JEWS IN GERMANY

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 109, 11 May 1933, Page 5

JEWS IN GERMANY

TREATMENT RESENTED SPEECHES IN ENGLAND. BOYCOTT OF GOODS. LONDON, March 31. The Jewish Board of Deputies—the “Jewish Parliament”—which is representative of the Jews of the British Empire, sat in secret on Sunday and debated the treatment of Jews in Germany. Mr. Neville Laski, K.C., presided. The board decided that, as a board, it did not support the boycott of German goods. Mr. Laski, however, stated that as an individual he supported it. “We quarrel with Germany’s discrimination against German citizens or denizens of the Jewish faith,” said Mr. Laski, “ and we will resist such discrimination In tho name of humanity we canuot stand passive and watch the creation of a rank or grade of secondclass citizens or denizens. We will not tolerate tho existence within the confines of Germany of a helot class of German Jews. So far as in us lies, there shall be no Jewish ‘untouchables’ in Germany. We, in common with our German brethren, wish the German people well, but we must insist that German citizens and denizens of the Jewish faith march shoulder-to-shoulder along that road in one and the same status with non-Jewish citizens and denizens. “Amazement and Alarm.” “We recognise that no revolution is without its excesses. We appreciate that certain phases of tho Nazi philosophy have anti-Jewish implications which not only Jews but all rightminded people must and do deplore. We demand their excision from the political, social and economic programme of those who seek to be the builders of a new and regenerated Germany.” Major H. L. Nathan. M.P. (Liberal), speaking at Teignmouth, said in a reference to Germany:—“A Jew myself, I cannot feel indifferent to the unprovoked and lawless outrages perpetrated for no reason save that they are Jews upon those of my own blood and faith. But it is not only Jews. It is probably true that they form only a small proportion of those who have suffered, and are suffering, from tho terror, the inevitable concomitant of revolution, which for tho moment prevails in Germany. “As a British M.P. I believe I speak the voice of the House of Commons, irrespective of party, and of tho British people as a whole, when I say that we have learned with amazement and alarm, and even with horror, of the forcible suppression of public opinion, the muzzling of the press and of the unrestrained and brutal attacks upon unoffending and defenceless men and women of every class, race and faith on no other grounds than difference of political opinion.” Jewish Shopping Centres. On Sunday, in the Jewish shopping centres in various parts of London notices were placed on shops bearing the words: “German agents cannot be seen.” Posters, inscribed “Boycott German Goods,” were carried by motor-cars and lorries. It is reported that orders valued at thousands of pounds with German firms have been cancelled. Letters wore also sent by Jewish firms to customers asking for their support in the Jewish war against Hitler. Meanwhile, Captain Goering, the Nazi Minister of the Interior, has protested against “the exaggeration and deliberate misrepresentation in foreign newspapers of tho real situation in Germany.” Support was given to his statement, by an announcement of the United States State iDepartment at Washington that the official investigation of conditions in Germany has indicated that: “Whereas there was for a short time considerable physical mistreatment of tho Jews, this phase may be considered to have virtually terminated. ”