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GOOD OFFICES NEIGHBORLY Hitler’s Personality Figures In German Jew Boycott By F. G. Vosburgh More than ever the personality and philosophy of Adolph Hitler held the attention of Americans today on the eve of a nation-wide boy- cott of Jews in Germany. As the State department sought to use its good offices in a quiet way to avert the impending econ- omic war, those who have follow- ed the strange career of the young Austrian who has become Ger- many’s dictator found in his auto- biography and the platform of his National Socialist party many in- dications of the strong anti-Jewish feeling which is finding its expres- sion now. Those who have read Hitler’s life story which he wrote in a Baravian prison in 1924 after the so-called “Beer-Hall Putsch’ in Munich, says his anti-Semitism is the outstand- ing feature of his own philosophy. Prominent American Jews, head- ed by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, again visited the State department yes- terday in connection with the Jewish troubles in Germany. While officials declined to say whether any diplomatic action was being taken, Undersecretary Phil- lips made known that the whole |
Jewish question is being considered
carefully. There were many indications that this government would em- ploy its influence quietly and in a neighborly fashion to bring some settlement. has been bittlerly opposed to So- cialism. Many Socialist leaders with whom he came into contact were Jews, and therefore, some here say, the whole Socialist movement be- came to Hitler a plot of interna- tional Jews to gain control. Hitler and his followers, oppos- ing in violent oratory the repara- tion payment provided by the Ver- sailles treaty, have accused the Jews of placing this burden on the German people. To them the Jews are responsible for various others of their country’s ills, although just how is not explained. In the Hitler program written by his Lieutenant Gottfried Feder in 1920, it was set forth that no Jew is a member of the German people, that those who are not citizens may live in Germany only as a guest and that if it is not possible to feed the entire population of the state, non-citizens must be expelled from the Reich. |