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Jacques Maritain, the eminent Thomist philosopher, and French Ambassador to the Holy See, has been elected to serve as co-Chairman with the Marquess of Reading and Dr. MacCracken (U.S.A.) on the International Council of Christians and Jews which is now in process of formation. This announcement was made at the fifth annual general meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews, which was presided over by the Archbishop of Canterbury in London last week.
Fr. Maurice Bevenot, S.J., who has been helping the Council in an unofficial capacity during the year, and to whom tribute was paid by the Rev. W. W. Simpson, general secretary, for his " splendid service," has now been elected to the Council and also to serve as one of the six British members of the provisional executive committee, in connection with the setting up of the international council, MENACE OF LOUDSPEAKER Dr. Mallon, of Toynbee Hall, who has given up his life to work in the East End of London, seitike about the " horror of the loudspeaker in the side-streets of the poor, which is turning Sunday morning down there into a terrifying
experience. It is a violent and frightening thing and ought to be stopped," he said.
About the anti-Semitic meetings, he said: "If my Jewish friends would only Stop away from them the whole thing would peter out." He added thot it would be a humiliating thing for Great Britain to have to resort to special legislation in order to protect certain members of the community. "I beg of the Jews— do not be drawn into this fight between Fascists and Communists."
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