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the common principles of justice. In fact the debt owing
to the Jewish people is not merely the Christian's debt; it is
broader than that, it is the debt of humanity. But even
apart from these historic considerations it may be asked
why a specifically Jewish Relief day, when millions countless others
are similarly suffering. Why? I will tell you. Because the
starving, suffering [ ] among the Jews & the tortured violated outraged maddened
Jewish women have none to look to for help except the
Jewish people, & they have furnished proportionately a larger
share to the contending armies than have any of the
fighting nations. As a result the relief brought to these
humble & hounded [ ] creatures is not adequate enough
to keep body & soul together, of one thousanth part of
the sufferers. Exiled from one town whether Kovno
Grodno or any other town with from eight to 24 hours notice
they arrive at another town only to be ordered refused
admission & even food while & this long army of hundreds of thousands
of God's creatures -- God's chosen people, as they have
been called, are packed like cattle in worn out rickety freight
cars mothers, babes, [ ] wild eyed innocent boys &