TREATMENT OF JEWS

Northern Advocate, 26 July 1935, Page 7

TREATMENT OF JEWS

MAYOR’S REPRISAL AN AMERICAN SENSATION move to sever relations IF WARRANTED -BY FACTS [United Press Association -By Electric Telegraph. — Copyright .] (Received 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, July 24. A mild sensation was caused today by an announcement by the Mayor of New York, Mr. F. H. La Guardia, that he was not prepared to allow the City Council to issue a license to a German masseur. Mr. La Guardia gave as his reason that it was well known that American citizens of the Jewish faith had been discriminated against in Germany. An intimation was given this evening by the German Embassy that a formal protest probably will be lodged with the State Department, on the ground that the Mayor’s action violates the treaties of reciprocity and amity between Germany and the United States. The situation was given further significance by the proposed introduction in the Senate by Mr. W. H. King (Democrat —Utah) of a motion reconv-

The situation was given further significance by the proposed introduction in the Senate by Mr. W. H. King (Democrat —Utah) of a motion reconvmending investigations, and, if the fact warranted, a severance of diplomatic relations with Germany, as a protest against the latter’s barbarous religious persecution. It is expected that the State Department, as well as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate, Mr. K. Pitman, will oppose the motion.

Mr. King said the motion might be rejected, but it would at least give notice that the attempt by the Nazis to crush Judaism and Christianity was not unchallenged.

Strong protests against Mr. La Guardia’s . action have come from many quarters, particularly from the German groups in the jcily. It is pointed out that there is no official record; at the State Department of dilcrimination in Germany against American Jews.

VIOLENT LANGUAGE

“THIS MADMAN OF GERMANY.”

(Received 1.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 25.

There was another reverberation of Congressional reaction to the German situation later in the day when Mr Dickstein, in the House of Representatives, attacked the anti-religious activity of the Reisch. He called Herr Hitler “this madman of Germany,” and accused him of cold-blooded murder; Mr Blanton immediately admonished Mr Dickstein ahd advised that America should mind her own business. He pointed out that only the State Department could handle foreign affairs, and that Mr Dickstein had no authority to make charges against Herr Hitler, even if they were justified.