The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-17
UNITED NATIONS CONDEMN NAzIS
Atrocities Against Jews Bring Strong Statement
 Signed By Twelve

Washington, Dec. i7,-tUpl- Eleven Of tho United Nations ant tho French national committee to- day condemned 0ermany's "bestia policy" Of mass slauehters Of Jew and resolved that those responsible would not escape retfibution.
 The statement was endorsed by tho Belgian, CEeehosloVak, Greek Luxembourg, Netherlands, Nor. wegian, Polish, Soviet, United King dom, United States and JugeslaV governments and tho Fighting French. Other United Nations are expected to subscribe to it later.
 lDritish Foreign Secretary An. thony Eden read tho Allied state. ment in the House of Commons at London and the Moscow radio broadcast it as from tho Russian Bureau of fnfefmation,)
 The denuneiation supplemented c previous pledge by president Roosevelt and Primo Minister Winston Churchill to punish Axis officials guilty of killing hostages ottd ttAttk OAAtAiStFt
 The statement on Jewish oppfes. sion accused Germany of "eaffy. Ing Into effect Hitler's oft repeated intention to eXteFminate the Jew- ish people in Europe" It charged that Jews were being transported from occupied countries lin eendi- tlons of appalling horror and bru- tlity". that Polish ghettos are being systematically emptied" that the ablo.bedied arc being worked to death ia labor camps, and that the intirm arc left to die or are nassaered,
 The text Of the statement, made public here and in London;
 "Tho attention Of tho Belgian, | CEeehoeloyak, Greek, Luxembourg. Netherlands, Norwegian PoliSh, Soviet, United Kingdom, United States and jugoslav governments
 and the French national eem- mittee has been drawn to nuiner- ous reports from Europe that the German authorities, not content With denying te persons Of Jewish raee in all the territories over which their barbafous rule has been extendod' the most elemen. tary human rights, are now earry- ing Into effect Hitier's oft res peated intention to extermInate
 tho jewish people in Europe.
 '"FTom all the occupied eeun- tries Jews are being transported
 in conditions of appalling hor- TOT and brutality to eastern Eu. rope.
 Tn Poland, which has been made the principal Nazi slaugh- ter house, tho ghettos established by the invader are being syste- matieally emptied of all Jews except e few highly skilled work CTS required for war industries. None of those taken away N ever heard of again.
 "The able-bodied are slowly worked to death in labor camps. The infirm are left to die of ex- posture and starvation or ar de- liberately inaSSacred in mass exe- cutions, The number Of victims Of these bloody cruelties Is reck- oned in many hundfeds or thous sands Of entirely innocent men, women and children.
 "The above mentioned govern mentS and the French National Committee condemn in the strong. est possible terms this bestiai pol- Icy Of cold blooded extermina- ton. They declare that such events can only strengthen the resolve of all freedom loving peo- ples to overthrow the barbarous Hitlerlte tyranny: They reaffirm their solemn resolution to ensure that those responsible for these crimes shall not escape retribu- ton and to press on with the
 necessary practical measures to ] this end"
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