ZIONIST COMMITTEE FOR PuBLIc AFFAIRS It was just 10 years ago. in the early months of 1946. that I went to Germany to serve as adviser on Jewish affairs to the United States military commanders in Europe. This was an office set up by General Eisenhower to help the Army meet the special needs of the surviving victims of the Nazi holocaust. Here I had my first opportunity to see in the DP camps. the refugees from Nazi persecution whose plight I had encountered during the war when my duties as director of the Jewish chaplaincy program brought me to the areas where American troops were stationed. There is no need tonight to belabor the unspeakable horrors these people had sufferedthe loss of their families. their property. their rights. their roots. Nor is it necessary to expatiate on the guilt of the Western World which could have saved innumerable Jews by opening doors to them in the democratic lands of the West. and especially in Palestine.
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