A statesmanlike program to get a better break for the Jews after the war was launched last week by the American Jewish Congress and the World Jewish Congress, of which not invariably statesmanlike, emotional, politics-dabbling Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is respectively president and chairman. Announced was a project which may be of vast benefit to world Jewry—an Institute of Jewish Affairs to survey the state of Jewry and draft political plans for a more auspicious future.
Four million Jews, or one out of every four in the world, have become victims of oppression. Said Rabbi Wise: "A victory of the democracies will...