President Kennedy Urges D emonstration
of Freedom as Example, for New Nations

Across the world new nations are struggling for survival and progress. These
nations, composed of men of all colors and faiths, are looking for leadership and
guidance in their effort to construct new societies.
Only if we demonstrate that the freedom which we
advocate is available to all our citizens will these new
nations look to us for this guidance. Yet on the choices
of these new nations hinges our own ultimate survival.
Thus human brotherhood is not just a goal. It is a
condition on which our way of life depends. The question
for our time is not whether all men are brothers. That
Idea of Democracy
question has been answered by the God who placed us
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master.
on this earth together.
This expresses my idea of Democracy. Whatever differs -from
The question is whether we have the strength and
this, to the extent of the difference, is no Democracy."
the will to make the brotherhood of man the guiding
—Abraham Lincoln
principle of our daily lives.

PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY,
Honorary Chairman, Brotherhood Week

J. V. Brennan, Brotherhood Week

Chairman, Inspires Supreme Effort

By JOHN V. BRENNAN
Chairman, Brotherhood Week
The Detroit Round Table of
Catholics, Jews and Protestants
has designated the week of Feb.
18-25 as "Brotherhood Week."
Its purpose is expressed in the
term itself.
The work of the Detroit Round
Table - is well and favorably
known, locally, nationally and
abroad.
It may be said that "Brother-
hood Week" is a sort of human

HON. JOHN V.. BRENNAN
relations launching pad from
which good will is projected. It
might also be thought of as a
call-to-the-colors of Brotherhood,
for a practical inspection and
review of the work of yester-
year and a glimpse of the year
ahead.
The Round Table does not
work, nor does it exist in a
vacuum. Its field is human re-
lations. The only product it
has to sell is good will. The
people of the Round Table,
both men and women, are out
where folks are, working with,
and not for them. They are
dedicated, practical men and
women, with their feet on the
ground. They are out in the
schools, the shops, the facto-
ries, the meeting places.
They realize full well that the
product they deal in is human
relations and good will. They
also realize that their work, and
the need for their work, must,
by its very nature, continue to
go on.
They look with level eyes upon
all races, colors, creeds and con-
ditions of man. Being practical
people, they try to furnish a
sort of social lubricant that
tends to prevent friction, unjust
and unwarranted hatreds, and
ill will among individuals, races,
colors, creeds, groups, cities,
states and nations.
It is well known that the
Round Table does not counte-
nance nor attempt to prose-
lyte, merge, or dull the right-
ful edge of faiths or creeds.
That field is reserved to indi-
vidual consciences, and other
established • sources and au-
thorities. The Round Table's
function is to help direct and
not to impose.
Running throughout the fabric

of "Brotherhood Week" is the
age-old concept of "The Father-
hood of God." This concept im-
pels "The Brotherhood of Man."
Reason and common sense also
urge such a conclusion. "Love
God a:A your neighbor," when
translated into terms of human
conduct, is a safe guideline for
our worthy observance of
"Brotherhood Week."
The need for the work of th
Round Table was never mo
pressing, nor, viewed only in
present distressing world asp
more necessary. It is, indeed
time to be both realistic,
hopeful, fully conscious of
constructive, practical good w
that the Round Table of Ca
olics, Jews and Protestants ha
done, and is now doing, in pro-
moting peace, cooperation, un-
derstanding and good will among
all races, colors and creeds.
The plans of the Detroit
Round Table for the coming
year, briefly stated, -are to in-
crease and amplify the work
it has been doing for the past
several years, always keeping
in mind the purpose for which
the Round Table was called
into being, to promote better
and better human relations, to
sell good will, and to make
Brotherhood a living, practical
reality, both in truth and in
fact.
Less than this, the Round
Table cannot do. This, of course,
bespeaks that the aims and pur-
poses of "Brotherhood Week" be
carried on hopefully and with
vigor throughout the year.

`Brotherhood,
Equality,
for
All'
By DR. LEWIS W. JONES

President, National Conference
of Christians and Jews

Despite the fact that the
Judeo-Christian teaching of "the
brotherhood of man under the
Fatherhood of Good" is the pro
fessed belief of 40 millio
American Catholics, 61 millio
Protestants and 51 k millio
Jews, despite the fact tha
"liberty and justice for all" is
promised in our National Pledge
of Allegiance, despite the fact
thoat religious liberty and polit-
ical equality are guaranteed by
the Constitution and the Bill of
Rights, many Americans are
deprived of their rights because
of the manner in which they
pray or the color of their skins.
The gap. between principle and
practice must be closed.
The eyes of Europe, Asia and
Africa are upon the United
States. The peace and freedom
of the entire -world may very
well depend on how we deal
with people of different ethnic
and religious backgrounds.
George Washington's celebrated
phrase "to bigotry no sanction,
to persecution no assistance"
is more timely and more urgent
today than ever before in Amer-
ican history.

President Kennedy

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