jewish Press Service)

AMERICA

OVERSEAS

Immediate" effective aid by the United Na-
tions to the 100,000,000 _people liberated in
Europe is required to prevent famine and
.pestilence from spreading over large areas,
President Roosevelt told Congress in his first
quarterly report on American participation in
the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation
Administration.
An epidemic of race riots after the war,
"unless we safeguard the rights of minorites"
now, was predicted by the House Labor Com-
mittee in a statement calling for legislation
to make the Fair Employment Practices Corn-
. mittee permanent.
Racial relations have improved in general
despite the tension of war, it was announced
by the Julius Rosenwald Fund, organized in
1917 by the late Julius Rosenwald, Chicago
merchant-philanthropist, for "the betterment
of Negroes."

Two thousand Jewish Children rescued by
Belgians who gave them shelter in their homes
throughout the period of German occupation,
have already been reported to the Jewish
Community Council of Brussels. Of these,
1500 are already back with their parents, and
five hundred are still 'in their Christian foster
homes, the whereabobts of their parents un-
known.

PALESTINE

Viscount Gort, High Commissioner of Pales-
tine, visited the Jewish Agency's Scientific
Experiment Station and the Sieff Research
Institute at Rehovoth and lunched at the resi-
dence of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, president of
the Jewish Agency for Palestine. He then
paid a short visit to Tel Aviv, where he made
purchases at a number of shops, and returned
to Jerusalem.
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