ANTI-SEMITISM

Hokitika Guardian, 29 March 1933, Page 5

ANTI-SEMITISM

GERMAN POLICY

RETALIATION FOR BOYCOTT.

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegi aph—Copyright.;

BERLIN, March 27

The Nazis in launching a ii antiJewish campaign were tacitly- supported by the Government. The Government is furious at “the flood of malicious lies” that is inundating certain countries. '> /1

Special committees will organise boycotts of Jewish firms' as reprisals against the boycott threatened on German goods, .-■•n

The public will demand th at the employment of Jews in Germany shall be confined' in the spheres ofdaw, medicine,' education and the civil service, so that tile numbers-shall he in accordance -with the Jewish quota of Germany’s population which i s one per cent. ' : -' v

Every, anti-German demonstration abroad’ will be countered by an a-nti-Jewish demonstration in Germany.

WIDESPREAD JEWISH PROTEST.

EASTING' AND PRAYER IN tJ.S.A.

*• NEW YORK, March 27

The State Department has made 'an announcement, based on reports from the embassy at Berlin, 1 stating in part that “where there was, for a short time, - considerable physical mistreatment of Jews, this phiibe may be . considered virtually to have terminated.” Despite this ” annouhcemnt, American Jewry has devoted to-day to prayers and: fasting.

To-night, it is estimated, fine million Jews gathered throughout the nation militantly to/protest against' Chancellor -Hitler’s treatment of their 'co-re-ligionists. l, ln most cases, representatives of Christian churches participated. v i

In New York twenty thousand Jews crowded the Madison Square Garden. In other parts thousands of Jews met out of doors.

llbeiy ■ hoard a' series of addresses which were broadcast throughout the nation, and a. 1.50 'internationally. The, speakers, -in addition to the Jewish. leaders, included Mr Alfred '•Smith/ (ex-Gbvernor of\ New York State), alid the Maybr of New York City,. Mr' M. P. O’Brien. Messages of approval "were ra»d from practically every State Governor. The tenor of the speeches - disclaimed any hostility to Germany, but the speakers declared that outrage's against the Jews must cease; ehd -there has been drafted a demand to. that effect for presentation to the ’ German Government through the German Ambassador M. ■ vou .Prittwifcz.

JEWS DISPERSED IN SOFIA

SOFIA,. Mach 27.

Nazis here dispersed a Jewish meeting of protest. They broke the windows of a synagogue-iat .the ; Jewish headquarters. Numerous arrests were, made.