Regret that the statement issued at the conclusion of the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin conference in Yalta did not include any assurance that anti-Semitism will be curbed by “decisive steps” after the war was expressed here today by Harold J. Laski in an article on the conference of the “Big Three”.
“I regret that no assurance was given to that people which has suffered as no other people has suffered since Hitler’s advent to power, that the United Nations will take decisive steps against a recurrence anywhere — even in Dorchester, Mass, — of anti-Semitism,” Mr. Laski writes. “For when Hitler and his gang are overthrown, there will still be a considerable number of ducdecimo imitators — Mosley in England, Father Coughlin and Gerald Smith in the United States and Mayor Camille Houde in Canada — who need to be told in unmistakeable terms that when the war ends there ends with it the ghastly tragedy of anti-Semitism.
“I say this because there is, alas, a considerable volume of evidence to show that Hitler’s poison has seeped into innumerable veins. None of the three men at Yalta have done much to relieve the tragic burden the Jews have had to bear since 1933. It would not have been too much to expect had they given this forlorn, unhappy people a pledge that they will not have suffered in vain.”
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