"BARBAROUS TERROR"

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1938, Page 3

"BARBAROUS TERROR"

THE JEWISH POGROM

AMERICAN INDIGNATION

American protests against Germany's treatment of Jews are seen here as equalling in intensity, and in some cases exceeding, the feeling engendered in the most pro-Allied quarters during the World War, said a New York message to the "Christian Science Monitor" recently. Again, as in 1914, the cry is being raised that _ civilisation is under attack. National Socialist sympathisers in. Yorkville, chief German centre here, minimise meanwhile the ultimate effect of the obvious alienation of friendship for Germany among a large class of Americans, declaring that there is nothing that can be done about it; v that Germany is master of Europe and may do as it pleases. They cite the Munich accord as proof of this. In "Anglo-French quarters the Roman Catholic and anti-Semitic poli-, cies of the National Socialist Government also is attributed largely to the settlement of the Czechoslovakiaa 7 crisis by Great Britain and France, the thought being that when Chancellor Hitler "got away" with partition of Czechoslovakia, the present, "arrogance" of Germany was something to be expected out of historical precedent. \ Among the high lights of the situation was an announcement by the' Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America in which Herbert Hoover, the Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal New York Diocese; the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick^ Pastor of the Riverside Church; William Green, president of the American Federation of Labour and other internationally known leaders voiced strong protests against persecution of the Jews. Mr. Hoover absolved the German people from the blame, however, and placed it squarely up "to the political agents in power." . "SHAME TO HUMANITY." "Such action as that which is now taking place in Germany is an open defiance of God and a shame to !#.- manity," Bishop Manning declared. "It is ah amazing and shocking thing that in this day in which we are living such crimes can be permitted. They violate every principle, not only of religion, but of common humanity and decency, and will stand condemned by every- reputable Government and by the whole civilised world. . . . Any Government guilty of such acts will fall through its own wickedness." Mr. Green said he was without words to voice his deep sense of horror over the treatment accorded the Jewish people in Germany. The New York Board of Estimate at the request of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia unanimously adopted a strong resolution of censure against what it termed "the barbarous wave of terror unleashed upon the persons of Jewish and Roman (Catholic) faith in Germany." The resolution, which was introduced by Newbold Morris, Councilmanic President, called 'upon President Roosevelt to emulate President Theodore Roosevelt, who protested against the pogroms;in Russia; in 1904 and declare his "condemnation of these -barbarous acts." ■• . ,'"..'■.-.: *