NEW YORK JEWS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 385, 17 March 1937, Page 7

NEW YORK JEWS.

Anti-Nazi Demonstration Held. Press Association- —Copyright. New York, March 15. Speakers at an anti-Nazi meeling of 20,000 'persons at biadison Square Garden, which was sponsored by Jewish organisations and al which Herr Hitler was condemned, included Mr John L. Lewis, president of the United Mineworkers’ Federation, General Hugh Johnson, termer chief administrator of the N.R.A- and Dr. Bohn. Mr Lewis said that industrial democracy Was the best guarantee against Fascism. He asserted that It it ITitler had crushed the German Labour movement. General Johnson said Mr Frank La Guardia, Mayor of New York, was right in branding Herr Hitler as a menace to the world, causing the crowd to stand and cheer. Dr. Bohn charged Herr Hitler with

planning to make war as soon as the German army was ready. "He will strike as the Kaiser struck, In the belief that Britain would stay out of the war,” he said. The British declaration, proclaiming its unity with its natural allies, was essential to peaec to-day. Mr La Guardia appeared unexpectedly at the meeting and told th audience to pay no attention to anything that Herr Hitler said. He ended his remarks with a German phrase which he later told reporters meant "Hitler can’t take it.”