Washington, Jan. 8.
Speaking before the National Counsel of the United Palestine Appeal, Count Doynel de St. Quentin, French Ambassador to the United States, declared that one of the chief war aims of the Allies was to put an end to the persecutions of millions of people, stating that, "he will not agree that hundreds and thousands and even millions of people shall be considered as outlaws by the country in which they have spent centuries.
Mr. Frenk Murphy, newly-appointed Justice of the Supreme Court, also' spoke, and emphasized that discrimination against any religions was intolerable in a civilized world.
Mr. Alfred Duff-Cooper, former First Lord of the British Admiralty, predicted that the Allies must and will help in the solution of the problems of the Jews taking refuge in Palestine,—Havas.
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