862.4016/1495: Telegram
The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Dodd)
51. On July 26 last a delegation representing the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the B’nai B’rith and the Jewish Labor Committee called on me and presented a letter urging representations by this Government with respect to recent occurrences in Germany affecting various religious and racial groups there.
On July 29 I addressed a reply to those organizations, the text of which is as follows:
“I have given careful study to the views embodied in the letter of July 26th last, which you presented on behalf of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the B’nai B’rith and the? Jewish Labor Committee, with respect to recent occurrences in Germany affecting various religious and racial groups there.
I fully understand your solicitude regarding the experiences which these groups are reported to be suffering in Germany. The concepts of religious freedom and liberty of conscience for all constitute the most fundamental principles of our own civilization and political faith. This being so, the American people are always sympathetic to the maintenance of these concepts in the United States as well as in other nations.”
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