Religion: I Say unto You....

Ye have heard that it hath been said, an eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth. ...

A group of clergymen meeting last week in Chicago said: "In considering the treatment of a defeated Germany, we as religious leaders first affirm our confident hope that the victorious Allies will be guided by justice rather than by vengeance. We believe that a re-educated German people can in time become a worthy member of the family of mankind."

The clergymen asking justice for Germans were Jewish. The meeting: the Central Conference of American Rabbis.

. . . But I say unto you, love...

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