NAZIS THREATEN RETALIATION
AS PROTESTS FOR JEWS GROWS
Launch Anti-Lie Campaign—Meanwhile Ex-
Gov. Smith Likens Anti-Semitism to Ku
Klux Klan—N.J. Legislature Passes
Protest Resolve
By the Associated Press
world watched today the situation of their brethren in
Germany, where the government launched an “anti-lie
campaign”
Alleged mistreatment of Jews in the Reich was pro-
tested at meetings las night in many parts of the world.
In New York more than 22,000 packed Madison Square
Garden, and there was an overflow crowd of many thou-
sands.
Alfred E. Smith, addressing this meeting, said Jews
are “a peace-loving class of citizens that have been help-
ful to every country they inhabit” and declared the only
thing to do with anti-semitism “is to drag it out in the
open sunlight and give it the same treatment we gave the
Ku Klux Klan.”
Twenty Jewish physiciansA cable from Berlin said tele- grams of indignation, declaring that reports of excesses in Ger- many were exaggerated, were sent to the United States by members of the Protestant clergy, Industrial- ists and Jewish organizations. Dr. K. O. Bertling, director of Amerika Institute in Berlin, wired Dr. Nich- olas Murray Butler that he was “shocked at the gross misinterpre- tation of recent German events.” Young Fascists stormed a gath- |
ering of Jews in Sofia, Bulgaria,
and 15 people were hurt. At a protest meeting in Buenos Aires, German Nationalists threw petards and tear gas bombs and several persons were injured. The New Jersey legislature passed a resolution protesting what it called death and imprisonment of Jewish Nationals by the Hitler government. H. Lehman said he felt that Amer- ican sentiment concerning the treatment of Jews in Germany was that the “great principles” of lib- erty should be maintained. He said there was “no animosity to the great german nation.” This point was also stressed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, at the New York meeting. Other speakers in New York were Bishop William T. Manning of the Protestant Episco- pal church, and William Green, president of the Americamn Feder- ation of Labor. |