The Bertha Corets Papers

Manuscript Collection No. 307

Box 1

Folder 15

Anti-Nazi Pamphlets

1933 - 1943 THEWQMEN'S DIVIS ION

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NON-S ECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE

WOMEN'S DIV:ISION Cordially invites you to 'attend

NON-S ECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE

165 West St., Ne York. N. Y. 46th w A MEETING MEdallion- :5 2720

important to all .American women

THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1943. AT 8 P.M,

" AT THB COLONIAL ROOM OF THF;

PA RK CE .NTRAL MOT EL 'S��h Street and Seventh Avenue. York , New

."... U!S THE SPEAKERS THE MEE TING

MRS. IRENE HARAND. To mobilize the "woman-power" of America Chairman Women's Division. Non-Sectarian Anti-Na:.;l propaganda and League against isolationist appeasement;

MRS. BE RTHA V. CORETS.

Vice-Chairman Women's Division of the League To formulate ways and means of educating American women how to tight most MISS DOROTHY WARING. eH'ectively the menace of a negotiated Author. and former Investigator for the McCormack. Dickstein Committee "peace" with Hitler;

PROF. JAMES H. SHELDON,

Administrative Chairman of the League To organize the women of America for a post-war world which makes democracy

MR. JULIUS L. GOLDSTEIN, live and work.

Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Lea!.lue

A program of United Nations songs will be sung by BRING YOUR FRIENDS,- NO ADMISSION CHARGE Miss Anita Engel Hausler, prominent opera singer,. accompanied by Mr. Alfred Sendrei. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS JEWISH WAR VETERA NS OF THE U. S � 276 - 5th Ave., New York, N.Y.

N.H.Q. MEMO #15 Nov .. 15, 1�37.

To All Boycott Chair men In The lVfetropoli tanDistrict Dear Comrades: It is imperative that yo u attend a meeting at

National Headquarters, 276 Fifth Ave., on Thursday even ing,

November 18t�, at 8 otclockl for the purpose of organizifib _ a mass protest and bo ycott against any proposed boxing bout in which Max Schmeling will be ono of th e principals.

Looking forward to greeting you, I am

Fratornal�y yours,

EDGAR H. BU RMAN, Chairman Anti-Nazi Boycott 'Committee

EHB/cjs NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE U.S. 276 Fifth Ave.� New York" N.Y.

Memo N.H.Q. #53 March 15, 1938.

IMPORTANT BOYCOTT NOTICE

To all Cor;1rades:

J.W. V. has decided on a' policy of Boycotting "Austrian!l' Merchandise. Hereafter, IINazi goodsll will cover both German and Austrian ..

After the armed invasion and rape of Austria, Americans have no other alternative. vYhile we have no quarrel with ei ther the Austrian or German people, we cannot stand idly by while tho Nazi fanatics who 'now rule bot h th ese co untries, ruin overy vestigo of civilization. The Boycott is the American individual's form of protest.

1Jfuile in control of Austria only 011.0 day, th o Nazi boasts have already started to uso horsewhips on the defenseless Austrians. Expoct atrocitios, persecution and, the prisons and concentration oamps for Jews, Catholics, Labor Unionists, Socialists and former ' office­ holders. Bxpoct dictatorship of pr ess, radio and assombly. Tho first acts have alroady boen takun agai nst Jewish offico-holdors" editors and physicians. The cold pogrom of oconomic oxt0�nination will bo applied to all Austrian Jows. Only, it will bo much cpickOl' in Austria. The Nazis arc more experienced and have bottor machinery to carry ou t their atrocities.

Can tho most optimistic now bolievo that Hitler intends other­ wise than to rulo and ruin the world? Arc there st ill those who aro willing to shako their hoads and say nIt can!t happen hOl'OIl? Hitlorls mothod is NOT by forco of arms, but by !!boring from within!! • That is tho oxplana tion for tho Bund colIs and camps and other pro-Nazi organizations in tho United States. ThatJ and tho destruction of our forts, battleships and our industrial and chemical plants!

Shall we now start to agrcssivoly combat those alion invaders and propogandists? Or sh all we continue our apathy? Tho timo for theorizing and talking is past. The time is horo for roason and action. Lot1s not wasto any more time.

Havo your pos t immodiatoly pass a resolution to tlBoycott all Austrian Goods II • Call in yoUr Boycott COlnmittoe and instruct them to chock over oach shop and factory in your community. Publicizo in your local pross the addition of Austrian goods to your boycot t list� Inform tho Labor Unions and ot her interested organiz ations to join and cooperato wit h you.

Attached is a list of tho loading Austrian imports.

Incidentally, as tho spearhond of Amorican Jewry,-- J�:I.V'$ was . tho f�rst organization to declare for a Boyco tt of Austrian go ods, just as w-e' wora fivo--yoars ago "i'&.r-�Boycott'tli'--eo:rJ:iwn goods i

Yours in comradoship,

National Boycott Committoe EDGAR H. BURMAN I Chairma�

P.S. Thoro will bo 0 vi tal mooting of 011 groater Now York Post Commanders ut National Hoadquart0rs, 'l16 Fifth AvO., Saturday, Murch 19th, ot 2:00 P.M. NATIONAL K::f.D�UART:RS J1�WISH WJ.R VET:�IV.NS OF TH:� U. S. 276 Fifth Avenue, N ow Yo rk, N.Y.

Lemo N. H .. ( .• 3gB

INSTRUCTIONS TO hLL PO"';'l'S i.ND .JfXILIll. HI:JS

Photo offsets should be made of the attached manifest

lis t, and a copy enclos od in every Lieeting not ico to evory . -r,11; ' member of Posts and Auxiliaries. These lists \7ill be furni.h ... ed to you at frequen� intervals. If you know of anyone in

' your community who is doing busines s vrith any of theso concerns,

he or she should be i.nmediately contacted by your boycott chai�an. The cooperation of everyone is necessar y t� the en d that the anti-Nazi Boycott may be made more effective.

If any Pos ts or Auxiliaries are desirous, th ey may insert their ovm names and meeting places at the bottom of the circular.

Copies of the enclosed manifest list can be obtained

(a s is) from National Headqunrters for ;)1 .. 00 per hundred. Send in your order,

N Eiw 1Iists "Iill be published about twice monthly.

N.d.TIONi.L BQYCOi:rr COIn.iITT::� by order' of HAHHY H, SCHf�FF:;R Commander�1n-Chief :::;HB/CJS . . National Boycott COl�11nittee ...... [3 mu•••• UUUII.,I1Jllllnn ..uu un.u�'nlllllllllfllll lluu'.fnnlulfnul nllllulluIIIU.UIU •• U'IIUllllu .. uunnnuuJ.-,·4IUflIUI. ...iH. I ••nn l.tltununnnUIIIUUI UJ . Reports Grea t Activity

DGAR H. BURMAN, Chairman, re­ firm is doing all ill its power to comply with Decrease since 1932-50%. ports that the National Executive Boy­ the purpose of .the b01�ott, to give them a E Decrease since 1929-85%. cott Committee during the past year, con­ grace period during which to comply com­ Imports first quarter of 1937-22 millions. sisted of the follo\ving: Edgar H. Burman, pletely. H1is policy resulted in Butler Bros. Chairman; Mrs. Bertha Corets, Chairlady, and John Wanamaker being removed from Imports first quarter of 1938-14 millions. National Ladies' Auxiliary; J. George Fred­ our Boycott list. Add to this the many "ersatz" (substi- man, Martin Blutman, Sam Manll, Sidney Late in April a National drive was started tutes) products used in Germany, the de­ Bernhard, Frank Bilsky, Leon Rapp, Richard against all the chain store organizations. creasing wages and increased cost of living, Copperman, Allie Bayer, and Mrs. Gertrude Martin Blutman, a member of the com­ and the several recent crashes in the Nazi Cohen. mittee, specialized 011 having importers ship stock market, lead to the obvious conclusion This committee devoted countless hours on other than German boats and diverting that Germany is 011 the brink of an eco­ to the many problems that constantly arose shipments from Nazi boats with favo(able nomic crisis. Much of the· credit for this and as a result of its efforts maintained the success. can be laid at the door of the Boycott. prestige established by J.W.V. sinc� the Late in May, J.W.V. protested to .Con­ The committee recommends that the Boy­ start by us of the Boycott. , gress against passage of Bill HR8099, which cott activities be continued with renewed Appreciation is expressed to the J many contained several objectionable provisions. vigor. Much of the Nazi activity in this Post Commanders, and Auxiliary i Presi­ The bill as passed was more to our liking. dents, and to Post Boycott Chairm/!n and country is subsidized from Germany, through Thousands of boycott stamps, pledge Auxiliary Chairladies who cooperate : whole­ moneys received from American sources, cards, stickers, and lately matches were dis­ heartedly but regJ;.et is expressed th t many and if the boycott could become 100% per­ tributed throughout the country, and releases others did not appreciate the import ce of fect, the Nazis would be compelled to fold mailed at periodic intervals to Posts and the boycott meeting and whose cooperation up within six months. Auxiliaries. Thousands of letters were was at a minimum. The activities of the Committee were con­ mailed to business firms in the interest of The following are only few of the high­ ducted with all too little funds. Receipts a the boycott, and hundreds of personal visits lights of the work of this committee: were $1540.02 and expenses $1583.34. A were made. Mally stores were picketed. On October, 1937, a uniformed Nazi par­ much larger appropriation should be set The Committee succeeded in having Reilly ade was scheduled to march, with flying aside for this committee next year. & Lee Publishing Co., of Chicago, revise swastikas and Horst Wessel songs from the objectionable definition of the word I t is recommended that periodic inspec­ Yorkville, through the streets of Manhat­ tions at least monthly should be made of all "Jew" in its dictionaries, gave information tan, to the New York Hippodrome. Follow­ stores in each community. Reports of ac­ to several newspapers about the Nazi move­ ing protests inaugurated by J.W.V. a flood tivities, problems and "cancer-spots" should ment, and cooperated at Yaphank with of protests swept City Hall resulting in the be submitted to the National Committee at D.A.V. and at other points with veteran parade being confined to a few streets in least once each month. The National Com­ organizations in combatting subv�rsive or- Yorkville.; bamiers and signs were restrict­ . mittee can only suggest and advise, and the ganizations. ed; and consisted of a mere 200 men, women posts must do the actual work. Interchange and children. Muc,'! of the committee work is of a na­ of ideas and information is important to The efforts to have all Boycott organiza­ ture not for publication. A recent editorial efficient operation. With the growth of in the "Hamburger Fremdenblatt" (Ger­ anti-Semitism in U.S.A. and the impregna­ tions ioin their efforts bore fruit on N 0- vember 18; 1937, "when our committee, to­ luany), complaineQ of the wave of anti­ tion of the Bund and Nazi ideas, the Boy­ gether with the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Nazi sentiment sweeping over America. cott is more important today than it was League and the Joint Boycott Council, or­ Statistics recently published show a large five and a half years ago when Hitler came ganized a Joint Committee on Cases. Until reduction ill Nazi exports to America; into power. recently this joint committee continued its activities on a single, unified front. It also resulted in a Joint Boycott List, which has since become more or less official. A movement was renewed to have Ameri­ can manufacturers conspicuously mark their products "Made in the U.S.A." In January of 1938, the Nazi film situa­ tion was investigated. Several film concerns and theatres were placed on the boycott list. On February 18th, investigation of Wim­ melbacher and Rice, New York City .(Wear­ Right Gloves), convinced the committee that this firm should be kept on the boycott list. On February 27th, the committee spon- 50red a boycott rally at Riverside Syna­ gogue, commemorating the fifth anniversary of the boycott. Many similar rallies were held throughout the country. On March 18th, J.W.V. declared a boy­ cott on Austrian merchandise and lead all other organizations in this declaration. On March 25th, after presentation of fig­ ures indicating an intention to discontinue imports of Nazi goods, and a tremendous reduction in Nazi purchases, the Sears Roe­ buck Co. was removed from the boycott list. This established a precedent-where a

for September, 1938 33 NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS JEWISH WAR VETERANS OF THE U. S. 276 Fifth Avenue, New York, N. Y.

NATIONAL PROGRAM Boycott Drive Against 5& IOc. and Chain Stores Beginning the week 'Of MAY 2nd and ending MAY 14th there will be a Nati'Onal boycott drive against 5 and 10 cent and chain stores. fl'his work is to be carried out by visiting the following stores on our boycott list and protesting against their sale of German merchandise: S. S. KRESGE CO. S. H. KRESS & CO. W. T.GRANT F. W. WOOL WORTH MONTGOMERY WARD & CO. BUTLER BROS. (Brands-"Valor," "Lenox" "Snow�. BeiPg," "Juliette") Petiti'Ons will be circulated pledging all signers not to buy in those stores until they are taken off the boycott list. . . Members sh'Ould be advised that in some cities, some of these stores are free from German merchandise but in other sections these same stores are loaded with it. If the st'Ores in your city are Boycott conscious and do not handle Nazi goods, you may omit those stores. It is only by a National Boycott program that we can express ourselv·es properly. Please contact all veteran, fraternal, benevolent, labor and religious organizati'Ons to cooperate with us in this work. Also large commercial organizations. The first step is to 'begin in the Post and Auxiliary and have all members sign a pledge; then carry it outside the organ­ ization to friends and relatives; and after that, to organizations as above. This is a very important undertaking and it will 'be a test 'Of h01W effective our work is. If the stores in your city remain on our Boycott Ust, it will mean that your

USHERS

Troop 1-120 Girl Scouts of America SPONSORED BY

BRONX COUNTY COUNCIL -- 000-- Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.

DISTINGUISHED GUESTS AND PARTICIPATING ORGANIZATIONS and Ladies' Auxiliary

ROSE O·BRIEN .. _.. ._ . ... ,...... _, ..._., ...___ .__ . ....Ladies Auxiliary. United Spanish War Veterans

LEO PBICL_,_... _ .. __ , . __ _ •___ .. ._._.Depl. Commander, Jewish War Veterans of the U,S.A.

ALICE LIPKINS____ ...... _Dept. President. Ladies' Auxiliary. Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A. EVA KRASNOFF_... Bronx County Pres., Ladies' Auxiliary. Jewish War Veterans of the U.S,A. CO-SPONSORS SAUL GOLD_._._.... _ ...___ .... .-.Bronx County Command"r, Jewish War Veterans of the U,S.A.

BERTHA V. CORETS___ ._. ___ .Program Chairman, Past Nat'J Pres., Ladies Auxiliary. J.W.V. THERESA ROLLER...... _ .. ______. ____Co·Chairman. Past Nat'l Pres .• Ladies' Auxiliary. J.W.V. BRONX COMMITTEE JOSEPH B. MURRoAY...... __ . ._ ... .___ .... __ .Bronx County Commander, Veterans of Foreign Wars CATHERINE SELZER.....___ "'.Bronx County Pres., Ladies' Auxiliary, Veterans of Foreians Wars NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF CHlUSTIANS & JEWS OLOF OLSON._.. .._ ...... __ ·_ ...... · .. · ...... _ .. .. _...... _ 7_.. _.. _ ...... · .. Bronx County Commander, American Legion

CLARA S. HEBBST_.. _._...... _. __ .__ .. Bronx County President, Ladies' Auxiliary. American Legion

PETER J. HOPKINS_.• _ ... .__ ....._ ,____ , ___ ..Bronx, County Commander, Catholic War Veterans

_ __ RUTH CONROY. ... __ ...... _..Bronx County President, Ladies' AUxiliary, Catholic War Veterans

ARTHUR BOTTENSTEIN__ .. ______.• ___.. Bronx County· Commander, Army & Navy Union MARY WISH ...___ .. _ .. ___. ..._ .. __ ...____ ,______.. Ladies· Auxiliary, Army & Navy Union ARTHUR A, BARR_...... __ President. Bronx Local School Board and Sci. Bronx Citizens Ass'n

GERARD M, BLOOMFIELD" __._._ •. __.. ,, ______, __, ___ ,,... __ ,, ___ ,_.Execufive Committee, N.C. C.J. UBROTHERHOOD THROUGH MUSIC"

SAMUEL J. BUCHBINDER. __ ..___ , .______.Te aoher.. in-Charge , Eve. Elementary School 82

HYMAN CHIPKIN__ .. ,... __. ______· _ _ Past President, Franklin Lodge. B'nai B'rith rUDGE MARTIN FRANK..... Judge, Municipal Court HERMAN FORSTEB_._Chairman, Bronx Committee, Nat'l Conference of Christians and Jews DR. LOUIS FRANKLIN Co-Chairman. Metro:lflitan Area ADL, B'na; B'rith GEORGE GREGORY, Jr. Director, Forest Neighborhood House in the Auditorium of PUblic School No. 82

MAX GEWIRTZ__ __._ . ._ .. __ ._.....Principal, P. S. 90; Chairman, Morrisania Communitv Council OF AMERICA Troop 1·120 GIRL SCOUTS Macombs Road and University Avenue, Bronx, __ N. Y. ABRAHAM KLEIN__ .___ .. Principal. Jane Addams Eve. Elementary School PHILIP MORSE______._____ . ___Teacher-in·Charge, Eve. Community Center B2 PHILIP MICHAELS__ . ______Vice-Chairman, N.C.C.J.

DIONISIO PARRINO______... _____ .____ ,,_.,_ConsuItant. School Community Relations MORRIS RABIN _. ____• Principal. P. S. S2

SADYE REISS.______Local School Board and So. Bronx Citizens Ass'n Wednesday Evening, February 25th � 8 P.M. Sharp SANDOR SCHWARTz.. _Vice-President, So. Bronx Citizens Ass'n RABBI HENRY A. SCHORR Temple Adath Israel MRS. EUGENE G. SCHULTZ.... Vice-Chairman, N.C.C.r REV. RALPH THORN Minister. Willis Ave. Church DAVID E. TRAUB Executive Director, Bronx Committee, N.C.C.r. DR. FRANK D. WHALEN__ . . _. ... _____ · Asst. Supt .• N. Y. C. Board of Education; Chairman, Schools Committee, N.C.C.T, II. GREEK DANCE GROUP from Jane Addams Vocational High School THIS PROGRAM IS DEDICATED to the development and practice of BROTHERLY ....._ . . _,,__ . __. . Folk Dances-Premier Danseuse,,, .. .. . Jessie Mavridis, Teddy Baktidy UNDERSTANDING, and particularly to the memory of two men whose lives, tho on opposite sides of the world-both tragtcally terminated by violence-gained III. SOLOISTS AND GROUPS from The Morrisania Youth Council immortality thru their pursuit of Social and Political Unity, Equality and Brotherly

..- ..- .. " ...... ,...... _...... _, . __ .... ._ .... --... _ ...... _.. .. . My Hero - .. .. _...... Love. a. --._ . Oscar Strauss Eileen Gilbert, Soprano .. ABRAHAM UNCOLN - As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master...... _ .. ..,,_ ...... ___ ... ,,_,, __.. _ H b. Invitation to the Dance ...... Von Weber This expresses my idea of democracy-Whatever differs from this to the extent Mary & Elisa Racelis of the difference is no democracy." ... .-._ ...... -...... , ..... , .., .... _ ... ._. . _... ._..... - ...... _...... _ . . . . . - .. c. Adoration _. - - . . " , , _ Felix Borowsky MOHANDIS K. GANDHI-He preached and carried out "Ahimsa," Unity and Albert Gilbert, Violinist Iris Gilbert, Accompanist Understanding thru non-violence and the charity to forgive.

. _ ...... _...... _ _...... , ...... , .. , ...... -..- ...... _ .__ ... d. Warsaw Concerto . . . . . _ ...... _ Richard Adinsell The essence of the teachings of these great men leads us back to the biblical Les Emanones Trio commandment- Victor Clark, Bass Violin George Reed, Guitar "Thou shalt Love thy Neighbor as Thyself."-Leviticus Charles Henderson, Piano

_ ...... , ... -...... -.. -.,,__ ...... _...... _ .. ,., ...... " ...... , ...... -_ . . ._._ . _...... ,., ey ak To ignore it leads to dismal failure and catastrophic wars; to embrace it encour­ e. Morning ...... Ol Spe s Victor Clark, Tenor ages the fulfillment of the noblest ideals. Charles Henderson, Accompanist

-.-_ ...--- ...... _...... _.,_ .. _ ...... --.., ...... _.... BERTHA V. CORETS, f. Fantasia -- ...... ,. .. . . _ . ... . Mendelsohn Program Chairman. Muriel Rudinsky Advisor, Ruth A. Wells

-'-' 000 -_- IV. WORLD FRIENDSHIP GiRL of the United Sons and Daughters of All Nations

__ . ._._ .._ _ ...... _.. ... _._...... -...... -...... _ .. _.. __ . __ a. Homing_...... Therese Dei Riego PROGRAM ._.-_.--._ . -.- ..... " .. ,... ,...... _ .. . _.. , ...... _ . ,._ ...... _ ... ___ .. ... _.. .. _.. .. _._ .. . _... h. II Bacio ...... "., ...... _...... Arditi Doris Thorn, Soprano

___ ._."'_.. _ ..._. __ ._.__ ___ .__ . __."_,,._. _____ .. ___ . _ . WELCOME .. .� . . .. .EVA KRASNOFF Bronx County Pres., Ladies' Aux., J.W.V. V. MODERN DANCE CLUB Forest Neighborhood House MIRIAM F. BRUNNER, Music Director

.. __. . . _._. ______. . _. __ .______PRESENTATION OF COLORS ...... SAUL GOLD

... ._ ..... _ ...... _ . _ . . _...... _ ...... Bronx County Commander, Jewish War Veteran cr. "Contrast"._...... " ...... danced to music of Jealousy � Of. the U.S.A. A dance in twe! parts showing contrast in movement qualities. The first \ section jerky, 'strong movements against the flowing movements of the NAtIONAL ANTHEM second section,

...... __ . _...... _._ ....._ ...... _...... b. Flirtation.._ ...... daneed to the music of Rook . OO.. Bay ___ ,______RABBI HENRY A. INVOCATION . .. SCHORR A Calypso Dance Temple Adath Israel DORIS EBENER, Dance Director

..- .... ---.-...-.-.-_----_ _ .. INTR�UCTIONS.....:... .-_-_.::.:...-.-....: , BERTHA V. CORETS VI. TENOR DUETS Melrose House

.. .. ,...... _ .. ... _._...... , ...... , ...... , ...... _ . _... _.,_ ...... _ . _._ ..�_ . _ ... DR. �NK D. WHALER _____ ASST. SUPT. N. Y. C ARD OF EDUCATION a. Preciosa ...... Hernandez : � ... . .,_ ...... _ .. .. . _ . .. _...... __ ...... ' .. _ . _...... '_ ...... __. _ . . . ,_. . _"___ . , Anoranzas ...... ' ...... � .. ' ...... ) b. . : I. The Chorus of the N. Y. Institute for the Education of the Blind Fonfrias - Angel Fonfrias, Director Guilo Sanchez, Accompanist a. The Lord is My Shepherd.______.. ._.__ .schubert

"_ .. ______� del b. Let Their yelestial Co�certs Unite -::- � . VII. A YS CHORUS Educational Alliance a FO,iKW nO", g a.91m in :Gilea�,---_--_----.;.:....- Negre, -spmtu l }l'Iiereli�, _, .. . _._ .. _._ ..... _ ...... _ ... .-.. "... ".__ ....._ ... ""." ...... _ ... _.. Freedom ...... " .. _White Spiritual "'l "�.) . , ·cr.·· Ob . . . . (Arr . by W. L. Dawson) ...... - B Soprano Soloist, Anna Mae Smart ..-·- · .. -· .. ·- · ·-- ..-·· .. --···-....······· p��j';�·t;�i;;;·; . b���f·�;:;:··Ci:;·;;;;;id·i�· � ··12. Nigun· -- 4� ! 0', Horas d. Holiday Song______...... _. .__ ._ William Schuman Two RICHARD NEUMANN, Music Director BASSETT W. HOUGH, Director of Music llOW!'8CTARIAN AllTI-DZI I.;mA.GU11 To Ohampion Suman Rights, Inc. Samuel Untermyer, President 20 West 47th street, New York City Medallion 3-2720

Q U ESTIONN AIR E

be you. taking any specific steps at the present time in boycotting Nazi-German goods and services?

Are you planning to take ;.my such steps, a.nd what are they?

Do you want us to assign yo� specific cases along such lines?

Have you any facilities for investigating?

Do you want us to supply you regularly with boycott information?

Are you receiving our Monthly Bulletin and other literatur� re� larly and posting it conspicususly or distributing it to your members!

Do you know of any cases which violate the marking laws? (INVESTI GATE THOROUGHL�,>

Do you know of any boycott violator? (INVESTIGATE THOROUGHLyt)

Are you setting apart a certain amount of time at every meet­ i�g for discussion on boycott, etc?

PLE.ASE FILL OUT THIS QUESTIONNAIRE .A'1 TEE EARLIEST OPPORTUNITY AND RETURN TO THIS OF­ FICE. WE .ASSURE YOU OF OUR FULtmST COO�PIm- JillION AT ..u:.L TIMESt

Ver �!JrulZy � c: _ , ? "vt!S . 'z.,� ·'Dr. Boris E.-d lTelson .; Jxecut ive Secretary ,(./ CHRISTIAN PLEDGE TO BOYCOTT NAZI GERMAN

Inasmuch as the Nazi persecution of Jews and Christians violates and threatens eve principle which as Americans and Christians w.e hold most dear, we feel we must prote not only by word but by deed.

We therefore pledge ourselves to do nothing, either directly or indirectly, which can a the German Government as long as it mainta�s three principles which lie at the very he�

;'\. of Nazi doctrine: First, violation of religious freedom; second, racial persecution; thll glorification of war and inculcation of race hatred into the minds of little children.

As long as these doctrines prevail, we pledge ourselves not to travel on German shiJ knowingly buy German goods or set foot on the territory of the Third Reich.

We pledge this not in hatred of the Getman people, but hecause since we are n allowed to communicate with them by word, we can only open their eyes by letting 0' actions speak for us.

Signatures:

About half of every dollar spent for German goods or services goes to the Nazi Government. Of what avail is it to protest if we help to finance what we protest against?

Volunteer Christian Committee to Boycott Nazi German

Henry Noble MacCracken Frank P. Walsh Oliver LaFarge Arthur Judson Brown George Gordon Battle Reinhold Niebuhr Mary E. Woolley Frank P. Graham G. Ashton Oldham Guy Emory Shipler Paul H. Douglas Nelson P. Mead Dr. Haven Emerson Mrs. James Lees Laidlaw Ralph Barton Perry Chauncey Stillman Wm. Jay Schieffelin, Chairman Christopher Emmet, Secretary

AMONG THE OTHER SIGNERS Gertrude Atherton Allen Heeley Rex Beach Frederjck B. Howden Ralph Borsodi Mrs. H. V. Kaltenborn James M. Byrne Joanna M. Lindloff Vida D. Scudder Theodore Marburg Natalie 'Sedgwick Colby Wesley C. Mitchell. George S. Counts Edward Smith Parsons Paul de Schweinitz Margaret Chanler

Emergenci�1> may arise so we have agreed that the pledge may he waived in exceptional cases such as visiting a 5i relation in G�rmany, using a German medicine or going to Germany on behaH of some organization in the course duty. The conscience of the signer must he the judge. We renounce all coercion in carrying out the boycott or criticil of German.Americans who refuse 1;0 sign. We sympathize with them in their dilemma.

Those signing the pledge are asked to mail it to the V olunteer Christian Committ. to Boycott Nazi Germany, 620 Park Avenue, New York City. If they desire they m� enclose one dollar for printing. «« AMERICANS! Hitler's agents are disseminating the poiso ous virus of race- hatred and religious oppression in our country. Re cently 4 its fifth annual convention, the German-American Bund, officialNazi orgar zation in the United States, issued a statement declaring that "our battle the battle of all the hundred million Aryan (white gentile) citizens of the� United States'" and that this battle "will be won." Lovers of Americc democratic traditions must see to it that this will never happen here.

RE E MEN! Do you want to become the victims of Nazi propaganda? Shall Jews, Cath­ F olics, and Protestants, hecause of their religious faith, be persecuted as they are in Germany? Shall our religious leaders be imprisoned as were Niemuller and numerous other priests in Germany because they refuse to give up their faith and to subordinate religion to the State?

Do you want to be slaves of a system of forced labor at coolie wages? Do -WORKE RS! you want a government which forbids wage-increase and persecutes em­ ployers who raise wages?

Do you know that because of these inhuman long hours, low wages, high prices, and lack of proper food (because guns are more important than butter in the Nazi Paradise) sickness has increased 3040% among workers and their families as compared with the worst depression years. That under Hitler's war prosperity the death-rate is higher than it was in 1932, when there were millions of unemployed? Do you know that under Hitler's "recovery" the consumption of meat, eggs, CONSUMERS! and fats, per capita, was lower in 1936 than in 1932-during the worst un­ employment and depression period? Do you want such Nazi "achievemehts" for your families and children? Do you want food-substitutes and breadlines?

I Do you know that women in Germany today have no voice in the com­ W 0 MEN . munity, and that ''woman is man's servant", according to the Nazi slogan. German women who under 'the Republic occupied prominent positions in public life and in business have been degraded to subordinate work and are getting only about half the wages which their male colleagues receive. The hard.working, humiliated, undernourished female workers are also compelled to bring more and more children into the world as cannon-fodder for Hitler's war program. Do you want your young boys and girls to be educated for war in our MO TH ERS! schools, as they are in Germany? Do you know that boys and girls of 10 years of age are compelled to join the military camps of Hitler's youth army?

Do you want your government to tax away 42% of the national income as TAXPAYERS! Hitler does?

We all want our workers to have a decent standard of living and good food; AMERI CANS! we want our women to participate as equal citizens in promoting the wel­ fare of our nation. We do not,want war, we want peace! We therefore fight Nazism and all its un-American and militaristic activities. Our mishtiest weapon against Nazism is the Boycott of Nazi soods and services. Refuse to buy goods made in Nazi Germany because by SivinS Hitler money you are helpins to plunse the' entire world into war and destruction. Hitler is a menace to peace and to the mainstay of civilization. Boycott is the answer o outraged humanity against the menace of Hitlerism. �,

FOR HUMANITY·S SAKE. FOR THE SAKE OF WORLD PEACE- Boycott Nazi "Germany!

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NAZI CAMPAIGN STREICHER ADVISES FOREIGNERS ON JEW�

IS PROTESTED Tells Group at Nuremberg tlte Way to Solve 'Problem' Is to BY CARDINAL Exterminate Them.

• Wlreltss to Tlt£ N&W' YORK TWlEs • Declares "Enemy is AI. NUREMBERG, Germany, Sept. ready Within Our 15.-Julius Streicher a.gain em· ployed the opportunity provided by Walls" a. Nazi party congress to fUrther his plans for an international, not sim­ ISSUES PASTORAL ply' a German, campaign against Jews. A considerable representation of Five Bishops Condemn anti-Semitic foreigners were among' Onslaught Against guests ot Mr. Streicher at a. elosed HON. WINSTON CHURCHILL meeting at the Wittelsbacher Hotel Christianity Saturday evening. A number of Eminent British Statesman these guests were writeTs for small [Special Correspondence. N.C.W.C.l weekly anti·Semitic papers not only Europe but Amerlca.--- Amsterdam, March 24.-"The "When know that Ger­ In I They heard Mr. Streicher's. ver­ enemy is already within out· walls:' many is spending much sion of what he really means by His Eminence 1I1ichael Cardinal ' ".solving the Jewish problem"-a Faulhaber, Archbishop of Municjl, more than in $4.000.000.000 version that Is not vouchsafed to Bald ill a. powerful and courageoUs war-like preparations in the the general public. The Nuremberg pastoral read from all the pulpHs high priest of anti·Semltism is re­ of-- his diocese 011 the occasion of course of a single year. that ported by pe so present to have his Episcoplll Silver Jubilee. r ns "Woe to the people who do not she is ruining her finances announced that in the last analysis listen to the Gospel," said this Ger· extermination is the only real solu­ man Prince of the Church who hu and depriving the German tion of the Jewish problem. become the outstanding antagonist people of pork. butter and Mr. Streicher made it clear in hi. of the pagan Nazi regime. Refutirlg address that he was not discussIng the allegation that h Church t e ]5 other foodstuHs in order to the question In regard to Germany mixing with politicS, Cardinal FaUl· alone, but was offering suggestions haber strongly- maintains that it is turn the whole nation into for tP.1I solution, of a. "world prob· a Bishop's duty to take a stand against erroneous teachings con­ the most prodigious and lem." He declar ed lhere were some trary to the Christian faith. Who believed the Jewish question terrible fighting engin� the could be solved "without blood." "Truly Destructive Fight" world has ever seen. can­ but he expressed it as his opinion No less vigorously :five other Ger· I that they were seriously mistaken. man Bishops condemned the on· not help asking. "For what He assel.'ted that if a final solution slaught of Nazi radicals against tile was to be reached "one must go the Chul'ch� Most outspoken was tlH" is this terrible preparation bloody path." Bishop of Bamberg who said in' his Such measureS would be justified, Lenten Pastoral that "a truly de­ made and what awful Mr. Streicher ijeciared. "because strucliye :fight is now being carried the Jews always atta.ined their ends on against our holy Christian event hangs over the future tbrough wl101esale murder and have faith." been responsible for wars and mas, of Europe?" sacres." - "To secure the safety of the whole world they must be exter­ -From the "Providence Visitor" mlnated, II .he s"aid.

-From the "New York Time

" ••• The CivUized world took a strong stand against the Turks because

of their massacres of the Bulgarians at one time ••• Think(Jf our indignation at the concentration camps of Cuba, which led eventually to the freeing of that lovely island from the yoke oj Spain. With horror we read of the expul­ sion of the Jews from Spain, and now that the world is bound in smaller compass by radio, airplane, express steamers, by constant congresses of

religions and commerce, we have all of us a right to criticize, to boycott a nation which reverts to the horrible persecutions of the Dark Ages. We have a right to form a blockade of public opinion about this misguided country. It is with sadness, tinged with fear for the world's juture� that we read Hitler's hymn of hate against that race which has added so many names to the roll oj the great in science, in medicine, in surgery, in music and the arts,

in literature and all uplifting human endeavor •••" HON. JAMES W. GERARD Former U. S. Ambassador to Germany "The main object of civil. "German Youth will be ization just now should be, infected with the poison of not to build up the Hider Nazi race-theory, disciplined regime, but to destroy it, so by the Nazi tyranny and far as that is possible within menwUy crippled by Nazi the rule8 of international 'education' - ready to be law; and the woy to break driven by his rulers to the that power peacefully is shambles. In common hu· through economic sanctions, manity, we, who are free, of which tlw boycott is the must help to release our fel. most powerful." low-hu from their sla· very. The Nazi regime must SAMUEL UNTERMYER mans go!" Pm&ldent, World No,.,.,soctario.n. .A.nti.Nru.' Council to Chumpion SIR WALTER CITRINE Human Right. CeJlend SflCreta,.,- 0/ the Britbh Trade Vnion Congress

n this hour of need when all humanity is people. The·' country is flooded with millions of threatened!I by the same fate which has over­ dollars worth of Nazi and Anti-Semitic propa­ ganda. Many notorious and reactionaryorgani. takenthe people of G�nn!Iny the No:g,�S!tctariatl, . Anti-Nazi Leaque to Champion Human Bights iationsliaveoeen formedfhrough NazriiiUuence­ appeals to you for support. and financial support for the express purpose ot Let us not forgEdthat in Germany a heartless undermining our democracy, our free institutions reactionary government is rearming itself to the and replacing them with a dictatorship of the teeth, is inculcating its people witha philosophy Nazi type. of hate, is imbuing its youth with the glories of It is your duty to act now. militarism and war. If you cherish peace. if you We most urgently call upon you to come to the cherish humanity, if you are concerned about support of the Non·Sectarian Anti-Nazi League liberty and democracy, then you will recognize to Champion Human Bights which is in the fore· the impending danger coming from Nazi Ger­ front of the Fight against Nazism. the threat of a bloody, ghastly destructive many, If Nazism prevails civiliz ation is world war. doome�. No other interpretation can be given to the Nazi Party conference held in Nuremberg. Its Money is needed and needed at once to sus­ military display of a rearmed Germany, its anti­ tain the important activities of the League. We Semitic proclamations, the Jew·baiting speeches look forward to your generous financial support. of the Nazi leaders from Hitler down, its attacks If you have supported the Leaque in the past, upon the Catholic and Protestant Churches, its please do so again, and, if possible, increase glorification of militarism, its demand for vast your contribution. Ifyou have not supported our territories in Europe, Asia and Africa are proof Leaque before, please do so now wholeheartedly that Germany is ready to plunge the whole and with a generous hand. world into war. Enlist in the great crusade for Humanity by t s.en i�Cl!J:l�()�r ce>.�tril:)Ution o!lce.! . .We must arouse he.ciYlliz.edpeople_ c! . � of the world against.. Hitler's attem pt to In the name of the American traditions of drown the world in blood. Freedom and Justice I appeal to you: 10inwith The Nazis are not satisfied with what they us and let us together end theNazi dic­ have done to Germany. They are actively tatorship, restore Human Rights, prevent spreading their propaganda in all countries. war and preserve Peace. including our own, the United States. The dan­ President ger cannotbe underestimated. Their agents are SAMUEL UNTERMYER, everywhere working day and night in an at­ NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE tempt to poison the minds of the American TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS.

The undersigned hereby contributes $...... to the HUMANITY APPEALS TO YOU Humanity Appeal of the Non-Sectarian...... Anti-Nazi...... League..... to Champion Human Rights, Inc 20 W. 47th St.. New York, N. Y. IN THIS HOUR OF NEED! and joins with you in the cause.. of outraged humanity against. Hitlerism and for the preservation of human rights.

Name...... tlcL nom! Address...... City...... 810Ie ...... IlIdivlduals...... alld. orgaidzatloll$...... contributing.... . will. please 1111 Ollt this bionic Send in Your Contribution at Once! and mall together with contr/blltloll III the enc/osed addressed envelope. ;m§�I!Jimi�,�I.j;ji�'.i!(.itJi.ii1ii§�&tbi;(;j!'i4!i':iA=IL41 The League - What It Is and What It Does

What Is The Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League To Champion Human Rights? Our League is the American branch of the World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights. The World Council, of which Samuel Untennyer is the presi­ dent, was organized at a conference held in London in the year 1934. The World Non­ Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council has twenty-four branches in the following countries:- ARGENTINE DENMARx HOLLAND NORWAY SWITZERLAND CZECHOSLOVAKIA BELGIUM EGYPT LATVIA PALESTINE URUGUAY GREAT BRITAIN BRAZIL FINLAND LUXEMBOURG ROUMANIA VENEZUELA SOUTH AFRICA CANADA FRANCE MOROCCO SPAIN YUGO-SLAVIA UNITED STATES

Why Was Our League Organized? tions, labor orqanizations, clubs and individuals in the fiqht aqainst Nazism. Because Nazi Germany represents the biqqest threat to Our Leaque's Leqal Department keeps a close watch civilization and the peace of the world. !rill .... on the Nazi qovemment's fraudulent attempts to con­ ceal theoriqin of German-made qoods from the Ameri­ Why Is Our League a' Non-Sectarian can consumers. Our Leqal Department also seeks to Organization? stop the illeqal activities of the Nazi qovemment and its aqents inour country who, accordinq to the reliable Because we recognize that the fiqht on behalf of liberty, authority of the McCormack Committee, have already democracy and human riqhts, is' the fiqht of all cham­ spent over $30,000,000 in our country for their poison­ pions of liberty, reqardless of nationality, race or creed. ous propaqanda and subversive activities. Only throuqh such united action can the despotic Nazi CJI Our Leaque seeks to put an end to the dumpinq of reqime destroyed. be .. German-made qoods by the Nazis .into the American market at such low prices as to mcIke it impossible for What Does Our League Do to the American manufacturer to compete with the Ger­ man product, thus protectinq the American manufac­ Fight Nazism? turer from unfair competition and at the same time protectinq the livelihood of American labor. Our Leaque uses the weapon of the bo�cott of Ger­ man qoods and services as the one peaceful weapon � Our Leaque upholds the American institutions of at the disposal of the people of the civilized countries l1li democracy, freedom of reliqious worship and liberty. D in their fiqht to brinq about a chanqe in Germany. � The Women's division of our Leaque seeks to en- Our Leaque believes that throuqh the boycott, the liqhten the women of America with the true facts German people can be freed from Hitler's tyrannic m. about the degradation of women in Nazi Germany rule and Nazism destroyed. and to organize them in the fight against Nazi barbar­ m Our Leaque counteracts Nazi propaqanda in this ism and for the active prosecution of the consumers' ..... country throuqh the press, radio, movies, the publica­ boycott of German goods andservices. tion of a monthly maqazine, books, pamphlets, litera­ Our Leaque's special trade and professional qroups ture, conferences, lectures, etc. I'fi1 ...wI carry on special boycott activities against the Nazi n Our Leaque's Research Department furnishes manu­ reqime in their respective professions and industries. III facturers, merchants, importers and consumers with Our Leaque maintains investigators, speakers, or­ up-to-the-minute information on how German-made ganizers and publicity men for the purpose of extend­ qoods maybe substituted by qoods mCtde in the United ID States or in some. other country. ing the Leaque's organization and intensifying its Anti-Nazi and boycott activities. Our Leaque cooperates with and maintains local or­ � Our Leaque maintaUis international relations with all qanizations in the United States for the purpose of rm II branches of the World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Coun­ eHectively prosecutinq a nation-wide fiqht aqainst 1m Nazi Germany. cil and with all Anti-Nazi qroups in other countries for the purpose of co-ordinating the movement for the a Our Leaque enlists reliqious qroups, fraternal orqani­ overthrow' of Nazism and for the buDding up of a U zations, professional qroups, business-men's orqaniza- world-wid� sentiment aqainst the Nazi reqime.

NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS, ' Inc. 20 WF.ST 47th STREET SAMUEL UNTERMYER. President NEW YORK. N. Y. �Z04 BOYCOTT NAZI GERMANY DON'T BUY GERMAN GOODS DON'T USE GERMAN SERVICES DON'T MAIL SHIP OR TRAVEL ON GERMAN VESSELS non-Sectarian .-4nti- nd;i J!eague N1 WS TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS, Inc .

.....24. J'r ofld the 165 WEST 4'6th STREET, NEW YORK • MEdallion 3.2720

For Immedj,ate Release

200 NEW YORK ORGANI ZATIONS JOIN BOYCOTT AGAINST NEW YOBK n.�:::LY NEilS \ The Board of Directors of the No n--Sectarian Ant i-Nazi Leaglle annou nced, '\ this morning, that at a "c10 sed 0.001"11 conf erence of more that 200 rep\sentatives "

of different civic, labor, fraternal and religious organi zations� held � the \ As tor Hotel thi s week0 a united program for contin\ling and enlarging the �¥c ott

against the lilew York DAILY NEWS had been developeo.o The confer enc e w ..�, s ar z\\:d by the :[Jeag:u.e's Nett X€)li'k Pitw €l.ommi tteeJ :representing groups affiliated with '\�'

Mr. Schif:dn" League, and chaired by Loui s \

Each organi zation was represented �y one or more officially-elec ted

delegates, and at the conclusion of the conference a resolution was unanimously

adop ted supporting the continuation and intensification of the boycott program,

and listing the following Ifgrievances" against the New York DAILY NEWS , CHIOAGO

TRIBUNE �nd Washington TIMES-HER�D�

"l. Support of lappeasement l polici es, including :repa�t ed hints at the

prospect, of an early lnego tiatedl peace wi th our enemies�

" 2. Disc rediting of the American government and our war leaders .. '

"3 . Oonfusing the public as to war aims ---c ea1ling this just one of a long

series ot Vl arS, and di Bcredi ti ng the At1an tic Gh arter�

114. Oonfusing the public as to the C8It1rses of the war . (The following have

been mentioned as causes: The Pr esident, th e New Deal, the :Brain Trust, the

British, the Russians and the Je�i sh avengers.)

11 5. Up holding or defending of appeasers, pro-fascists and pro-nalilist and.

pro-appeasement , pro-fascist and pro-nazi organ zati ons (such as Charles A. MRS . Dilling, Lindbergh" '�f Hamilton :Bt sh, Jr�, and the America Fi rst

..-" ·>'� �'-'�·- .-" ,--'-. "'-Gom!n1'�r

"6. Repeated attemp ts at smearing the United Nations and confusing the

public as to the i� tity of our real enemies, especially by attacking the aims

of Britain, Rus sia, etc.

1f7 . Confusing the public as to proper conduc t of the war and cri tical

wa� theatr'es (insisting that '7 6 liQk Japan firstl constant harpi ng at all war

measures taken in Washington, etc) . lIS • . Seeking vindication in the elec tion of pro-fasci st or pro-appeaser

ca.ndi aate s.lI

In a joint statement announcing the results of the conference cf organiza-

tions, Prof. Jame s H. Sheldon 0 admini s trative chairmang Mr. Rerman Hoffman ,

chairman of the board of director s, and Mr. Jul ius L. Goldstein. chai rman of the

executive coromittee of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi declar'\,d that the boy� had influ.enc e cott had already � an impor tant j�Ji: fun the NEI'lS circula tion in �any port ions , of the Oi ty, and made it n�cessary for the NEWS to resort tg ��tE��

��� counter-m easur es V including expensive advertiaingo

Characterizirg th e boycott of such publicationsas the NEWS as Ufirfuly

ro"Oted in American patriotic tradi tions" , the statement declared:

liThe American War of independence sta.rted ;7 i th a boycott up on goods impoi,ted

into th is country and forced up on the American public under insufferable co nditio�

Our an cestors responded qui ckly. The policy of refUsing to buy or to supp o�t with our patronage any group whi ch is contrary to the interests of the people �

that is to say , the policy of th e. popular boycott as a weapon against tyranrr.r�M is as old as the Boston Tea Part yo

II If we are to boycott a humb le storekeeper for salling Nazi goods, how much more important is it that we boycott powerful publi shing interests wh o would di str ibute pro-appeasement ideas on our street cornersl ll

Patriotic Americans are offered no choice but to stri�, and str�e agai n and again at aIV insti tuti on whi ch would divide us in our war effort.

Regretti ng the fact that some people seem dispOsed to let th ei r interest

in extraneous featur es, such as the comic pages. OVercome their feelings with regard to the pro-npp easement polici es of these papers, the stat ement said:

!IGran ted that the comic strips in the DAILY NEWS are good. We urge patrio­

tic Amer icans to consider whether tTerry' of 'Terry and the Pirates!, or tDick

Tracy l, would support a paper advocating the policies of th e DAILY NEWS . II

In a communication to the delegates at the League 1s conference, Frank R.

Crosswaith, Chairman of th e Negro Lab or Oommi ttee, said:

!IEnlightened Negro lab or stands solidly behind you in your opposition to

Nazi sm both abroad and at home. We must equip ourselves to slay tha t dragon wh erever and wh enever it rai ses its head so that Jews and Gentiles, black and

whi te , Dk� y uni t? for progr ess in eventual emancipation from the ev ils that now haunt ou:r world. II

Dr. -I . Stolper, of Bro oklyn, delegate from the Kings County Dental Soci ety,

an organization of ov er 1000 dentists, saidl

-more- -s-.

"I have a son who is a lieutenant and a son-in-law who is a captain, and

I do no t want enemy- bullets to ld.U rrry childern, e1 ther in the fi eld of battle or

in the gui se of destroying our unity here at homeo II

The P laski Soci ety� leading Polish organi �ation in the Uni ted States, in u

its sending a delegate to the conference� annou!p ed support of the boycott ani

said�

liThe anti-American pol�.cy of this newspaper is damaging au,,:, morale and

should be checked before it can do any real damage( It

Speakers from a numb er of societies repTesenting special rac ia19 language and labor groups were al so heardc

Many of the delegates urged that Ne� Yorkers would dp well to take up these issues wi th merchants and others ',ho ad.vertise in the NEWS 0 THE BOYCOTT IS THE MORAL SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR

NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE TO CHAMPION . HUMAN RIG HTS, Inc.

729 SEVENTH AVENUE NEW YORK MEDALLION 8-2720

replying refer to Ojfic.e1'$ In Res e Z:Ch ar en SAMUEL UNTERMYER a DeE tpt, t.,� President .Mar cp. 18 t 1935. OR. AB BA tiU.. L.EL SILVER VleIl-PRESiDEN.T Deal' Madam: . HON • .JAMES W. GERARD V1CE-P R£8rDENT

HON. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA YIC£-PRE8IDJ::Nl' lAST¥AN,aDAK co : They advertise widely and sell the fo 1- HON. ARTHUR S. TO ....PKINS VICE-PRESID ENT J9 DAVIO STERN TREASURER

Louis MYERS ACTiNG TREASUfUCR

G. E. HARRIMAN KXttCUTIVe! 8£efUITAftY J ;;:��·��;f:�i�����e:�;���:· CHARLES A. KLEIN. C.P.A. AUDITOR able for, your member s to \gi\"6 'this 1nform9.tion to as many • drugg ists as �hey can po �sj.b ly , rea.ch.. A copy 0 f the 11 st is MRS. MARK HARRIS enclos-ed. . AcTING CHA.IRMAN nBCUTlVX COMMITTE. • El3L . W CO.'.·IHC 'We have investigated tl1:ta brew- t�� !p ��� Board of Directors Fng eompanY ,an.d bave a stat ement from them to the affect SAMUltL UNTERMYER tha� they a.re ne t, using any �ngredients in their beer. CHAIRMAN Ge�n�

GEORGE GORDON BATTLE HOIII. RICHARD BEAMISH REs �he fol+owing tr s Stores have been re­ oJ. STRAUSS sro i s m s HON. JAMES M. BECK orted to us by a man of the l;i,ne 'to be carrying German ABRAHAM CAHAN p mer d:t,9.nd.i:Se'� .�is �f.rm ·denies the tru h e DR. A. CO RALN IK : th of t es report lt JACOB DIl HAAS However , our informer 'insists that they ar& carrying Q-e�­ DR. BEN.JAMIN DUaOVSKY check up on that statement HON. M� MALDWtN FERT!G man ' go ods, May :1 a.sK you to JACOB F'SHMA� throUgh' your members located · in the vi cinities of the dif­ DR. HARRY LEE FRANKLIN fere�:t bl'a.Ilcii stores? .•L GEORGE' P"REOMAN � ALi.. 1E s. FREED HON. JAMES W. GJ:: RARO N.W. Corner l71 st st. & st .Nicholas �ve. ,New Yor MRS. MARK HARRIS k IX SIEGFRIED F. HARTMAN l45 'i3ecom'1 Avenue , New Yo rk,NY REV. JOHN HAYNES HOLMES 110th st.. & eth ,New York tHY R EV. EDWARD L. HUNT Ave. E. N. KLEINBAUM 2408 Grahd ConcoUrse, :Bronx, N .Y� kOUIS MYERS 1049 11l.'l63:rd st . ,Bronx,:N.Y.. HON. LEOPOLD PRINCE. • EZEKIEl.. RABINOWITZ 544 lo rd.ll.am ·Road" ':Bronx, N, Y OR. ABBA HU.. LEt.. SILVER 1426 Bedfor� Avenue, �re oklyn,NY. J. DAVID STER'" '6720 Fifth I-venue', :arbo�lyn ;Nt � ·· , , . . HON.. ARTHUR S. TOMPKI"IS OSWALD "ARRISON VILLARD 938 lings Ki ghway , Brooklyn ,N. Y. FRANK P. WAI.SH 549 AtlantiC Avenue , New York,NY� (SOARD IN ..ORMATION) 574 �o'[email protected],d:�vlii l1\Ji3" �ropltlyn ,NY 1161 Flatbii.hAve ' . �:arookl�,NY ' :Bay 20th St,.; & 86th. st,, ')'13�.b oklyn ,NY 146th st:. & Hillsidlt.Ave .. )Jamaica.,L. I. 28-21A Ste'i.nway ' .AvenUe �A$toria,L .1/.. 96th St. & Liberty Ave. ;' bz6ne Park,L. I. . 186 �rtine Ave. ,Vinlte Plains ,N. Y. , ��. V ru:ly �outl,

-J' • "'- s.. eller " "'Resear�;�tf ' " !' • • ' ,: " ".��'i� . . NAZI GERMANY IS THE ENEMY OF CIYlLIzATldN REFUSE TO TRADE WIT" 'DIE 'ENEMY 1 would fFtJfttl, ap'{1t'e.eiat& it '1f you ccul'd send to me the. ... llaeklitJt c� W�_..tean.·eompt' :d.e. and 11ld'ifi(,bu!.16 that te a ""*_.!1t to the bCcck of Sept .. 251r· ') NATIONAL LADIES I AUX ILIARY JElfHSH WAR VETERJI.N S OF THE UNI'l'ED STATES 27 6 Io' ifth AV O., N ew York, N.Y .

This sp eech vm s r.wd o at one of our Al:1orican i su Bo otings , and is being passed on to tho Auxi li aries with the idea t�t it nay be of sone ossistanco to ther.l for sirli lar eccasions .

Americnns are takinG a greater Sad as aro tho pors ,) cut ion of tho int erest in the werking ef our .l:'r otos tun ts in Gorr:1any , tho lo ssos govorm:lOnts tbD n ovor _ bofor e. The to tho Catho lic Church, tho viola­ economi c dopr.)ssion of tho last 8 tion of their Concorctant, the un­ yoars , tho inability to secure spoaknblo trials and slurs aGainst work by young nnd old aliko, the their clergy 1 nost trngic nre th e .skilled and un ski llod, no do then pors e cutions of th e JOV/S . 10Qk to the go vernment to prot ect thoir interests . 1>. ra ce known in ovor-.f countr y who ro they reside, fo r their indus try, Fortuna te oro we to ha ve a govern­ sobriety, intulloc tual contribu­ r.lOnt of the people, by the people, tions , and loyulty . and for th o pe op le, where gr ievanc­ es nay be pub licly na do and redress For five yoa rs tho Jews have be.en and reliof publicly sought . on tho torturo ra cks of Nnzi in­ qu is it ion with tho scrows turned Most nindful oro we of our gr eat stoadily doepor, ,[ hile a disinter ,.. C ons titution, and th o wa t chd og- of Gsted wor ld vm tchod idly by and . its libort i os . tho Suprc)l]o Court sh irkod r_lOra 1 responsibility with of the U. S . Most nindful are we of tho ovasions --whn t goos on ovor our Bill of Rights, the greatost thoro doos no t concern us . doclli�ont of persona l liberties ovor written, ant icipating nan!s It is not surprising in viow of inhUJ.1m ni ties to r.la n, and safo­ tho success of force and throat s guarding aga inst thou . of for co, that thl) Nazi Gov or m:1ont , fa ccd wi th ocononi c collapse t;hru It is unthinka ble tha t any divor s ion of tho countri es reSQur ­ 1-'"r.wrican und or standing and appre­ ces into bui lding up 0. creot. YfUr ciating our Anori can donocracy nachino , shou ld turn 100so tho .[ ould do anyth ine to underoino it . forces of hate and savaG ory, nurtured on fiv� yoo.rs of incossant It is further unthinkablo tha t any lios and c ont r oI led propngando . Aooricnn would stand idly by and watch ul ion subver sivo activities , Out int o tho open--as tho to vm rn en list a privata arny tha t dri lls an unsusp ectinG 1fwr ld Qf th o effi­ in priva tely ow ned canps , \'lOar ciency and coldbloodod thor oughnos s uniforos with foreign inSi gnia s, VI i th y: hic h tho Nazi Go vernDcnt salut e u foreign loador with a pursues its ob jectiv� , fo llowod tho foreign salute, nnd thru tho ir :ElOs t violent pers ecut ion of un fanfare , porades and propaganda, innocont poople, n dor.lOnstrot ion alienate the; you th of our country. that will forovor no.rk tho Y.1 0S t dunning pago in Gorr:um his tory. ALl er icans have beon greatly sh o cke d by th (; mo ra l lot-down in Int ernat­ Such fri ghtfullr10ss touched tho ional doal ings on the port of tho limi t of hunan onduranc 0 and on great Eu repean 130v ornr.1Cnt s. anguishod world criod out in pro test .

Had bnG lond jOined the U.S. in r:lD.k- Loading 0.11 countri es in prot est, ing Vigor ous protost to Ja pon upon wa s ou r groat Prosidont, Fr Dnklin its invasi on of Manchuria , it rJ ight D. Roosevolt , thru his doc isive havo haltod tho r.mrch of conquor- act ion in cn ll inG our Anba ssador and ing OI'r.liOs in China , Ethiopin , Spa inTrado C onsul huno for conference . Austria ano Czechos lovokia . It is noV{ announced their r" turn to Gor nany is mos t indefinito. As di13 oaso usually r.lOr chos wi th an army of invasion, so today, v'li th And nov< the ;-lOr Id is on;:;u god in n dictatorsh ip aGTossion, nnr chos search for a land of refU£; o for tho tho ir ant i-roligi ous prograns and porsocutod Jows of Gorr,1Q ny . Many propaganda . _ Espo cially virulont is placos arc advanced su ch os tho ant i- Jowish pro paganda of Nazi MadnGascar. Ta ngnnyilw , Br itish G orr;n ny , loa ving in it s wn ko , liko Guiana , tho Pit cairn Islnnds, undb the black plaguo of the niddle othor s. agos , nisory, des olati on and destruction. -2-

Thou gh thoso pIons arc proJ:1pt od Fiv o years ago tho oconOJ:li c boycott by a sincere desire to help, and wa s advancod as tho only bloodless oro woll intontionod, in ny woapon to fiGht tho Na zi Go ver nmontp ostinu tion, thoy assist the Nu zi Romovo their foreign exchanGe , tho gov�rnment in hur ra clt:� l per­ t1 0ans necossary to corry on govern­ secut ions . It would sOfila to ment , and tho gov crm.lOnt mu st fa il . indi ca to and sots tho pr ocedent too t a Nati on · J:lay en gage in Lo bQr � rel igious and oducational Na ti onal Cnnniba lisn , kill or loadors aro Guttins behind thi s dovour tho su stenance or a movonon t with nore publi cit ;y- than citizenry , plund or and oxp ol an over bofore. unwu nted rl inori ty and cha llenge other nation s to pay for their It is up to ovor :l Artor ican to reneva 1, lest thoy be oxt orninat­ safeGuar d il.l::lOrican dOJ:lo cracy, by od to tho 10st TJun . ri;:;h ting su bvcr si va a cts or Di ctatorship Govornuonts, r.;nd in Wo havo hoard r.l Ony cOLlp laints about fichtinG the Nazi llPvornnont, to pers e cuted Gerr:wn ninori tios . jo in tho Boycott of Nazi Modo Aus tria disappoarod fr�� tho map Mer chandi s e. becauso of Gorr.lan su rfering ; democratic Czechos lovakiu wns dis­ mOtlborod becau so of Gorr.mn su.f·rorI - ing .

Now is the tino to ask,"havo the Gorman poople a nonopoly on sufrer ingl1 ?

Aro all other people, inhu:ma n, devoid of this emotion?

Why should Gornany dare to usk for anything special for even one Gorr.Hl.n ou taide hor bo rdors , ,l hen hor ow n ninori tios are so cruolly porsecuted?

Docs it not soon tha t tho mos t imp or tan t thine for a ·di sapprov­ ing world to do is to nnk e tho Nazi Govornment realizo and fool tho fu ll force of world disapproval, rather th an to limit its pr otest to facilita t inG th o ronoval of tho Jaws in GOrtll n:y?

Must th is po rs (, out ed pooplo still further suffer by being T.1 ado exilos in wild and stranee lands ? Colonizat ion ha s no terror for tho Jews . In spite of NaZi and Fascist in spired Arab terrorism, colon i.zation is pr ogrossing in Palostine . "I 'lfou Vud

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That every cent you spend on German steamers and in Ger­ many is aiding Germany's war preparations and the spread of Naziism the world over.

AND FURTHER - . That only by your complete NOTE: Please pass this pamphlet on to your frieJ1�J boycotting of all German goods who may be planning a tfip t� Germany tim year. If further copie.s are desired they 1iMY and services can you aid in re­ be proatred free of charge by applying to the storing liberty to Germany's above add,·eSJ. persecuted racial, religious and political minorities...... 450 The Delightful Concentration How the Nazis Cherish the How Germany Respects its Camps Masons Minorities

Thousands of men, of all creeds and shades Thousands of of political opinion, unconvicted of any crime, Every Masonic pitiful refugees languish under conditions of medieval bar­ Lodge in Ger­ despoiled of all barity in Hitler's infamous concentration many has been possessions are camps. Tortured beyond belief, many perish, liquidated. fleeing from Ger­ some actually murdered by their brutal Every fraiemal many while the guards. order has been world stands ap­ disbanded. palled. Men, wo­ Properties built men and children up by these or­ humiliated and ganizations for ruined are being hundreds of expelled from the years have land whioh they been confiscat­ and their fore­ ed by the gov­ fathers for gensr- ernment. have loved worked for.

How Trade Unions and Labor Have Been Fostered How the Children are Being

Labor has been deprived of all rights of collective Trained Reverence with which Priests bargaining. Striking, or even talking of a strike The are crimes punishable by the death penalty. La­ Almost from in­ and Nuns are Treated bor's leaders have been tortured, shot down and fancy onward exiled. Labor has been sold into slavery. German youth un­ der Hitler and his satellites is being In their mad desire to prepared for war. coptrol all thought Youth an.d opinion in Ger · aUons un­ many the Gov- der State control ernment main- spend their days tained a continual drilling, marching, dri ve against the learning how to CatholJc clergy. Hun­ shoot and throw dreds of priests and grenades. They nuns have been ar­ are being taught rested and that "war is glori­ oned for long OUS,iI, on the flimsiest charges.

How Peacefully Germany is How German Womanhood Inclined How Flourishes under Hitler Throughout the Freedom of Worship land munition making is the is Preserved German women have most flourish­ been expelled from the ing industry. professions. But Nazi­ Under her re­ dom. requires workers to Hundreds of Protestant churches have armament replace the artisans now been closed by the secret police. Storm plans Germany employed in the arma­ Troopers have arrested ministers of the is building a ment industry. There­ Gospel, literally dragging them from he mendous the pulpit to do so, merely because fore German woman­ army. Militar­ hood has been enlisted, these clergymen have refused to admit ism is rampant the supremacy of Hitlerism over Chris­ and, under regulardisci­ despite the pline and supervision, tianity. peaceful dragooned into the phrases which heaviest, most unpleas- dri so contin- ...... 4< ...... ¥_1 l_t...... p This pamphlet cOfltributed by Christians and Jews of German descent. GOD SA VE THE GERMAN PEOPLE !

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Please Pas� This On! grave concern regarding one racial group, the influx of Nawireless to the N ew York Times dated Berl�n, . Germans to America. And in he wrote : "Not being . 1753 March 8, 1937, it was stated that Det" Angnffl officIal used to liberty they know not how to make modest use of it." I publication of the German Government's Department of And although this was his conviction, Franklin-great as his Propaganda and Enlightenment, characterized one of Amer­ influence was-did not propose to set up a bar against them, ica's greatest and most beloved men, Benjamin Franklin, an because his love of tolerance was greater than his fears in anti-semite. This news item of manufacturea hate was dis­ this regard. tributed to all German newspapers. The present German He believed that the inspiration of Democracy would Government at considerable expense maintains a Depart­ appeal so strongly to the German immigrants, that they ment of Propaganda and Enlightenment. Propaganda Yes ! would become desirable citizens. And these Germans, both of the most vile and malicious nature-Enlightenment No ' Christians and Jews, justified Franklin's faith in liberty and The German people are being mentally strangled, and the became in a great majority of cases faithful to the traditions news they are allowed to read is poisoned by prejudice to , of the Republic, in which they found a far better home from such a degree that the Germans who lived' in the Middle whence they came. Ages actually enjoyed more Enlightenment. In many cases r It)s a great_pity th�t milEons of Germans at the preseHt � ;� �s items, encbu aged and createcrty the 'Ger man �ropa­ � time cannot escape the tyranny of the Nazis and find new ganda Department, have been so obscene in character that homes in countries where there is a government "of the newspapers in this country have declared that the State people, by the people and for the people." At times the Department at Washington considered them unfit to be pub­ road seems long and hard. But Time marches on, ever and lished in the American press. ever towards one goal-Emancipation of Mankind from Experts on American history emphatically maintain that Tyranny. No despotism in the world's history has ever the statements that Franklin was an anti-semite, are fabrica­ survived I This must be the consolation and. the hope of the tions without the slightest foundation. Other historians call German people '. it a "bare faced forgery." History proves that Franklin In Chalmer"s General Biographical Dictionary (London- was friendly and symp athetic towards the Jews, .and when 1814), Franklin is described as follows : "He exhibits no they desired to erect a synagogue in Philadelphia, he not false zeal, modestly seeks after truth, and if he fails to find only signed the petition of appeal for fun·ps, but personally it has no desire to impose counterfeits in its stead." made a contribution. Would an anti-semite have done that? What a wonderful example for the Nazis to follow ! It is interesting to know that when Franklin was in Paris in But can the leopard change his spots ? ! 1781, Major David S. Frank, a Jew, was one of his con­ fidential aides. Would an anti-semite have done that? Franklin practised many virtues, among which were Truth, Justice and Moderation. But instead of practising We will now furnish the Nazis with a little true enlight­ . Truth, the Nazis practise falsehood; instead of J ust�ce they enment, historically correct, and not poisoned by false propa­ practise tyranny, and instead of Moderation they make ganda. On the authority of Prof. Charles A. Beard, one of fanaticism their religion. God save the German people, America's foremost historians, Benj amin Franklin did have they deserve a better fate than Hitlerism I NAT t L LADIES AufI LIARY ,JEWISH WAR VETS

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T "THE BOYCOTT IS A MORAL SUBSTITUTE FOR WARn

Today our country is engaged in a tremand ouB re-armament program . By 1943, $3,000 ,000,000 will have bcort sp ent for nava l

appropriations alone . We are to be sec ond to none in war strength.

Wo are rushing preparations for ano ther WAR. Of the world powers we can reasonably expoct democratic countries to be our allios . tho Almost 5 years ago, /world powers wore callod upon to support

an Economic Boycott agains t tho Nazi governmen t of Ado lph Hitler as

a bloodless means of preventing war . Hitler was then denouncod as

a menace to world peace. Had the domocratic na tions of the wo rld

supportod that call, his tory today woul d have a different story to

tell . Without the moral support of Hi tler would Mus solini ha ve

invaded Ethopia? Wi thout tho assistance of Hi tler & Mus solini would thoro now bo a war in Spa�? Wi thou t tho Alliance between Hitler and

Japan would China tOday be a ba ttlefield? Hitlor, tho talking peace,

scraps tho treaties designod to keep pea co, flouts the Le ague of

Nations and encouragos other agrossors to do likewise. Hit lqr calls politics l1 The Art of tho Possible!!, and declares llGermany is wherever

Gorman is spoken!! - in other words the Gorman Ernpiro is de:terminod by blood and language and not by boundari es . Carrying out this idealogy�

its leadors onvi sago for tho futur o a United Nations of Amorica�

ins t ead of the United States of Amer ica.

As tho resources of Germany arc being spent on re-armament and also as a result of the boycott, Gonnany suffers a shortage of foodstuffs and other es sontial commo dities . Should not ono s �rious1y

stop now and cons ider, if the blockad e in 1918 ended tho wor ld war,

could not the Boyco tt if fully intensified, PREVEN T THE WAR THAT

THREATENS ?

In Janua ry, 1934, Mayor LaGuardia, speaking before a convention

of Womons ' Organizations at the Hotc1 Astor, expressed hims elf with

prophetic clearness on the boycott, as follows : "Let me say as Vi ce-

Presidont of tho Boycott Loague� I believed in the Boycott before I

took office and I believe in it now . To bo aga inst Hitler is to be for thq Gorman people . To bo agains t Hi tler is to oppose cond it ions

civilization cannot tolerate. Women of America , you cannot do it with

potitions . This is not a religious question . It is a gravo inter-

na�ional problem tha t fi ts into any movement thnt works for the .... 2 ...

On l;}'" truth can s;tnnd the i; .,st 01' time an d today th es G o ' ord s have doublo thB forcE) as ,when spoken f ou:' �·ears s.g o, 'bcoau8 0 many titlo could not see it 'before,:nou mu st adm:tt tht� t :U tler ls religious pn:,s ',: eatlon was a smokf; screer'. to co,-ar the pr epara tions thf.lt have de�T Glop<)d into

In o.l1:Y program of social and oivic rights the posi tiollS of minoritios' i;',u,sb be given some oo nsidorat ion. In times of prosperity there is no religious porsecution. ;{ol:tSious persecutions ;lave 'be- come a baro,;H ?t r,"l� of chan(,;in8 times . 'l'h oy b ear a di rect ratio to economi c conditions . It is proper that some mea SUl' es be taken to wake this tClrr ible in jus tice prop.::'l'ly understood.

III tho ��pa71 1sh' Inquis ltion, on6 of the blackest pa ges of religious hi fltory , thon Sllnds upon thous ands of innocent nen , women an d ch ildren

, were burned , tortured and comp ellod upon pain of death to acc.spt con- version and baptism. It VI as not u qu ostion then of l' ac:�.al difference­ I but a r el ig ious diff oren ce . PC1'seoution in G fll'many is 1)a sod,� on a pseudo ra cial philos ophy , but the real caus e ,!Us the d esp m�n te c on - d i t ion Germany found h"lrsolf in follou intS tho in£' la'l;:1.on and COm!l161'· cia1 Pira cy . Lll so-cf�lled non-Aryan pr op01oty is gradually b" L1f� confiscated und er any pr etext dovisable . The caso of Arnold Berns tein, orm",:;" of the ,:od Star Lines is an of practical cOYlfj.scat:�on of va luab le l) :'qpe:c-ty pos sible only undol' a Pas cis t gov ernment . Fas cism a r('pudiu toe de:l1oc:�u tic liberal pl'inciples. It devolops/ small ruling class Do tIl 0c::moni C} and political. It forces the masses of the people into perr,lanont BEH'vitude from wh icb, it is di fficult if no t impos sible

There 'ID. S :it time wh en people tur-ned to prayer and Divine Guidance in 'G iLes , of: stress and trouble. 'llhero wos once a �oa chor who taue;ht

Today UlOl'6 than. eve\:> , '>lith relieious differences springinr; up all ov er the Horld to a degree bcfor(� l�nknown l

..-dt'::l. Cllth.olics - i' rotGstants and J,;; ;s alike victims of intolej�t:m ce , re�igions Dust ask thens elves ,'Jhorein they have failed . �1here :',iUSt be peace amonG t:'lt; races of a H� tion if thoro is to be pGlAce amoX\2: the

'Cations of t�l'J orld . '!'here must b,� a true Bl'c thorhood of' l;lan , not one c1is t:tn3uisll':d by tho Church h0. attends . -- I -3-

Childbirth is the same ord ea l to all Moth ers all over the

earth, and our children are our most preci ous possessions . Th e death

dealing bullet knows no religious distinction and brings heartbreak

and pro stration to all mo thers alike.

If we want to prevent wars , we mus t know and sing le out the

aggressor. From Hitl er's book HMein Kamp fll we know his amb itions .

By hi s acti ons of the last five years we know tha t he ha s no t

deviated in any way from carrying out those ambitions . Their final

achievemont can only be accomp li shed by war.

With all th e Na tions of th e world feverishly rus hing to prepare

for thi s war, we s.till have on e woa pon in our han ds to prevent it ..

We, ask you to support li THE BOYCO TT AS THE ONLY MCRAL SJ BSTITUTE

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Ber tha V. Carets , Nat:i.ona l Bo ycott Cha irman Ladios ! Auxiliary Jowish War Vet�rans of tho U.S . NA TIONA L LADIES AUXI LIARY JEW ISH WAR VErERANS OF THE U.. S. 276 Fifth Ave., New York" N .• Y.

Dear Sisters :

Representative Hami lton Fi sh introduced Hill No ; H.R.10553 whi ch is aimed to regu lat e the formation · of private military organiza tions in the United .S tates . This Bill would make it unlawful for five or mor e persons to form a group for military tra ining , except established U.S. military and naval bodies " or to drill or parade with dang erous weapons or imitation s of th em .

Our organization approves this Biilil and we ask you to con tact your R{)prcsentatives and Congr essmen to urge its passago.

Loyally yours,

BERTHA V. CORETS National Boycott Chairman TH'E FOLLOvlI NG FIRM.S ARE LISTED IN '!HE IMPCRT ,MANIFESTS. AS EITBJ5R RECEIVING NAZI MERCHANDISE OR US ING NAZI BOATS .

Hottmann La. Roche-a brls pharrnaceu­ , ticals. Sat Clty Bank-25 tubs f"heese. Sheldon. G \V -1 rt: mach��. pomerancil'!. S H"'::'lS es glassware. I CS s n . L !' : �e ('oJ1)-l Cl':0 discs. 8 OS re--- :�Her-tor�:: buttons,� 6: {'S il'onwart>. Coates•. T J-U ("5 bronz e powder. StE'rn �Uner. $-2 cs cln gloves, 1 cse b�tt�� n e _l ese leather glo\'es, 1 \'5&:!�i:' crockery, 1 eM'} art lo ers. 1 car� ton do. f w Guido, L A-3 cs bUckles. 2 cs bone but­ ton8. Dcrwnlng. R 7-1 ('lie air pump. 1 ese brushes, 3 bls wallpaper. KUro)'. J �'-6 eli hollowglass. 1 cae metalware. Amer :eXp'ress�3 r.s slide fasteners, :; es gIO\'M bags., cS0 wl� es . 1 ese 1 3 g-ltlSBware. h."'"houri. A � .& 131'0-1 cse if'as-swan. Penson &; Co-I cse ,-,""/),I"E', 3 cs glass# ware, 1 ($0 ironware. Wedemann &: Godkneeht-3 eka pbarma­ ceuHeaJa, 1 eRe dOt 1 cae stJl)"l't I'ood� 1 cae metal eyelets. 1 ese maehy :pts. 1 CS:.I &ia.tll8Wal'e. Victory Shp� Co-1 cae wooden ware. Steiner. S 8-38 bls hops. I Dies.-! Dynamic.$ Corp--l I,lse machy pta. Hea.d. H S--t esc cosfflt)t.ie articles; Rohner G�hl'lI;--� ("s yeast, � )lk$ adn�Tt matter, 1 e5e madlY phI, 1 eae p!ctUTU. 1 ('S6 Clocks. 11 ea �ads. · 2" bIs ct.'\ 1000ds. Freedman & Sla e ese metalwaret ] cit! pine se!d. t r-l Ha,pp�l. C-l die felt. Neenlsoth Kerner Corp-l ese co.pper faUs. 1 bale cork sheets and ironwar&. 16 {'s dlCH'olate. ;} elf cellulOid sheets. !l {'� }luttonq. Schenkus &. Co--:i1Hl cs pres mut. 23 Col

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OF THE UNITED STATES , 2'76 FIFTH AVE ., NEW YORK CITY. PHOTOGRAPHIC SUPPLIES General Bottlecap Co. ,' , (, East 45th Street, New York City Abe Cohen Exchange, Inc:. Henry R. Hopklhlon, Linens 120 Fulton Street, New York City 40 White Sheet, New York City Burleigh Brooks. Inc. Lewis & Conger, House Furnishings ·FOR HUMANITY'S SAKE 127 West 42nd Street. New York City Sixth Avenue & 45th Street, New Yor. City E. Leln, Inc. Lewis Display Materials (Window Displays) FOR THE SAKE OF WORLD PEACE 730 Fifth Avenue. New York City 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City E. B. Meyerowitz. Inc. N. S. Meyer. Inc., Army and Navy Equipment 520 Fifth Avenue, New York City 419 Fourth Avenue, New York City Photo Shop, Inc. Karl Pauli Corp. 136 We,t 32nd Street, New York City 454 Broome Street, New York City BOYCOTT Willoughby Camera Stores. Inc. H. Reifenberg . , II0 West 32nd Street, New Y ort City 20S West 19th Street. New York City Carl Zeiss, Inc. Ernst Toepfer 485 Fifth Avenue. New Yorl: City 2 Broadway, New York City NAZI STATIONERY SUPPLIES CANARIES Max Geisler Bird Co. A. W. Faber, Inc. 50 Cooper Square. New York City 41 Dickef$on Street, Newark. N. J. Odenwald Bird Company GERMANYI Manhattan Stencil Co. 32 Cooper Square,· New York. City 410 Broadway, New York City Wm. Bartels Co. J. S. Staedtler. lri'c. ("Mar," "Luna") 45 Cortlandt Street, New Yor.k City 55 Worth Street. New York City Louis Ruhe, Inc. Swan Pencil, Co. ' 853 Broadway, Ne� York Clt.y 22 1 Fourth Avenue, New York City FOODS WINES &. LIQUORS Benedict Lust Health Foods 343 Lexington Avenue. New York City Hans Holterbosch. Inc. 41 East 79th Street. New York City Wm. Faehndrich, Cheese 13 Harrison Street, New York City Jaeger Importing C9•• Ltd. 106 Gan$Voort Street, New Yorlc City M. H. Greenbaum, Inc. . 165 Chambers Street, New York City M. Kempinsty & Co., Inc. 1819 Broadway, New York City Romanoff Caviar Co. 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City H. Lehman. Inc. 7334 Park Avenue. New York City GLASS Luchow Importing Co. Fish·Schurman Corp., Optical Be Laboratory 101 East 13th Street. New Yorlc City Glass Reidmeister & Ulrichs Corp. 230 East 45th Street. New York City �3 East 26th Street, New York Cfty Re'llised List of Boycott Violators Rhinemo Import. Inc. TYPE ) Tune, 1998 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Bauer Type Foundry, Inc. Chas. Von Oer Bruck, Inc. 235 East 45th Street. New York City 61 Park Place. New York elty Continental Ty pe Founders. Assn •• Inc. Julius Wile Sons & Co. 228 East 45th Street, New York City 8 Bridge Street, New York City European Ty pe Founders. Inc:. 710 Broadway, New York City

MISCELLANEOUS . YEAST P"wlished by Julius 'Blum, Iron Compressed Yeast Corp., "Blue Ribbon" Yeast 532 West 22nd Street, New York City 363 Greenwich Street, N_ York City LADIES' AUXILIARY ·Castle & Overton, Inc. Phoenix Yeast C� of the 630 Fifth Avenue. New York City 359 Greenwich �treet, New York City . Duro· Test Corp., Slass Bulbs Vulian Yeast Cdrp. JEWISH WAR VETERANS 583 Broadway, New Yo;k City 339 Greenwich Street. New 'York . City of the UNITED STATES For information regarding ,firms not mentioned above, communicate with, the

\ Jewish War Veterans, 276 Filth Ave., N.Y.C., Tel. MUrray Hill 4·1389 NOTE: THIS IS NOT A COMPLETE LIST OF BOYCOTT VIOLATORS. GLASSWARE, CHINAWARE, Etc. MACHINERY S. A. Bendheim, Inc. Adlanco X-Ray Corp., X-Ray Apparatus ONLY THE MORE IMPORTANT FIRMS ARE LISTED HEREIN. 16 Horatio Street, New York City 54 Lafayette Street, New York City Budde & Westerman C. & C. Sales Corp., Ball Bearings Wester Bros., ,Razors,' Shears and Manicuring CHEN.UCALS &. DRUGS 104 Worth Street, New York City 1775 Broadway, New York City Implements Advance Solvents 8. Chem. Corp. 250 West Broadway, New York City Fish·Schurman Corp. H. H. Heinrich, Inc., "Matador" Bag Machinery 245 Fifth Avenue, New York City 230 East 45th Street, New York City Aniline Printing Presses Wilfred Academy Of Beauty Culture & 200 Yarick Street, New York City Akatos, Inc., Chemicals 1659 Broadway, New York City Heinrich Winterling Corp. 5 Vandam Street, New York City 49 West 23rd Street, New York City Marburg Bros. General Dyestuffs Corp., Chemicals 8. Dyes Henroe Co. 90 West Street, New York City 435 Hudson Street, New York City DENTAL &. MEDICAL SUPPLIES 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City Ormig Corporation S. B. Penick & Co., Crude Drugs H. G. McFaddin & Co. 373 Fourth Avenue, New York City 130 Nassau Street, New York City American Hecolite Dentur� Corp., "Hecolite" 324 Fifth Avenue, New York City Robert Reiner, Embroidery Machines J Pfaln & Bauer, Chemicals & Glues Denture Rosenthal China Corp. 556 Gregory Avenue, Weehawken, N. . 300 Pearl Street, New York City 536 S. E. 6th Ave nue, Portland, Ore•. 149 Fifth Avenue, New York City Ritter Carlton Co. 527 Fifth Avenue, New York City N. Y. Potash Export, My. 460 West 34th Street, New York City Paul A. Straub 19 West 44th Street, New York City American Medical Specialties ·Co. 105 Fifth Avenue, New York City Rotary Tool & Machinery Co. 217 East 38th Street, New York City State Chemical Co. 1.3 1 East 23rd Street, New York City 80 West Houston Street, New York City Adam Bernh�rd, Importer of Dental Plastic GLOVES Rota print Machines, Inc. 141 Broadway, New York City Winthrop Chemical Co., Chemicals & Drugs Materials Trade Marks: "Well Known," "Wear Right" 170 Varick Street, New York City 45 East 17th Street, New York City Sanitax Electric Co. (Combined with H. A. Men Labora.tories, Dependable Dental Supply Co. Arcade Glove Co. 303 Fourth Avenue, New York City Inc.) 1923 Germantown Avenue, Phila., Pa. 112 East 23rd Street, New York City Duro Test Corp. Empire Glove Co., Inc. MUSICAL SUPPLIES 467 Broadway, New York City COAL &. COKE 583 Broadway, New York City C. Bruno 8. Son, Inc. Injecta Co. Hyman Haspel, Gloves 460 West 34th Street, New York City Colonial Fuel Corp. I 12 East 19th Street, New York City 468 Fourth Avenue, New' York City 37 Commercial Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. W. R. Gran Import Co. Well Known Glove Co. , F. W. Massel & Co. & Domestic Fuel Corp. 468 Fourth Avenue, New York City Gretsch Brunner 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 42 East 20th Street, New York City 39 Broadway, New York City Wimelbacker 8. Rice Adolf Pfingst, "Busch" Dental Supplies Harmonica Distribution Corp. of America Kokancoal Co., Inc. 309 Bible House, New York City 1150 Broadway, New York City 37 Commercial Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 251 Fourth Avenue, New York City Premier Dental Man. Co. & M. Hohner, Inc., Harmonicas & Accordions Ben Raffe Sons, Inc. 900 Chestnut Street, Phila., Pa, HARDWARE 129 Varick Street, New York City 351 Fourth Avenue, New York City Gustave Scharman D. P. Harris Hardware Mfg. Co. Imperial Music 8. Sport Shop 1181 Broadway, New York City 99 Chambers Street, New York City 101 East 14th Street, New York City CUTLERY L. Silverman Robert E. Miller, Inc., Tack & Nails ("Remco") Progressive Musical Instrument Corp. 1033 Chestnut Street, Phila., Pa, 35 Pearl Street, New York City 404 Fourth Avenue, New York City Watch for Trade Marks: "Tree Brand": "Valley Sterling Products Corp. 8. Forge"; "Silver Steel"; "Dubl Duck": "Twin Strauss-Eckhardt Co. Sorkin Music Co. 118 East 25th Street, New York .City Brand"; "Anchor Brand" 45. East 117th Street" New York City 251 Fourth Avenue, New York ,City TIp-Top Instruments, Inc. H. Boker 8. Co. Waterbury Tack Co., Inc. 15 East 26th Street, New York City 101 ·Duane Street, New. York City Waterbury, Conn. NOTIONS &. TOYS Eric Weidemyer Bresduck. Inc., Razors, Shears and Combs B. Shackman & Co. 162 Fifth Avenue, New York City 180 Madison Avenue, New York City 224 Canal Street, New York City DEPARTMENT STORES H. & R. Forschner Co., Cutlery IMPORTERS F. A. O. Schwartz 230 Third Avenue, New York City W. T. Grant 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City Aristo Import Co., Inc. Gibbs & Co. Stores throughout the United States 630 Fifth Avenue, New York City Strauss-Eckhardt � Co. 43 West 43rd Street, New York City Office-l44 I Broadway, New York City Adam Bernhard 45 East 17th Street, New York City Henry Kayser & Fils, Barber 8. Beauty Supplies S. S. Kresge Co. 45 East 17th Street, New York City 41 Union Square, New York City Stores throughout the United States PEAT MOSS George Borgfeldt Corp. J. A. Henckels, Inc. S. H. Kress & Co., 5c, IOc, 25c Stores 46 East 23rd Street, New York City Watch for Trake Marks: "G.P.M."; "Pioneer"; 456 Fourth Avenue, New York City Throughout United States 110. IIJustritellj liP. I. C." ,Peter J. Michels, Barbers' Supp. Office-1 14 Fifth Avenue, New York City K."i "Sorbexu; 1857 Catalpa Ave., Ridgewood, New York Marshall Field 8. Co. LEATHER Atkins & Durbrow, Inc. Moler System Of Colleges, Beauty Culture 121 N. State Street, Chicago, III. J. Einstein, Inc., Shoe Leather 165 John Street, New Yo.rk City Schools and 22 North Bank Drive, Chicago, III. I Park Avenue, New York City Peat Moss Sales Corp. 177 North State Street, Chicago, III., and Montgomery Ward & Co., Dept. Store and Herman Lowenstein 165 John Street, New York City branches throughout the United States Mail Order House, Chicago, III. 26 Perry Street, New York City Schrader 8. Ehlers F. W. Woolworth Leather De Luxe Peat Import, Corp. Stores throughout Country I Park Avenue, New York City 155 John Street, New York City 239 Fourth Avenue. New York City ,�,' THIS IS NAZI CULTURE

NAZIS TO PURGE VIENNA LIBRARY; INON·ARYANI WORKS TO BE BURNED

Part of Famed 1,200,000-Volume Austrian National Collection

Will Be Destroyed - Begun in Sixteenth Century

By The Associated Press. manuscripts of inestimable worth, in several collections. The first was VIENN_"'-. April 23. - Austria's begun. in the sixteenth een ttl!'Y when Nazi chieftains today started a Maximilian I was Emperor. From purge of proscribed "non-Aryan" 1624 publishers connected with Volumes in the Austrian National Frankfurt Fajrs had to :;upply the Library, ranked among the world's library with copies of their booll:,,; finest. and .from 1809 to 1920 the same rule Lists were sent to the chief 11- applied to all pUblishers in Austria. br'uian of books to be removed and and Hungary. In 1920 the rule vvas burnE'd from among the 1, 200.000 restricted to Austrian publi.;hers. yolumes housed in the magnificent The library's book collection num. Hofburg, once home of the imperial bel'S 1.200,000 volumes. It is espe­ Habsburgs. cially rich in German and Slavonic It was not disclosed What books literature from old Austria-Hun­ were designated of the valuable col­ gary. lection, ' which includes thousands of. Its manuscript collection contain'! ancient papyrus works and manu­ 30,000 Western and 4, 000 Oriental, scripts. Greek and Slavonic manuscripts; A private Vienne� collection also 60.000 autographs, and 9,000 in· was visited by officials seeking cunabula, The library's music de­ books outlawed by the Nais. partment includes 19,000 printed ,Public bookshops already have scores, 12,000 - volumes of manu­ had'theit< own' .purges two weeks ago, scripts, 3,OOO sets of vocal music in when the works of Thomas Mann. manuscript 8,000 volumes of ref­ Stefan Zweig, jacob Wassermann, erence works, and a famous collec­ Vicki Batlm and many others weI:\l tion of authographs of music manu­ relegated to cellars or destroyed. scripts from other libraries. It has a-u thograph scores of Bach, Haydn Moart, Beethoven, Bruckner, HUgo Vienna's National Library, one of Wolf and Richard . Strauss. Of the the world's most magnificent ex­ last-named, it possesses the score amples of baroque architecture, con­ of "RosenkavaIier." It also owns the tains thousands of volumes and original of Mozart's "ReqUiem."

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There are 250.000 Nazis in America today. Hitler spends $30,000,000 a year here for propaqanda. The same thinq will happen to the Smithsonian, the Conqressional Library, The Huntinqton and hundreds of other qreat centers of democratic culture unless YOU act NOW.

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20 WEST 47th STREET NEW YORK CITY , � -' : a :Pdir q� 'Q�rlllQn s - to, buy AcquedglCtS�c;;t� . .. gee-gees 'tilt Sd:ralog�,'6r ' . YQu .

. bonus to Gelman spies. . '� . p.ay O: • -�:": cl.,- When you pay hard c(%sh to watch a Nazi fight· . � "��9r fClce. you�upply the funds for atrocity acts like - the L�isitci:nia and the "Black Tom" explosion.

;,c '.' ' W4en you buy German films and a. _,German : . 'camera in order to catch War Admiral in mid.. slride misty a. .m., you're slapping Hitler on the .back .,J):��ilj d"; �ayii1g "Come,on over and see us." , . " �: :'(:�When you--board a-Germa:n. ship for a week­ ·�� ��"d l�Iln: sjssion to Nova Scotia or a six gay splash -to-'rthe '�Aul4 Sod" , you're riding the Spy-plank, are -'served.. and · wq:tched by nlembers 01 the Nazi . ,_ Sec��t·P olice." � _ -,, " . . . " '-<" '-THE ONLY CASH THAT LEAVES; GERMANY ­ -- :"- tQPXy qOES 'TO" PAY SPIES IN THE UNITED ... " ,STATES AND THE OTHER DEMOCRACIES. ' ...... - --HITLER HAS ANNOUN.CED- THAT . THE MOST ..IM PORTANT STEP IN HIS' WORLD-PROGRAM IS ''Ie DESTROY CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM. :- �. The money you . pay for -G�rriuln cOmnlodities ·:-:�j,i1cl�e.[as�.:!s tlie Rei�h' s cash £oyeraqe, gives Nazism . breathing spell, as;sures you . of greater . "0 - . ';aCIQg:ers :th,eir e!i;pionage. -'.. .

12,50(tO.OO WEMPLOYED AMERI...... ,' ...::.',. gARN THEni :,.�-.. . ':'.... TO ·LIVING. . . ' . C A IE ' • DEMO R . C. . S �,: "DON'·r · .-' :i... u.'r.L .cJ;...... -- G' -.Q. .;: ...... ,�ri' u.s'". f • '..- -;� -. ' . ,�- . '" , This is the way to SAVE Democracy

British .Store Chain Bars Buying in Reich, Austria

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

LONDON, March 24.-Sir Fred,

t:rick Marquis, managing director of Lewiss, Ltd., which has large depart, ment stores in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, Leeds and Leicester, has recalled the company's trade buyers from Germany and Austria. Sir Frederick, who is one of the most influential provincial business men, said that in the future his company would not deal in German goods. "I would scour every market in the

world," he said, "before I would do anything to contribute to �t;he economic well/being of a country that is content to have a man at its head who de' liberately, maliciously and cruelly per' secutes one of the oldest races in the world." The company will find goods that can be sold with a free conscience to the free people of Britain, he said.

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IN ALL LANDS IN AUSTRIA CONSCRIPTED ,\nother strongly worded protest Hitler has d«reed that all young concerning Austro-Gcrman rela­ Germans living abroad must hold tions was published in tonigh:t's themselves in readin�s to serve WeltblAtt, Chancellor Kurt Schus­ chrligg's organ, this t.i me directed in the German Army and Labor at the interpretation given i n the Corps. German press to the non-interfer­ It inst-ructs an you ng men to en­ ence guarantee in July's Austro­ roll with their consuls, and warns Gcrman agreement. The nrticle al­ le.cres ths.t the official German Nazi them th'ejI refusal to obey an Or­ pnrty organs "glaringly interfere" der to return to Germany in­ in Austria's priv ate nrrairs. "Hit­ volves arrest and possible im­ ler apparently feels itself called prisonment as deserters. on to instruct the Austrian Chancellor which bomb th row ers 1I.nd other criminals he �hould par· don." GERMANY "DEMANDS" COI.ONIES NAZIS TURN TO THE For those who speculate On a German economic policy. Ml'". von BALKANS Ribbentrup emphasil.ed anew "the primacy of politics over econom­ Through Dr. R. Schacht. Nazi ics."_ The speeehes, delivered at Dstute Financial Magician, Hitle' has extf'uded his efforts to penf the uipzig Fair, were mainly de­ trall! and control politicnlly as wt' vnled to a demonstration that Ger­ il'l comrnercially the Southeast " many's foreign trade must bE: Europe. Hungary, Yugos]av built upon a basis of National So­ Bulgarin, Rumani a, Greece, J hania, C1.eeholovakia. are sWlamr cialist policies - namely, arms­ with Nazi cells and Nui pro me:nt and the f'our�Yeft1'-Plan-10 gllnda. wtoich he added an UJ".fnt demlll;n.d BOYCOTT for colonies. NAZIS CONTROL Cg MA S ABROAD "COLONIES OR UKRAINE" R N

In "MI�in Kampf" Hitler coo· "To tra,'cl On "a Germ an ship .\ IWW dCI)art.ment in the G 10 travel Forcit:"n OfliC'(' demned the Jewish Press for pro­ is under !.he emblem, of hilS t.he !'.Ole pI of wnk'hing an Germans I l�sting against Germany's loss of the swasl ika, the mark or the Il itroad ;md nrgani1.ing Nazi Beast. To wear a G('rman-made culunies, thus "concenl rating 1)I."Al1Ila limon.&: them. � hatred on England." garn\ent is to put On a garment (If Wilhelm Htlhle is chief. with t'l' "WI, ha\'e finished with the pre­ shame. To buy 8 German-made toy to altl'l1d Cahinet meetingf to fund inn as �linliitrr w' war policy of colon ies and trade. is to help a government which ha::; portfolio. and are going oY"cr to the land flau nted every ' human sentiment, policy of the futare. When we trampled under foot e\'cry value talk of new lands in Earope, we sacred to civilization, substitutetl NAZI� PERRU \f arc bound to think first of Russia blood for brotherhood an.d war BEU�IA .� and her border stales." madness for the peace hope of an harras.sed world." On infltrllt'Hno (rum Dr. Abba. Hillel Silver, nc�relle, h· :t.dt·r Dr Ih CZECHO-SLOV AKIA INVADED of Cleveland. hut'! begun iii ml":" til l<,st. hi� tpopu "For some time the Nazis have his FMdst mOl bCl;"un to take "leasures against gian capital. the Czechs which are neither those of peace nor of war, but resemble REFUSE TO TRADE NAZIS )IUST BB $1 the preliminaries of a siege. These WITH THE ENEMY! have been o( different kinds, and their pu�pose is proba bly to pre· The dut.y of Nazi fu to report an rumor, pare Germany (or later action, di­ BOYCOTT NAZI GERMANY! their f�now 1t'oJ'hf1l' I vide opinion out.side. and also in­ which mhrht hum the it duce Prague to capitula�." u�cd lUI a defense arIOla' in Ule trl.1 0' • .Had P,. -The Manchester Guardian. her on tllatlteR of UbeJ.

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20 West 47th Street, New York, N. Y. Nazism Destroys �nlture .� " .•••I would like it known that not every German •••• is a Nazi. There are many Join Germans" both here and in G�many, who do not approve of the present Hitler policy but Boycott are powerless to change the regime. The Fight Against I know I am speaking for many German­ Americans when I say that I'm glad I have Nazi-Germanyl Hitler the privilege of freedom of speech and re­ " ligion and although I'm Aryan, I do not con­ sider myself superior to anyone. In short, I'm glad I'm � American citizen and deem it a privilege to sing. "The Star Spangled Banner." . From "Letters to the New York World-Telegram" . February 16, 1987

NAZI-LITERATURE NAZI-YOUTH The recent publication of 53- "Who are the enemies of 'the page · Nazi pamphlet lists hun- dreds of non-Aryan writers of all Hitler YoutM They are the Chris­ nationalities who are to be I!oy- • tians who erawl on their knees to cotted by all Germans. Among their Catholic and Pro ______those who come under the ban ��!L churches and spend thei:t: time ·are Disraeli, Einstein, Rathenau, . in { prayer and hymn singing:' Preuss, Maun, Renn, Zweig, Wer­ fel, Feuchtwanger, Lewis, Thomp­ -Baldur v. Schlraeh, son, Lewison, Heine, Remarque, Youth Leader. Ludwig, etc. "The Nobel Prize is a shameful ocenrence!"-Hitler. NA4I-WOMEN NAZI-EDUCAT�ON � Fiancees of Chan�lIor Adolf I "Ho:.v can we teach ourCJ!f Hitler's Schutz Staffel (black kk� gpards) must pass severe tests :to be honorable wlen in their before being accepted into the Scripture cI8¥es they are� heinl{ "mother-schooP' recently estab­ taught that such Jewish gangst�rlil ' lished near Zittau, Saxony. The as the swi·ndler Jacob and the principal . ary condition is corn thief Joseph were .examples "Aryan back to 1800. im The girl candidates will be ex- of honor? They . thus become � IIi? to their fitness for pregnated with the Jewis� 'spirit.· motherhood and eugenic soundness. -"Educil.tion/� They must also nndergo tests of Organ of Berlin Teach their intelligence and knowwledge ��s of Nazi Weltanschauung (world outlook). "R ACE, BLOOD & SOIL": NAZI-PRISONS "Nazi-ism wastes its Inmates • of German prisons brea' speaking of a Germa)l raee. have to pay advance instalment.'! -D� on their coffins, a Swedish sailor it exist only in. the brain 'of }J .. declared to day on returning home new Germany; already , utt�� after serving 17 months of a four­ tunately too crowded year prison senntence for passing ;w;l� 1l!9��1 out two copies of an anti-Nazi ' -Aveni�e "d'Ibma. newspaper.." -Havas News. Official Italian £atholic-:Qigat

"I HATE HITLER AND HITLERISM NOT ONLY BECAUSE THEY HAVE DENIED JUSTICE TO FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. I HATE THIS THING BECAUSE IT IS \THE ENEMY OF MY COUNTRY, OF MY FAITH AND OF MY RIGHT TO BE FREE!" -RAYMOND ...nJ' .....,..,.,. ,"'•. ,. HUMANITY APPEALS TO

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"The mere knowledge of who these world, is the first consideration, yet the men aTe who chance-to possess the piti· Thomas Mann, the eminent German smaUesrt.. Ge:Mnany would be aloor fill outward power to deprive me of my philosopher. wrote recently to t.he Dean tcuible, of cou:rse still, even when abaJ !German birthright suffices to make th eir of Bonn University on being informed d-on.ed. But most terrible of all W01;' act appear in all its absurdity. I, for­ that as a COMequcnce or his loss of cili· be the fact bha.t she had abandoned he !;ooth, am supposed to have dil!honored :u"nship "the Philosophical Faculty finds self. 'tho Reich, dishonoured Ger:many. in itself obligt:'d to strike your name off ['1l'teIlec:tua'lly ·reduced and humbla acknowledgi ng that T am against them. its roll of honorary doctors." The Nobel morally gutted, inWArdly rent, in deepest 'DhI!y have the incredible effrontery to Prize recipient was recently bonored mistrust of its leaders and aJI the hann confuse themselves with Germa.ny. The with the title of Doctor of Philosophy they have done to her in three yC'Rrs; t.ime is not far off, perhaps, w-hen it for mainlaining the high standard of profoundly unl'.RSy herself, ignorant, of will be of su·preme im·portance to the German culture. COUrse, but full of. forebodings of evil, w.ith G('nn8'n people<-not t.o be confused The following is t.he full tu:t of the . She would go �ntion that has wei.ghed them dow lear an, I cold avel'sinn by .all, it stands so long. A war, in other woro.s, w� · on the brink of ftConomic catastrophe. after the fir&t defea.t would tum in while iUs "enemits" streteh out bheir civil war. in alR.I'm back rom h,U\fls to snatch 1 the No, it is impossible, Germany en so important a member Ab)'1!� of tihe :n.ake this WAr. And, if its dietatol"S fllwre Commonwealth of Nations; to in their right minds. then their !ISS hef" if only it will its /Senses ft, come to IlnCf!S of readine!>s for peace fin:· try Lmderslnnd the reAl a'T)d to neOOt or tactical lies uUered wlth- a wink r.t tl. WQl'hl th ins�d of dream the nt is bOUT · pnrtisans, but �I)ring from a fa;r.t-hea in� drco.'1lU about h cal "s8Cl'eci ne· myt i crl pcrc�pti�l of jtmt this imposf,ibilit c�6ities." Bllt if war cannCYt and shall r,ot t Y , after all it must be helped by then why rohbers and murderers ? '" ihos� whom it impedes and menace'S, that i!iolf\.tion, wo;ld ..ho!rt.ility, lawieSfln it may not drag down the � of the intelletel TeAd � ...tLl'r at lang'U.'\A'f· in Lht' fact tb_L 'Wllf iK no lornrer allltW8i:Me l : nt:'bWtt. wflfdl bflCn so lon� J retrult,., rflr,. while, of c-oun>l!., in lluC("f\8It· A Photo of the Adventurers Who Rule many , urnnt:eTed; (> m l!! o.L'lLlmJt th(,k}(" who are I\.wue or Lht­ fi,,,1 \n so obody \. ld ,MUlfb Gennany Today t,n. · ng .. IMh. But 'A'tM' to the oople wbk-h. no lht' C'...et"man to ue wU·h th an­ C' �r knt"twing what way to turn, ImdJs rtnt freedom, A,h, I hne nc:Y apok (lJ"l"ognnt presunlption, bu.t by 6t"ekinl:! ilol! wtJ.y out. through the ..b ­ O!.lt. It mIt o. diatl"f'SS :lnd a ('oncern from whkl 1,,11, omination of wur. h� er l� P"'Opl(l � rlJnea 10r \\h,<:h it has blithely been "fYt_ 50 n.... vc r- MI!C that 1 am no longer a German : tal vanquiB"h e-d that il wlU N":'I-'N,n:!l'M11-, CAn jU'l'rtuy t1hemselves only and spiritual distress from whlf"h � ;!.�in, absolute fitne56 o by -t.hl!! Klt'till of f r war. four years not an hour of my 111e. 1i The meo.n.;n MKI the pUJ")lOf'e or t.he •. t<. • at Lhf' fd('O l war, as an aim :-t or been free; s-truggling wi.th whit'h Jit Nati01\l1t..socta i.nic sta 11 thlt alo ne JtMtlf, w(>uld 1" fHM PPCBl"OO, there be day by day to accomplish my treat and cnn 00 onl}'" tnls: To put th {'.erma.n u f!:I ' !t.n �Jhri( uUoe;rly 'l��.:.; Il,!'It! lUI" rfl ou�. diffia"nce will seJdom or bever- term·ina.tion of every sti.rring of brb oppo,,�· A nd to kll ;hl' trlJ'th It. k lboth of those: to by mou hon; to make of them an in.!lotrumnm. of 'hillll)eif utter U. or pea �en'!"ll{'1'U1 and SU('f'rftUOUl!ii - IJ(l.L only name ur t.he Deity, yet. in momenb war, infinrtt-!y compliant., sickli over bec;lus.e W81' will not be pCl'lOit ed to it deep emotiOlJ'l ca:I'lJlO()t �frain. 16t Jr by not one critieal 1dea, fettered by ·blind but bet8.Wlt\; w)lh lLR 1 .ading idea it itself since a.fier one • and fanatical ignorance. aU must Aaave effecll5 th{! oppf'k'llilf> 1)t ,,,,lmt It i� striving thinb� unsaid�nd this le.t,ter witJa A'nother meaning and purpose, aJ10ther to attain. No other people on earth is so brief and .fervent prayer : God help ocr �xcusc, the system cannot have; all the entirely incapabie of standing a war, so darkened and desecrated OOWl.try � -&acriflces ('if freedom, justi�, 'human lrttle �n condition tor one. That it would teach it to a m ke ibs peace w'th the ba.ppiJ'teS.S. tnc1uding the secret and open hlave no allies, not a single one in the and with itself!

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by Moshe Gottlieb

Reprintedfr om Jewish Social Studies, Vol. XXXV, Nos. 3-4 (July-October 1973)

The Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States: An Ideological and Sociological Appreciation

by Moshe Gottlieb

I The American movement to boycott Nazi goods and services began soon after the German elections in March, 1933, and ended in October, 1941, shortly before Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. It began as part of a global boycott, spontaneous in character and manifesting itself in a bitter resentment aroused by the assault against the Jews in the new Hitler Reich. But sooner in some cases, and later in others, the boycott started assuming official and organized forms . These stages, however, were preceded by an interim or waiting period, pregnant with action of a less drastic but more dramatic kind : public agitation, mass rallies, demonstration marches, angry organizational meetings, denunciatory press articles and diplomatic representation. Jewish War Veterans (JWV), the smallest but most militant among the several American Jewish defense groups, was first to declare a boycott against Nazi Germany. Its decision was reached in the early morning hours of March 19, after a stormy meeting begun the night before. Therewith, the Jewish Veterans had once again cast the die "to uphold the fair name of the Jew and fight his battle wherever unjustly assailed." 1 The immediate reason for the Veterans' resolve to commence a boycott against the Nazi Reich was undoubtedly due to the outbreak of anti-Jewish excesses in Essen, Magdeburg, Kassel and Berlin on March 8 and 9, during which Storm Trooper pickets shouted to passers-by their placards' call for a boycott of Jewish stores. Thus, to JWV, which had entertained ideas of declaring a boycott against . Germany right after Hitler's appointment as Reichskanzler on January 30, but llad hesitated to do so for fear of reprisals against German Jewry, these excesses were ample proof that the FUhrer would carry out his antisemitic policy regardless of Jewish reaction abroad. Losing very little time, though, JWV decided to dramatize

lPart of Object Two of the Constitution of the Jewish War Veterans of America. This meeting was not mentioned by the press; but according to Col. Morris 1. Mendelsohn, erstwhile Commander-in­ Chief of the JWV and first Chairman ofits Boycott Committee (see Pa 202) , the press was present but had decided to leave when, in the late hours of the night, no decision ha'tas yet been reached by the group. Mendelsohn made this statement in a taped interview for this writer on July 20, 1965, also claiming that it was a certain Benjamin Sperling, Commander of the East Post of Brooklyn, N.Y., who had proposed the boycott at the aforesaid meeting. This claim is confirmed by the New York Times (NY1) of September 2, 1935.

198 Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 199

its decision of March 19 by scheduling a parade fo r March 23, during which New York City's Mayor John P. O'Brien was presented with resolutions calling for diplomatic protest and a boycott of Nazi Germany. The antisemitic manifestations in Germany also affected the course of action originally agreed to by the American Jewish Congress (A.J .C.) and its two sister defense agencies, the American Jewish Committee (AJC)and B'nai B'rith (BB). The agreement was reached on February 22, at the suggestion of B'nai B'rith that the German Jewish situation be dealt with jointly by itself, the Committee and the Congress. The threesome established a Joint Conference Committee whose basic task was to keep a close watch on conditions in Germany. There was unanimous concurrence that, for the present, public agitation would not serve the cause of Reich Jewry. However, after the outbreaks of March 8 and 9, the Congress no longer felt bound by this accord. At a special session held on March 12, it decided to hold mass meetings on a nationwide scale as a means of offsetting the advent of a full­ fledgerd antisemitic program in Hitler Germany. As its first public spectacle, the Congress scheduled a protest rally at New York's Madison Square Garden on March 27. The Committee cautioned against holding it, warning that it would severely affect Germany's Jews. But now Congress assumed the same attitude taken by JWV when similarly warned that even if the mass protests were disavowed by American Jewry, it would not alter in any way Nazi designs against the Jews. As to the application of a boycott, at this stage the Congress only opposed it in principle, since it would have stifled any chance at reaching a possible modus vi­ vendi with the Hitler regime. However, the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith, while expressing their horror at Germany's anti-Jewish action, continued to oppose public agitation, let alone a boycott, as a means of combatting the Nazi threat.

Nazi officials, as well as German Jewish representatives, sought to have the 0/ giant protest rally called off- but to no avail. The very night of the rally, therefore, the Nazis announced that if Anglo-American Jews did not put an end to their anti- �� German atrocity propaganda and threats of boycott, the National Socialist Party would counter with a boycott of Reich Jewry. Such a boycott was, indeed, carried � out on April 1 on an all-day, country-wide basis, becoming eventually the focal -­ point of a popular movement to counter the boycott of the Nazi regime. 2

1;'he first to react, in this connection, was an ad hoc group calling itself the

"American League for the Defense of Jewish Rights" (ALDJR) . It announced its ,,.-r formation on April 22 in the Yiddish dailies, Der Forverts and Der Tog . The

2 I dealt with this subject in an article entitled, "The First of April Boycott and the Reaction of the American Jewish Community", American Jewish Historical Quarterly (AJHQ), vol. lvii (June, 1968), no. 4, pp. 516-556. 200 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIm

latter's Associate Editor, Dr. Abraham Coralnik, was the League's founder and head of its Provisional Boycott Committee. A journalistcolleague, Ezekiel Rabino­ witz, became Executive Secretary. That month, undoubtedly as a result of the April 1st drama, the noted attorney and influential member of New York City's Tammany Hall, Samuel Untermyer, also recommended that a boycott bestarted against the Nazis. Hearing this, and realizing /" how important it was for the infant League to secure an affluent and renowned figure, Rabinowitz invited Untermyer to be the principal speaker at ALDJR's mid­ May fo unding conference. In no time, Untermyer became undisputed leader of the 4v League, being voted president in September. And in November, as is learned from his correspondence with Coralnik, Untermyer became preoccupied with the thought /' that ALDJR was a misnomer. By December, therefore, he had its "Jewish" name altered to Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights (NSANL or ANL).3 In August, after several months of restraint, the American Jewish Congress had tJ:: /' joined the budding boycott movement. But it was only six months later, under' e chairmanship of Dr. Joseph L. Tenenbaum, that its Boycott Committee began operating in full fo rce. In 1936, the latter merged with the Boycott Committee of the /' Jewish Labor Committee (JLC), formed in 1934 due to the ever-growing Nazi menace: On several occasions, the united organization, called the Joint Boycott Council (JBC), sought to bring the League into its fold. Similar attempts were initiated by the League ; but all such overtures ended abortively, thereby nullifying the lofty aspiration of creating a united American boycott front. 4 Pr obably as a result of an exaggerated burst of enthusiasm and the economic

f' crisis of the day, Untermyer predicted in August 1933, that Germany would "crack this winter" if properly boycotted. Tenenbaum entertained similar ideas, saying in

./ March 1937, that six months of boycott "made universal by the peoples of the

3 On November 24, 1933, after Untermyer had communicated this intention to Coralnik, the latter replied that he was not opposed to the creation of a non-sectarian league, but did oppose the dis­ solution of his own organization at its expense. Instead, Coralnik proposed the co-existence of both; that is to say, ALDJR as a Jewish organization,and the NSANL as a liberal pro-Jewish group. Responding four days later, Untermyer nullified Coralnik's twin league scheme. Untermyer explained that he would never have joined ALDJR as a "Jewish organization", for he had maintained "from the very outset" that the boycott was "not a Jewish issue." However, the facts simply do not bear Mr. Untermyer out, as he ,c ould hardly have mistaken ALDJR as anything but a Jewish organization. What is more, in July of that' year, he and Coralnik took the lead in founding a World Jewish Economic Federation (WJEF) at a conference held in Amsterdam. And in September, about a month after returning to the United States, Untermyer presided over a conference whose aim was the national coordination of all boycott activities under the aegis of the WJEF. It was only in late 1934, at his first opportunity after altering ALDJR into NSANL, that he likewise altered the WJEF into the WNSANC (World Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi Council to Champion Human Rights). In short, Untermyer was trying to sell Coralnik a bill of goods. See now pp. �for more details and some documentary evidence on this subject. 'J.e�-;}O -, 4 The last such attempt was begun in the aftermath of the Crystal Nightof Npvember 1938, ending abortively the following March. It was initiated by Dr. Benjamin Dubovsky, Chairman of the League's Execntive Committee. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 201 world" would "stop not only the Hitler war threat, but Hitler as well." s Moreover, every so often both the League and the Council released statistical figures "proving" that the boycott was hurting Germany. But ultimately, what counted to boycott leaders most was that they were heading a movement that was trying at least to resist, if not help topple, perhaps the most tyrannical system of government in history. The effectiveness of the boycott, to the extent that it can be measured, has yet to be gauged by the trained economist (which this writer is not) . But this much can be said with certainty, nevertheless. Only in America, as opposed to Europe with its much larger Jewish population, did the boycott movement prove most effective and enduring.6 Following is a general summary and analysis of the underlying thinking that guided, and often determined, the policy-making decisions of America's boycott and anti-boycott leadership.

Th e Jewish War Ve terans -::: -

JWV was created by a small number of Civil War veterans in New York City in 1896. It was called the Hebrew Union Veterans Organization, and increased its membership significantly only some years after World War I, when it also was given its present name. Nevertheless, compared to existing Jewish defense organi­ zations, JWV constituted a small group. A militant organization by its very nature, it is hardly surprising that the JWV preceded all others in taking up the boycott. Mainly through placing its hopes in the promises of President Hindenburg that the rights of Reich Jewry would not be infringed upon, JWV decided to avoid the certainty of instant reprisals for declaring a boycott right after Hitler's appointment. However, the shocking anti-Jewish manifestations that followed the March 1933 victory of the Nazis at the polls­ ' 5, particularly the boycott of Jewish shops by Brown Shirt pickets-convinced Amer­ ica's Jewish War Veterans of the need to counter-boycott the Nazis. On April 10, the Veterans opened a boycott office, printing and distributing thousands of boycott placards and seals reading, "For Humanity's Sake-Don't Buy German Goods." JWV also circulated thousands of copies of a letter soliciting boycott support.

If you believe in the doctrine of "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness", you will help our cause.

5 Untermyer's prediction was made before the American Jewish Congress that had invited himto address the session in which it issuedits boycott declaration(see p. 214). Tenenbaum's assertion was made in an address delivered on March 15, 1937, at an anti-Hitler demonstration rally held at New York's Madison Square Garden. 6 See, in this connection, the author's article entitled, "Boycott, Anti-Nazi (all countries)", Encyclo­ pedia Judaica (EJ), vol. iv, Jerusalem, 1971, pp. 1280-82. The EJ also should be consulted for further infqrmation on all individuals and organizations discussed in this paper. 202 JEWISH SOCiAL STUDIES

600,000 Jewish souls-helpless men, women and children-are at the mercy of the Nazi terror in Germany. Your help is needed to save them from starvation, torture and annihilation. Thousands of non-Jews have also been deprived of their rights. The Jewish WarVeterans of the United States comprising men who fought in all the wars of our Republic, are conducting a national campaign of protest and enlightenment. The distribution of the enclosed seals is a part of our campaign. Please use them. If you believe our effort should be continued, a contribution from you will be appre­ ciated. An addressed envelope is enclosed fo r your convenience. Of the funds received, part will be used to relieve needy Jewish refugees. This is your battle as well as ours!7

The letter was signed and probably also prepared by Col. Morris J. Mendelsohn, past Commander-in-Chief of JWV and chairman of its Anti-Nazi Boycott Com­ mittee. Work of this kind was done under the direction of J. George Fredman, Commander-in-Chief till mid-1933, and, apparently, the most active, if not avid, boycott leader of the Jewish War Veterans.8 But neither he, and certainly not any of the other commanders of the thirties, bequeathed to us a boycott legacy setting forth their intellectual conception of and approach to the movement. For, as one l)light expect, a military organization does not usually produce or harbor sophisti­ cated thinkers and persuasive, eloquent communal voices, but men of resolution and action. In the JWV, these qualities manifested themselves in three main areas of activity: love of and loyalty to country, the Zionist cause and the cause of co-reli­ gionistS everywhere. In addition to their becoming boycott pioneers, the Jewish Veterans were also the first to resort to picketing, the harshest and most problematic, but also the most effective measure in pressuring the boycott offender into submission.9 To the

7 The Jewish Ve teran (June, 1933), p. 20 (of unnumbered pages). 8 He took partin some of the Congress' key deliberations on the German Jewish problem. And as one of the invited speakers at the Garden rally of March 27 (p. 34), Fredman advocated the prosecution J 99 of a boycott. Three days later, he led a JWVdelegation that presented the White House with a resolution condemning the mistreatment of German Jews. On March 21, under Fredman's supervision, Untermyer / was asked by JWV to represent it at the League of Nations in Geneva, and present a resolution compelling Germany to observe the Minorities Covenant in the Treaty of Versailles. That summer, Fredman accom- /' panied Untermyer and Coralnik to Amsterdam to help in the organization of the WJEF (see note 3). With Mendelsohn, he represented JWV at the National Boycott Conference that fo llowed soon after. More than any other JWV leader, Fredman continued playing an active role in the boycott movement in an inter-organizational capacity. 9 Because Untermyer regarded it as "illegal and contrary to the beat traditions of American insti­ tution\l", the League remained the only boycott agency opposed to picketing as a matter of principle. The COngress' Boycott Committee adhered to this principle up to the Fall of 1934. The reason for the / change at this time was the fe eling that "the boycott has reached a stage" where firms were iguoring let­ ters requesting the discontinuance of the importation of German merchandise. And when this was coupled with a successful picket demonstration by the Youth Division of the American Jewish Congress against a Bronx department store chain, the Boycott Committee decided to incorporate this medium into its program. This is not to say, however, that, on numerons occasions, boycott pickets had to be bailed out on such charges as "disorderly conduct" and disturbing the peace." On the whole, though, police treatment was lenient. Tenenbaum's guess was that this was due to the fact that New York's Mayor Fio-

/ rello H. LaGuardia was an Hon. Vice-President of the NSANL. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 203

end, their individualistic style, tough and uncompromising, set them apart from the other boycott groups. One obtains a glimpse of this style from a pamphlet printed and distributed by JWV members known as the Anti-Nazi Minute Men. The publication is directed against the "Jewish Traitors", calling for the adoption of "sterner methods in dealIng with fellow Jews, who, fo r monetary gain, betray an entire civilization-who place profit above principle-who, approximately one year and a half after the inception of the boycott are still buying and selling German merchandise." The reader is then exhorted (in large, black print) that PARASITES MUST BE TREATED AS SUCH. Jews of this kind, the concluding section urges, "should no longer be accepted in the decent society of their neighborhood and business asso­ ciates. The glare of unfavorable publicity must be turned into doing whatis just and 0 proper. Every possible legal means must be exercised to bring them to reason."! Psychologically, the color and fanfare that characterized JWV action un­ doubtedly created an image of the fighting Jew. Realistically speaking, however, by itself, this body was too small to make a lasting impact on the American Jewish community. And when this was actually being made by conventional boycott groups like ANL and JBC, JWV members cooperated with them on an individual basis ; but never did this proud, militant Jewish body agree to dissolve its Boycott Committee for the price of merging with either of America's two major boycott organizations. In retrospect, JWV's swift decision to embrace the boycott does not appear nearly as extreme or impulsive as it must have to their contemporaries; for time evinced that Hitler respected a show of strength only, and barring non-military action, a solid boycott wall seemed the best way to isolate and handicap him severely. In any case, the major question of the 1930's was the extent and duration of Nazi terror against the Jews. ,Theknowledge that it did not cast doubt, therefore, on the wisdom 9f the self-imposed bounds of diplomatic representation, the tactic to which the American Jewish Committee confined itself to the very end. This will be treated later in the article.

Th e ALDJR-NSANL

III The creation of the League yroduced three principal ideologists. They were Coralnik, Untermyer and Abba Hillel Silver. Their most original statements and interesting thinking were expressed in the early' phases of the movement. This was but natural, since they had to enlighten the public about the raison d'etre of the new organization.

10 Records of the Joint Boycott Council, in the 1934 correspondence of the I folder, NYPL (New York Public Library), The document was signed by Edgar H. Berman, Commander-in-Chief of the JWV at tJ;1e time. 204 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIFS

Thus, in a May 4, 1933 press release, perhaps his first onthe subject, Coralnik said he had from the very outset advocated a Jewish boycott. But seeing that even the rather militant American Jewish Congress refused his proposal despite the boycott of Jewish businesses in Germany on April 1, Coralnik decided to swing into action. His determination, he explained, resulted from the assertion that, unofficially, American Jews, whether their leaders did or did not recognize it, had already begun a boycott against Germany; his new League would organize and coordinate it for them. In another press statement made shortly before the League's founding con­ fe rence, Dr. Coralnik described the unprecedented virulence of the Hitlerian anti­ semitism that made free Jews resolute in their decision to defeat it.

The need for Jewish defense against Hitler's ruthlessness grows more urgent from day to day. His 'cold pogrom' is proceeding in all its cruelty, aimed at not less than the extermination of the Jews of Germany. This is no ordinary antisemitism, but an inexo­ rable war against the Jewish race, unparalleled in the history of modern times. Hitler's Germany has chosen the Jews as the special victims of attack. Those in his power are stricken and helpless, but their fellow Jews in enlightened lands are deter­ mined to spare no efforts to crush Hitlerism, the world menace. 11

Coralnik's most intimate and detailed views on the boycott-pro and- con­ were delineated before his Yiddish-reading public. 12 Ib a digest presenting the arguments of the anti-boycott camp, he noted its charges that the movement was neither ethical nor Jewish; that Jews are a moral people and should not, there­ fo re, resort to so uncivilized a weapon as boycott. Moreover, continued the boycott adversaries, U.S. Jewry is just not sufficiently organized or cohesive enough to lead such a movement. Witness, they pointed out, the sharp division between the Committee and the Congress.13 , And finally, the boycott is a two-edged sword which, if wielded, could have a disastrous effect upon Germany's Jews, and possibly even upon Jews in other antisemitic countries . But what is more, by promulgating and organizing a boycott, Jews disqualify themselves to effect achange in German policy towards their co-religionists ; for one who participates in a boycott has no moral right to protest a boycott by others. Before replying directly to these arguments, Coralnik gave his idea of a boycott. To him it was a sacrificial act ; men sacrificing their own interests-even themselves if need be-for the sake of others. As an example, CoraInik pointed to Gandhi's self-sacrifice to achieve social reforms and nationalist aims for India. Convinced that the Gandhist experiment was applicable in the present antisemitic crisis, Coralnik �uggests that Jewish merchants be told that, ultimately, they would not derive any joy fr om profits earned by dealing with their bloodiest enemy, Hitler Germany. Nor should it be difficult to make them understand that for only a few pennies they

11 The Jewish Chronicle, Newark, New Jersey, May 16, 1933, Newspaper Clippings, Scrapbook of the NSANL Archives, New York City. 12 Der Tog (May 13, 1933), p. 6. 13 See p. 199. A detailed picture of this division is given inthe course of this paper. The Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 205

were jeopardizing their own future and that of their children. Putting it more bluntly, Coralnik said that Germany had obviously become the Jews' greatest enemy, and one does not engage in trade with an enemy. As to the charge that the boycott was unethical and meant fighting a barbarian with barbaric methods, Coralnik argued that such "biblical morals" could not and would not solve the Jewish question. For Hitler was trampling the Bible under fo ot, and he had eliminated all those to whom one could have turned on humanitarian and moral grounds. The entire situation reduced itself to the crude formula that / when one lives among wolves, one has to act like one in order to survive. What follows after the discussion of the theoretical and ideological arguments against boycott is a cold and practical appraisal of Germany. Germany is an indus- trial country, and more than any other European power, she is dependent upon her exports. Should, therefore, the gates of import be shut to her, she is certain to become ./ impoverished. Then, and only then, will Germany come to realize the enormity of her crime. �cCoralnik admits a boycott will hurt Germany's Jewish merchants. However, this is the sacrifice he believes they must make to the cause of defeating Hitler. Coralnik does not, however, solve the problem of how to make the boycott an effective ins�ent in the face of Jewish disunity . In this regard, his approach is intuitive, one o(faith ; he feels that this unprecedented crisis will uniteJews as never �. before. Coralnik cautions, however, that this time they must not do battle in words, but in deeds !

IV Although Untermyer anachronistically reinterpreted his earlier boycott state­ ments by claiming them to have been in conformity with the League's subsequent non-sectarian scheme, the fact remains that these had a distinctly Jewish stamp and tone. This should by no means come as a surprise, as Untermyer was a past Vice­

President of the American Jewish Congress and a non-Zionist supporter of a Jewish � National Home in Palestine. Thus, it was in connection with the last-mentioned . cause that he went on record as recommending a boycott. The latter is contained in part of a larger statement which Untermyer made on April 13, 1933 on the occasion ...---.. of his presentation of a memorial gift to the Hebrew University.

OUf people would be justified in seeing to it that nowhere in the world and under no circumstances should a Jew, from this day forth, buy or use merchandise manufactured in Germany or support German industry in any fo rm. 14 , The following month, at a Palestine campaign meeting held at Boston's Sym­ phony Hall, Untermyer again urged American Jewry to implement an all-embracing boycott against Nazi Germany. Without mentioning it by name, hepolitely criticized the anti-boycott stand of the American Jewish Committee, thereby bringing into

14 NIT(April 14, 1933), p. 15. 206 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES

focus the heart of the controversy around this divisivemovement within theAmerican Jewish community.

I am an ardent champion of an effective boycott that will teach the German people that we Jews have not lost our self-respect. It is our only effective weapon against this brutal onslaught upon our people. I am, however, aware that there is a very large and respectable element among our people, for whose opinion I have the highest respect, that advises against this course, but fails to suggest any other remedy. Their argument is based upon the fear that ifthe boycott proves effective, Hitler and his fellow-ruffians in officewill carry out their implied threats and let loose their hatred by indulging and encouraging bloody pogroms against their unfortunate victims, which they would not otherwise dare. That is what they started to do and what I fear they will do, in any event, unless restrained by- some remaining shred of fear of the opinion of the civilized world. 15

The following week, at the League's founding conference, therestraint that Untermyer had evinced in the foregoing anti-Committee statement changed to an unmerciful rebuke.

To the few timid, credulous. well�intentioned souls among the American Jews who have no defensive plan whatever to offer, but who are unwilling to commit themselves to a boycott, what are you going to do? Are you going to sit idly by while your brethren in Germany are humiliated, degraded, deprived of their rights and citizenship and kicked out of their professions and employment and left to starve by this Austrian upstart and his band of ruffians? That is not my conception ofyour right and duty. You are no more peace-loving than the rest of us. The only difference between us is that you lack the will and courage to fight. It is so easy to counsel "peace" when there is no peace. What you recommend is virtually a counsel of despair and surrender to the most inhuman fo rces that have dom­ inated government in centuries. This boycott can and must be made so effective that it will strike at the very founda: tions of the campaign that is being waged against the Jews in Germany. 16

Meanwhile, Untermyer's decision to enter the boycott arena had prompted Morris D. Waldman, the Executive Secretary of the American Jewish Committee, to try and dissuade him from making such a move. Untermyer and the highly con­ servative, but very prosperous Committee elite were derived from a common Ger­ man-Jewish ancestry. However in the current controversial issue it seemed to Com­ mittee members that Untermyer's position did not suit his origins and economic and sodal status. In any event, Untermyer was too important to be ignored by the Committee. The following piece of advice, appended by Waldman to a special circular report that he sent Untermyer early in May, apparently, conveys this truth:

Above all, it is imperative that in this grave and highly delicate situation; no individual should speak or act for the Jewish people, but all should entrust the responsibility to recognized organizations like the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith who have been dealing with these problems for many years. 17

15 Ibid., (May 8, 1933), p. 6.

16 Ib id., (May 15, 1933), p. 8. 17 Archives of the American Jewish Committee, Boycott Germany Public Opinion folder, New York. Waldman's communication is not dated, but is attached to a letter whose date is cited in note 18. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 207

Untermyer responded by saying:

As I view the tragic predicament of our unfortunate brethren in Germany, whom it is our duty and our self-interest to protect, the report of your Committee offers no hope fo r relief and no alternative other than through the boycott. I have given considerable study to this subject and have gathered a mass of infor­ mation, all leading to the conclusion that the Hitler party is bent upon the extermination of the Jews in Germany, or upon driving them out of the country. The men in control are bigoted fanatics to whom neither reason, justice nor humanity makes the slightest appeal. Their hatred is deep-seated and nothing but the fear of consequences will affect them. With all due respect I therefore differ fr om the policy that has been recommended and is being pursued by the American Jewish Committee and shall fe el at liberty, but always on my own responsibility, and without assuming to act for the Jewish people,

to make such recommendations as in my judgment will best conserve the interests of // the Jews in Germany. I am fortified in my course of action by a large body of the Jewish people in this country-a body vastly larger, though less influential than that represented by your Committee. is

<: In his reply, Waldman emphasized that the Committee's position was being governed by the wishes of all elements of the Jewish population in Germany, the official thorities au in Washington, and the "unanimous advice of responsible orga­ nizations in E�gland, France and other countries who are especially engaged in the work of prote�ting the civil and religious rights of Jews ." But it was in another part of his reply that Waldman admitted, somewhat indirectly, that Untermyer was the kind of man who could stir up boycott acti<)ll on the part of the American Jewish community.

Strong as your convictions, which we respect, may be, I keenly regret, fr ankly, that a man of your outstanding position in the community whose utterances exert a great in­ fluence upon public opinion, did not consult with the American Jewish Committee to ascertain the reasons for their attitude, and what methods they have been fo llowing, before giving public utterance to views which, you must have known, would be widely published and profoundly influence public sentiment.i9

The month after Untermyer's first speech before the infant League, he was also written to by Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, another leading Committee member, who later became its president (1943-1949). Proskauer stressed the danger of organized boycott as contrasted to boycott on an individual basis ; but to no avail. Untermyer remained diametrically opposed to such a viewpoint. By so informing Proskauer he put an end to their interesting, but fr uitless correspondence. Nearly t�o years later, as part of a series of press interviews held with some of Am�rica's most prominent pro and anti boycott spokesmen, Untermyer set forth his position against that of Judge Proskauer. His statement, which now follows, demonstrates what a turnabout Untermyer's shift to non-sectarianism represented if contrasted with the content of his previously cited declarations.

18 Ib id., May 4, 1933. 19 Ib id., May 9, 1933. 208 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIFS

The rescue of Christianity and the rehabilitation of organized labor and not the fate of / the German Jews is the dominating issue, though the matter is an important one. It has always been the fate of American Jewry to have this handful of holier than thou high­ brows separate themselves from the great majority of their brethren on every important question. What I want now to emphasize is that the importance of this small minority must not be exaggerated, that it does not even represent Jewish sentiment and that our orga­ nizations here and abroad are distinctly non-sectarian, representing men and women of all classes, creeds and positions in life, and that the public must not be misled by a few discordant Jewish voices which have no constructive program to offer against this crime of the century. 20

V According to JBCs June 1933 correspondence file, an apparently local Amer­ ican Jewish Congress leader from Cleveland, Ohio, suggested that the main office approach Abba Hillel Silver, that city's renowned rabbi, on the question of active participation in the Congress; for in addresses delivered in a number of U.S. cities, Silver, fam ed Zionist and outstanding orator, "has voiced the same sentiments as actuated the leadership of the American Jewish Congress." However, as yet, the Congress had not declared a boycott against the Nazis ; and this js why, at least according to Mr. Rabinowitz21, Untermyer succeeded in attracting Silver to the ALDJR. But Silver might also have felt that under Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, who not merely led, but dominated the Congress, he would not 2 have the influential voice or high office that he could and would attain in the League. 2 In any event, as a result of joining it, Silver's impresses us as having become the League's most eloquent and inspiring voice, just as Untermyer's was its most authori­ tative and productive one. Thus, the qualities of the one-the gift fo r both the spoken and written word---'complemented the organizational and administrative skills of the other. Silver's association with the League spans two main periods : one, the year 1933, in which he attended the organization's important meetings and cOnferences, playing an active part in policy-making decisions ; and two, the 1934-1936 period, during which Silver set forth in writinghis views on the boycott in particular and the I dangers of Nazism in general. It should not surprise us to learn, though, that Silver never became a convert to Untermyer's brand of non-sectarianism. As to the latter half of the thirties, these were Silver's most inactive years with the League, when he does not appear to have done much more than attend its Board meetings.2:3

20 New York World-Telegram (February 12, 1935), Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook of the NASNL. 21 Q.ot!J See� Rabinowitz claimed this in a taped interview for theauthor on July 9, 1964. Rabinowitz also said it was he who first approached Silver on the question of joining the League. 22 Silver was voted a First Vice-President of the League, also holding the post of Chairman of its National Administrative Committee. 23 Silver, it seems, eventually became disillusioned with Untermyer, who, in his rather imperious manner, sought to impose his will upon all co-workers. See again p.38 and note 3. In the taped interview .- Th e Anti:Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 209

Silver's first widely publicized statement regarding the bDYCDtt mDvement appears to. have been made in connectiDn with the disclDsure Df the cDntroversial Transfer Agreement, enabling German Jews destined fDr Palestine to. take their mDney DUt Df the Nazi Reich in the fDrm Df merchandise. 24

Why the very idea of Palestinian Jewry negotiating with Hitler about business instead of demanding justice for the persecuted Jews of Germany is unthinkable. Palestinian Jewry should be showing the way to unified action and not be willing to victimize the Jews of the world for a million crates of oranges. This is a test case. Always Palestine has asked the Jews of the world to sacrifice fo r Palestine. Now the time has come to ask: Will Palestine make a commercial sacrifice for the interests of the fifteen million Jews of the world?25

Less than a fDrtnight later, Dn September 10, 1933, at a League cDnference designed to create a united American bDYCDtt frDnt, Silver, who. was appDinted Chairman Df the ResDlutiDns CDmmittee, fDrmulated his definitiDn and cDnceptiDn Dfthe bDYCDtt. Less impulsive than Untermyer, who.repeated (p. 200) that "Germany wjll crack this winter fr Dm starvatio.n" prDvided "YDU gentlemen and Dur Dther assDciates do. their duty," Silver tDDk issue with this predictiDn, saying that'Jews "have to. prepare fDr a IDng battle." He then went Dn to. justify the boYCDtt fr Dm a mo.ral and legal standpDint.

In a way, this is war; this is a substitute for war; this is a moral substitute for war. That is what boycott is. The League of Nations recognizes it as the moral substitute for physical pressure, in terms of military punitive expeditions.26

Silver therewith stressed as "absDlutely impDrtant" the establishment Df "Dne central authDrity which will speak fDr the whDle Df American Israel" Dn the successful prDsecutiDn Df the bOyCDtt. "If that can't be done", he added, "then I believe Dur task is hDpeless."

mentioned in note 21, Rabinowitz backs up this charge. And in another taped interview made for this writer on July 15, 1964, the late Bernard G. Richards, one-time Executive Secretary of the League, illus­ trated Untermyer's insensitivityby saying that he often opened the organization's meetings with the knowl­ edge that Silver was in the meantime flying in from Cleveland to attend them. Moreover, in the latter half of the thirties, Silver's earlier boycott hopes, expectations and even enthusiasm must have worn off considerably. For it was becoming increasingly obvious that it would take much more than just a boycott to defeat Hitler. As a sober realist, Silver had to weigh this knowledge against his many duties as a busy out-of�town rabbi and active Zionist. The result, of course, was a radical diminution in time and energy for the boycott cause. 24 Formally, the Transfer Agreement was reached with the German Ministry of Economics by the Anglo-Palestine Bank (now Bank Leumi L'yisrael) on August 25, 1933; hence Silver's reaction (see date cited in note 25). Dr. Chaim (Victor) Arlosoroff, the very promising head of the Political Department of the Jewish Agency, visited Germany about two months prior to his assassination in June, 1933, where he conducted the secret negotiations that led to the aforesaid Agreement. Following the latter, the Trust and Transfer Office (Haavara) Ltd. was established in Tel Aviv. The right to transfer their capital in the form of German export goods proved a major factor in enabling some 60,000 Jews to emigrate to Palestine from the Hitler Reich between 1933-1939. 2S Jewish Daily Bulletin (JDB) (August 30, 1933), p. 4. 26 Archives of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League, Minutes of the National Boycott Conference, New York, N.Y., p. 25. 210 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES

Silver also pointed out that "our protests" had been ignored by Hitler, Goering and Goebbels. "But one thing that has gone under their skin", he claimed, "has been the boycott." Unlike mere protest, Silver asserted, "the boycott gives us a chance to fight back, and to fight back so that we can see the visible effect of our blows." Rabbi Silver then went on to describe the historic import that the conduct of a global boycott would have for World Jewry. We are just beginning, and the cumulative effect of Jews here and in England and Bel­ gium and Holland, in Czechoslovakia, and in Egypt, the cumulative effect of the boycott upon Germany will reach its climax this year. And ifwe can break that regime ofblood

and terror as a result of our pressure and that of the liberal fo rces ofthe world, the spear point of whose attack we have been, it will rebound to the prestige of the Jewish people for a century to come. No government will dare again overnight to deprive a Jewish minority of its rights. 27

The aforesaid constitutes an excellent example of the striking contrast between the hopes and expectations of a movement in its ideological setting and the dictates Q1::end product of reality. Thus, the effective global boycott that Silver and others envisioned never actually came off. For how could it ? Russia's three million Jews were not permitted, of course, to conduct an official boycott. Poland, with its some­ what more than three million Jews, dissolved the boycott in 1935. And America's nearly five million Jews never managed to form a national boycott organization. As to the Jewries of other countries, they counted less than a million in each one and showed relative boycott cohesion in England only. Nor did the "liberal fo rces of the world" turn the scales in any way. Such a development would have necessitated the active participation of the Western de­ mocracies, a cooperative venture that was then out of the question. However, the task of erecting an international boycott wall is a herculean one, the recent ostracism by the West of so small a country as Rhodesia showing how breachable such a boy­ cott wall could be. How much more insuperable were the odds to prevent so industrial and industrious a power like Nazi Germany from circumventing and overcoming the "cumulative effect" of a restricted and imperfect boycott. But while such judg­ ments frustrate the calculations of those who predict or expect maximum boycott results, they certainly do not dismiss the boycott as a useless economic instrument ; nor do they in any way invalidate it as a morally defensible movement.

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VI The leading spokesmen of the American Jewish Congress on the issue of protest and boycott were its Honorary President, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Mr. Bernard S. Deutsch, President, .and Dr. Joseph L. Tenenbaum, its National Executive Com­ mittee Chairman and later Chairman of the Boycott Committee. (These individuals

27 Ibid., p. 27. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 211

are treated respectively in this section, and sections six and seven, in greater detail.) Whereas for the several months after Hitler's rise to power, official Congress records do not even mention boycott as a fe asible weapon, the advisability of protest action is cited several months prior to this event, and in possible antici­ pation of a Nazi political triumph.28 Yet, at a conference held in January 1932, the Committee and the Congress agreed that it would be unwise and unnecessary fo r Jews of other countries to take any action in behalf of their German brethren aimed at counteracting Nazi antisemitic propaganda. The stated reason was that German Jews had full confidence in the civil rights clause of the Weimar Constitu­ tion and the sobriety of their fe llow Germans. That the Congress could hardly be expected to be bound by this specific under­ standing after Hitler had become Chancellor is plain enough ; but what is rather revealing, if not actually deceptive, is a suggestion made by the Congress' Adminis­ trative Committee on February 7, 1933, to hold a number of protest meetings "so as to make the Germans conscious of the fact that the situation is being watched." FQ,�)j: will be recalled (p. 199) that only a fo rtnight later, the Congress, injoint con­ currence with the Committee and B'nai B'rith, had decided that public agitation was not in German Jewry's best interests. And as we shall presently see, such a be­ guiling policy rightly irritated the Congress' sister defense organizations. In agreeing to set up and become a part of the Joint Committee, the Congress did not obligate itself to desist indefinitely from public agitation on the German Jewish question. The outbreaks of March 8 and 9 proved, in its view, that Hitler had officially launched his fourteen-year-old pr-omise of a reckoning with the Jews. Thus, it was under the shadow of these humiliating acts and its potential danger to world Jewry as well as German Jewry that Rabbi Wise said in part :

The time for caution and prudence is past. We must speak up like men. How can we ask our Christian fr iends to lift their voices in protest against the wrongs suffered by Jews ifwe keep silent? What is happening in Germany today may happen tomorrow in any other land on earth unless it is challenged and rebuked. It is not the German Jews who are being at­ tacked. It is the Jews. We must speak out. If that is unavailing, at least we shall have spoken.29

28 Evidence to the fact that Wise's recourse to protest was influenced by the encouragement of his close Christian colleague, the Rev. John H. Hohnes, Minister of the New York Gommunity Church. This may be seen from a letter the latter wrote Wise nearly six months before the Nazis came to power. Basing himself on "a most acute and well-informed observer of conditions in Germany", Holmes said : "The Nazis here are behaving scandalously. Deliberate incitement to pogroms, which I simply cannot understand the Jewish financial world in America to continue without protest! By an intelligent campaign they could play hell with the Nazis, of course not by attacks in Germany, but by bringing moral pressure to bear upon this element in the country. The Nazis are very sensitive to foreigncom ment." This communi­ cation, sent to Wise from Maine (Mainz?), was quoted by him to Justice Julian W. Mack, first President of the American Jewish Co�gress, on September 13, 1932 (Stephen S. Wise Papers, Nazi Period folder, Brandeis University Library, Waltham, Mass.). Z9 NYT, March 21, 1933, p. 10, Wise's statement was made on the occasion of his 59thbirthday. His reference to "Christian friends" was an allusion to the non-Jewish speakers invited to speak at the ap­ proaching Garden rally. 212 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES The aforesaid served as a definitive and corroborative statement linked to the Congress' anouncement of March 12 (p. 199) that it had decidedto initiate a protest movement. Besides the mass rally on March 27, this concerted activity lasting about five months, was highlighted by a demonstration march on May 10, and an Emer­ gency Session held at Washington, D.C., on the weekend of May 20. On these and other occasions of a less spectacular nature, Wise was increasingly pressured to have the Congress join the ranks of the infant boycott movement. Thus, at an April 19 meeting that voted for the May 10 march, Wise said said to members shouting fo r a boycott: "The time has not yet come for an official boycott-we still have , other weapons., 30 Themarch fell on the very day the Nazis were burning all "un-German" books ; and such leading Congress officers as Louis Lipsky and Dr. Samuel Margoshes, the proposer of the public procession, demanded a boycott of the Hitler Reich. And again Rabbi Wise declined, choosing instead, to admonish and preach to a regime that would not listen or heed. Part of his moving speech reads as follows:

We shall not surrender our rights as men, as Jews and as Americans to protest against the colossal wrong which Hitlerism is perpetrating against the Jewish people. The sympathy of the civilized peoples is with us. They understand us, but they cannot under­ stand them that have risen up against us to destroy us. Firm in the fa ith of our fathers that right,makes right, and not that might makes right, we solemnly adjure the Govern­ ment of Germany to repent before it is too late of the evil that it does, and to bethink itself, remembering that a national renaissance cannot come to pass out of hatred, injustice and wrong, and that decrees of extermination, cruel, godless, inhuman, against the Jewish people have time and time again proven to be edicts of national self-extermina­ tion.31

Why Wise hesitated so to accede to the boycott at this stage is in need of fu rther clarification. For one thing, he firmly believed President Roosevelt would try to influence Hitler to put an end to the persecution unleashed against German Jewry. On June 13, after a number of visits to the State Department and Capitol Hill, Wise expressed this hope before a large crowd in St. Louis. But Roosevelt who proved

/ rather slow in acqepting that the reign of terror unleashed against Reich Jewry was actually gove�ent-inspired, turned out to be even slower in asserting himself against the isolationist posture in the aftermath of World War I. And this discounts the snubbing he was certain to receive from the Nazis, perhaps from Hitler himself, for meddling in the internal affairs of another nation. Thus, Roosevelt must surely have felt that a public utterance or any public action in behalf of Germany's Jews would only act as a boomerang. It was a misjudgment characteristic of an age in which the world's . political leaders grossly misjudged Hitler's real intentions until too late for Jew and non-Jew alike. Wise, at any rate, was absolutely convinced that only a world Jewish body

31) JDB (April 21, 1933), p. 2. 31 American Jewish Congress Courier (May 19, 1933), p. 7. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Mo vement in the Un ited States 213 could produce the maximum effect from a promulgated boycott. Two such bodies were scheduled to convene in the summer of 1933: the Eighteenth Zionist Congress meeting in Prague and the Second World Jewish Conference in Geneva. 32 Wise attended both gatherings. InPrague, he went on record as favoring the boycott, saying that "self-respecting Jews cannot deal with Germany in any way." And, although the disclosure was of prime interest, still, it came from Wise speaking as a private individnal to a private reporter. Wise did not propose the boycott at the Zionist Congress, feeling the latter should confine itself to problems bearing directly upon Palestinian Jewry. Boycott and German Jewry were nnequivocallydiaspora problems, and their proper forum, Wise thought, was the World Jewish Conference. Hence, it was before this body that he formally urged the adoption of the boycott, explaining why the American Jewish Congress had taken so long in declaring it.

We of the American Jewish Congress could not, would not, did not seek to organize and proclaim a World Jewish boycott. We could not until after conference with the representatives of the Jewries of the world. Throughout six months I have maintained . (this?) because I believed that such a boycott could be declared only by a body such as meets tonight in Geneva and speaks on behalf of millions of Jews. Whatever decision will be reached by the World Jewish Congress Executive, will besupported to the limit by the American Jewish Congress, indeed, by allthe American Jewry, the largest Jewry on earth, consisting of a more than one quarter of the world's Jewish population. 33

It now behooves usto see what the American Jewish Congresswas doing during Wise's absence.

VII Bernard Deutsch,an attorney and member of New York's Board of Aldermen, became Congress president in 1929. He was encouraged to accept this post by the outgoing president, Stephen Wise. In 1935, Wise was returned to the presidency, as Deutsch had declined to run for a second term and died later that year. Thoughsurpassed by Rabbi Wise in fame, prestige and eloquence, Mr. Deutsch was in his own right a �pable and energeticleader. Together with Wise, he boldly chartered the course of the Congress protest movement. And while Wise was pre-

32 It was the Second in a triple series of Conferences of the movement to found a World Jewish Congress. The latter was conceived by the noted historian, Simon Dubnow, who suggested its creation and separation from the World Zionist Organizationafter the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903. The purpose of such a Congress was exclusive devotion to problems relating to the Jewish Diaspora, the World Zionist Organization,Peing a Palestino-centric body. But it was not unti1 1932, when theNazi menace loomed up morethan ever before, that agreementwas reachedthat the creation of a WorldJewish Congress brooked no fu rther delays. The result was the First World Jewish Conference, convenedthat summer in Geneva, Switzerland. Dr. Wise was the spearhead of this Preliminary Conference. The Third and last such Con­ ference was held in 1934, fo llowed two years later by the establishment of the World Jewish Congress. 33 Protocole de la lIe Conference Ju ive Mondiale, Geneve, Septembre 5-8, 1933. Unlike Wise, the Revisionists, led by Vladimir Jabotinsky, did introduce a boycott resolution at the Eighteenth Zionist Congress. When the latter rejected the proposal, the Revisionist movement decided to maintain its self­ styledboycott. 214 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES

paring to introduce a boycott resolution before the World Jewish Conference on the Continent, Deutsch, in America, directed a parallel move by the American Jewish Congress. Before so doing, Deutsch, in a final effort to avoid the impending boycott declaration, appealed to President Hindenburg, to save Germany's 600,000 Jews from "certain extermination." On August 15, 1933, in an open letter to the German President, the Congress President listed sixteen articles of the Weimar Constitution that had been violated by the Hitler government. Deutsch also reminded Hinden­ burg that the dictatorial powers he had conferred upon Hitler did not permit the Nazi Chancellor to "defy the foundations on which the German republic was built" or "to vanquish every principle of humanity in relation to the Jews." Saying he refused to believe that Hindenburg would associate himself with Hitler's avowed purpose to destroy Reich Jewry, Deutsch proceeded to describe the consequence of such a policy :

The persecution of the Jews has given rise to spontaneous reprisals in the form of boycotts in every country of the world on the part of liberals, irrespective of race or creed, in .' many instances tacitly sanctioned by the various governments themselves. 34

Deutsch concluded his letter with a reminder that "the President of the Reich may yet offe:.: redress to the Jews of Germany and save the German nation from degeneration ,and ostracism of the civilized world." As could be expected, Deutsch's plea went unheeded, for the German Embassy refused to forward his appeal to Hindenburg. The Congress President interpreted this to mean that the Reich President was being held incommunicado by the Nazis, so that, among other things, Hindenburg would remain ignorant about the fa te of German Jewry. On August 17, the Congress Administrative Committee secretly adopted a boycott resolution which it recommended to the organization's National Executive Committee. And so, on August 20, this Committee, whose decisions were binding upon the Congress, issued an official boycott declaration. The event, witnessed this time by the press, featured Untermyer as guest speaker and was attended by the Congress' leading members and affiliates. Deutsch, who, together with Wise, had been criticized for having relied solely on the policies of public protest and diplomatic representation, was particularly outspoken. He now regretted not having adopted a tougher stand against Hitler Germany, and condemned the Roosevelt Administration for failing to denounce Nazi outrages against Jews.

The American public may rightfully ask why the United States Government continues to maintain diplomatic silence in relation to a country whose treatment of its nationals betrays every humane instinct and where Americans are repeatedly assaulted, arrested

34 NYT, August 16, 1933, p. 11. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 215

and fo rcibly detained ; where American firms are ordered to dismiss their Jewish emplo­ yees, where American shipping interests are discriminated against and whose govern­ ment has the temerity to send paid propagandists to the United States to spread racial hatred and bigotry. But neither the fa ilure of Hitler to revoke his policy or that of the United States Government, as yet openly to make known its abhorrence of that policy, can persuade the Jews of America to accept the status quo in Germany.35 "The stringency of the situation in Germany today," Deutsch explained, "makes it impossible to withhold decisive action." Deutsch also made certain to emphasize that it was the German government which first launched a boycott against "its Jewish inhabitants," and that this boycott was now engulfing American foreign shipping. What he was leading up to came next :

Therefore, as the President of the American Jewish Congress, I recommend the orga­ nization, coordination and integration of a boycott movement of German manufactures of all kinds, in the hope that the economic isolation of Germany will bring the Hitler Government to the realization of the contempt in which the civilized world holds its �m.ad policies. 36 Despite his having continued as Congress president for nearly two more years, Deutsch really never placed an original and lasting boycott imprint on the move­ ment; for, unlike Wise or Tenenbaum, Deutsch was not the boycott theoretician. And while he did not participate with them in attempts to coordinate boycott activities with the League, Deutsch's main contribution and distinction remain in the Congress' transitory phase of protest. Moreover, fr om 1934 on, for reasons not available in the record, Deutsch is hardly heard from on the boycott.

VIII As far as we can tell, only two high-ranking Congress officers openlyspoke of the subject of boycott before April 1, 1933. The firstof these was Dr. Joseph Tenen- � baum, who made a veiled threat to this effect on March 12, saying :

Germany is not a speck on (the) Mars. It is a civilized country, located in the heart of Europe, relying on fr iendly cooperation and commercial intercourse with the nations of the world. A great industrial country like Germany cannot be isolated commercially from the rest of the world. To overlook this means to disregard the vital interests of the country and to destroy the arteries of economic life. A bellumjudaicum-war against the Jews-means boycott, ruin and disaster, the end of German resources and the end of all hope for the rehabilitation of Germany, whose fr iends we have not ceased to be. May God save Germany from such a national calamity. 37

35 From "AllAmerica Must Boycott Germany". Anaddress delivered at the meeting ofthe National Executive Committee on August 20, 1933, at the Hotel New Yorker. Records of the Joint Boycott Council, Carton * 14, Speeches 1936-38 folder, p. 3, NYPL. 36 Ibid., p. 4. 37 From an address entitled, "The Plight of the Jews in Germany", which was delivered at a meeting of the National Executive Committee of the American Jewish Congress in the Hotel Commodore, NYC, pp. 4-5. The speech is located at the YIVO Institute for JeWish Research, Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum Collec­ tion, NYC. Tenenbaum repeated this warning at the Garden rally of March 27. 216 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIFS

Next to refer to the boycott was a Congress vice-president, W. W. Cohen. His, however, was open advocacy. Speaking on the evening of March 20 as JWV's guest of honor, Cohen said :

Any Jew buying one penny's worth of merchandise made in Germany is a traitor to his people. I doubt that the American Government can officially take any notice of what the German Government is doing to its own citizens. Our only line of resistance is to touch German pocketbooks. 38

Not until that summer did Tenenbaum begin actively to pave the way for the Congress' inevitable boycott declaration. Thus, at the turn of August, apparently, he circulated among Congress branches and affiliated organizations a questionaire (undated) on the subject of boycott. This was followed by an emergency session of the National Executive Committee convened on August 6 to discuss the issue of boycott endorsement. When the latter was finally recommended by the Administra­ tive Committee to the Executive Committee, scheduled to meet in emergency session on August 20, it was Tenenbaum, as presiding chairman, who read the Congress' boycott declaration. Wise, Deutsch and Tenenbaum met with Untermyer the fo llowing month to discuss the possibility of coordinating boycott activities with the League. Nothing came of this and similar overtures made by the Congress later that year (see p. 200) . And so, in January 1934, because of increasing dissatisfaction with the Congress' lack of progress, Tenenbaum, who for months had been evincing a keen interest in assuming the chairmanship of its Boycott Committee, was appointed to that post by Rabbi Wise.39 In his new capacity, Tenenbaum evidently turned out to be the most zealous and hard-working leader of America's boycott movement. From the abundant number of statements, memoranda and speeches prepared by Dr. Tenenbaum, one obtains a very clear picture of his conception and aim of the movement. Thus, as early as August 20, 1933, in his address at the Congress' / Emergency Session, · he said in a subsection entitled, "When Boycott Becomes a Moral Obligation" :

Itis to preserve peace, liberty and the fundamentals of civilization; it is to save the human soul that we must wage economic war against Hitlerism. In comparison with the havoc wrought upon a sorely tried world by a victorious Hitlerism, the most cruel boycott appears as an act of mercy under the circumstances. To quote a memorable utterance of a great Belgian statesman which appeared in Le Soir: 'The Jewish people have a rare opportunity to prove to the world that sanctions against a barbaric people do not necessarily mean the use of cannons and guns. There is such a thing as economic am­

munitjon.' Ours is a boycott, not of retaliation or vengeance,. but of self-defense and for the defense of the interests of humanity.40

38 NYT (March 21, 1933), p. lO. 39 I was so informed in a taped interview by the late Dr. Samuel Margoshes (July 14, 1964), Vice­ President of the American Jewish Congress at the time (see p. 50) and Miss Lily Shultz (July 23, 1964), - C2'2.-- erstwhile Director of Publicity for the Congress. 40 From "Boycott Hitlerism to Save Humanity," Records of the Joint Boycott Council, Carton * 14, Speeches 1936-38 folder, p. 5, NYFL. The Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 217

What ifthe boycott falls short of achieving its end? Tenenbaum's reply entailed his view of the movement's raison d'etre. Even if the boycott should ultimately prove a failure, we have nevertheless, a moral

duty to strain every ounce of our energy, and ifwe are to fail, then at least let us leave to posterity the unimpeachable proof that we have made the most of our opportunities, fought to the last man, and though downed with defeat, we have shown neither indif­ ference nor a lack of zeaL 41

IX The rise in 1934 of a Jewish Labor Committee (p. 200) representing, purportedly, nearly half a million Jewish workers, is mainly to be credited to the leadership of Baruch C. Vladeck. A Bundist and anti-Zionist, Vladeck felt "that the American Jewish Congress has not established the necessity for its existence." Thus, wrote Vladeck to Deutsch on December 12, 1934, in declining to accept a Congress invi­ tation to participate in its elections of 1935 (see p. 213). "It has not offered any pro­ gram", continued Vladeck, "in regard to the Jewish problem that has not already been'offered by one or the other of existing Jewish organizations." Vladeck turned next to the most burning and painful problem of the day.

In regard to the situatiou in Germany, the American Jewish Congress has stressed the fight against Hitlerism as a purely Jewish issue. The Jewish Labor Committee considers the Jewish plight in Germany as only one angle of Fascism, and is of the opinion that only by conducting our campaign as a part of a general labor campaign against Fascism, can we succeed.42 A nadir in JLC-A.J.C. relations set in several weeks later after Vladeck bitterly denounced and assailed the Congress in the Jewish Daily Fo rward, of which he was managing editor. Wise was absolutely fu rious with this "filthy and foul attack", as he described it in a "personal and confidential" communication to New York's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, even accusing Vladeck of being "criminally liable" for having resorted to such terms as "racketeering" in his assault. "I mention this to you," explained Dr. Wise, "because you know I was ready to meet with him and ,, you to talk things over. Now I cannot. 43 Just what Wise had had in mind is not known. In any case, in his previously­ mentioned letter to Deutsch, Vladeck had also said that JLC was "more than ever convinced that in matters of real importance there should be cooperation between all Jewish agencies." The boycott, conducted by both the Jewish Congress and Labor Committee, was an obvious means of realizing such cooperation ; but now not Deutsch, and certainly not Wise, were amenable to dealing with Vladeck.

41 Ibid. , Unsorted Miscellaneous Material folder. 42 Archives of the Jewish Labor Committee, New York, N.Y.

43 Private Papers of Stephen S. Wise, World Jewish Congress Folder, 1935-45, Brandeis University Library, Waltham, Mass. Wise's note was written on January 4, 1935. The year before, LaGuardia had appointed Vladeck a member of the New York Housing Authority which had been set up tocarry out the provisions of the national Housing Act. But the honor or honors that Wise had had in mind and the final outcome of this matter are not mentioned in the record. 218 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES Be that as it may, events in Germany soon produced a modus operandi between the two factious groups. In mid-July 1935, bloody anti-Jewish riots broke out in Berlin's fashionable.Kurfurstendamm. As a result, the American Jewish Congress, in cooperation with the Jewish Labor Committee, convened an Emergency Con­ ference to which "all Jewish organizations" and "all opponents of the Hitler regime" were invited "to arouse the indignation of the American public and to plan action to be taken to stop the growth of the Hitler menace."44 Vladeck, one of the chief organizers of this extraordinary session, was partic­ ularly outspoken, urging unremitting battle against Nazism, the adoption of the boycott and the formation of a united Jewish front. Tenenbaum, who also took an active part at the gathering, soon began pressingVladeck fo r the union the latter had advocated so fervently. Fulfillment came after nearly half a year of negotiations, resulting in the establishment of the Joint Boycott Council (p. 200). Wise was away when the A.J .C.-JLC "romance" began to bud. And, although, Tenenbaum enjoyed a wide range of freedom, still, so serious a step as merger had ttJ"meet withDr. Wise's approvaL Not having forgotten Vladeck's blistering attack , of 1935, the Congress president refused to play a direct role in the aforesaid nego­ tiations. Nor, on the other hand; did he choose to wield his authority and veto the prospective merger. Wise did, however, examine at least part of the Tenenbaum­ Vladeck correspondence, conveying to his Boycott Committee Chairman the fol­ lowing reaction :

They will use us, but believe me, no good will come fr om any project which is under the leadership of one as bitterly opposed to the Congress and as hostile to nationalism as is Vladeck.45 One of Vladeck's first acts as Co-Chairman of the newly formed JBC was a concerted effort to influence Untermyer to join it. This venture ended abortively in 1937. A year later Vladeck died. While Vladeck was alive, day-to-day boycott work was done mainly by JLC Executive Secretary, Isaiah Minkoff; but it was Vladeck who shaped the boycott philosophy of the Jewish Labor Committee. Up to the Berlin riots, he led the boycott struggle within the American Federation of Labor, which had declared a boycott in October 1933. Several months before teaming up with the American Jewish Congress, Vladeck made a statement typical of his conviction that the cause of Jewish rights would be effectively preserved by dependence upon the principles of labor and democracy.

Persecution of the Jews is the inevitable step toward persecution of labor and suppression of democracy. Labor knows that the first blast against the Jews is only the forerunner of a dark

44 Records of the Joint Boycott Council, Carton # 13, Minutes of the Administrative Committee of the American Jewish Congress, NYPL. I have written an article on this subject which appeared in the AJHQ (March, 1970), pp. 302-328. 45 Ibid., Dr. Wise-Correspondence and Memoranda folder, January 8, 1936. The Anti-Nazi Boycott Mo vement in the Un ited States 219

stormagainst itself, and that permitting a government to foster antisemitism is to strength­ en a power that will crush labor. This is why in all countries today intelligent Jews march with labor, and why labor is the staunchest defender of Jewish and human rights.46

However, Vladeck was soon to realize that the world's democracies and labor movements were not willing to offer the sacrifices needed to match Hitler's demonic brand of antisemitism. Despite great efforts, Vladeck still had no more reliable and fa ithful allies than his fellow American Jews, however (and unfortunately so) divided they happened to be on actions and methods most appropriate fo r Jewish defense.

Non-Jewish Boycott Groups

X Two groups stand out most prominently : one is the American Federation of Labor (AFL) (p. 218). The other was the Volunteer Christian Committee to BoycBU Nazi Germany (VCC) . Hitler had crushed the German labor movement, and American labor, which had often manifested its opposition to both Nazism and Fascism, came to the aid of union victims <;lf the Hitler-Mussolini dictatorships. To this end, AFL established the Labor Chest Fund, an endowment ardently supported by JLC. When the Congress conducted its first mass protest meeting against the Nazis on March 27 (p. 199) , AFL President William Green was amongthe prominent non­ Jewish speakers. He accused Germany of persecuting minorities, violating the laws of humanity, and warned that the AFL "will not remain passive and unconcerned when the relatives, fa milies and brethren of the Jewish members of our great econom­ ic organization are being persecuted and oppressed."47 The concluding section of the AFL's boycott resolution, as recommended by the organization'S Executive Council, cited two basic conditions for the discon­ tinuance of its economic ostracism of Nazi Germany.

Owing to the fact that those who are administering the Government of Germany, and who are shaping its destinies are pursuing a ruthless campaign of persecution against the Jews of Germany, and because the Hitler Government refused to heed or respect the protests of the people in all nations throughout the world, the Executive Council recommends that the American Federation of Labor join with other public-spirited organizations in our country in officiallyadopting a boycott against German-made goods and German services, this boycott to continue until the German Government recognizes the right of-other working people in Germany to organize into bona fide, independent ' trade unions of their own choosing, and until Germany ceases its repressive policy of persecution of Jewish people.48

46 New York World- r,e[euam (February 7, 1935). Vladeck's statement was made in the course of an interview. See again p. 4blnd note 20. 47 p..q:(March 28, 1933),p. 12. 48� (October 14, 1933), from the Newspaper Clippings Scrapbook of the NASNL. , 220 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES

Both the League and the Congress sought to bring the AFL into their respective organizations. But the AFL did not want to surrender its independent boycott arm, feeling this was the best way for it to make the most effective contribution to the movement.

XI Even ifits constituency was by and large Christian, the AFL was not, of course, Christian in name. The need for the creation of such an organization intensified immediately after the frightfully shocking spectacle of the Kristallnacht, when a group of Christian intellectuals, heretofore only on the periphery of the anti-Nazi boycott movement, felt it was now high time that also Christians were officially and formally represented in this ambitious struggle. Led by a fr eelance writer named Christopher T. Emmet, Jr. and Dr. William Jay Schieffelin, a pioneer in municipal reform and Chairman of New York's Citizens Union, sixty prominent Americans founded the Volunteer Christian Committee on January 9, 1939. c: _ Emmet, who became Secretary of the VCC, drew up a Christian Boypott Pledge "to do nothing, either directly or indirectly, which can aid the Germa,n Government" in the fu rtherance of religious oppression, racial persecution and the glorification of war. On one occasion, in referring to the rising increase of pro­ boycott'sentiment49, Emmet made observations underlying the philosophy of the Christian Committee :

Can Christians remain silent while every principle of order and justice iq the world is threatened? Yet of what avail is to protest if we subsidize the very things we protest against? For more than half of every dollar spent for German goods or services goes to the Nazi Government to finance its arms, its aggressions and its persecutions. We must remember, too, that Christians are persecuted as well as Jews, and that Hitler not only said that Christianity is a religionfor slaves and fools, but that our common heritage, the Ten Commandments "are the exploitation of the lowest instincts of mankind."so

Turning from moral-theological preachment, Emmet warned of the dangers of a more down to earth possibility.

Even if Americans were selfish enough to ignore the fate of the rest of the world, which they are not, our own interests are deeply involved. Now we are still safe behind our ocean ramparts, and hence we can safely boycott without danger of war. But ifwe refuse to boycott, and help Hitler to go from strength to strength, in a few years when the bombing range of airplanes has increased he can attack us. Or he may gain

4� Jt was based on a survey releasedby Dr. George Gallup's American Institute of Public Opinion. The results of the survey, made public on April 11, 1939, revealed that sixty-five out of every hundred persons interviewed agreed to "j oin a movement to stop buying German-made goods." Itfound, in this connection, that anti-Nazi boycott sentiment had started showing an upward trend beginning with the Munich crisis in September 1938, culminating with Hitler's seizure of Memel in March 1939, the last of his "bloodless" conquests. For a table summing up the percentile results of this survey, see source cited in note 6. 50 From "The Christian Boycott," on p. 5 of the May-June, 1939 issue of the Boycott Nazi Goods and Services Bulletin. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 221

puppet allies in South America. A Fascist Government has already beenestablished in Bolivia which is bartering war materials to Germany. Mussolini's spokesman, Virginio Gayda, said recently, speaking of the plans of the Nazi-Fascist alliance : "The revisions have hardly begun." We should thank Signor Gayda for those outspoken words. Fore­ warned is forearmed.s1

Dr. Schieffelin, who became VCC Chairman, explained that a Christian boycott movement was established for the purpose of "restraining Hitler and acting also as the symbol of our own unity against prejudice and intolerance here." He then went on to say:

The movement is in the oldest American tradition. Long before the word boycott was used, our forefathers made great sacrifices in enforcing a general embargo against trade with Great Britain. The purpose of a widespread voluntary boycott is to bring the Nazis

to their senses or else to justify our government in declaring an embargo. 52

In March, 1939, Schieffelin asked Green to link up the AFL with the VCC in ord�:�o "strengthen and consolidate" America's anti-Nazi boycott movement. But Green declined, offering the reason mentioned above (p. 220). A month later, Schief­ felin merged his group with the Joint Boycott Council and another recently formed non-Jewish body, the American Boycott Against Aggressor Nations (ABAAN). S3 The threefold organization, calling itself the Coordinated Boycott Committee (CBq, continued operations until shortly before America's entry into World War II.

The AJC-BB

Reference has been made to both the anti-protest and anti-boycott positions of the American Jewish Committee, stands which, as it will be recalled (p. 199) , were shared by B'nai B'rith. But while the latter eschewed public protest meetings, it did not desist fr om badgering the Department of State to make diplomatic rep­ resentations in behalf of the sister branch whose existence was under impending disaster in the Hitler Reich. On one occasion, in which it sought one million signa­ tures, B'nai B'rith president, Alfred M. Cohen, had a petition dispatched to Presi­ dent Roosevelt requesting him to express the horror of the American people at Nazi brutality against German Jews. Following a backgrounddescription concerning their desperate position, the heart of the petition says :

We respectfullycall to the attention of Your Excellency themany precedents in American history for: protest upon the part of our nation against so detestable a situation.

51 Ibid. S2 American Jewish Congress Bulle tin (January 13, 1939), p. l. 53 It was founded in mid- 1938 as the "Committee for a Boycott Against Japanese Aggression." TheABAAN was headedby Dr.Mary Wooley, past President of the Mt. Holyoke College, Soutb Hadley, Mass. ItsChairman was William �� In January, 1939, apparently as a result of the horrors of the Crystal Ni�t, the boycott was extended�to include Nazi Germany.

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We petition Your Excellency to use the good offices of this government, through proper diplomatic channels, and in accordance with the traditions of our country, to make clear that together with the entire civilized world the American people are struck with horror at these events, and at their continuance despite the suave assurances of the German Chancellor as to Germany's peaceful intent. In accordance with the courageous and enlightened leadership of the United States, which you have already afforded in so many respects, we petition you to add the voice of our nation to that of the peoples of the world who love justice and liberty, and to transmit to the German Government this petition signed by American citizens of all forms of religious belief. 54

But Roosevelt did not publicly protest Nazi atrocities until the Kristallnacht in 1938, when he recalled America's ambassador fr om Berlin. The year before, B'nai B'rith lodges throughout the Reich had been seized and its Order liquidated. As a result, the American Order finally declared a boycott against Hitler Germany inJanuary 1939. By then, the Committee remained the only American Jewish defense organi­ zation opposed to the boycott. Six years earlier, upon learning that the Congress " was about to join the then still burgeoning movement, the Committee circulated a position statement on the boycott for the confidential information of its sustaining members. 'fI?is final and irreversible stand was "guided by the following considera- , tions :"

(1) An official boycott against Germany will immediately provide the pretext for further excesses against the Jews in Germany. (2) By entering on a boycott we may forfeit the friendship of Christians in many countries, including our own, and their help in many countries, including our own, and their help in our efforts to restore to the Jews in Germany their status as an integral part of the country. (3) An official Jewish boycott of Germany would immediately crystallize a cleavage between German Christians abroad who number many millions, and Jews outside of Germany. (4) The boycott wiIl lead to a general retaliation against Jewish business. (5) There are special unfortunate consequences of this boycott likely to develop in individual countries. (6) As a method of practical politics, the boycott is unwise. (7) The boycott is likely to stimulate antisemitic activity. (8) The boycott is open to an ethical objection. (9) The Jews must be concerned for the likely effects of the boycott in the future. 5s

The document ends with a section entitled "Concluding Remarks", showing, in light oqhe Final Solution, how tragically wrong and how blind was Committee fa ith in and dependence upon "Christian civilization."

54 B'nai B'rith Magazine vol. xlvii (July, 1933), no. 10, p. 306. S5 Archives of the American Jewish Committee, August 17,1933. Each point in the statement of position is expounded by further comment, and in some instances, illustrative details. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Mo vement in the Un ited States 223

Despite the frenzied chauvinism in Germany and elsewhere throughout the world, we will not, indeed we dare not, admit that the elemental rights to life and liberty have been permanently laid low. The civilized world, which is overwhelmed at this time by an unprecedented depression, which has produced political issues of the gravest kind, may not be in the position to defend or even assert these principles in a fo rmal way. But we Jews must not accept the situation in Germany as a permanent disaster, or believe that the civilized world will be willing to accept that situation as normal and unchangeable. Just as the American union could not exist half-slave, half-free, so Europe cannot exist with so large and important a country as Germany, in its very centre, conducting itself as a nation of the Dark Ages. To accept the defeat as permanent would be a repudia­ tion of the ideals of peace and justice proclaimed by our prophets, for which the Jews have suffered fo r twenty or more centuries. Because these ideals are the fo undation of Christian civilization we must feel that Christendom will itself before long protect them / . fr om destruction. 5 6 ,

This naive reliance upon a world virtually indifferent as to the fate of German and, ultimately, European Jewry, was expounded on August 19, 1933 by Committee Pre�ent, Dr. Cyrus Adler.

The American Jewish Committee, in agreement with responsible Jewish organizations in Europe, declines to sanction a declaration of boycott against Germany. We will not make threats, but rather rely upon the moral forces of America and of other enlightened countries in the world. Ifthese moral forces are dead, then civilized man will perish and brutes will rule. This is a question larger than Germany, even larger than the Jews. It should engage the attention of all nations who are still possessed of conscience. 5 7

XII As seen fr om the ideological formulations set out in the previous pages, to boy­ cott or not to boycott became a question that confronted and challenged organiza­ tions which simply had toreact to the Nazi onslaught. But the gravity of the latter was so unprecedented, its impact on American Jews and sympathetic non-Jews seemingly so intense, that analysis of this very shocking experience becomes indispensable for a better understanding of the boycott controversy. What perplexed the American Jewish community, most particularly in the first half of 1933, was the problematic difficulty of having to reconcile itself to the fact that Hitler's promise of reckoning with the Jews was not turning out to be mere talk

56 Ibid. Likening Nazi Germany's conduct to a nation of the "Dark Ages" was a favorite example of leading boycott spokesmen. But even in the thirties, such a charge unnecessarily traduced that period; for at no time during that "dark" period did a ruler arbitrarily institute a full-fledged program designed to either reduce J��s to pariah status or eliminate them completely from national life. And cruel as they were, edicts of expulsion, the one seeming exception, merely terminated a formal agreement or under­ standing between the Jews and the State. In fact, under this scheme, a Jewish co=unity was entitled to leave a country if, for example, its ruler overtaxed it. Further, political equality and citizenship rights, denied to Jews by the Nazis, are anachronistic demands ifapplied to the hierarchical societyof the Middle Ages. See, in this regard, Salo W. Baron's informative discussion in "The. Modern Age", Great Ages and Ideas of the Jewish People, edited by Leo W. Schwarz (New York 1956),passim. 57 Ibid. 224 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES or sheer propaganda. The shock and hurt were so much the greater, as this was happening not in "barbaric" Tsarist Rnssia, but "cultured" modern Germany. For it just did not seem possible that so savage an antisemitism was being conducted by a twentieth century government ruling in the heart of Europe. And belated as it may have been, part of Roosevelt's public protest referred to above (p. 60) put 11-1J.{ it exactly that way ; namely, "I myself could scarcely believe that such thm:gscould occur in a twentieth-century civilization."58 In varying degrees, such was the fe eling in 1933, particularly before the Fuhrer and his Nazi power elite dared expose themselves to the world in all their goriness. To, therefore, obviate a possible credibility gap regarding events in Germany, Americans had to be convinced that the press was not coloring news originating from there, nor presenting tendentious reports influenced by either Jewish emotion­ alism or by the activities of anti-German interests. In fact, even U.S. government circles did not always feel certain that the Nazis' reputed anti-Jewish crusade was not being exaggerated in the public prints. Consequently, State Secretary Cordell Hull often requested from America's embassy officials in Berlin authentication of so-called atrocity tales. To the thinking of part of the American population, confirmation of German Jewry's plight need not have produced a cry for interference and agitation. This is not to say, however, that the alleged suffering was not viewed with horror ; but the fe eling in such circles was that, humanitarian considerations aside, matters of this kind were the concern of Germany alone. Too late, though, did it become pain­ fu lly clear to all the world that Hitler's total war against the Jews was, in fact, part of a fiendish plot to vanquish Europe. In addition, the economic crisis that had visited the world in the wake of the Crash of 1929, busied countries with their respective internal and domestic affairs. This was further compounded by the fact that England had entered one of the most pacific moods in her history, while America, after her brief global advent in World War I, renewed her long-standing policy of isolation. Such an atmosphere of in­ wardness only added to the problematic issue of succoring German Jewry. But if there was a country that could render help on a la rge scale, it was Amer­ ica-for two main reasons : one, because America was not just another democracy, but a colossus that had been a haven and the very symbol of refuge; two, it contained the largest, most affluent and influential Jewish community on earth. Besides her, only one of two other countries whose Jews numbered in the millions could be of benefit to German Jews. This was Poland, which until 1935, when the goverument closed down the Jews' boycott offices, did what it could in this regard. As for Russian Jews, they were, of course, totally immobilized for purposes of aid. Other Jewries, such as those of Great Britain, France, the Low Countries, and those of various East European lands in other continents, were too limitedin numbers, and probably

58 The Congress Bulletin, vol. v (Nov. 18, 1938), no. 7, p. 1. Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the United States 225 in resources to be of decisive service ; nor with the exception of Britain, were im­ pressive boycott machineries set up in these countries. It was with the knowledge and conviction that Nazi Germany was indeed bent on a ruthless State policy of antisemitism, that the real parting of the ways came within the American Jewish community. This, as has been described earlier in this paper (p. 199) took place in an atmosphere of tension, anger, and at times, suspicion and hostility. Of course, the main issue was the use of appropriate action in coping � with a problem which might otherwise become world-wide; for there was genuine fo reboding that �he Nazi brand of Jew-hatred would spill over beyond Germany's borders, even across the ocean into the United States, a land where the antisemitism engendered by Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent was still fr esh in the minds of American Jews.59 In fact, only one day after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, William Dudley Pelley initiated his Legion of the Silver Shirts, the most notorious of the mushrooming antisemitic outfits. Thus, U.S. Jews had immediate cause to fe ar, not only for the well-being of their brethren in Germany, but also for their oWl}«:welfare and safety. This, precisely, was the position of the American Jewish Committee and B'nai B'rith. They feared that protest, and certainly boycott, would alienate enlightened non-Jewish opinion in America. It was this element, they claimed, that constituted the most important counter-force to Hitler. Behind such thinking was the notion that only through diplomatic efforts would the more moderate Nazis stand a chance of having a restmining influence on Hitler. Furthermore, officially, the American Jewish Committee could and did claim that its declared position was true to the principles of its constitution. This, in part, said that "if the persons on the spot feel themselves able to cope with the situation, no action need be taken." Of course, the Committee had no illusions about Reich Jewry's ability to cope with its situation ; but id did point to letters received fr om_ "responsible" German Jews and organizations imploring American Jews to desist fr om engaging in protest or boycott action. One should bear in mind, however, that concurrence in this request was also actuated by the fact that the AJC-BB constit­ uencies consisted of many members of German extraction who fe ared that agitation of this kind would serve as a pretext for keeping their kin hostage and sequestrating their property and wealth. 60 Not so the American Jewish Congress-Jewish Labor Committee which, by and large, consisted of East European immigrants who scoffed at quietist methods as a means of defeating incorrigible antisemites. The background and expe-

59 For example, on May 29, 1933, Representative Louis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania delivered in the House a speech containing anti-Jewish references which were culled from the spurious Protocols of the Elders of Zion. He also quoted some offensive statements from articles previously published in the DearbornIndependent. The following day, Adler (p. 223) dispatched the House Speaker a teleiram brand­ ing as fa lse McFadden's defamatory charges. For more details, consult the American Jewish Yearbook, vol. xxxvi, (Philadelphia 1934), pp. 448-49. �o See pp. � ;;L�1- -1.,2.... :2..·- 226 JEWISH SOCIAL STUDIES

dence of the former taught them to offer a rigorous fight for Jewish rights, rather than to depend too much on intercession. Dependence on the latter alone, they soon became convinced, not only has no pacifying effect on the Nazis, but even invites further excesses on their part. Many from among their ranks who had become im­ patient with Congress' dilly dallying over the boycott fo und in Untermyer a transi­ tory channel for satisfying their activist demands. One might have thought that so implacable a foe as Hitler would have produced more harmony, instead of the pathetic disunity that characterized U.S. Jewry during the thirties. But considering the divergent backgrounds of America's Jewish leader­ ship, this is not too surprising. Thus, because it was led by so exemplary a capitalist as Untermyer, Vladeck, between February, 1934, when he launched the Jewish Labor Committee, and July, 1935, when he became amenable to Tenenbaum's suggestion of merger with the Congress Boycott Committee, apparently made no effort at union with the ANL; this, despite the fact that during this interval Vladeck periodically conferred with Untermyer-but only in�visory capacity-on matters

.. ' of boycott as the invited guest of the League's Board of Directors. As for the Zionist­ oriented Congress, he regarded it an agency of the "Jewish bourgeoisie." Small' wonder, then, that Wise depicted him "as hostile to nationalism" (p. 218). In r�trospect, it would seem, however, that of the several boycott leader;, it was Unt�rmyer who was most responsible for the dislocation and disunity of the movement. Of course, there is no denying his indispensability to it ; but it is precisely for this reason that he must be charged with tactical and intellectnal blunder for his obsessive insistence that the anti-Nazi boycott was a non-sectarian movement. For to have stuck dogmatically to this thesis in the teeth of a merciless and incessant anti-Jewish crusade by the Nazis seems absolutely ludicrous. Naturally, Hitler's . tyranny was also extended to such non-Jewish elements as labor unions and the Catholic Church. This is why boycott partisans sought to attract such groups into their fold. But notwithstanding this, Untermyer very well realized that only Jews, as such, were being singled out by Hitler for total elimination fr om Germany's political, intellectual and economic life. And if one adds, as one indeed must, the concomitants of this deteriorating process-degradation, bloody rioting and right­ lessness-then the inevitable moral for Jew and non-Jew alike certainly is not non­ sectarianism. This being the case, Untermyer's approach is all the more oblique, if not escapist, for having deliberately neutralized a pioneering Jewish boycott orga­ nization (the ALDJR). That this was a backward step is also attested by the fact that the non-Jewish population did not identify itself with Jewish suffering to the point of becoming boycott-conscious. Real "non-sectarian" boycott groups such as VCC and ABAAN were tinyin size and made a tardy appearance ; but what is noteworthy in this connec­ tion is that theymerged with the "sectarian" JBC, rather than with the Non-Sectarian League, which, despite its name, remained, essentially, a Jewish body with a sprin­ kling of non-Jewish officers and directors. For millennia, the Jewish people were united by strong bonds of brotherhood Th e Anti-Nazi Boycott Movement in the Un ited States 227 and comradeship. In view, therefore, of an unprecedented campaign to root them out in an entire country, it would have been contrary to their very nature fo r Jews not to react as Jews: Moreover, such a display of self-assertion and self-help prepared . the moral ground fo r requesting non-Jewish help. It was by thus being in the fore- . front of the fight against Nazism, that the Jew, with the aid of public enlightenment, cultivated social conscience, thereby acquiring and being able to count upon the Christian allies in whose midst he lived . This was a characteristic aim of the American Jewish Congress 61- , and that is why it and similar-minded groups insisted on the conduct of an organized boycott. Moreover, according to the Congress, this demand represented the inclination and desire of the Jewish masses. And conversely, in recommending a silent or individual boyC?tt, the diametrically opposed American Jewish Committee, despite a leader- _­ ship which constituted a virtual "Who's Who in American Jewry," spoke only for a fraction of the latter. AsiJ;le from this, the Committee's boycott policy suffered fr om fu ndamental shottc.omings and disadvantages; for an unorganized boycott makes for a vague goal, suggests lack of resolution, dooming thereby any real prospects of success. On the other hand, although by the mid-thirties it became evident that, of itself, the organized boycott could not stop Hitler, it did not produce the negative con­ sequences presaged by the Committee. On the contrary, one is tempted to speculate that a global air-tight boycott, if applied early enough, would have averted World War II, or even have toppled the Hitler regime. But while this shall always remain an imponderable of history, it must be said that the boycott forms the prologue of the resistance movement against a tyranny that was to produce the greatest catas­ trophe that the world and the Jews had ever experienced. We ANTI- NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN yOLo IV-No. 3. - INTERSTATE CONFERENCE ISSUE - MARCH, 1937

�DRISTIANITY ON THE DEFE NSIVE

FRANK RJTCHIE HE ill wind that roared over Ger­ gelical Church is bound by the first T many when Hitler became Chan- , HIS article offers the private Commandment to reject that assump­ cellor scattered the seeds of Fascism T views of Mr. Ritchie, anit in tion. When the Aryan human being in many directions, but in the manner no W(1IjI speaks for the American is glorified, God's word bears wituess of the provel"b, it also brought new + Committee for Christian German + to the sinfulness of all men. When, courage and determination to those Refugees, of which Mr. Ritchie is within the compass of the National small minorities in the countries of the Executive Director. Socialist view of life, an anti-Semi­ world who are the watchdogs of hu­ tism is forced on the Christian that man freedom. binds him to hatred of the Jew, the Can't you hear their loud laughter at for the sake of their belief, is a lesson I remember one of the last lines Christian's injunction to love one's Christ's eternal words, that "the meek in twentieth century martyrdom. from Maxwell Anderson's play, "Val­ neighbor still stands for him opposed shall inherit the earth?" ley Forge", when the Father of this to it." Gradually the officials of the Third Hitler Stilles Church Revolt Nazism Victimizes Youth nation says, perhaps apocryphally, but Reich are giving up their church mem­ The "newspapers of Germany, con­ The anti-Christian propaganda with true eloquence, "Liberty will seem finds berships. This action has been viewed trolled by Herr Goebbel's efficient De­ its easiest victims among children and easier, bye and bye, when men don't with sidelong glances abroad, result- partment of Propaganda, are practi- youth. ,Theirs is an education in hat­ have to die for it!' Men are dying for it in Spain ; are being exiled and red, in' War, in blind reverence to the sign of the swastika. Religion is imprisoned for it in Germany. Liber­ constantly being held up scorn. A ty is becoming a rare and precious to signboard of the Hitler Youth, to thing. Fascist Penetration which every YQung man in Germany must belong if he expects .to get a It is a credit to the Communists in job, posts such a statement as this : th is country that they do not hesitate "Where are the enemies of our Hit­ to make known their purpose and de­ ler Youth? They are the religious sires. But the Fascists, and' there are fanatics. who still today fall on their many, work under cover, circulating knees with wistful looks directed up­ their literature secretly, and waiting, ward, who spend their time attending waiting for their opportune moment­ churches and praying. We, as Hit­ a moment such as Hitler grasped in ler boys, can regard only with con­ Germany. They disguise their inten­ tempt and derision young people who tions under high-sounding words like still today run to theirridiculous evan­ "patriotism" and "Americanism," and gelical or catholic clubs to give them­ are thus deluding hundreds of thous­ selves up to eminently superfluous re­ ands of citizens, and many intelligent ligious reveries?" oues, too, who fear that our demo­ Youth is impressionable and afraid cracy is being endangered by the to be laughed at. It can hardly be "Red" hordes. expected to retain its faith against The pro-Fascist press and sympa­ such opposition. Even prayers are thizers have given the word "Red" the being written for children to say at same connotation that the word "Hun" table, which invoke the blessing not had during the War. Thus Hitler of God, but of der Fuehrer, and ask worked in Germany, concealing his for "His" guidance and protectiou. Fascism under the misleading term of Hitler Demands "Total" "National Socialism" and railing N azification against the Bolshevik menace with un­ The completeness with which Na­ bridled venom. tional Socialism demand. the alle­ If the Communists are accused of giance of the individual is perhaps best godlessness, cannot that word be ap­ expressed by Nazi Labor Front Lead­ plied with equal justice to the Ger­ er Ley when he says : man Fascists ? The God we worship "The Party claims the totality of is the father of all races of men. His jng in a recent edict that no publicity cally silent on this controversy. When the soul of the German people. It can Kingdom on earth is "a world brother­ shall be given to such resignations in recently a four-thousand word protest and will not suffer that another party hood. How can Hitler and his myro­ the German press. Many of these of­ was submitted to Chancellor Hitler by or party-view dominates in Germany. nidons reconcile their vicious anti­ ficials are allying themselves with the ten Protestant leaders of Germany We believe that the German people Semitism and absurd Aryan superior­ Nationalist Church Movement which whose courage ami audacity astounded can become eternal only through Na­ ity with such a God? seeks to replace both Catholicism and the world, not one word about it was tional Socialism, and therefore, we re­ Protestantism. This is a serni-Chris­ printed in the German press, though quire the last German, whether Pro­ "' Hitler Persecutes Christ tian, serni-pagan organization which it received front-page attention here. testant or Catholic." Tl'.e Christian Church in Germany practically outlaws the use of the old There was also complete official sil­ To sign such a pledge and remain has not escaped the Fascist onslaught, Testament, denies that Christ was a ence, and no answer has ever been true to Christian principles, is practi­ for National Socialism will tolerate Jew, and distorts Christianity to fit given. But this historic document cally impossible. As a resnlt, many the Church only so long as it submits the N _', ity of Christ_nd warn the clergy but the heroism of the Protestant and " "When blood, race, nationality and homeland. The exodus from Nazi-' that the divipity of "God must yield Catholic clergymen who are risking Ger.mq,ny continues day by day_ brave !;lonor are raised to the' rank of qual­ - to the divitUty of the Nazi-State. imprisonment, torture and execution, ities that guarantee et �ty, the E"an- . (Continued an page ,lO) / {--- 2 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN MARCH. 1937

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Nazi Trade Balanee Nazis Export Nazi Harmonicas Marking Regulations AVORABLE reports of the Ger­ Explosives; 6,645 T is reported that a new school for Tightened F man e. conomic situation in 1936 are I musical instruction which is open­ Tons Rise 10,161 ing at 1658 Broadway will specialize

THE N A Z I MENACE

By H. WICKHAM STEED

Mr. Steed was formerly the Editor of the TIMES, London, Foreigl� Editor and Foreigll Correspondent in Berlin, Vienna, Rome and the Balkalls. This speeCh, reprinted here, was delivered by Mr. Steed on September 7, 1936, during the British Trades Union Congress Week, at a meeting of The British Non-Sectarian Anti-Nasi COllncil to Champion Human Rights ilt London. We reprint this speech in some­ what COlld(/1lsed forl1�, and offer it to our readers for what­ ever they thil$k it worth.

BELONG to no party. I do not democratic country men's and women's that it was not) an attribution of Germanism according to whicli Ger­ I belong to the Anti-Nazi Council. I minds · should be self-governing, and m(}ral guilt. It was a legal statement many must rule throughout Europe am a simple Englishman who believes should not be moulded by State prop­ of claim in respect to damage done. from the North Sea to theBosphorus in democratic institutions, who believes aganda enforced by daily beatings in Nevertheless, German propaganda and perhaps to the Persian Gulf, and that the future of those institutions in concentration camps and by tortures made play with the so-called "war­ must bring under her control all coun­ the world depends very largely upon of which it makes one shudder ·to guilt-lie" in order to get rid of repa­ tries that may stand in . her way. That the example of the people of this coun­ think. These things are going on daily rations for the damage done in the doctrine is old, but it has now been· try, and upon their resolve to uphold in Germany ..• war. That is a truth which can be taken up again and renewed on the them by every means that may be ne­ Hitler Courts Great Britain proved up to the hilt. strength of the claim thatthe German There is one thing to-day in Eu­ "Aryan" race, 'which does not exist, cessary, including the coercion of their History Repeats Itself? own Government. rope, however litt1\! we may like it, is so supe,ior in blood to everybndy I detest oppression. For that reason which provides a certainstabi lising in.. This country, and it is a lesson to­ else that it is entitled t(} have aU the I have done all in my power by word fluence. It is the military might of day, went so far in 1912"13 as to agree soil it may need for the . propagation and by pen to oppose and criticise op­ Soviet Russia. We dO' not know how with Germany to help her build her of its blood. pression . . . in Germany by the strong Soviet Russia may be. Her railway to Baghdad and the Persian Nazi Government. I have not bowed strength as regards Europe is an un­ Gulf. Then we revised in Germany's Race and War the knee in any Nazi temple, and I do certain quantity, but it is the one thing favour an old Anglo-German treaty Behind this lies the sacrifice of the not intend to do so. I stand here as that Nazi Germany fears, the one for the eventual partition of the Por­ 'whole German peoPle for military a simple British citizen who is seri­ thing that makes Hitler and the Ger­ tuguese colonies. Having done that /n.rposes, from children of five to men ously concerned about the future of man General Staff careful. the one we sent the British Fleet to Kiel in of 50 and beyond. In the schools the our country. thing against which they are anxi(}us June, 1914, as a supreme proof of children are taught to believe that Danger to World-Peace to range the people of this country. friendship. No sooner ... Germany God is in the German blood, and that The President spoke of the menace To-day, the main, immediate object of thought she had secured the neutrality they must have one ideal before them of Nazism. I agree with him. It is Nazi Germany, exactly as it was the of Britain, than an emissary was sent -to die for the Fatherland. At every a menace that has grown so strong immediate object of Imperial Ger­ from Berlin to Vienna to tell the gathering the girls are reminded that that it has become a danger to the many in 1913-14, is to insure the neu­ Austrian Government that now Ger­ it is their duty to bear children for peace of Europe and to the world, and trality of Great Britain when the hour many was sure Great Britain was go­ the Fatherland, and the boys to die perhaps, to the existence of this coun­ comes for Germany to strike; ing to be friendly that they could go for the Fatherland. What kind of try. We are bound · to ask ourselves The Treaty of Versailles ahead agaiust Serbia. This ..• before spirit do you think 20 years of this what lies behind thi$ Fascist or Nazi Reference has been made to the the assassination of the Austrian training will produce when it is in­ movement. Treaty (}f Versailles. I assume that Archduke. The whole idea was to get stilled in the schools or 'through the us to be neutral, and not to stand Hitler Youth Organization? Now r am going to say something all those who speak of .it have read which will appear heretical. This and studied the Treaty. Until they against any country which resorts to Germany is to-day preparing her­ Nazi movement has grown strong be­ have done s(} they are not entitled to "war as a means of settling interna­ self to be stronger than any modern cause of ...threatened .. , property. express an opinion upon it. There were tional questions. The same sort of nation has ever been. It is no accident I believe property was made for man, defects in the Treaty, but it removed propaganda with the same purpose is that this year General Ludendorff, the at work to-day. not man for property, but I am not 80 million people in Europe from former chief of the German General sure that some degree of personal pos­ servitude to alien rule. When we say Staff, should have published a book "BambOOzled" Lloyd George session is not an indispensable condi­ that it put disabilities upon Germany I should very much like to have "Total War," in which he describes tion of individual freedom. One day we must not leave our minds under stood behind a curtain and listened war as the supreme object of a na­ I may even push heresy so far as to the impression of propag,mda which when . Mr. Lloyd George visited Herr tion's life. Tw(} hundred thousand write iii defence of pr(}perty-includ­ would have us believe that the Treaty Hitler recently. Mr. Lloyd George copies of that book had been sold by ing the property of the trade uni(}ns of Versailles made a wholly unjusti­ has not gone over in t(}tal iguorance the month ·0£ June. and co-operative societies. When fiable accusation against Germany. of what is being prepared in Germany. property and individual freedom were There are, in the Treaty of Versail­ He is not a simple soul. Neither is Totalitarian War suppressed . . . there grew up . . . les two or three articles which may Herr Hitler a simple soul. If Mr. A kind of blood mysticism, linked movements that suppressed freedom be called "war-guilt articles." One Lloyd George allows himself to be with an almost religious fervour, is but pretended to defend property. of them refers to Wilhelm of Hohen­ bamboozled it will not be through ig­ behind theGerman policy of territorial I am not going t(} inflict upon you a zoUern, formerly German Emperor. n(}rance of what is going on. acquisition and aggrandisement. And talk up(}n private property and its The Germans have never objected to behind it too, lies the conscription of limits. We may find it necessary to that, but another article, 231, placed Nazi Pan-Gel'manism the whole German people for military curtail those limits very considerably upon Germany th� responsibility, not What is going on? I said that purposes. It means that when the in all cases where individual property the guilt, for the damage done in the Fascism and Nazism have grown moment has come and the risk is or capital accumulation fulfils an anti­ War brought on by the aggression of strong, thanks to the belief that they thought to be least-and it will be social function. On those points I Germany and her allies. The word were defending pmperty against So­ thought to be least if 'there is a cer­ have a perfectly open min,d; but on "responsibility" was translated "guilt," cialism, Communism, Bolshevism and tainty that Great Britain wiil stand others I have not an open mmd. Some and it took six months to make the so on. If that were all, the matter aside and will tolerate the use of war of the latter are the sanctity of the hu­ Germans . translate it accurately, It' m,ight be much easier to handle. But for settling political questions - it man personality, the right of individu­ was not (and the German Delegation Nazism has developed and extended al freedom, and the necessity that in a at Versailles were officially informed the whole doctrine of the old pan- (ColltilUtea on page 10) ' 4 THE ECONOMrc BULLETIN MARCH, 1937

per head in Hitler's German 'paradise' ! Germany represents today a floating poor-house, decorated with all kinds of deadly weapons and :0,,1' ANTI MNAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN poisonous slogans, manned by hungry and driven slaves wearing the gaudy banners usually attributed to clowns and imbeciles. Published monthly, except July and August, at 16 Hu dson Place, Hoboken, "•.. In view of her desperate position, help from abroad is no longer New Jersey, by the ECONOMIC BULLETIN PUBLISHING COMPANY probable • . ." writes The Tribuue, and yet-despite the truly desperate 591 SUMMIT AVENUE, JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY financial, economic, social, and no less political position of Nazi Ger­ many, American banking circles still seem to harbor the thought of extending a tremendons loan to Hitler. Denials have poured in, counter­ Subscription $1.00 per Year lOc per Copy statements have been issued, yet the facts are that negotiations are still progressing and nothing has been done to curtail and eliminate such foolheartedness and outright crime, for it must be considered a crime Vol. IV-No. 3 MARCH, 1937 to aid and participate in the perpetuation (if· only temporary) of Hitler and his regime. Sending; good money after bad-as we have pointed out in the February issue of the BULLETIN-is a practice long relegated Entered as Second Class Matter at Hoboken, New Jersey, Post Office to the category of impracticable and stnpid. The only -meaus to avert a European confiagration is not to give Hitler hush-money, but to deny him every financial and other support until such time when he will per­ mit "his" people to eat, sleep, pray, work, think as they wish and enj oy a good book iustead of a gun, until such time when he will give "his'" people the chance to express themselves as to their wanting him or not! Germany Refus�s Apology Hitler may not WANT Wlar, but in order to perpetuate himself and his ghastly order-of-things he MUST make war sooner or later. By help­ ing (?) him now, we are helping our own destroyers, the destroyers of for Insults to democracy, the destroyers of liberalism, freedom and the rights of man_ U. s. What can you do? Not much perhaps, and y!et Sf! very much! Be on For the past two weeks we have been witnes�!ing a fussilade of the alert-make your individual boycott stronger yet--express your verbal vituperation, most of which represented but the usual output of negation of proposed loans to governmental representatives and agencies the 'Nazi press against the U. S., its women, mayors and Jews in parti­ -s pread the word and let democracy defend itself IN TIME against its cular> Our Secretary of State, ever ready to please and-apologize, felt greatest enemy ! it his duty to lodge an official protest ,with the Nazi Government who controls the German press. To make the well-publicized story short: Germany side-stepped the issue, but did not ' apologize! There is a les­ son in this, a lesson that needs a thorough study and consequent application : "The German War Is Inevitable" While the great democracy of the U. S. wasted no time in apologiz­ "The German W�r is as inevitable as the Spartan War against ing; to the ,correctly stamped "satisfaktionsunfaehig" Hitler, little Aus­ Athens. But how little history tells about victorious Sparta ; how much tria coldly; ,boldly, definitely rejected Germany's protests as to the Aus­ it tells about defeated Athens !" Thus write the great German bio­ trian press' falsification of news-reports and politely told the "Furore" grapher and historian Emil Ludwig in "The Coming War," an article in (!) to "sweep before his own door." Hitler's a.'i;tger rose....:...GOObbels the March issue of CURRENT HISTORY.. With eyes that. see deep and opened his mouth still wider-Goerring added another bright stripe to far, with ears that hear the past and writh a super-sensitiyity of pen his uniforms, but Austria's smack stood, unrefuted still! that sense .history, Emil Ludwig records in this article the entire back­ Here in our own U. S. Nazi storm-troopers, Nazi-newspapers, Nazi­ ground and make-up of Hitler. agents and organizations are blossoming in Nazi-money-manured "Every German cannon is charged with 10% philosophy, and all soil_ In England, a Nazi ambassador embarrasses the King of Great poison gas contains a lyric ingredient." How maguificently explained Britain by stretching his heil into the douds, in Spain Hitler's "Iabor"­ is here the secret of Nazi-Germany, this pecllliaJ: mixture of thiugs j:8mpers are fighting for the "prevention of communism", in South­ practical and things fantastical, of those primary elements which makes America/Bitler paves a gilded road of "self-sufficiency." It was left to Germans-.-in the language of Ludwig--say: Free us from Freedom!, little .i\:U'stria to tell Hitler and his gang where to get off. while we here ' after having been coerced to accept freedom. How expertly is revealed still ea,ll him names-there is none printable nor pronounceable that here the real secret of Hitler's success in sweeping individuality and would do Herr Hitler full justice! May it be stated, however, that it is personal respousibility off the horizon and substituting in their stead this the unquestionable duty of the U. S. GovernUlient to 'investigate the passion for power, on which an entire people' is being concentrated and Nazi abuses and swindles and attacks, to correct them by strong and nourished. Let Emil Ludwig continue : unhesitating action-NOW!

croached f(lreign territory. Naturally, Hitler himself hopes to Iget on moo_ of e:XJtoItion and witfhotut resorting to wa r, for oovio 'he wants ,to avo id Ij;he conflict that would destroy . . Living by dictatorships are swept oft' thei r nGermany --The Victim of Executive him . violence, feet by violence '. . • The war will eome because the Germans will com!bine their b�al might with the war philosophy of I rresponsibi ity" f.ag eism, bCC!lJ11iSe they will give their cold organization a mystical I purpose, becaus'e they will turn ordinary o-b edienoo into sacri­ Thus writes the Chicago Daily Tribune editorially on March' 18th, ficial fervor for the victory of the German race. "'Ilhe Ger ­ and continues mans," wrote Goethe, "are so honorable as indiv iduals' and 00- wretclted as a woole, and yet they ibelieve jusrt; the opposite to ".• _ Hitler need aeeoont to no 'one f()r his acts and his policies . be true" . _ ." No coUl1l; can ooeok him. He is a law to himself. Hoe has taxed Scanning the latest news-reports from NaziIand, we find that Hitler the Gwm.an pepiple with grea.t severity, but ilhey cannot meet has finally squeezed the film industry under Goebbels' thumbs, has com­ the gov>ernment's biJikJ . . . Germany ms not yet paid the full ,price for Hitler's ,managemellit of the nll!tion's financ:es, OOt the manded the people to "obey and keep their mouths shut," and has so brazenly broken the Concordat with the Vatican that an encyclical paymenil; will have to be ma'

Telegram fOl'm Mr. HISTORIC achievement occur­ Samuel Untermyer to the Interstate Conference of intensified. We must abandon petty the Non·Sectarian Anti-N:azi League Inc. A red at the Interstate Conference to Champion Human Rights, jealousies within your own ranks. The Held at the Hotel called by the Non-Sectarian Anti­ Astor in New York City on Sunday, March 7th, 1937. problem is too serious to permit of Nazi League to Champion Human rivalries because of personalities. We Rights on Sunday, March 7th at the an:, in this struggle not for personal LEASE convey my very deep regret that health prevents attendance Hotel Astor, New York, when more p gam or glory. We are fighting not and opportunity to personally exp than one hundred delegates from or­ ress my best wisheS for meeting's alone for the Jew but for d'lmocracy success stop I would have liked particularly to address you ganizations of all parts of the country by way of and democratic principles and if we emphatic protest on two subjects connected with voted an ambitious plan to unify the the conduct of our are genuinely desirous, �hich I am State Department first its hopeless inefficiency in persistently permitting anti-Nazi movements under a single certain we are, to see democracy tri� leadership aIJd a non-sectarian banner, our tariff laws to be violated or evaded by German merchants to the u��h �lVer democracy's greatest foe; great injury designating the League as the "coor­ of our manufacturers, by flooding this country with contra­ Umty IS of paramount importance." band German merchandise in unfair competition with dinating body." our manufacturers, 52muel Leibowitz The Con ference echoed its enthusi­ based on undervaluations, blocked marks and other subterfuges and gross­ astic support of Mr. Untermyer's ly false t}r evasive invoices, and by camouflaging or falsi fying our cus­ The famed criminal lawyer who I stinging rebuke to Secretary of State, toms laws requiring that the country of origin be plainly labeled on such acted as chairman of the aft �noon Hull, for "his gratuitous insult to contraband goods stop We are being literally flooded with such contra­ session, warned of the ever-increasing Mayor La Guardia in apologizing to band goods by methods intended to deceive our people and fraudulently spread of Nazism within our own the Hitler Government." Mr. Uilter­ to evade our country's trade resistance created by the American boycott country and deplored the fact that myer's statement was part of a long stop We must strengthen our boycott ,by establishing in every American even some of our greatest universities message telegraphed by the renowned port of entry adequate machinery to protect against these frauds our have Jewish quotas in their profes­ attorney from his home in Palm merchants and consumers who do not want, German goods at any price sional schools. Springs, California, where he is end­ stop Secondly, I earnestly protest against the gratuitous insult involved Gerhart Seger ing a protracted convalescence. (See in the extraordinary action of our State Department. in apologizing to One time member of the former Mr. Untermyer's message on other the Hitler government for Mayor La Guardia's mild and happy char­ German Reichstag and editor of the page.) acterization of the monstrous Hitler regime that is a'standing disgrace anti-Nazi German w!eekly the "Neue Additional fuel was tossed into the to civilization, whiolds day by day crushing every instinct of decency and Vilks%eitung," reported o � the Brown La Guardia-Hull 'controversy over the is confiscating property and violating every rule of racial and religious N�work of Nazi propaganda in the former's statement that "a ' chamber freedom It is ever increasingly a stench in the nostrils of all decent UllIted States. Mr. Seger said 'the of horrors'? would be a fitting place to citizens and of every lover of liberty stop For four long years Hitler and schools, colleges, and professors of house the German part of the World's his band of thugs and murderers have continued to squander untold sums German are being used by Joseph Fair exhibits, when the League's Con­ in lying international propaganda of hate, libel and vituperation against GoebbeIs to spread Nazism in Amer� ference unanimously passed a resolu­ this Country and its citizens and government and to flood not only our ica. Seger urged AmeriCans to aid tion endorsing the New York Mayor's country in violation of our laws but other countries as well stop Does �he anti-Nazi German preSli in Amer­ attack on the Nazi Leader. our Secretary of State imagine Hitler and his bandit gang can indefin­ !ca to spread and develop as the best By far the most important nsolu­ itely without re'�traint continue to strut ilroilnd the world's stage a con­ means to 'cOUI1teract Nazi pr.lmaganda' tion adopted by the Conference and tinuous threat to world peace stop What then could be more appropriate among Getman-Americans. than almost three mil­ proba:bly the most significant accom­ that our courageous outspoken Mayor with our Dr. Frank Bohn plishment of the day's proceedings was lions of Jewish inhabitants and its mi1l!ons of Christians equally out­ A stirring appeal was made by Dr. one which designated the Non-Sectar­ raged by that Godless Atheistic gang should exercise his right to free­ Frank Bohn, president of the German. ian Anti-Nazi League as the "coor­ dom of speech which thank God still exists in this fair land of ours by American Forum and son-in-law of dinating and integrating body ·of the fittingly characterizing the insult that Hitler and his minions and gov­ Secretary of Commerce, Roper, for a organizations represented." This reso­ ernment are heaping upon our people because of their race and creed broad unity among all English-speak­ lution, which as all the others was stop Is it not sufficient just reproach of our government that our State ing people .the world over in a demo­ passed unanimously, contained the plan Department has been content to stand cowardly idly by without a word of cratic front against Nazism 'in all its for a'national movement to organize official protest whilst this cesspool of libelous propaganda is being poured forms, all anti-Nazi groups behind the upon our citizens because of their race All Hail to Mayor LaGuardia Leagne's leadership and under a non­ say I for his superb courage stop This is not the first offense of our Officers and Delegates Report sectarian banner. State Department against the exercise of freedom of speech ,by our Delegates from Baltimore, Cleve­ land, Detroit, Newark, Denver, Phila. Dr. Max Winkler citizens stop Some years ago when in a speech in New York I rightly and upon abundant evidence characterized the then activities which have delphia, and other cities reported on Among the many notables who adL never ceased of the German Ambassador in this country as being those the extent of the boycott in their com­ dressed the Conference was Dr. Max of a German propagand ist masquerading as an ambassador on American munities. The reports brought news Winkler, Professor of Economics at soil our Secretary of State on complaint of this same propagandist and of a wide and successful anti-Nazi the College of the City of New York, without asking any explanation rushed into print by way of apology as boycott, but carried the common com­ and President of the American Coun­ though it were any of his business. I then rejoined that the American plaint against national chain stores cil of Foreign Bondholders. official who thus expressed his regrets would live to regret his regrets which continue to resist the anti-Nazi Dr. Winkler declared that the ef­ and now repeat that statement as to Mayor La Guardia's speech that too boycott. forts of certain foreign governments, is none of his business this is still a free country the Secretary of State Mrs. Mark Harris, Acting Chair­ pa.rticularly Great Britain, to aid Ger­ to the contrary notwithstanding stop If he would take the trouble to man of the League's Executive many with financial assistance were inform himself of the unspeakable libels that are daily heaped upon Committee, reported on Four Years of the major forces contributing to the Americans and American institutions including our president in the Nazi Coordination and dec1ared that dangers' of war. Dr. Winkler said German-owned press with its Government's approval and by German Nazi coordination was an extensive the American public had already lost officials perhaps he could be induced to hold his peace stop Nothing that Nazi plan to hasten the completion of more than three billion dollars in Ger­ Mayor La Guardia has said about Hitler adequately represents our cpn­ Hitler's war plans. man investments. Dr. Winkler said tempt and hatred for him and his Government of terror and compares in Other members of the Executive­ "Schacht's plea for colonies is another offensiveness with the wilful and vicious falsehoods that he and his con­ Committee who spoke were Dr. S. desperate attempt to divert the atten­ trolled press are daily emitting about us stop Just one illustration in Wm. Kalb, Director of Research, who tion of the Germans from a most seri­ rs ago ' Henry Ford was responsible for publishing described. the great importance of ous situation in the financial and eco­ rld a series of articles entitled "The Elders of Zion" careful and religious research in all nomic structure of Germany. The The Dearborn Independent" These articles which were boycott activities, and Dr. Benjam 1n boycott of German goods and German an attack upon world Jewry were overwhelmingly and judicially proven Dubovsky, who' reported on the na­ services," Dr. Winkler continued, to ·be gross clumsy forgeries and libels upon the Jews and were repudiated tional and international support of the "must not only continue but must be and confessed to be such by Ford who withdrew and publicly apologized boycott movement. for them and agreed to destroy the books wherever found stop Yet un· IF yo;w have changed or are con­ believable though it seems these forged articles are now being widely ,. ,. , . templating to change Y'01l!r ad­ published and sold in Germany translated into German with flaming dress, please notify the League's covers announcing Henry Ford as their author notwithstanding his world­ How is it, the Hitler government immediately, s thaJt all wide repudiation and against his protest This is only one of the in­ offices o could raise.$180,OOO,OOO to foment the BulleJtin numerable instances of unconscionable cupidity for which Germany is issues of 'lind all a Fascist revolution in Spain, but ot er niailing pieces will reach responsible Can you beat ·that' Was it mere ignorance of unwillingness h couldn't find $65,000,000 to pay the promptly regularly. to inquire this ·effrontery that was re ponsible for the State Department's you and r interest due American holders of Thank You ! (Continued on page 6) German bonds? 6 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOILIC BULLETIN MARCH, 1937 RESOLUTIONS Unanimously Adopted at the Interstate Conference of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League To Champion Human Rights Inc., Samuel Untennyer, President, Held on Sunday, March 7th, 1937, at the Hotel Astor in New York City.

1. RESOLUTION No RESOLUTION No. 4. WHERE WHEREAS, the present Nazi Government of Germany has not abated the relentless AS, it has been demonstrated that there is need for a general extension and persecution which it inaugurated. on its assumptioll of power more tha.n four years ago intens111catlon of' the anti-Nazi movement on all fronts so that the hltherto potential against catholics, Protestants, Jews, Liberals, Pacifists, Trade Unionists, and all of strengthWHERE of this movement can be adequately expressed and, �.::,�:, � Within the borders of the Tb.lr d Reich hJ>ve refused to bow to the will of AS, the widespread sentlment against the Nazis both in the united States and elsewhere in the world, is not confined to any single group representing any one , WHEREAS, the present Nazi government of Germany ruthlessly destroying demo­ creed or belief and, WHEREAS, there is already organized " Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Cham­ cratic rights and privileges, has delied all of the pion Human Rights with headquarters in New York, ' which h.... the organization and WHEREAS, the present government of Nazi Germa Is gigantic the means to coordlnete the vast potential anti-Nazi strength in this country and, , machinery of war which now the greatest threat to w WHEREAS, th. Non-8ectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights already WHERE person th_ AS, it is the sole",n duty of every right-thinking, justice-loving has established in many localities of the United States branCh committees which work world over to take an ..ctlve p ..rt in the struggle against the Nazi menace to world in close coopera.tion with the main body and, peace, democracy and ciVilization and� WHEREAS, alter four years of Nazi tyranny the need' for unl1lcation of the anti. WHEREAS, the most elfectiv. wea.pon in the struggle against the menace of Nazism Nazi movem.entIT under one single non-sectarian banner, is greater tha.n it ever was, has proven to be the boyoott of German goods and services, German ..hips and shlp­ BE THEREFORE RESOLVED, that the delega.tes and representatives of the ping, beeause it withholds from the Nazis money and foreign exchange so necessary for many groups and organizations convening at the Interstate Conference called by the the WHEREAS,completion of their sinister purposes and, Non-Seetarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights at the Hotel Astor in the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Uuman Rights which 7th, 1937, designate the Non-Seetarian Anti is the American body of the World Non-Sectarian Anti-NaZi caunell composed of of 20 West 47th Street, New York brancheS' and entities in 24 nations throughout the civilized world is the only non­ tt activities for the groups and sectarian single purpose national boycott org.. nlzation in the United States, groups BEl IT RESOLVED,� that the and THEREFORE RESOLVED, ·thab tile assembled delegates to the Interstate which dO not prosecmt,e "he bl,y";,tl,, l� ut' rely' on pr<.pa Conference held by the Non-8ectarlan Anti-Nazi League to Champion Uuman Rights in counteract the etrects of Nazism, do also deSignate the the Hotel Astor on March 7th, 1937, affirm their support of the said organization in its as the central body for their activities and, proseeutlon of the anti-Nazi boycott, and pledge their organizations and the individuals BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED. that the delegate. and representatives herein as­ whom they represent to the continued pros'ecution of the anti-Nazi boycott until the sembleda. designata the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Ohampion Human Rights as time comes when the Na2i rulers of llllhappy Germany are fina.lly removed from power clearing house and as agency for the exchange of research ' fac1lities, information, ' this and,. BEl IT mutual cooperation, and request that organization I"'ue .. general call to all FURTHER RESOLVED, uthat organizations engaged in anti-Nazi and boycott activities to meet for the purpose of other, and ..m� ,;ni llliemseives" t��' cOllSGlidatlng and coordinating their separate elforts. to the end that there be unity in and individuals ey represe such efforts and no dupllcations thereof and, goods IT of all Germa.-n and servioes, BE FURTHER RESOLVED, that extended effort be made on the part of the remainBE in power, and, groups and organillations represented at thl. Interstate Conference to mobilize as many IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be publicized through org.. nlzations and groups as possible undar the single non-sectarian banner in this most the prllSS. important cause common to all peace-lOVing, justice-loving people end, IT tlils BE FURTHER RESOLVED,..ts that copies of resolution together with an in­ RESOLUTION No. 2. vitation for an immedl conference be sent to all organizations now engaged or , WHEREAS the present government of Germany since its assumption of power more intending to be engaged in the anti-Nazi boycott or other anti-Nazi activities and, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this resolution be released to the press. than four- years ago has entered upon the expressed Nazi misr.1on of spreading the of Nazism through a brown network of International propaganda G. of the world including the United States of AmericeIs and, RESOLUTION No. k of Nazi propaganda in our country omclally subsidized In order that there ' be complete coordination of the 'work of the Non-Sectarian government and, every anti-NaziIT League in district, ent of Nazi Germany has sent and continuelt to send to oUr BE RESOLVED, that every district a1Illiated with the League be represented on sho ted and other forms, and by' agitators who as aliens come the Executive Committee and, here to sprea subversi:ve Nazi propaganda andt BEl IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the German-American element "" sincerely and WHEREASli.... this Nazi propaganda disseminated among the citizens of the UnIted .full-heartedly opposed to Ritler'. German Reich is urged to join and further cooperate States the purpo... of underminIng our traditional American institutions, and is in a further strengthening o� the united work against Hitler. an insult' to the glorious 'American traditions of freedom and democracy, BE IT FORE THERE RESOLVED, that the delegates to the Interstate Conference ' RESOLUTION No. 6. h to Ohampion Uuman RIghts, assembled�"t BE the continued dissemination of subversiVe IT RESOLVED, that the boycott polley of the League bethis extended to all those who have increasedIT or are continuing to .sell Nazi merchandise to la.te day and, delegates herein assembled reaffirm the BE FURTHER RESOLVED, that no exception be made and no leniency be granted tion by the United States Government to prevent the in the proseeution of the boycott beeauseby of promise of cooperation or pledge to reduce and. Germa.n merchandise'" "still on stock" the violators� t the delegates herein assembled urge upon the 7. Congress of the there be instituted Immediately " congressional RESOLUTION Nr>. hi investlga.tion into the widesprea.d adissemination by groups and individuals of Nazi WHEREAS, the Nazi government planning and e"tending its insidious propaganda propaganda here in America. with view to expOsing and counteracting the workings into one of the fundam�ntal bulwarks of our democracy, namely, the Public School the Nazi brown network in our oountry and, and BElactivities IT of I;Ystem, by the exchange of American Uigh School Students with German High School FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of the above resolution be sent to the Students effective May 1, 1937, and, ed . states, to tp.e committee on Foreign Atrairs of the Secretary of State of the Unit Onld place the omcl .. l seaf of Our public School United States Senata, to the Secret Service Division of the Depa�tment of Justice, to the of Nazi Germany, Congressional Committee on Un-American and Subversive Actlvftles of the House of f W on reeord as being opposed to the said departments having jurisdiction thereof. Representatives, a.nd to all other public exchange of students bees 'n;�::' ;:;,i�'n of education is in direet contravention of our three great principles of democracy in the American Public School system, RESOLUTION No. 3. namely: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Inquiry, Religious and Racial Tolerance. WHEREAS the present government of Nazi Germany caught In the throes of im- is ' .. RESOLUTION No. 8. minent bankrUptoy using and will use every means to raise money to continue m...... BEl IT RIil80LVED, that due to the unl1led action and oloser co(}peration of aU pow e c e e h f ;�i!: observers of the !lnancial and economic world have stated that Z AS, expert :r;;,:: �e�fr�u�o�ft�ti�: �n� �"! ;�:nt:J �w : ��� �..J "a:=� a:d "W'a�"l' :;� to fi.oat in the United State .. a loan of tremendous pro- e!forts are now being made tiv!tles elsewhere be Issued and released to all newspapers and publlc.. tions throughout portions for Naziif Germany and, the land for their use free of charge, thus giving further voice and wider publicity to WHEREAS, loan is fi�;-ted, notWithstanding the fact that it will be ealled a llUch a will if the foul work carried on by Hitler and his regime and, "peace loan" or .. "good loan , It will suecessfnl be used to purohase armament BEl ITFURTHER RESOLVED that the Anti-Nazi Economic Bulletin, now published and to increase the peril of war, and is .. threat to the peace of the world and, the Non-seotarli"i. Anti-Nazi League be enlarged to become the national WHEREAS, it is of the utmost importance that the American people are .apprised every month by publication of all anti-Nazi organizations. of the intention to fi.oat · such a. loan in our country and of the real and msidious' purp esJ eh��:J RESOLUTION No. 9. � °� OLVED, the. the delegates assembled at the Interstate IT greet the Qourageous Conferenee held by tbe Non-Sectaria.n Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, BE RESOLVED, thet this Conference andU. outspoken char- at the Hotel Astor on M ..roh 7th, 1937. pledge their organillations and the individuals aoterizatlon of the Brown Shirt Government made by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. they represent to Use every effort to resist any and all attempt,; on the part of Na i Z or throngh the agencies (}f any other government, to raise money RESOLUTION No. 10 Germany directl BEl IT thro h l !, d RE'SOLVED, that this Oonference extend its best wisheS' to T. G. Masaryk �i � �-:&i� �� i.� 'lf. 'that copies of this resolution be released to the of Czechoslovakia, the outstanding champion of Dell!ocra.y on the occasion of his general press. 87th birthday.

Hon. Fi(}rello H. LaGuardia March 5, 1937 Untermyer Wires to Conference City Half, (Continued from page 5) New York, N. Y. inter-meddling? The crying need of the h(}ur as demonstrated by the Congratuiati(}ns on , your courageous statement against the Nazis evidence before the Congressional Committee and fortified by recent stop Y(}ur acti(}n has once again forced the Nazis to exhibit themselves discoveries is not for cringing apologies for exercising the right of free in their Jew-baiting race-hating abusive and vicious light �t()P On be­ speech -by way of reprisal for outrages upon civilization stop The need half (}f the many members and supporters of our League of which you is for drastic legislation to end the treason and treachery by which we are vice-president we fully endorse your outspoken declaration against are surrounded There must be an end to divided loyalties by the Ger­ Hitler. mans who are enjoying the benefits of our free institutions <\I1d plotting Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League against us Every otie of them if he did the same thing on German soil to Champion Human Rights would be summarily dealt with by a firing squad That is where ingrates and traitors belong They are not entitled to enjoy the benefit of our SAMUEL UNTERMYER, President free institutions SAMUEL UNTERMYER

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NEWARK MEETING JOINS DICKSTEIN Leagne Plans Concert IN "OUST NAZIS FROM U. S." In April WOMEN'S ACTIVITIES Reinald Werrenrath, the world fam­ NEWARK, N. J.-S harply criticiz­ dren were taught the goosestep and ous baritone, will sing at the League RS. Irving Kaplan, a member of ing Chancellor Hitler and Ambassador allegiance to the swastika. He added : Concert on April 27th at Carnegie Luther of Germany, Representative "An alien leader was telling them Hit­ Hall, New York City, because he M the ,Exceutive Committee of the Samuel Dickstein of New York told ler is God Himself and leader of the wishes "to participate as al;l Amer­ Women's Division, acting as President 2,500 persons in Krueger Auditorium German people no matter where they ican of German heritage who re­ of the Brooklyn Jewish Consumptives' 11 Relief Society, ' was to bold a Bridge on March it was useless to have are." Luther "Rubber Stamp" sents everything that has hap­ friendly relations with a nation pened in Nazi Germany." Party at the Brooklyn branch of the "which overruns this country with Dickstein declared "Hans Luther is Sears-Roebuck Co. Mrs. Kaplan was Plans for the concert, in which a spies." The representative charged not an ambassador of good will ; he then informed that Sears-Roebuck is a rubber stamp. Every consni sent number of great artists will partici­ there are "100 Nazi spies in this coun­ was violating the boycott. The func­ here from Germany is nothing but a pate, and which will offer a program try, of whom twenty-five are operat­ tion was withdrawn from Sears-Roe­ spy and propagandist." of music which for the most part is ing in New Jersey with 50,000 fol- buck immediately, and the reason for ' barred in Nazi Germany are 'charge lowers in this State." "Besides, Hitler has a new leader , in it made known to them. here. His name is Fritz Kuhn and of Leopold GodowskY, renowned Dickstein charged the Nazi govern­ p,ianist who declared when accepting he is employed by Ford as a chemist. RS. Louise Lehman, a: member of ment was putting pressure on 200,000 Fritz took 500 Americans to Germany the chairmanship of the event : M German-Americans to agree to "serve last year and paraded them before' "I am only too h'.ppy to en­ the Women's Division, addressed the Fatherland" in case of war, on Hitler. He is Enemy No. 1 on my gage in any event which can the Shield of 'David Orphanage at their borne Wednesday afternoon, threat that otherwise their relatives list." • serve as an effective protest Eugene Grlgat in Germany would suffer. against what has happened to March 17th, on the boycott. Her mes­ The speaker said many were shipped a Protestant and head of the German­ my German and JewiSh col­ sage was received with great interest. to Germany for a year's military American League for Culture, showed leagues in the Reich of Adolph training there, but if they couldn't go a picture of what he said was Kuhn Hitler.'� N extensive campaign is contin­ "Hitler had an alternative. He sub­ clad in a storm trooper's uniform, Among the other world-famous ar­ A ually being carried on by the sidized camps here and gave them shaking hands with Hitler. tists who have already signified their Women's Division on all department training in this country. Some of his Grigat, who also IS an executive of intention to appear at the concert are and chain stores, as weI! as rechecking American followers even joined the the Friends of Democracy, declared Katherine Ba<:on, well-known pianist, all other stores.

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state militias, including New Jersey's, "the fight against Nazi Germany is no Harry .Braun, whose career has been RECENT <.ppeal sent out by in order to get the necessary military longer a fight of any one race or sect, sponsored ,by Governor Lehman, A Mrs. Mark Harris to all Presi­ training for the war Hitler expects." but rather a fight of every decent, Mario Chamlee, Luboshutz and Ne­ dents of Women's organizations of Criticizing Secretary of State HuH civilized person to combat an iniquit­ menoff, and the Musical Art Quartet. Greater New York and all other affili­ for apologizing for Mayor LaGuar­ ous regime." In announcing its plans for this con­ ated groups, asking them to devote a dia's disparangement of Hitler, Dick­ There were brief addresses by cert which is intended as a drama­ ten minute talk at each meeting to the stein said : "Unde Sam has had an George Barry, a Catholic layman ; Dr. tized protest against Hitler's ban on boycott, has brought fine responses. apology coming from Hitler for a Benjamin Dubowsky, Yiddish journal­ great, but non-Aryan and Non-Nazi Organizations have asked for speak­ long time, and even if we got it I ist and an executive hoard member of mnsic, the League stated : ers, appoint boyCbtt-chairmen, and evi­ wouldn't ·believe it." the Anti-Nazi League, and Dr. Boris "Few people realize how far the dence a desire to continue their splen­ Dicksteiri and other speakers called Nelson, a graduate of Oxford and the Nazis have gone in applying the Ary­ did cooperation nntil the boycott has for continued support of the boycott University of Heidelberg, now serv­ an and other paragraphs to music. achieved its ultimate success. against German goods. The meet­ ing with the league. The works of such great composers Presiding was Dr. S. William Kalb, �s Mendelssohn, Max Bruch, Hinde­ ing was sponsored by the Essex Coun­ Among the many notables who are chairman of the New Jersey division mith, Stravinsky, Kurt Weill and ty Branch Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi serving as sponsors for the League's of the League. There was a musical many others have been prohibited by League in co-operation with Newark event are Mrs. Oliver Harriman, Mrs program by the Freiheit Singing So­ official decree of the Nazi Ministry . Post, Jewish War Veterans and fra­ Isaac Gimbel, Bernard Semel, Mrs. ciety, directed by Vladimir Chaifitz, for Propaganda and Public Enlight­ ternal and religious groups. Joseph Stroock, and Mrs. Max Bins­ with Mae Globerman as accompanist. enment under Goebbe1s. Arturo Tos­ Dickstein declared Nazi organiza­ wanger. Mr. Samuel Untermyer, The meeting was arranged by the ac­ Ytnnini has already scored Hitler's tions were operating in Newark and president of the League, will have tions committee of theLeague, beaded Nazification of music by refusing to Trenton, and in Passaic, Bergen and returned from his home in Warm by Abraham I. Harkaway and Jacob appear anywhere in Germany during Hudson counties. He displayed a Springs, California, in time to attend Malamuth. They were assisted by the Nazi regime. We are arranging pamphlet carrying a picture, entitled the event. "Storm Troopers Parading in Streets N. Nathan, H. B. J. Weckstein, J. this concert to bring before the Amer­ of Hudson County." He said he Epstein, W. Landsman, E. I. Meyer, ican people and Germans in America ORDER YOUR TICKETS-NOW! visited a camp in New Jersey formed H. Stern, A. Silverstein, Mrs. S. the eXtent of Nazi destruction of BEST CHOICE AVAILABLE! two years ago, where American <:h il- Levy, Mrs. M. Komgut. music." HELP THE BOYCOTT! 8 THE ANTI-NAZI MARCH, 1937 THOMAS MANN INDI�TS HITLER

"The mere knQwlOOge Qf who. these w{) rld, is the first cQnsideratio.n, yet the men are whoth, am supp;>sOO to have dishQnQred zenship "the PhilQsQphical Faculty finds s'elf. the Reich, dishQnQured Germany, in itself obliged to strike yQur name off Intellectually reduced and humbled. acknowledging that I am against them. its roll of hQnorary doctors." The Nobel mQrally gutted, inwardly rent, in deepes,t 'I1hey have the incredible effrQntery to. Prize recipient was recently honored mistrust Qf its leaders and all the harm confuse themselves with Germany. The with the title of Doctor of Philosophy they have dQne to. her in three years; time . is not far Qff, per-haps, when it fQr maintaining the high standard Qf prQfoundly unel'.llY herself, ignorant, Qf will be Qf supreme imp;>rtance to. the German culture. co.urse, but full of forebQdings of evil, Germam peQple not to be cQnfusOO with The follQwing is the full text of the sihe would gQ ,into. war not in the c®­ them! passage in which Thomas Mann de­ dition Qf 1914 .but, even physically, in To. wihat a state, in less than f()IUX nouncOO bQth the doctrine of Natio.nal that of 1917 a,nd 1918, The 10 per c�nt year.s, have they brQught Germany ? Socialism in Germany and the men who Qf direct ·beneficiaries of the system­ Ru ined, su cked dry bQdy a.nd soul by are putting that doctrine into force : half even Qf rity Qf !bhe others Wo.uld Qnly see 'an and hindering .iff; in its real task Qf QPportunity to shake ().ff the shameful peace : loved by nQbQdy, regardOO with QPpressiQn thllll; has weiJg>hoo them down fear and cold aver-siem by all, it stand", so. IQng. A war, in o.tfuer words, which on the brink Qf econQmic catastrQphe, after the firs,t dei·eat would turn into a ' ' while its "enemies" str�h out their civil war. hands in alar.m to. snatch back frQm the No, it is impossible. Germany cannQt abyss so. impo.rtant a member of the make this war. And, if its dictato.rs are future CommQnwealth Qf NatiQns; to in their right minds, then their assur­ he;lp it, if only it will CQme to. its' senses ances Qf readiness for peace are nQt and try to understand the real needs Qf tiactical lies ntterOO rih a wink at their the wo!1"ld at this host this impossibility. cessities." But if war carnnot and shall nQt be­ Yes, after all it m'1lSt ibe helpOO by then why robber.s and murderers ? Why thQse whQm it impOOes and menaces, that isolatioQn, wQrld�hQg,tmty, lawlessness, it may nQt drag down .the rest Qf the intelleCituaJ interdict, enItural darkness, co.ntinent and unchain the war UPQn and every other deficiency '1 Why not w i h the ultima a h c , as r tio., it keeps its rather Germany's return to EurQpe, a eyes v e er fixOO. ' The mature and cul­ recoocilha.tion with Europe, a voluntary tured States-by wihich I mean thQse who. entrance into a peaceful EurQpean know the fundamental fact that war is system, with all the inward accQmpani­ no. longer allQwOO-treat this great, en­ ments of freOOom, jus,tice, wellbeing, a,nd dan r endan e n ge ed and g ri g land, Qr rath­ human decency, and a jubilant welcQme er the impossible leaders into wihQse frQm the rest Qf the wQrld'1 Why not? hands a n as it has f lle , doctors do. a -sick Only because a regime which in wQrd man ; with rbhe greatest cQnsideration and deed denies .the righ ts of man, which and cllJUtion, with mexhaustible if nQt seeks a.bQve all else to. remain in p;>wer, very flattering patience. it th nks But i it would s tulify itself and be abolished if, lUSt p ay po.litics--the politiC6 of Po.wer m l sinee it could not make war, it actually an he emony-with the doctors. d g made peace? Brut is that' a reason ? That is an unequal game. If Qne side I had forgotten Herr Dekan, that I plays PQlities w'.hen the Qther is no. IQnger was still addressing yQU. Certainly I of p;>Utics. peace, then fo.r mindful but of may cQnsQle myself with the refleetiQn a time the first side reaps certain advan­ that you IQng ago. ceasOO to read this tages. 'I1he anachronistic ignQrance o.f letter, aghasd; at langmage wh ich in Ger­ the fact that war is no longer allQwable many hGS been so long unuttered; terri­ reSIUlts for a while, of CQurse, in si'lccess­ A Photo of the Adventnrers Who Rule fied because somebQdy is bold eno.ugh es a ains those are aware Qf the g t wh o. Germany Today to. use the German tQngne with th e an­ t h. to. the peQple which, no. rrut But WQe cient freedom. Au pep}uous. diffidence will seldom or never bring terminatiQn o.f every stirring of opposi­ And to. tell the truth it is both Qf iihese : himself to utter by mQuth o.r pen the tiQn; to make Qf them an instrument of senseless and superfIuoU6 not Qnly name Qf the Deity, yet in mQments of war, infinitely compli�t, sickliOO Qver bec.aruse war ,v ill not be permitted to. it deep emGtiO'n cannot refrain, let me­ ica e by not one crit l idea, f ttered by blind but because with lts leading idea it itself since after all one must leave SQme and fanatical igllQrance. effects the QPposite r Qne. That it WQuld teach it to make its peace with the WQrld happiness, induding the secret and Qpen have no. allies, nQt a single Qne in the and with itself!

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George Gordon Battle J. George Fredman \ Bishop Francis J. McConnell STRAuss-EcHARDT & Han. Richard J. Beamish Hon. James W. Gexard Louis Myers D. P. HARRIS HARDWARE MFG. Co., 99 Chambers Street, New York City. Abraham Cahan Mrs. Mark" IIarrl. Hon. Leopold Prince , LEATHER Dr. A. COralnlk Siegfried F. Ha.rtman "Ezekiel Rabinowitz Jac,ob de Haas Rev. JOhn Hayne. Holmes Dr. Abba E1lleJ Sliver J. EINSTEIN, INC., Shoe Leather, 1 Park Avenue, New York City. Or. Benjamin DuboVsky Rev. Edward L. Hunt J. David Stern HERMANN LoEWENSTEIN, 26 Ferry Street, New York City. Han. M. Maldwin Fertig E. N. Xle1nba.um Han. Arthur S. Tompkins Jacob Fishman Joseph Kraemer Oswald Garrison Villard MACHINERY & PARTS Dr. Harry Lee Franklin Clarence H. Low Frank P. Walsh ADLANCO X-RAY CORP., X-ray apparatus, 54 Lafayette Street, New York City. C. & c. SALES CoRP., Ball Bearings, 1775 Broa,dway, New York City. H. H. HEINRICH, INC., "Matador" Bag Machinery, Aniline Printing Presses, 'WHY DO THESE FIRMS CONTINUE TO 200 Varick Street, New York City. ROBERT REINER, Embroidery Machines, S56 Gregory Ave., Weehawken, N. J. . HANDLE GERMAN MERCHANDISE? RO'l'ARY TOOL & MACHINERY COMPANY, 217 E. 38th Street, New York City. MUSICAL SUPPLIES CAMERAS & FHOTO SUPPLIES C. BRUNO & SON, INC., 460 West 34th Street, New York City. . . ABE COHEN EXCHANGE, INC , 120 Fulton Street, N. Y. C (Owned by Davega- HARMONICA DISTRIBUTION CORP. OF AMERICA, 2S1 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. City Radio, Inc. ) M. HOHNER, INC., Harmonicas & Accordions, 3S1-4th Avenue, N. Y. C. WILLOUGHBY CAMERA STORES, Inc., 110 West 32nd Street, New York City. " PROGRESSIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CORP., 404 Fourth Avenue, N. Y. C. CHEMICALS & DRUGS AKATOS. INC., Chemicals, S Van Dam Street, New York City. 1,:;�,,� PEAT MOSS ATKINS DUBROW, INC., ("G. P.M.,i' "Pioneer," "O.K.," "Sorbex"), 165 John GENERAL DYESTUFFS CORP., Che)l1icals & Dyes, 230 Fifth Ave., N. Y. C. & Street, New York City. " S. 'B. PENICK & CO., Crude Drugs, 130 Nassau St., N. Y. C. PEAT Moss S S CORP., ("Justrite" ), 165 John Street, New York City. PFALTZ & BAUER, Chemicals & Glues, 300 Pearl Street, New York City. ALE PEAT IMPORT CORP., ("P.LC."), ISS John Street, New York City. WINTHROP CHEMICAL GO., Chemicals & Drugs, 170 Varick Street, N. Y. C. (Combined with H, A. Metz Laboratories, Inc.) THUMBTACKS CHINAWARE ROBERT E. MILLER, INC., Tacks & Nalls ("Remco"), 35 Pearl Street, N. Y. C. ROSENTHAL CHINA CoRP., 149 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C. . WATEEBURY TACK CO" INC., Waterbury, Conn. PAUL A. STRAUB. 105 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C. TOYS, NOTIONS & FAVORS COKE F. A. O. SCHWARZ, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City. COLONIAr.:' FuEL CORP., 37 Commercial Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. B. SCHACKMAN & I�O., 180 Madison Avenue, New York City. KoKANCOAL Co., INC., 21 West Street, New York City. STRAuss-EcKHARO'l' & Co., 4S East 17th Street, New York City. BEN RAFFE & SONS, lNc., 129 Varick Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. YEAST CUTLERY, BARBERS' BEAUTY SUPPLIES & CoM PRESSED YEAST CORP., "Blue Ribbon" Yeast, 363' Greenwich St., N. Y. C. H. BOKER & Co., Steel & Cutlery, "Tree Brand," "Valley Forge," "Silver ' VULKAN YEAST Co., 339 Greenwich Street, New York City. Steel," 101 Duane Street, New York City. MISCELLANEOUS BRESDUCK. INC., ·Razors, Shears & Combs, ("Dubl " Duck"), 224 Canal Street, . GE6. F. BASSETT & Co., Gifts Miniature Porcelain Figures, 22S Fifth Avenue, New York City. ' "'New York City. GIBBS & Co., 43 West 43rd Street, New York City. JULIUS BLUM, Iron, 532 West 22nd Street, New York City. J. A. HENCKELS, INC., ("Twin Brand"), 456--4th Avenue, New York City. GAS & O VERTON, INC., Wood ;pulp & Pulpwood, 630 Fifth Avenue, N. Y. C. PETER J. MICHELS, Barbers' Supplies, 1857 Catalpa Avenue. Ridgewood, N. Y. Ir M • GREENBAUM, INC., Food Impor�ers, 165 Chambers St., New York City. MOLER SYSTEM COLLEGE S, Beauty Culture Schools, 177 North State Street, ., J . OF ,, ,, HENRY R. HOPKINSON, Lmens, 40 White Street, New York City. Chicago, Ill., branches throughout the U. S. & KARL PAULI CORP., Fancy: Me l Papers, 454 Broome Street, New York City. SCHRADER EHLERS, 239 Fourth Avenue, New York City. J;a & LEWIS DISPLAY MATERIALS, Wmdow Displays, 480 Lexington Avenue, N. Y. C. WESTER BROS., Razors, Shears and Manicuring Implements, "Anchor Brand," LEWIS & CONGER, House Furnishings, 6th Ave. and 45th St., New York City. 250 West Broadway, New York City. LUCIIOW IMPORTING CORPORATION, Beer, 101 East 13th Street, New York City. WILFR'EIJ ACADEMY OF BEAUTY CULTURE, 1659 Broadway, New York City. MANHATTAN STENCIL CORP., Typewriter Stencils (HPelican Brand" ) 401 , MEDICAL & DENTAL SUPPLIES ' Broadway, New York City. AMERICAN HECOLITE DENTURE CoRPORATION, "Hecolite" Dentures, 536 S.E. N. S. MEYER, INC., Army and Navy Equipment, 419 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. 6th Avenue, Portland Ore., 460 West 34th Street, New York City. J. S. STAEDTLER, INC., Pencils ("Mars," "Luna"), 5� Worth Street, Y. AMERICAN HEXOLENE CORPORATION, "Hexolene" Dentures, 1819 Broadway, N. C. ERNST TOEPFER, Cement, 2 Broadway, New York City. New York City. AMEBICAN MEDICAL SPECIALTIES Co" 131 E. 23rd St., New York City, ADAM BERNHARD, Importer of dental plastic materials 4S 17th St., N. Y. C. E. THE IS THE MORAL SUBSTITUTE FOR WAR INJECTA COMPANY, "Meisinger" Dental Supplies, 112 :E. 19th St., N. Y. C. F. W. MASSELL & COMPANb, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. A. PFINGST, "Busch" Dental Supplies, 309 Bible House, New York City. PREMIER DENTAL l\§FG. Co., 900 Cl1estnut Street, Philadelphia. NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGU E GUSTAY" SCHARMANN, "Meisinger" , "Scharmann" Burs and Instruments. 1181 TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS. Ine. Broadway. New York, N. Y. 20 WEST 47th STREET NEW YORK L: SILVERMAN, 1033 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. General nlembershfp $2,00 Associa.te Membership STERLING .PRODUCTS CORP., 118 E. 25th Street, New York City. Co�tributing MembeJ:'ship 5.00 Sustaining Membership TIP-Top INSTRUMENTS, INC., 15 East 26th Street, New York City. Active Membership 10.00 Donors , DEPARTMENT STORES Honora.ry Membership 500.00 GENUNG'S DEPT. STORES, Office, 10 East 40th Street, New York City. S. H. KREss & Co., S, 10, 2Sc Stores throughout United States. Office, 114-5th Name Avenue, New York City. .' Addres� __ .._ ..... ______..__ ._._ . . _ ...______. _____ . ______.. __ . __ .._. __ .. _._ .._ F rms not mentioned in this list are not necessarily cooperat­ � ty ._._ ... _. _____ . ___ ....__ ._. ______. __ .____ ... _.__ ._ .. ____. . __ ...... _. __ . mg With the boycott�} It; is endeavored to include here the names Ci 5 ta te of only such firms as are of nation-wide importance and persist in using goods of German origin or German materials Wlithout making I much of an effort to make replacements. 1 U:Hitler�- Must Not Succeed" 10 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN MARCH, 1937

Boycott Takes for postponing him until after the are refugees in other lands-we who ations, to carry out a concentration on proposed fight with Joe Louis in Chi­ believe in Democracy grieve for what the east against Russia or on the west Second Round cago, because that is precisely what has happened to Germany. against France and Belgium ...If But out of that sorrow must rise England is not careful the day may From -Schmeling Schmeling did to Jack Sharkey sev­ � .. a burning zeal to prevent the in­ come when we shall be exposed to eral years ago ..." roads of Fascism here; to expose overwhelming attack without any For the second time the anti-Nazi " ...The American public, to whom the hundred or more pro-Fascist warning. That is the bare fact we boycott launched against Max Schmel­ Schmeling and the Nazis now appeal organizations in the United States have to face. ing by the League emerged victoriolis, for a rather special type of sports­ -the Crusade:.: White Shirts, the Mr. Duff Cooper said, not long ago, when announcements were made that Christian Silver Shirts, and their manship, did not censure Schmeling that it was the duty of everybody in promoters in Newark and Philadelphia ilk-which are using hatred of the authority to frighten the country out for avoiding Sharkey but accepted had cancelled plans for the Nazi fight­ Jews as a decoy for the destruction of its wits. On the facts the Govern­ er's exhibition bouts in those cities. that course as the customary, if not of our traditional liberties. ment knows, I am not sure he was Following this show of strength of the honest and sporting, thing to do. It is to combat these forces that wrong, but I ask why has not the the boycott movement, the rest of The injection of politics into sport American citizens must be mobilized Government in this country had the Schmeling's tour through the remain­ is none of this country's doing. The for the purpose of "guarding the an­ courage to tell the people the truth. ing part of the Nazi-planned itinerary cient liberties of which we are both the If the Government ... tell us noth­ Nazis injected political and military wa's indefinitely postponed by the Ger­ heirs and the custodians", and which ing, what are we to think? What of man fighter's board of strategy nom­ display into the Olympic games at are the principal bulwark of a free the arms embargo against Spain? I inally led by the Hitler-Heiling Joe Garmisch and Berlin in violation of people against tyranny. Lest these lib­ am not against non-intervention pro­ Jacobs. their oath and that which they call erties be forgotten too easily, I repeat vided all countries come into it, but I When questioned by a spokesman them here : their honor. am against non-intervention which for the League as to the reasons for The Right to the Free Exercise of leaves the Fascists free to draw aero­ Nazism, having consistently placed the postponement of the tour, Jacobs, Religion ! planes and arms from Italy and Ger­ itself beyond the pale, has no legiti­ trying to evade the boycott issue, de­ The Right to Freedom of Speech ! many and deny the lawful Spanish clared that Schmeling could not as mate appeal to sportsmanship." The Right to Freedom of the Press ! Government similar support from yet begin his tour because impending The Right to Assemble Peacably ! England and France . . . court battles are keeping him in New The Right to Petition the Govern- York. American Money ment for Redress of Grievances ! What Can We Do? It is more likely, however, that The Right of the People to be se­ To-day you cannot let the rest of Schmeling is afraid to test the pow er Buys Wheat for Nazis cure in their persons, houses, papers the world go hang. If nations which of the boycott, one of the original and effects against unreasonable think they love peace do not hang to­ reasons for the tour, before he tries The Nazi grain office confirmed re­ searches and seizure ! gether, they will hang separately. In to make .the courts force Jim Brad­ ports today -that the Reich has been The Right of Protection through , Germany and Italy we see systems dock to fight him in June. Braddock, buying Argentine wheat. The spokes­ due process of law, of person and that say citizens belong to the State of course, is by now duly impressed man for the purchasing bureau, how­ property ! from the cradle upwards. All rights with the effectiveness of the League's ever, declined to disclose the amount The Right of Trial by Jury ! they have come from the State and call to its members and supporters "to of the purchases "on the principle we The Right of Protection against ex­ its leader, the State being governed by withhold all patronage from any event never throw light on the Government's cessive bail and fines, and against cruel an armed minority faction. They say. in which Max Schmeling participates" grain deals." and unusual punishments ! "We will not permit any belief to and will undoubtedly go . through with (The Nazi Government was re­ The Right of Protection against grow, or any criticism of our methods, his plan to fight Joe Louis. ported in Chicago to have bought 2,- discrimination because of race, color or any liberty of the Press which 000,000 bushels of Argentine wheat or creed ! . • • and Third Round ! breaks our power over the bodies and yesterday. ) souls of our fellow-countrymen, and Although Max Schmeling tried to "For the same reason," the spokes­ we will arm to the teeth so that, by minimize his connection with the man added, "I am unable to say whet­ frightening others, we may get what Nazis by coming to America on a her the purchases will be continued." The Nazi Menace British Ship, the S.S. Berengeria,­ The Nazi wheat purchases were (Continued rom page 3) we want without having to fight for f it." That a privilege ordinarily withheld from made after the Nazi Government. be­ . at bottom, is Hitler's real means that then, swiftly, without Hitler does not want to the average German-, his recent offer canse of a shortage, was forced to policy. warning, attack will begin by every fight, but he pnsh the threat of $250,000.-to Braddock if the latter mix corn flour with wheat and rye will scientific and engineering device that of war to the utmost limit in order will fight him in Berlin emphatically flour. can be thought of-by aircraft, poison s and and definitely marks Schmeling "a s just Is it true that an American banking to extort concessions from u gas, long range guns, bacteria - to another tool in the hands of the Nazi firm has paid for this Argentine wheat the other democratic States of the Ministry of Propaganda. As a matter crush the enemy before he is ready. world. "on account" with American Bonds, This strategy was explained in the of fact, the offer came on the express for which Hitler has sent the bankers We have those damnable systems organ of the German Staff as long command from the Nazi Propaganda a promissory note? . threatming us. The future of Europe Minister, Herr Goeboels, who is eager ago as September 1932. alld our future deperuls up on the open­ to have the fight staged in Berlin, What Will Great Britain Do? eyed, clear-minded resolve of the rank both to recreate the hysteria of the and file of the people of this country Christianity On Until about 16 months ago British Olympics on a smaller scale and to to stand true to our traditions of Ministers would not listen to any in­ make sure that Schmeling, the Nazi, The Defensive ordered freedom and personal liberty formation about the preparations that will win the championship. What under the law. We will suffer nO (Continued from page 1) were going on, not until the guileless would happen if Schmeling actually dictation. To figJit this menace we hand made up not only of Jews and Sir John Simon went to Berlin and did win the championship is not a have to be as stern as the Roundheads non-Aryan Christians, but of Hberals. was told by Hitler, "We are stronger matter of conj ecture. Goebbels would of old. When our Government knows nacifists, scholars, Cathol ic priests and than you in .the air." Knowing we use it for his own insidious purposes, this, we shall have fewer pilgrimages Protestant pastors-all seeking that were weak and were not prepared to and what these are, we know only too to the shrines of authoritative mur­ freedom which is the birthright of the stand up to a display of force, our well ! derers by our statesmen. human spirit. ' Government, nevertheless, went ahead I have paid particular attention i� at Geneva, talking of col lective secur­ There is a country in Europe where th is short article to the religious angle ity against war. Two years before strong Fascist propaganda has been Pegler Criticizes carried on recently. A small army of of German Fascism, since it is the that. Mr. Baldwin had said that any Schmeling one which perhaps is least understood Ministers who adopted a policy of several thousand has been organised by the general public. collective security and of sanctions and paid with German money to carry I have not meant to minimize the without being prepared for war were out that propaganda. We have to be FAIR ENOUGH barbarous enslavement of intellectual , faithless to their trust. I agree with prepared, if necessary, to sacrifice by cultural and political thought that is the statement of two years ago, but everything to combat things like that Westbrook Pegler making Germany a barren, sterile land. it. makes me wonder what I am to . . . I do not fear Communism. We (March 4, 1937) When the Nobel Peace Prize is think of Mr. Baldwin and others since. can meet it and defeat it by sound awarded to Carl von Ossietz ky while Now we have this dilemma. Our social reform. But I do fear the he is in a German concentration camp : Government at last knows what the lurking, sneaking reactions mas­ "Max Schmeling returns to this when mental giants like Thomas Mann German Nazi menace is. It knows querading as Nazi or Fascist prin. country to insist on a fight with Jimmy and Albert Einstein are deprived of that between the Danish and Dutch ciples which profess ' to defend Braddock for the heavyweight cham­ their citizenship; when Dr. Julius frontiers there are hangars. nests of prpoerty but are really trying to pionship, and his friends, the New Lips, distinguished anthropologist, who undergrou.l1 d aerodromes, filled with enslave the people again. I would York Nazis, as well as some Amer­ resigned his professorship at the Uni­ aircmft for eventual employment have every man, woman and child icans, are demanding sporstmanship on versity of Cologne rather than be­ a.qainst England. That point has been in this country ready to stand and come a propagandist- for Aryanism, is chosen so that there shall be no fight this menace for it threatens his behalf. Personally, Schmeling is warn­ forced to flee for his very life and ing of the departure of those machines not only their freedGm but their in no position to criticize Braddock when some eighty-thousand Germans for England. The�-there are prepar- very souls." MARCH, 1937 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN 11

High Jewish "Je Maintiendrai" Nazi Readings Suicide Rate For Babes Ford "Pays" Hitler (From The New Statesmcm and Nati01�, BERLIN-The Gestapo today con­ London) German pnblic school children are fiscated a pamphlet showing the high To Herr Hitler's offer to make now required to read a basic list of LEEDS, England-The name of Henry Ford was mentioned here rate of suicides among Jews in Ger­ Holland inviolable and neutral for all 120 books ordered by the Nazi Minis­ as a possible contributor to Ger­ many. The pamphlet, issued by the time, the Dutch government have re­ try of Education. The books include man Nazi funds, the Havas News "Reichsvertretung," showed that in plied that the inviolability of Dutch 51,lch titles as : Agency reported. During a politi­ Berlin alone between 1932 and 1934 territory is axiomatic in their national "In the Mists of Antiquity," "Nor­ cal speech, Miss Ellen Wilkinson, the proportion of Jewish suicides was policy and that they are not prepared dic Heroes " "German Battles " "Ger­ Laborite Member of Parliament, 50 per cent above that of the rest of to make it a matter of discussion with man Great�ess in Sacrifice Y{ a d Lead­ the population. . It was written by Dr. any other country. ership," "Memorials of the World said : "I would be interested to Franz Goldman, a former official of War," "Our Un forgotten Colonies," know how much money Henry the Reich Ministry of the Interior, "Germans in All the World," "Nature Ford has contributed to Nazi funds." She said she considers and Dr. Georg Wolff, former statis­ While our hearts of oak are and the Homeland" and "Youth Chancellor Hitler's masters are tician of the Berlin·health department. smitten Marches in the New Germany." capitalists of Germany and other In that period 334 Jews, including With the utmost trepidation countries. 122 women, took their lives, of whom Lest the attitude of Britain Labor Camps 63 men and 38 women were over the Should estrange the Nazi nation, Are Soldier Camps age of 60. Forty-six per cent of the While our hand we vainly proffer men and 38 per cent of the women With most affable exertion, Continue Persecution How thoroughly military an affair suicides were married. Holland spurns the Nazi offer Labor Service has become, German Of Catholicism With peculiar aversion. Systematic Hate fathers and mothers first realize when their sons return on leave. The tales While Goebbels is staging Easter­ She remembers how aforetime Campaign Intensified told more or less freely by the young fires and rolling hnge fire-wheels, She withstood the might of Spain men leave no doubt that the main pur­ Na:zi Germany must worship the Nor­ once, A two-days' conference was recent­ pose of Labor Service is to make. of :lic ram and honor Wotan's red­ And the British fleet in wartime ly held in the Castle of Celle for the the young German a soldier in all but haired paladin, Donar, of some thous­ Chivvied on the bounding main leaders of the Hitler Youth Organi­ the mastery of the complicated wea­ and years ago. The Pope's recent once, zation (the members of which are pons of modern warfare. This is left encyclical had been suppressed in the And may yet raise sons to keep her under the age of sixteen). A number. for the following two "years of mili­ Nazi controlled press, but nevertheless Like a Statthalter new-risen of addresses were delivered on the tary training. has found widest circulation and made Jewish problem, and at the conclusion Or van Tromp, the Channel- 'Masked' Soldiering a deep impression on non-Catholic of the proceedings, a play was pro­ sweeper, Germans as well. Hitler has always duced demonstrating the alleged secret With a broom lashed to the mizzen. "Ordnungsdienst," order service, is the euphemistic title given to actual treated the� Concordat as non-existent, activities of the Jews as described in and the Pope's warniug, if strong, military drill, a regular feature of life the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." And if Nazi souls are straining came late enongh. Despite these facts, in the labor camps usually four times The play, according to the Nazi Press, With the Third Reich to combine Nazis today brazenly call the Pope's a week for periods of one to two and had a convincing effect on the Hitler- land justified complaint "tantamount to di­ a half hours. "Ge1aendespiele," ter­ ist youth. All the sacred mouth containing rect interference in German domestic rain games, is the equally euphemistic The Nazi educational authorities Of the river of the Rhineland, �ffairs." Writes The New York Post title given to exercise which consist of have lately been making a special drive Rather fighting, undefeated, (March 23) editorially : "If Jesus learning to approach an enemy posi­ in Berlin trade schools to implant Let the flooded sea secure her, were in Germany today he would be tion, learning to take advantage of Jew-hatred among the children of the Than "by Nazi treaties cheated ill a concentration camp ..The Pope's every bit of cover. German working class. Among the Live by favour of the Fuhrer. encyclical virtually gives his bless­ subjects' set to them for composition, Disciplfue a1\4 Obedience ing to the fight agl'inst Nazism." SAGITTARIUS. the following were given much promin­ The primary virtue of a soldier, ence : "Who is Julius Streicher and however, is immediate and unquestion­ Naziw"Prosperity" what is his Importance to the German ing obedience, and the primary char­ ; "What is my attitude to­ acteristic of a good army discipline. People?" Hitler Promotes Hitler Willson Woodside, writing on "Ger­ Jews ?" ; "Why doc$ Hit­ Accordingly, the labor ca�ps are de­ wards the many's Hidden Crisis," in the Febru� ler hate the Jews ?" voted twenty-four hours a day to the Adolf Hitler has ordered all Ger­ 1937 8- inculcation of discipline. The routine ary issue of Harper In Weimar, the Nazi leader, Dr. man consuls abroad to refuse to per­ "The Frankfurter Zeitung pub­ of a labor camp is the routine of mili­ Zierfuss, informed Jews abroad that form or certify marriages of German lished this year, uncontradicted, a every Jewish move against Germany tary barracks. Labor Service men citizens, unless the couple agrees to statement that 90 per cent of the proved injurious not to Nazi Germany, must leap from bed, rush out for in­ purchase a copy of Hitler's book, German workers now earned on an but to the Jews in Germany. Germany spection and exercises, eat breakfast "Mein Kampf." average only 25 marks (say $10) possessed strong powers of endurance in minutes and march off in military Interesting to note that Hitler re­ a week. Forbidden to strike, with and would not abandon an anti-Jewish formation for their six-hour stint of ceives 200 marks from every sale of no way of protesting his wages or hard labor. policy. A similar statement was made "Mein Kampf." Almost 1,350,000 conditions, the industrial worker by Governor-General Sprenger in copies have been sold-giving Hitler Nazi's Punish-too! can now by Goering's latest order Magdeburg. In Stuttgart, Governor­ a profit of 2,700,000. Marks. Yes in­ Punishments for oversight or dis� be conscripted out of his present General Murr advocated a policy of deed, Hitler promotes-HitlerI obedience are military punishments. occupation, put back in the trade complete economic boycott of the The most severe is for intentional dis­ he originally learned, and sent any­ Jews, in order to break their alleged obedience. The culprit is locked in a where in Germany. For agricul­ power completely. Hitler Pushes Anti­ dark room without furniture for three tural workers something very like And who was it that declared the to four days, and wakened every hour. serfdom is being prepared. Darre Boycott a "Jewish weapon" ?! Christian Spirit Then his Labor Service uniform is proposes to have them established ripped from his back in the presence in house and garden on the fann­ Editors 'Must Listen!' BERLIN-The Nazi Church in of his comrades. The flag of the camp er's land, bound to him for so is lowered, The whole body of some Germany has adopted for tlle election many days' free labor per year••• " Editors have no business trying to of a General Protestant Synod on 120 men is disgraced and all privileges be free in matters of aesthetic criti­ Aprill 11 the slogan : "For Christ and removed. The disobedient one is cism or anything else without defer­ against the Jewish spirit . . . for taken away by guards to another DEPORT AFRICAN NAZIS ence to political necessities, according church peace and against racially for­ camp. to a doctrine laid down by Capt. Wil­ eign teachings." For minor offenses the Labor Ser­ The South African govern­ helm Weiss, head of the Reich Press Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, bitter critic vice soldier must stand guard with ment today moved to enforce " Federation, the Havas News Agency of Christianity, has centralized the shouldered spade unmoving for three summary deportation for any r' qtO¥Wd: training of all Nazi-functionaries and hours, loses his free time, is drilled persons seeking to spread Nazi In a speech yesterday, Capt. Weiss Hitler youth-leaders by the founda­ an extra hour or so on. influence in former German said the new Nazi journalism received tion of an "Academy for Weltan­ colonial territory in southwest inspiration directly from the State, as schauung" (World Outlook). "Germany Backs Me!" Africa. There will be no ap­ compared to former times when jour­ Meanwhile, racial propaganda in the -Hitler peal against the deportation nalists submitted "to Jewish influ­ public schools has now reached the orders. A proclamation to this ence." The new regime has enabled, point where in common and grammar Herr Hitler always has three strong­ effect now is "being drafted it the Reich to re-establish its military schools the only reading books used arm men for his ,bodyguard. And is reported. sovereignty, continued Capt. Weiss, to are a series in which, according to an there is an agreement among them May this serve as a lesson reoccupy the Rhineland, and to COll­ official statement, the central theme is that they'll all commit suicide if any­ to America !! struct roads and gig antic monuments. race. thing happens to Adol f.

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League Surveys Nazi "German Woman­ Streicher Instructs Nazi-Reprisals As Inftuence In U. S. National Strength" Italian "Aryans" 'International Justice' This brochure by LORE REINHARDT While only 5% of the entire Ger­ (published by Adolf Klein, Leipzig) "Italy's five foremost anti-Semitic BERLIN-A move to impose Ger­ man-American population in the bears the sub-title: "A contribution fighters" are to visit Nuremberg for man sovereignty upon other countries United States are pro-Nazi, approxi­ towards the formation of a new type ten days as guests of honor of Nazi was seen today in the new Nazi law mately 95% of the German language of German woman," and is an attack Germany. The invitation, which was empowering the Reich to take repris­ newspapers printed here are pro-Nazi. on the morals of pre-Hitler Germany. made by Julius Streicher last week, als against foreign residents in Ger­ This was disclosed by The Leagne It deals with the unhealthy moral re­ was accepted by Signor Ganetti, Mus­ many for measures taken against Ger.. following a nation-wide survey made lations between man and woman in soHni's Labor Chief for Industries, man citizens or property abroad. nnder the League's auspices. The pre-Hitler days, and exalts the new who has been touring Germany. The Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick Leagne's findings throw additional moral standard of the National Social­ invitation was given at a conclave in was accorded sw.;;epirig authority of light on the political inclinations of the ist revolution. Nuremberg of Italian and German highly elastic nature under the law. vast German-American population in The foreword says : "The intensive Labor leaders, .headed by Signor Gan­ Observers regarded the measure as a America. The 5% who are pro-Hit­ struggle for decent and clean morals etti and by Dr. Ley, Chief of the La­ more or Iess direct attempt to force ler are well organized in Nazi organ­ is now directed against a vast number bor Front. German law upon countries which izations which are directed from Ber­ of non-Nordic, confused and demoral­ In a high-flown speech, Julius might have reason to fear the threat­ lin. Most of the German-Americans ised (people who will submit only to ,Streicher greeted the Italians as ening retaliation. and those of German descent are anti­ standardised pressure ••. " . "brothers of the same race and blood." These same circles were inclined to Nazi in their sentiments, but are The following quotations indicate "The Jewish question must come in view the move also as permitting the afraid to take an active part in the the drift of the book : Italy, too," he said. "We are fellow­ Reich to mete out international "jus­ movement against Hitlerism for fear Woman's Work soldiers in this greatest of all wars tice" without recourse to the Hagne of reprisals leveled agaiust friends and "The man defends his people against ...Either we stand together or World Court of other accepted relatives in the Fatherland. perish." mediums. The survey further reveals that the danger from outside, he organises State and industry and stakes his own In reply, Signor Cianetti is said to The inclusion of the phrase "or reason for the tremendous support.of have declared : "Italy, too, will man­ against their property" in the reprisal Hitler found in the German language life in defence of his people ... Just as man in war and work, so woman age to subdue the Jews" ; whereupon law was interpreted in some quarters press in this country is due directly he was presented with a "Nordic risks her life .for the people and the as proof that the edict may be aimed to subsidy received by these papers Eagle" in bronze by the Nazi leaders. against the expropriatory measures race when she gives birth . • . Thus particularly in the form of paid ad­ taken in Poland against German na­ vertisements from the German ship­ the birth-giving of the healthy, strong and racially sound mother becomes as people, as she will give birth to N or­ tionals. ping companies. In any event, the law was expected Upon completing its survey the well a sublime, State-preserving duty dic children only and thus for gen­ and virtue. It was the will of God erations to come will ensure German­ to raise international difficulties when League announced that it would soon brought into play, inasmuch as its begin to issue a regular news service who created the races and prominently kind and German greatness. We there­ among them the magnificent Nordic fore know only one ideal German enforgement would impose German to the German language press and that sovereignty upon the country affected, it would take steps to increase the in­ race." girl : the beautiful, blossoming, healthy ,"The Ideal Woman" Nordic 'type. Being of Nordic race, or result in a substantial loss for fluence of the few anti-Nazi German foreigners in the Reich. papers now published in various parts "We want to bring into her own the she is mentally different and superior of the country. German girl who , pears predominantly to the women of other races." --- Nordic features. She is to become the This self-divinization is the sign prototype. In her lies the best guar­ by which you shall know them: Nazi CivilService More W,age Slashings! antee for the N ordification of our NAZI-MANIACS! The report which deals with condi­ Bans Peace tions in the metallurgical plants of Society Member Saxony points out that at the end of THE ENEMY OF MANKIND s 1932-at the height of the world eco­ nomic crisis-the hourly wages in this BERLIN.-This time it is the Pos­ district amounted to 1.08 marks. (26 tal and Ciyil Service employees of American gold cents). In September Germany who have been singled out 1933 Nazi officials reduced the wage by the Nazi regime for special dis­ to 0.76 marks or about 30%, and this criminatory treatment. reduction was followed in the sum­ Fellowing instructions from the mer of 1934 by a further reduction of Reich Minister of the Interior, Postal 13 pfennig. Finally in December 1935, Service applicants and those on the with Germany's factories going full .waiting list of the Civil Service have blast. the wages were reduced to 54 been informed that they will not be pfennig an hour, or exactly one-half appointed if they had been members of the pre-Hitler wages. of the German Peace Society prior to The general downward trend has Hitler's rise to power in January, not been altered to an appreciable ex­ 1933. Postal employees already in the tent. It should be kept in mind that service. for many years and who re­ the figures given are maximum wages signed their membership in the Ger­ for highly qualified metal workers. Of man Peace Society only after the es­ an average weekly wage of 35 marks tablishment of the Nazi regime, are ($14) for a 63 hour work week ap­ excluded from promotion. proximately 6 marks are deducted for Nazi contributions. This is· generally 1'efet"red to as Pure Aryan-Rags! "Hitlet'-jrrosperity !" BERLIN (Havas)-The profession Wagner: Non-Aryan of rag-picking was closed to all non­ Nazis in Germany today. Only the A new and authoritative biography pure-blooded Aryans will be permitted of Richard Wagner has just come off henceforth to nose about the streets of the press in Czechoslovakia, where and alley-ways retrieving junk for it is disclosed that Wagner, in some which the administrators of the four­ of his own letters, had designated year plan may find use, Arthur 90�-_/-/ himself as a Jew. litzer, assistant Nazi leader".�. This fact, that Wagner himself had Berlin district, ruled. admitted his Jewishness, has created Nazi Germany is i:he Enemy of Civilization All the rag-pickers in the capital a lot of commotion in Nazi circles. are to be mobilized under the four­ Hitler is known to be a great admirer year plan and will be obliged to wear of Wagner's music and Wagner's mu­ REFUSE TO TRADE WITH TH E Et.-EMY little green armlets and badges. sic is always played at official Nazi gatherings. Whether or not the new Brown rags are to be handied with evidence about Wagner's Jewishness Th e Boycott is the Mo ral Substitute fo r Wa r an extra long, special pick and glove, will dampen liitler's ardor for 'Sieg­ both being marked with the Swa;;tika fried' re mains to be seen. -we humbly suggest ! �e ANTI- NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETJN

VOL. IV-No. 4. - CONCERT ISSUE - APRIL, 1937 LEAGUE SPONSORS CONCERT IN _ �ARNEGIE HALI.{ ON APRIL 27th

RENOWNED ARTISTS OF CONCERT AND OPERA FAME WILL PARTICIPATE

GOVERNOR LEHMAN and MAYOR LaGUARDIA AMONG HONORARY SPONSORS

Toscanini, an Italian Catholic can be any good music there anyway," he boycott Nazi Germany so can Reinald declared "as long as they are there !" Werrenrath, an American gentile, Mr. Werrenrath will fly to New Moreover, Ossip Gabrilowitch, the York especially for the Concert from director of the Detroit ,Symphony Or­ White Sulphur, West Virginia, where chestra died last year from overwork he is going to sing before a bankers' in aiding refugees from Nazi Ger­ convention. "Nothing can stop me many. Certainly, . any artist, in the from appearing at this Concert !" face of that gre�� sacrifice, can af­ When the League announced its ford to do his bit.' plans for the concert it was stated : Mr. Werrenrath's sentiment reflects "Few people realize how far the the feelings of the other cooperating Nazis have gone in applying the Ar­ artists who are eager to protest under yan and other paragraphs to music. the League's auspices Hitler's savage The works of such great composers as attack on all music composed by non­ Mendelssohn, Max Bruch, Schoen­ KATHERINE BACON REINALD WERRENRATH Aryan and non-Nazi composers, living berg, Stravinsky, Kurt Weill and Pianist Baritone and dead. , many others have been prohibited by In the same interview Werrenrath official decrees of the Nazi Ministry LEOPOLD GODOWSKY said : ,"Germany is too fine a place to for Propaganda and Public Enlighten­ ITH Governor Herbert H. be cluttered with a lot of assinine ment. Arturo Toscanini, the world's Heads' Pr�gram Committ�e Lehman and Mayor Fiorello ideas. When I was there in 1924, it greatest symphonic conductor, W has' al­ Plans for the Concert, in which a H. LaGuardia acting as honorarY was a peaceful and beautiful country ready scored Hitler's nazification of number of great artists will partici" sponsors, and outstanding stars of the had a gorgeous time. Now music by refusing to appear and I anywhere pate, and which will offer in .its pro­ concert and opera stage volunteering things are so very different. Friends in Germany during the Nazi regime." gram music which has been barred in their services, the League's Benefit have come back and told me, there is Tickets for the concert are still Nazi-Germany, are supervised by Leo­ Concert on April 27th in New York no hope for that country while the available. They may be purchased at pold Godowsky, renowned pianists and promises to be a stinging 'musical' re­ Nazis reign." He said that he did the League headquarters or at the composer, who declared when accept­ buke to the Nazis for their ruthless not care if the Nazis prevented him box-office at Carnegie Hall, 57th ing the chairmanship of the event : destruction of all art and culture in from going to Germany. "There won't Street and 7th Aveliue, New York. the Third Reich. "/ am 0111y too happy to engage in Among the many artists who will any event whith can serve as an ef­ appear during the Concert, planned by fective prote;rt against what , has. hap­ the League in "an effort to dramatize pened to my German and Jewish col­ to the people of America the extent leag11es in 'the Reich of Adolf Hitler." to which the Nazis have gone in ap­ plying their various racial bans to the music of great composers" are Reinald CONCERT PROGRAM Werrenrath, baritone ; Harry Braun, violinist and protege' of Governor The concert program includes ,a Lehman ; Katherine Bacon, pianist ; variety of the best music, from oper­ Goeta Ljungberg, soprano of the atic arias to Lieder and. from etudes Metropolitan Opera Company ; Lubo­ to or'atoriors, and . offers 'a tr.ue. treat shutz and Nemenoff, duo-pianists ; and to every music lover. Some of the the Maganini Symphony Orchestra, numbers on the program , 'il1':e :; . conducted by Quinto Maganini. The cerpts from "Elijah" by , Felix Men­ musical arrangements for the conc,ert delssohn by the Mag-anini Orchestra ; are in charge of Leopold Godowsky, Katherine ,Bacon, will play several renowned pianist, and chairman of the , Chopin compositions--Miss Bacon is a : League's Con cert Committee. recoguized authority on the interpre- . By participating in the League's tation ,of., Chopin's ' music: Mr. Wer:- , event, the artists-contributing their renrath ;will sing . "04 God of Abra­ talents-have automatically and know­ ham", from Mendelssohn's Oratorio " ingly added their names to Hitler's "Elijah" ; Madame Ljungb�g: , will ,; list of "indexed people" and will prob­ sing an aria from "Cavalleria, ,Rusti- ' ably be prohibited from entering Ger­ cana" ; L\lboshutz & Nemenoff :will many as long as the Nazis are in offer Stravin,sky:s !'Russian Dance',! power. And as Reinald Werrenrath and HarrY Braun will ·play a moye­ said in a recent interview at the GOETA LJUNGDEIlG ment from Mendelssohn's famous " League's headquarters; "If Arturo Soprano Violin Concerto. 2 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN APRIL, 1937

BOYCOTT BREVITIES -:- -:- FROM THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

Fountain Pens Nazi-Spanish Oil Duplicating Machinery Food Scarce In ALZ BROS., Inc., 44 West 28th OST machines for mimeograph­ Street, New York City, manufac­ Nazi Germany S Much of the olive oil coming M ing arid duplicating purposes are turers of fountain pens, have been to this conntry and labeled as a Span­ manufactured in the U. S. The £01.. using Nazi-made machinery during the , Mr. John Dickson, Chicago Tribune ish product has been shipped from lowing two" however, · are· imported past few years in the making of their CIJf'1'lIspondent cabled· on April 4 from Germany. Aeeording to a recent from Germany : R0taprint Machines, fountain pens. The excuse was that Paris: "The food situation in Ger­ investigation by the League, which Inc., 141 Broadway, N. Y., and Ormig the German product is a distinct im­ • many" this "is rapidly becoming seri­ has. been confirm.ed by the Spanish <;:Orporation, .373 ourth Av.e., N ..Y. provement over previously made ma­ :f ous. Here are some facts, gathered Embassy in Washington, olive oil chinery. The company promises, how­ by this correspondent on a trip through produced in rebel controlled see­ ever, that American machinery will be Buttons Germany-facts which the Nazi cen­ tions ot Spain are purchased by the used in the future, since "equally im­ sors do not permit newspaper writers, rebel authorities at prices dictated pr0ved equipment is also n0W being you know that the leather but­ stationed in Berlin, to send out of the by Nazi officials and then shipped o made here." D tons you are wc.ar;ng are apt to country : to Germany from whence they are be of German origin? Although German made machinery is also be­ "Because of the shortage of certain reshipped .to the U. S., Brazil, and leather coyered buttons are manufac­ ing used by the L. E. Waterman Com­ foods, particularly fresh meats Ger­ other countries. The Nazis have tured in the United States to a large , pany f0r the engraving of customers' mans frequently are compelled to eat been making a heavy profit by the extent, the imported ones are prac­ names on fountain pens. In this case th e famous 'Kohlrueben' of World transaction and at the same time tically all German. Many of these a similar excuse was given that non­ War days. While the German people have an opportunity to export.their are sold by the importers with a frau­ German machines are not available. grumble when the little butter they arms and ammunitions and troops dulent English marking. Although This supposed fact was contradicted . get is of very inferior grade, if nqt to Spain in exchange. England is manufacturing various by the League who supplied the adulterated, they still hope that the One of the excuses offered by the kinds of buttons, she is not at present Waterman COmpany with the names next harvest will be good. Foreigners American importers involved was exporting this type of buttons to the of American manufacturers of suit­ living in Germany are more skeptical. that Spanish ports have been U. S. Purchasers or distributors who able engraving machines. Most of. them have asked their friends blocked and that steamsliip com­ are doubtful about supplies offered or relatives to send them eleven-pound Metal Foil Products panies have not . been operating them should communicate with the packages 0f foodstuffs, which may be HE Lewis Display Materials Inc., there. However, this is denied by League in order; to·determi ne the facts. imported into Germany, provided one of 480 Lexington Avenue in New the steamship concerns. .. Among T the Iirms whieh have been offering pays prohibitive duty. Duty on butter York City, is supplying German metal . SpanIsh 011. which . has passed IS 30 cents a pound. The foreiguer foil and metal foil products to Lumber ".I.'rimsport cannot simply order food from the display jobbers and department through German hands are Albert of the commodities which is outside, be<;ause he is not allowed to stores. The foil is used in both N. Cory and Schroeder Bros. NE into the send money out of Germany, even if plain and corrugated form and made O. still being iplpOrted on a it is foreigu money. Arrangements into various specialties including arti­ United States through Germ!InY Re-Routing Around in vari­ must be made to make all payments ficial flowers. Most of the customers large scale is lumber produced Yugo_ abroad." of this firm do nOt seem to be aware Germany otis c0untries of Europe such as sbivia, Poland, and Runiania. It is Rationing Raw Materials of the German origin of the material. OT only German ships, but Ger- construction However, as soon as they become the duty of builders and Beginning on May 3 facto.ries using N man ports and railroads as well companies 'to demayd that all imported . aware of this fact, they should make . Iron must not accept orders fo.r more can be avoided by routing shipmen .• not come use of the numerous American sources � lumber supplIed td them do six months ahead. All orders through other countries. Numerous by way of Germany. than American importers, exporters, and , Do you know of any frauds travelers who formerly used the Ger­ ,If you need a substitute for or subterfuges in of­ man ports of Bremen and Hamburg FertiHzers; . Nazi�l1)ade product, com­ used · � fering Nazi-German GOOds? during recent years have switched ·. municate with The League ; their routes to and thr0ugh non-Ger­ MERICAl'ff ��ers and horticu1� If you do. let lI'be League man countries, finding other courses A turists are urged to demand we will send you all in- know at once! to be equally if not more advantage­ American or ·other non-German fer­ formation ! ous. The League's information service tili:;;:er, particularly potash. If non­ German supplies cannot be obtained, 0f supply. The League is in a posi­ on ports and railroad facilities have for goods �liol1y or partly made of consumers are: requested· to commun­ ti0n to furnish complete information often proved of benefit. This service iron must be apptQved by the Four icate immediately with the League, as on the subject. is offered free of charge. Year Plan Adrilmistra,tion. Iron will we have . complete information on be assigned to factories ouly on the FiItennass American, French and other sources basis of approved orders., One may German Paints of supply.· Other items used by farm­ BELGIAN manufacturer of fil­ be sure that the big Vl[ork;s and parti­ ers .that are 0ften of German origin termass, which is used for the cularly those manufacturing arms will A HE Association of Master Paint- are barbed wire, agricultural tools, and filtering of beer, desires to place his not )Je made to suffer. Iron girders ers of New York has recently peat moss. , product (m the American market. This T for Instance, may be secured only with formed a committee for the purpose item was formerly imported entirely special Government permission. of keeping in touch with the Anti­ from Germany. For further informa­ Finns Not Mentioned Nazi League and keeping the painting To conserve labor power, ornamen­ tion, communicate with the League. u;ade aware of all German merchan,c in the Boycott list on page 5 are not tal designs on coffee and tea cans and . Canaries dise offered on the market. Various necessarily cooperating with the boy­ si�i1ar articles are no longer per­ ANY American canary breeders ingredients in the making of paints cott. It is endeavored to include the mItted. Manufacturers are forbidden to persuade customers to purchase M are finding it difficult to compete and colors, also aluminum leaf imita­ names of only such firms as are of tion gold leaf, and wall pap rs are nation-wide importance and .'persist in goods they do D0t need immediately.­ with the low priced birds dumped into � ("Behind .the Cables" by Ludwig often of German origin. The diffi­ using goods 0f German origill or Ger_ this country by Germany. The League Lore, Th e New York Post). culty in most cases is the absence of man materials without making efforts has been flooded with complaints from . canary breeding associations against markings on imported raw materials. to make replacements. Nd Gold-No Silver ' the subterfuges used by the German Hitler forbade the manufacture of importers and the unfair competition·. PROTECT AMERICAN PRODUCTS silver cigar cutters and restricted the They are planning to submit a petition gilt content .of cups aI\dsaucers. New to the Tariff Commission sigued by The laws requiring the marking of the country of origin upon articles decrees banned the co mplete gilding of to thousands of their members requesting fm sale apply only merch�ndise entering the country from abroad. ornamentai cups, and limited the width an increase in the duty on imported W en the products of a certaIn country do not enjoy very much popu­ � . of gilt borderings on table services to canaries. Once again it must be em­ lanty, as IS the presen� �as: with Germ� goods, there is a tendency to from about 1/25 to. 6/25 of an inch. place the c untry of origm II? such a poSItion that it is not easily noticed, phasized that not more than a very o; . . The quantity. of silver permitted in limited quantity of canaries are im­ although thiS IS no� In compitance with the spirit of the marking law. forks and spoons · was curtailed, and ported to the U. S. from countries To make cer!

Third Reich Is� Barrier To Trade Accord By FREDERICK T. BIRCHALL

JALMAR Schacht's Brussels con­ Goering FlyKites "Pure Aryan" Prize? other governments. No loan can 'be H ferences during a visit some days to offered her without the consent of ago have been followed with the great­ Hitler to set a reasonable limit to his BERLIN-Colonel General Goering The German High School for Poli­ est attention both here and in Europe, rearmament and to give serious guar­ because they mark the beginning of informed German children tonight, in tics has announced a prize of 3,000 antees for peace to all Germany's Premier Van Zeeland's attempt to ex­ an official decree, that they must ob­ marks for the best work on racial neighbors, including Russia. There is plore the possibilities of an 'interna- tain permission from his Air Ministry theory. The cO):I!petition is open not no indication as yet of such a possi­

• only to German citizens, but to citi­ bility. tional conference to revive foreign to fly kites attached to string or wire trade. France and, to a lesser extent, . zens of all States, but Jews will not more than 300 feet long. "Vicious Circle" Britain are greatly interested in suqh be allowed to compete. All competi­ The ruling was designed to protect a conference if it prOlDlises success. tors must prove that they are pure Hence, a new economic conference The United States is scarcely less airplanes 'which might become' tangled "Aryans," al'\d, if married, that their would find itself again confronted interested, as apparently from her in kite lines. wives are also pure "Aryans." with a vicious circle that there is no point of view trade revival would be breaking under present conditions and 'the surest means of promoting world would quickly meet the fate of the peace. last obortive effort. No European At this writing the outcome of Dr. government, except perhaps Italy, de­ Schacht's conversations in a political THE CLAY - �� F U Jl 0 BE" - sires any lowering of trade barriers sense is far from clear. The little which would remove Germany's re­ that is known presages no keen desire armament difficulties and hasten the on Germany's part to participate in day, when her air force and army such a conference, unless it follows mig>ht give her military domination of the principles she has laid down as the Continent. tending to her own advantage. Hitler and His Armored "Red Russia" Invited Dove of Peace By Schacht There were various rumors (over Only one concession is discernible several week-ends) of German sug­ from what Dr. Schacht himself told gestions for a new series of non­ the Belgian and foreign news writers aggressive pacts, but none so far with before his departure. This is that a:ny semblance of authority behind it. Germany would not seek to exclude To make such pacts acceptable to Russia from any general trade agree­ France they must take cognizance of ment. "Not at all," replied Dr. the Franco-Russian treaty, which Schacht to a direct question on this means in effect the inclusion of Rus­ point. "Why should we?" We have sia in the general scheme ·of non­ very active trade with Russia. and hope aggression. to increase it materially in, the near German willingness to include Rus­ future." sia in such a political arrangement would be, indeed, a reversal of her Schacht Evades True Issue former position. This seems to exclude the possibil­ British opinion is divided on this ity of Germany's refusing to partici­ point. There is considerable senti­ pate with Russia in a conference to ment in the empire which would favor bring about a general lowering of an agreement with Germany, even if trade barriers, and it will be welcomed. it gave her a free hand to the east, but it is not official opinion. Govern­ Nevertheless, in quarters best cal­ ment policy is to stick by France in culated to appraise correctly the chances of producing a general ameli­ the matter. oration of trade difficulties through Hitler Courts Belgium the medium of a economic con- ference, the feeling by no means There is no doubt that Germany hopeful. would like to begin in the west with A general solution of this prdblem a bilateral non-aggression pact with must include Germany. Unless she Belgium and within certain limits she agrees to relinquish her rigid control would be equally wiiling to guarantee of foreign exchange, half the prob­ -(Editorial, Daily Mirror (New York) , Febrnary 25, 1937) Belgian neutrality and territorial in­ lem will meet a negative answer at dependence. She has already offered the outset. HoIland such a guarantee, but the EVERAL things are happening in peet that the army and the "junkers" sturdy Dutch replied that it was . not Isolation or In1lation Germany which make you wonder are playing the tune, and Hitler is S necessary, their territorial int�rity if Mr. Hitler's feet are made of clay­ dancing to the tune they select. .Prob­ • Such relinquishment would involve beirig taken for granted. · maybe the ' idol ' is slipping. First : ably Hitler will bow to their will, the mark's devaluation. But even if Rumors that Dr. Schacht carried a Field Marshal Werner von Blomberg, calm down, forget his war plans. Germany Were willing to, abandon her similar offer from Hitler to King boss of the Gernian Army, made a Probably the . present movement to present financial and economic isola­ Leopold and Premier Van Zeeland tion by cooperating in !j.n Anglq,. speech 'the other day ill which he, said make a sort of of Hitler is "god" OUt may be discounted. Dr. Schacht him­ French-American stabilization agree­ many nice things about Adolf Hitler : part of that plan. self tartly reminded Belgian journal­ ment, she could not afford to do so "We honor Adolf Hitler by saluting Read this new "creed" that thous­ . ists that he was an economist, not a without financial assistance from the him"-(here t'ile speaker gave the ands of young Germans in the Nazi' politician, and Hitler himself always Nazi salute inste

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national fellowship of scholars •••" Vol. IV-No. 4 .,.,.,32 APRIL, 1937 Let us humbly point out to President Conant and all other glass­ Entered as Second Class Matter at Hoboken, New Jersey, Post Office house optimists that the German Universities and schools in general are no 10 del' the auspices or control of representatives of "the learned world but that they have been subdued, wrecked, anihilated by the very same eiling" unscrupulous egomaniacs wh o exiled a Thomas Mann, a Hit:ler Inaugurat:es A New Thomas Mann whom Harvard chose to honor but a few months ago. How does Harvard, who" not too long ago rejected Hanfstaengel's (Hit- ' Bluff Campaign ler's exiled pet pianist of the non-Aryan Wagner's music) offer of a scholarship to be established by the .Nazi government on the grounds suppreSEed r thoogilit A mlracIe has happened ; The most uncompromising pacifist of that the Nazi 'regime has f eedmn of in h il e univer­ sities, feel justifted to offer such a fiimS , excuse for its complete turn­ Europe, George Lansbury, ex-leader of the British Labor Party, and the Y about in accepting the Nazi bid? No British University has accepted most· uncompromising militarist, Adolf Hitler, have met, spok�n and the iII-timed and iII-authorized invitaton: the Universities of Amsterdam, conquered to the extent of issuing' a statement signifyingJJle willmgness and Leyden in Holland have declined ; dozens of American Uni­ of Hitler to attend a conference and "participate in a united effort to Utrecht versities have politely but definitely rejected the bid by the Nazi rulers. establish economic co-operation." This very statement bears pr�f of The tribute we feel compelled and privileged to pay to the Goettin­ the complete collapse o� the Nazi dream of Ger�any's self-sufficu!ncy; gen of old has become under these abnormal circumstanc , it' furtherm'Ore bears wItness . to the fad that HItler cannot barrIcade es a tragic satire. Not an academic birthday, but an academic funeral, organized Germany behind the walls of paper on which his decre�s �I,"e written� Trade is' necessary, so that Germany may eat; and gooclWill 1!l !necessarY, . and celebrated by a self-seeking regime of unbalanced fanatics, who so that Germany may engage in trade! have turned the campus into a military training ground, the "purged" , Dr. Schacht's economic rabbit-out-of-hat curios .fooled YugoslavIa,• and nazified libraries into barracks, the laboratories . into ghastly war­ Greece, Hungary, Albania, Argentine! Brazil, and of late Canada--h,ut units. Are we to stand by and actually bow our heads in affirm­ not for long. Already the Balkan nations, whIch. for reasons of finanCIal ation to the exportation of such preposterous perversion of the true gain or political aspirations had made barter agreeme�ts wi� Schacht's ideal of such self-divining fanaticism? _ 53 American educational insti­ Germany have beCome aware of the fact that they ·are left holdmg the bag tutions were represented at last year's ""Nazi-funeral of Heidelberg: this and no c�mpliment in the bargain. Schaeht's attempts to obtain ·money year there will be only ten-the reduced representation points to the in the United States through the intervention of English bankers were awakening of cultural . officialdom, but yet-there are exactly ten accept­ too obvious and have failed. Schacht's latest "Schach(t)zug", his con­ ances too many ! versations with Belgium, resulted in the .U'll1'lOllicited acceptance of . an unextended invitation to a Illot -yet-oalled economic conference. Belgium's Van Zeeland is to 'visit our shores in the near future to borrow, to beg, and to threaten no doubt, just as the others before him with the same Th omas Mann . mission have done-unsuccessfully so! And even if a World Conference "•.• w'e are ,glad "that you all''e here, Thomas Moon No nation . should be caII�, would Hitler be willing to make concessions, or would . can exile you. YQIUirS is

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WHY DO THESE FIRMS CONTINUE TO ROBERT REINER EnJ.broidery Machines 556 Gregory Ave., Weehawken, N. J. ROTARY TOOL &. MACH INERY COMPANY, 217 E. 38th Street, New York City. HANDLE GERMAN MERCHANDISE? ROTAPll.lNT-;-made by Rotaprint Machines, Inc., 141 BrOadway, N. Y. C. ' ORMI made Ormig Co rporation, 373 Fourth Avenue, N; Y. C. CAMERAS PHOTO SUPPLIES G- by & MUSICAL SUPPLIES EXCHANGE, INc., 120 Fulton Street, N. Y. C. (Owned by Davega.... ABE COHEN C. BRUNO & SON, INC., 460 West 34th Street, New York City. City Radio, Inc.) " HARMONI A DISTRIBUTION CoRP. OF AMERICA, 251 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. WILLoUGHBY CAMERA STORES, Inc., 110 West 32nd Street, New York City. C M: HOHNER, INC., Harmonicas & Accordions, 351-4th Avenue, N. Y. C. CANARIES (Importers) PROGRESSIVE MU.' SICAL INSTRU MENT CORP., 404 Fourth Avenue, N. Y. C. ODENWALD BIRD COMPANY, 32 Cooper Square, New York, N. Y. PEAT MOSS" WM BARTELS COMPANY, 45 Cortlandt Street, New York, N. Y. 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$250,000 FUR BOYCOTT UPHELD IN LO NDON By LEO WEINSCHENKER, Secretary Fur Trade Boycott Committee

N April 16, 1937, the Fur Trade any furs in Germany as long as the O Boycott Committee, acting under Hitler government would be in power. the auspices of the Non-Sectarian When the news of this violation Anti-Nazi League, received a letter reached the Fur Trade Boycott Com­ from the Hudson's Bay Company in mittee, the League throngh its Com­ London, tile largest and oldest Fur mittee immediately advised the viola. Auction Sale in Great Britain. This tors that their businesses would be letter reads : "We were glad to have boycotted and that the furs bought in the opportunity of reading Mr. Un­ Germany must be returned. We stated jerm�'et"s letter, and we are writing emphaticaJly that we were not willing to inform you that we have decided to listen to any excuses or promises, not to in clude il£ our forth�coming and that we would not entertain any sale consignments of those skins to compromise as far as our policy is HARRY BRAUN which the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi concerned: Other organizations, how­ LUBOSHUTZ & NEMENOFF Violinist League have taken c%ception." ever, decided in favor of street demon­ Duo-Pianists Little would the uniformed suspect strations and by aligning themselves WOMEN'S that this short sentence represents the with radical organizations threatened Branch Activities concluding chapter of one of the most to lead the boycott movement' into the ACTIVITIES persistent campaigns waged by the dangerous path of , radical politics. Anti-Nazi League against three braz­ The outcome of this demonstration HE Embroidery Industry in New was an agreement whereby the viola­ T RS. Lewis 1. Miller, of Denver, en violators of the boycott. So fierce, lersey organized a branch ,of the M indeed, was the excitement caused by tors agreed to our original demand of Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League at Colorado, a member of the returning the purchases to Europe and Women's Council, attended the Inter­ this particular incident, and so varied Union City on April 16th, 1937. One was the mode of attack adopted by were promised the discontinuance of hundred and fifty manufacturers were state Conference, and reported that all the boycott in consideration of a few Denver merchants have assisted In the various boycott organizations, that present. Mr. Morris Walter was the repercussions of this affair will be thousand dollars of "hush money." elected Chairman. cleaning up Denver of German mer­ Our League refused to be a party to chandise. felt within the movement�at-Iarge for a long time to come. Besides, it these negotiations, but decided in fav­ M RS. Mark Harris, Chairman of served to clarify the policies which or of a continued and relentless boy­ BRANCH of the Non-Sectarian the Women's Division, addressed the various boycott organizations in­ cott of the merchandise bought in A Anti-Nazi League was organized a group of women on the boycott at tend to foJlow in their prosecution. Germany. The letter from the Hud­ at Paterson: N. J., on April S, 1937. the home of Mrs. P. Kaplan. Mr. Savage was elected Chairman. A. The Anti-Nazi League can be very son's Bay Company, as quoted above N Executive Meeting of the Wo­ proud indeed that the final outcome of shows and proves the wisdom of onr A men's Division was held on April this much pUblicized case means a methods, and besides accomplishing HE New lersey division of the 7, Mrs. Mark Harris, Chairman, pre­ complete vindication of the policies it our aims, we are very happy indeed to T Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League siding. Plans for furthering the boy­ has been following in the past and see a company of the importance of will clear all research on boycott for cott during the summer were discussed intends to follow in the future. the Hudson's Bay and completely con­ the State through the office at 11 Hill trolled by Christians, joining the ever and a new membership drive jnau­ Let me repeat what 'happened : In Street, Newark, N. J. increasing forces of the boycott move- gurate4 .•; January 1937 three of the largest New ment. 4 RS. Lonis Dlugasch, onr Chair­ York fur importers sent their repre­ ' PEAKERS have been sent to the M sentatives to Leipzig, Germany, and We are fightin injustice, suppres­ S man of Lower Manhattan, is i following organizations : North­ busily engaged in a membership drive. bought there from the Ravag Auction sion and cruelty in accordance with side Ladies' Auxiliary, Corona, Sale worth of South West L.I. ; At a recent meeting, she enrolled 18 $250,000.00 American traditions ; i.e., not by vio­ The Educational Committee ; Brook­ new members and is continning her African Lamb skins. Each one of the lence but by persuasion, and we are lyn Jewish Consumptives' Relief Soc. ; • three firms had given in to the efforts. 1933 confident that the boycott eventually Mother's Welfare League of the Anti-Nazi League a pledge, whereby HE Jewish War Veterans Wo­ will be the weapon that will hasten Bronx. T men's Auxiliary is displaying keen they solemnly promised not to buy the end of Hitlerism. interest and co-operative spirit \v ith our Women's Division. At our recent Swastikas Executive Meeting, ' Mrs. Dorothy A Nazi-Fish (1) Tale Kurman, National President, and Mrs. "Not Wanted" R. Lazarus, National Boycott Chair­ A Jewish fish-vendor in the delectable third Reich trundled his man, were in attendance, together with barrow along, and as he trundled, he sang out "Fish, Fish : Fine fish, Pressing its drive against N;tzi, Fas­ a fine representation of their Presi­ Fat fish--as fat as Goering !" A Nazi overheard him, and reported his cist and ant i-Semitic organizations; the dents and boycott chairmen of various blasphemy to the police. He was tried for the offense, and sent to six Rumanian government published a de­ posts. weeks' imprisorunent. Having served his sentence, he resumed his vend_ ing : "Fish, fish, fine fish, fat fish"-and there he stopped. Another cree prohibiting all politjcal demon­ RS. M. Freeman, N. Y. State Nazi noticed him, and, thinking to catch him again, asked "How fat?" strations and banning the wearing of M President, recently advised us "How fat?" answered the vendor, wary but determined not to give in, foreigu flags. This latter prohibitidn that our literature is being distributed "as fat as it was six weeks ago I" and he continued on his rounds. is expected to outlaw the 'public dis­ throughout N. Y. State. play of the swastika.

Maganini Quinto Chamber Maganini, Symphony Conductor 1937 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC £ULLETIN 7

ProtestantsRebel , ��AdoH Hitler - DegeD(·rate�' HungaryTurns Against Nazi Creed (From an Editorial by John G. Thompson in the San Diego Herald, Against Nazi-Reich April 1, 1937) BUDAPEST-Rejection of anti­ I COLOGNE - The latent churoh Semitism by a Catholic notable and a struggle in Nazi Germany is having " DOLF HITLER is a MADMAN, an insane blood-thirsty public denunciation of Germany's at­ deep reverberations throughoot the • • • Amenace to the peace of the world. He has broken treaties titude toward the Christian religion by governmental departments and minis­ with nonchalant arrngance: he has actively interfered in the affairs of a Protestant Bishop today indicated tries. The Evangelical Church fight­ other nations, as in Austria and Spain : he has rattled the saber and de­ how far the recent papal encyclical ing the totalitarian claims of the Nazis fied the world to fight on numerous occasions : he has strntted and bluffed against Germany has swung Hungar­ and their German Christian Church his way across the world's stage, intimidating and browbeating all who ian public opinion. followers, deplores ' in a public state­ stand in the way of his mad ambitions. He 'has wished for war so that The Rev. Father Jusztin Baranyai, ment that public servants of the Ger­ he could satisfy his sadistic lust by bathing the world, including Ger· a leading figure in the Hungarian man nation are required to change many in blood. Ouly the forbearance and will to peace of other nations Catholic world, told an interviewer their religious convictions, "like a has thwarted his desires. They have given in to the madman to pre­ that the c1rurch "wants justice for all chameleon its colors." The circular serve the peace of the worfd. Some day he will start something without and condemns all excesses and there­ sent to the members of the Evangelical even a shred of an excuse-and when he does we predict he will get the fore cannot approve anti-Semitism." Church in the Rhineland and dated everlasting hell kicked out of him I He recommended extreme prudence to December 31, 1936, states : "The words those of his flock who belonged to 1tSed by leaders of the Nazi party in the right-wing extremist parties. attacking the Gospel and the Church Bishop Alexander Raffay 'said that could hardly be more cutting or more Germany "has profoundly deceived calculated to wound. Our members us," and deplored the fact that "Ger­ are being encouraged to leave the many has taken a position against Church. Public servants who were Christianity." told three years ago that they could --- no longer continue in goventment service without being members of a Nazi Envoy church congregation are now being given to understand that the opposite Must "Activate" holds true." Discussing the appointment of Dr. Hans Dieckhoff to Washington, the Nazis "Take" diplomatic correspondent of the Man­ chester Guardian writes today that Nobel Prize Money one of. the duties of a German Am­ bassador to -the United States is to "Behind the Cables" (by LUDWIG "activate" the German-speaking POPll­ LoRE, New York Post) reported some lation of that country. time ago that the Peace Prize award "It is the hope of the new Ger­ was sent to Germany on request of a many," .he declares, ". . . that this lawyer who allegedly acted in the in­ population will exercise pressure on terest and under instruction from the the United States Government in fav­ official reCipient. The Nobel Prize or of a pro-German policy. Whether Committee is still waiting for a re­ this effort on the part of a foreign ceipt and several of its inqniries sent power to activate United States citi­ to thebank have remained unanswered. zens will improve German-American A visiting Englishman had a chance relations remains to be seen." to see the martyred pacifist about a Quoting Hearst's New York Amer­ week ago. The accompanying guard ican : "Deport ,our Alien Propagan­ warned him before entering Ossiet­ dists" (Editorial, March 26, 1937), zky's room that ,no reference to the what are you going to do about it? Nobel Prize money would be tolerated. What other conclusion is possible than that the 162,000 kroners were never "No More Real Jews!" given to Von Ossietzky, but are in the hands of his Nazi torturers I" Tthe "early and sure end of the Jewish problem" in Germany was prophesied in Munich last week by Nazis Lose - Dr. Waguer, the Reich Medical Lead_ er. "We have to-day 500,000 'Jews, The World Gains! Adolf Hitler-drunk with power-has set himself up as a god. 200,000 half-Jews and 100,000 quarter­ Seeking for ways to show his power and divinity, he has placed himself Jews," he said. "In the next gener­ BERLIN-The 'Rwu:lschau reports at the head of a new pagan church whose creed is the worship of Nazism ation we shall have no more half­ that 996 teachers and professors who and Saint Adolf Hitler. He has abolished religious freedom in Germany : Jews. Many of these will die child­ have left Germany since the Nazi ac­ he has abolished freedom of speech, freedom of thonght, and freedom less, but all others must produce quar­ cession to, power and whose present of the press : he has disfranchised the Germans by making a farce of ter-Jews, who will have to have a whereabouts are known are scattered elections : he has made parliamentary government a hilarious Nazi joke : special permit to wed. We will never in 46 nations, with 239 of them settled he has issued decrees and laid down Jaws 50 repulsive, so ridiculous, and let them marry so as to breed real in the United States. so oppressive as to make the whole world wonder at the sheep-like docil­ Jews again." The study shows 270 in England, ityof the German people in theit obedience to thelunatic's commands. --- 64 in France, 64 in Turkey, 52 in Adolf Hitler is a vain upstart, iguorant, brutal and vile; a vicious "Mein Kampf" Palestine, 46 in Switzerland, 38 in the man (?) of no principle; a fiend incarnate, the very spirit of evil ; a Netherlands, 13 in Russia and others blackguardly cad without manners or breeding, so low in his moral con_ Honors Itself! in various other countries. Only a cepts that he isn't fit to associate with normal men and women-or with few of them are Jews. the innocent beasts of the field ; a man (?) whose very name is anathema The German Government presented In the United States, there are among decent people the world over ..." the Institute of Historical Research emigre scholars in 26 states, the report of the University of London with a says, including 68 in N ew York, 20 in collection of 2,600 volumes. Needless california, 16 in Pennsylvania, 21 at to say, they include a copy of Hitler's Harvard University and 12 at Yale. "Mein Kampf." When the presenta­ Nazi Germany is t:he Enemy of Civilizat:ion tion was made by von Ribbentrop, a large number of students gathered Heil Spring! outside the Institute and raised cries REFUSE TO TRADE WITH TH E ENEMY of "Fascism destroys culture. Down "The trees are clothed anew, for with Fascism." BannerS !\!1d posters they, th rew aside in time their old Red bore inscriptions such as "German stu­ symbols of degeneration."-The Voel­ Th e Boycottis the Mo ral Substitute fo r Wa r dents' are in concentration camps" and kiscner Beobachter, Adolf Hitler's "Demand freedom for persecuted personal paper. writers and intellectuals in Germany." 8 THE ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN APRIL, 1937 Polygamy By Nazis Recruit Nazi Command War Invalids

Hens First ••• BERLI�-Dr. Martin Brustmann, Germany's "Aryan'" hens are under insurance specialist, invited invalids to orders to lay between 130 and 140 throw away their wheel chairs today eggs a year. The Nazi party news and prepare to join the army for the agency asked farmers to increase pro­ next war. Explaining that all hands duction and advised them to get "Ar_ will be needed in ' the presumably ap­ yan" hens because "the increase can­ proaching conflict, Dr. Brustmann out­ not be achieved by mongrel hens which lined in a pamphlet, published by one now populate German farmyards." of the most important health insurance companies, plans to get the invalids Women t ••• Nex ready, especially those suffering from Germany won a victory in the "bat­ deficiency or weakness of the heart, tle ,of the stork." According to an lungs or nervous system. offiCial announcement the total num­ Dr. Brustmann would start with ex­ 1,312,345 1936. ber of births was in ercises and work up to road marches Furthermore, the increase was entire­ with ftill size army packs. Also he ly in second, third and fourth children. recommends target practice always at The number of first-borns dropped a representation of the human form. slightly in relation with the drop in This practice he calls an "imPortant marriages, which followed the arti­ character building agen " ficial promotion during the first years CY' Wearying ••• On Guard - •• of the National Socialist regime. "FOR THE GLORY OF WAR" "Dictatorships today have passed "Today, when the winds of Nazism Despite the birth increase, however, Chancellor Adolf Hitler dissolved the climax'; people ruled by dictators are blowing from across the waters, official statisticians reckon the birth the German Air Sport Federation and are getting tired of false prophets."­ we must guard freedom with eternal rate is still 11 % below the figure replaced it with a NationaI Socialist Than'(lS Mmm. vigilance lest it ,be swept away."-The uecessary to maintain the nation's .flying corps. Hitler described the pur­ ' Rev. Dr. Harry Emers()f� Fosdick. productive capacity. pOse of the nyW organization as "to k�ep awake and deepen the aviation Summa Summarum Nazis Increase ' idea among the German people, to Air W,ar Fleet- Germm�y establish es homes f�r the carry out aviation training ,b efore mil­ APRIL alarmil1gly increasing number df un­ itary begins and to 'unify Ger- wed mothers alld their children.­'" numerous activities in the HONOR ROLL According to reliable British esti­ Headlines in the Press. of aviation spprt." mates and substantiated , by Aircraft Year Book for 1937 (published by Thomas Moon-for his honesty, sin­ Aero-nautical Chamber of Co m­ cerity, democracy, idealism and con­ meree), the German military air fl�et Nazi-Propagantla' summate courage in inaugurating a has been increased from 750 first hne cultural boycott against Nazi Ger­ planes at the ,1:ieginnirig of 1936 (l,�oo many ; planes in total ) to about 3,000 firsthne 'Flooding World Arthur Crispien, former 'president aircraft in January, 1937. The same . ' of the German Social Democratic informations indicate that German One of tile channels, highly favQred tin claiming to expose the "machin­ party, deprived of German citizenship 200 by Nazi disseminators of propaganda ations airplane production has passed of the under",orld," being de­ bv- the N al'is; new airplanes a month. literature in Great Britain and South voted to the "Great Cause of liberat­ Httgo Sinsneimer, former 'Reich­ . America is the Press. German lang­ ing the 'White MaP:' from the sub­ stag deputy and Socialist professor of Two Weaknesses _ uage newspapers regularly contain versive alien . Influences deStructive to economics at the University of Frank­ "Germany's amazing air force de­ advertisements by German orgimiza­ his welfare." The' Erfui't package fort-on-Main, (under "protective ar­ velopment has increased the power and tions announcing that "German liter­ contains copIes of the "World Ser­ rest" in 1933), He once hinted that influence of the Hitler government in ature in English may be obtained on vice" bulletin, pamphlets by Hitler the German "war gnilt" anger at: the chancellories of Europe and Asia," request." inserted on behalf of notori­ and Goobbels and a.copy of tile "Hid­ America was largely artificial ; de­ Editor Mingos says, "but jf has ous centers for Nazi agitation abroad. den Hand of Judah," by a Mr. O. B. prived 'of German citizenship by the brought into prominence two weak They are : the German Flc'hte-Bund, Good, who is described as a "world Nazis ; points, the influence of which only stationed in Hamburg ; the Anti- Com­ traveller." Arnold Vieth von Goisse"lM�, who intern of Berlin; and the Welt-Dienst time will show. . First, Germany's air To complete the unholy trinity, wrote Nazi-blacklisted World War force program has ' aroused' Europe to ("World Service" )·of Erfurt. books under the pen name of Anti-Comintern also sends a Goeb­ Ludwig the dangers of unpreparedness in avi­ A letter to the advertisers elicits hels pamphlet, an account of the R;:11,n. Jailed in 1933 and' sentenced. 30 1934 . ation. Tile result has been that Eng­ three hirge packages of Nazi literature, Seventh Congress of the Communist to months' imprisonment in land France and Russia have expand­ all sent post free. From tlie Fichte­ International, and a pamphlet on after declaring himself for a fotce ed their programs in an effort to Bund, which expresses its eagerness "Forced La:bor in Russia,''' ih which for peace, deprived of German citizen"" ' maintain parity. Secondly, all the to supply facts relating to ''Germany's the usual allegations are made that ship by the Nazis ; secrecy of which German military desire for Peace and General Recov­ "Bolshevism is Jewish." F!ugo Graef and Walter Ulbricht, leaders are capable cannot conceal the ery," a typical package received in­ former Communist Reichstag mem­ fact that the Reich lacks many of the cludes batches of leaflets on "The bers, deprived of German citizenship raw materials necessary to continued Truth about the Jews in Germany" From German 'Ships •.. by the 'Nazis. and prolonged production and oper­ Thirty-si% other nOll-Nazi Geymans (purporting to "prove" how the Jews Crews of German ships are bring­ ation of aircraft after a declaration -also deprived of German citizenship dominated Germa ny),; "Jewry and ing 'with them large quantities of ' of war." Penal Punishment" (a wild 'attack" by the Nazis. anti -Jewish and anti -Russian rteraI - on alleged "Jewish criminality" } j.' ture and distribute· it to dock workers N "Bolsheviks , as World-Warmongers:" POPE DE OUNCES just before their vessels sail. All the ); NAZI�"PRIVACY" (hailing Germany as "the bulwark .. , NAZI "RACE-STATE" leaflets bear .a serial number and a against Jewish world ·� revolution" ) ; :AU house owners of . Berlin "Whoever detaches race, or the Ham1:mrg addr-ess: One of the streets and similar leaflets. Also' lllclude'd are is headed, "Bolshevik Atrocities in and the inet� tan .ar1la' have nation, or the State, or the form of pamphlets containing speeches · by' been ordered Gestapo, lIlt.· Spain," anct another; "Who are the the' State, or the Government from the state secret poltee, fUrnish ler and Goebbels, and it' s�s1:ika Rulers of Russia ?" A third, headed to temporaI scale of values and raises badge. 'police headquarters with a' com'" . "Bolshevism in Theory and Practice " them to be the supreme model and plete set of th ir house and The Erfurt center WQJ;ks�, on mQre ' . is a reprint of a s'peech by Dr. Goe - e defies them with idolatrous wor- b apartment, keys. specifically anti-Jewish lines. "World ,bels in Nuremberg, and another is a 'ship, falsifies the Divinely created ' Service" is run by 'Colonel Fleisch- ,report of a speech This is commonly referred to order of things." (From the re- by Hitler entitled , bauer, the :Nazi "expert" 'on Jewish '!HitJer 'a s "1iJ>era.tion from . decadent cent Encyclical). Warns the World o'f the affairs. It issues a bi-monthly bulle- Menace of Bolshevism." . demoeI:aey'� !r " . . , ,{', , , Benefit Concert, Tuesday, April 27, 8:45�p.m.·Carnegie Hall ' , " 'C" " , " _ '" , ' ... THE ANTf-NAll BULLETIN

VOL. V- No. 1 ISSUED BY THE NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE JANUARY, 1938

World Anti .- Nazi Leaders DANGER IN THE BALKANS Threaten Rumanian Boycott by JOHANNES STEEL With the appointment of Octa­ Nazi German policy to create vian Goga as Premier of Ruman­ within foreign countries pressure To Act If Gove�ent Does Not Abandon Nazi and ia, fascism has won another bat­ groups which Will eventually Anti- Semitic Policies tle. The appointment was the take over the government in climax to a long struggle be­ those countries, and bring about Government against the anti­ In a cablegram to Premier Oc­ tween two groups 'If foreign a co-ordination of the foreign Jewish measures of Rumania's tavian Goga of Rumania. emphat­ . powers that intended to dominate pOliCies of those respective coun­ new Premier. ically declaring that a wide­ Rumania and its foreign policy. tries with the foreign policy ·of spread boycott threatens all In a wire to the Congressman, Rumania formally is still a mem­ Germany, in order to understand goods exported from that co�­ the League stated : ber of the Little Entente and what has happened. try unless its program of Nazl­ therefore belonged up till now, "On behalf of our many mem­ The pattern of German foreign ftcation and anti-Semitism is generally speaking, in the orbit bers and supporters permit us to policy thus becomes clearer abandoned, Samuel Untermyer, of French foreign policy. The ele­ thank and congratulate you on every day. First it was the niili­ president of the League, early ments supporting the present your forthright support of the re­ tarization of the Rhineland then this month voiced the plans of government have of course long solution before Congress urging it was Danzig and now it s the his organization and organiza­ received financial and moral sup­ i the President to protest to the break-up of the Little Entente tions in other countries to ex­ port from Germany. It is not which; of course, puts increased tend the anti-Nazi boycott to the .(Continued on page 10) necessary to elaborate ·on the Balkan State if its "published in­ pressure upon the last democratic human, anti-Semitic threats are republic in Central Europe-Cze­ translated into action." choslovakia. The visit of Milan Stoyadino­ "If the published inhuman, an­ vitch, th& premier of Yugoslavia ti-Semitic threats · are translated on January 17th to Berlin was a into action, " Mr. Untermyer's direct result of the reorientation wire said, "we shall feel forced to of RUDlania. towards Germany in­ extend immediately our German stead of France. The Yugoslav anti-Nazi boycott against Ruma­ prime minister on his visit to nian imports. Berlin probably wanted to ibid "Our boycott is not distinctly out how deep the friendship be­ JewiSh. It includes Catholics, tween Rumania and Germany Protestants, Labor Unions and really is. In addition to that he others. Britain and other coun­ probably wanted to know what tries would join the boycott. We kind of a bargain he could make could substitute other countries' with the powers that be in Berlin oils, furs and products for yours. in exchange for a 'pro-German "Your action >would, I fear, and fascist Yugoslav foreign pol- cripple if not destroy Rumanian icy. Thus out of the maze of exports to America. I hope it criss-cross intrigues . the new will prove as UIDlecessary as it alignment . of powers is slowly would be barbarous. You can taking shape. England and hardly exp ect reciprocal trade France will soon be faced With agreements whilst thus persecut­ the ..alternative of either· iosirig ing your minorities on racial theIr status as first class powers . grounds. I respectfully suggest as wen as their infhlencc over your studying the effect of the Euro� politics generally; orI�"-.�"-'.. boycott on Germany's export opposmg the Italo-German fas- - trade before acting." cist alliance and its satellite's Rumania Organizations affiliated with and HUngary, With Efu active foreign the League in other countJ::ies policy that coun- ters the aggJ:;el!1sive have served similar notification designs of the fascists in Europe. upOn Premier Goga. Notabl:y-, . As far as the situation the League's affiliates m the Unl­ ,in ,Ru­ mania itself ted Kingdom have already cabled is concerned, a.qti� Semitism will be one of. the to . Untermyer their full read­ cliie:r Mr Du!!y in Th$ Balthnore sun weapons of the iness to enforce a Rumanian boy­ Goyerl;lmerit, ai:)d with it the Cabinet cott. One British anti-Nazi FRESH FIELDS FOR HIS ENDEAVORS hopes 'to take the wind from group has taken steps to rewrite the sails· of tlIron Guard, that party itself. Win cable to Goga, the League round­ canine pets closer to the ground. be persecuted by the prE!s.ent gov- ly praised and supported Repre­ This was the essence of a Berlin cable credited to Havas, the ernment. . sentative Hamilton Fish's con­ European news service. Havas states : For the minOrities generally demnation of the repressive mea­ "It is not 'tactful' in Nazi Germany to teach your dog the the outlook is dark. The a.ttitude sures contemplated by the Ru­ Heil Hitler salute. of the Government is that all manian Government. "The organ of the Storm Troopers, Der 8. A. Mann, rapped power and all positions should go the over-zealousness and 'lack of tact' of some Nazis, especially The League also joined . only to Rumanians, whether Mr of the feminine g-ender who have been teJ>ching their pets to fu Fish in urging the passage of a raise their right paws in a semblance of the Hitlerite salute. the Administration, army, pOlice, resolution now before the House "That salute," said the paper, "is a 'profession of faith and of or in bu,'liness. But the pe'l'lieCu­ of Representatives requesting gratitude to the Fuehrer and it must not be degraded into a tion of Hungarians and of Ger­ President Roosevelt to lodge a dog's trick'." mans living in Rumania wouJd formal protest to the Rumanian . (Oontlim,ei/. on pa.qe 11 � . BULLETIN 1938 2 THE ANTI-NAZI u BOYCOTT BREVITIES 1111 FROM THE RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

ROLLFAST BICYCLES �qJAN.KRUPTCY" IN A BOYCOTT RESULT CREDIT SITUATION Most of the people who buy FASCIST STATE As a result of the boycott Conducting business in Nazi "Rollfast" Bicycles in this coun­ Germany is becoming increasing­ Germany and Italy will not go movement against merchandise try are unaware that parts of ly hazardous. According to a re­ "bankrupt" no matter how ser­ made with Japanese and German these bicycles are imported from cent report of the United States ious their difficulties may be; the products, various American hos­ Nazi Germany. Manufacturer Department of Commerce, inter­ German and Italian workers will iery manufacturers are offering and distributor of these bicycles in nal collections have grown more not rise in protest against their tlleir new Spring lines num­ is D. P. Harris & Co., 29 Warren difficult. Merchant banks in masters, no matter how low their bers made of cotton lisle. Street, New York City, who dis­ Germany continue being reluct­ wages may be or how hard it be­ tribute their products through­ ant in granting new internal ere· comes to get su:fliclent food. jobbers and wholesalers through­ dits. In an effort to reorient out the United States. Only last The reason fOr this is not al­ COLLECTED IN business on a cash basis, the month D. P. Harris & Co. receiv­ ways realized, but as described ADVANCE Chamber of Industry and Com­ ed a shipment of 500 cases of by Douglas Jay, financial expert merce of Pforzheim has just is­ So hard up is the Reich that, merchandise from Germany. of the London Dafty HeraZiJ, con­ in effect, it has now quietly taken sued a circular letter pointing out The imported goods consisted of ditions in those countries are to collecting taxes in advance. that prices of retailers and pro­ "Champion" Pedals and Hubs, such that "bankruptcy" can only The roundabout system is this: fessionais are caiculated on a "Rollfast" Chains and "Sham­ come at a time of real starvation. The Government ordered German basis of cash payments and that rock" Spokes. Said Mr. Jay : "Under the HIt­ companies with foreign branches it is uufair for buyers to deiay How close D. P. Harris & Com­ ler and Mussolini tyrannies there to acquire as much foreign cur­ payments or to deduct discounts pany's business ties are .w ith are no trade unions, and all un­ rency as pOSSible, in order to pro­ for cash. Nazi firms is not known. Mr. employment, pay and savings vide Germany with more foreign Harris, himself, and another agencies are in the hands of the exchange. Now the Reich is member of his firm, however, Government. In these conditions buying up the currency-paying NAZI FILM NOTE were in Germany last year, and no man can strike against the for it with "tax bonds" which are A newly-issued decree of the one of the Directors of the Berg Government without facing the to be used in paying future taxes. Reich Film Chamber urges the Union of Froedenberg, Westpha­ certain prospect of starvation production of super-films to bat­ lia, visited the Harris company within ' a few daY8 for both him­ ter down world resistence to Ger­ here in October. self and his wife and children. ANOTJIER NAZI man-made motion pictures. "That is the fundamental real­ TREATY VIOLATION The decree stipulates that : ity of a Fascist regime, standing "Film producers are entitled to TRADE OBSTACLE behind a facade of paper propa­ Once again Nazi Germany has increase the distribution rates Handicapped by the financial ganda. Add to it the continual violated a treaty-this time with· beyond the present rates if the out the usual fanfare. dealings of German shippers threat of spying and terrorism, costs of the film are especially and you will understand why competing with them for mar­ Although they will take no of­ high. This increase, however, is workers in Germany and Italy ke ts in Brazil and other South ficial congiza.q'\!e of it, British subject to the approval of the are slow to strike, and why a American countries, American officiais have \ iuformation that Price Commissioner who checks Fascist State can hardly go export concerns have made a Germany has gone far beyond the calculation. By this means, it 'bankrupt' until its people are plea to the State Department for the intent of the Anglo·German is hoped that producers or distri­ literally .starving." a provision . in reciprocal trade naval treaty in submarine con· butors maY be .induced to under­ I agreements to meet the problem. 45 take the production of super­ struction. Allowed up to per­ eent of British submarine ton­ films and so remedy the situation One large concern is under­ nage, the Germans have actually of German film business abroad stood to have stated that it is un­ LINCOL..1V TUNNEL quadrupled the number of sub­ which has been consistently dis­ able to overcome a twenty-five � The recently opened Lincoln marines they were permitted to appointing." 1 per cent advantage gained by Tunnel (lontains no German-made build under the agreement.· German competitors through the glass in any part of its construc­ �e of blocked marks and the Just as the Nazis kept 'within tion. PROFITS FALL suggel!tion was made that nego­ the limitation of the Versailles I tiat'ufg countries should be asked This can be regarded as a Sig­ treaty by building "pocket battle­ According to well-authenticat­ I to accord a compensating reduc­ nal victory of boycott forces over sh ips", so again they have taken ed reports published in the New j tion in duties on American goods Nazi glass manufacturers ; for in advantage of technicalities to Yark Times and other papers, to overcome such obstacles. the early history of the tunnel, keep within the letter of the the profits of German industrial I contractors were offered price In­ British treaty and have exceeded corporatiOns in the t weIv e I ducements by German exporters. the limitation on submarine con· months ending in September, GLOVES As a result of strong protests struction. As far as Britain is 1937, amounted to 391,000,000 � from the League, however, the concerned, she will be forced to marks as against 687,000,000 for i While the importation of lea­ Port of New York Authority pro­ retain all old destryers and in­ the same period of the preceding ther and kid gloves from the en­ hibited the use of German-made crease the speed of new ones. year. ! tire world to the United States glass in the building of the tun­ I showed a marked increase during nel. t THE BOYOOTT 18 THE MORAL 8UB8TITUTE FOR WAR I! the first nine months of 1937, im­ Ii portations of these commodities Ii froin Germany continued to de­ NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE I creal[le. AMITY TO CHAMPION HUMAN BIGHTS, Inc. j) During the first nine months of Nazi Germany has just made a 20 WEST 47th STREET NEW YORK , 1987, the United States imported deal with France and tentative Honorary Membership_._HH.. _,$500.00 only 490,572 single pairs of lea­ l' arrangements with Great Britain General Membership __$ 2.00 Associate Membership ._..... $ 25.00 ther .gloves from Germany, while and other countries to avoid fut· Contributing Membership__ 5.00 Susta ining Membership .. _ 50.00 !i! during the same time of the pre­ ure international incidents aris­ Active Membership __H._'_' 10.00 Donors ... H... _H.H .._ .•.. ______100.00 f ceding year .our importations ing from expulsion of foreign were 647,168 single pairs. correspondents from the Reich Name...... ,...... or of German correspondents I The decrease in the imports of ...... _...... from abroad. . . ! cotton gloves from Germany in­ Address ...... I dicated a still sharper decline. In the future, according to the ...... __...... ___ ._ ..... , ...... _...... _ . . _ ...... _...... While during the first nine new agreement, instead of public City ...... State months of 1936 we imported expulSion, the governments in· I,1 866,958 dozen pairs, during the volved will quietly seek to agree sali!:e period in 1937 these im­ on an arrangement to have the I ports fell to 285,330 dozen pairs. .o.ewspaper men "rec�lled." i I. 1938 TEE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 3 Impressions of The Disadvantages of Trade Agreements A Nazi Meeting With Nazi Germany by M. YARMON (Mr. Yarmon is a New York newspaper man who frequent­ by DR. MAX WINKLER ly covers Nazi meetings.) While GERMAN-AMERICAN illustrates point. According increase in American commerce "All the sins of the world come this commerce has decreased v� to statistics furnished by the through the introduction of Ask! from the Jews." substantially in recent years, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic or compensation marks. This, 1 I look about me, e�cting that those charged with guiding the Commerce, Chilean imports from however, was promptly stopped. the magic carpet of some nIght­ economic destinies of the Reich all countries showed an increase mare has transplanted me in In the Republic of Ecuador the consoled themselves by pointing for the first ten months of 1987 darkest Germany. But no­ Ask! mark has a value of about 1 to the gains registered in German of 88.30% over the figures in the slightly craning the neck assures 27 1/4c; in the Republic of Gau­ trade with Latin American Re­ corresponding period of 1936. me that the taxis relI1ain on the temala it is worth 29c; in Sal­ publics which, to a very ap­ ChUe's imports from the United corner, that the large sign on the vador 31c; in Peru 31 1/4c; in preciable extent, offset the losses States during the same period movie house across the way is Brazil 30c; and in Nicaragua as registered elsewhere. showed a gain of 66% while her I still blinking. much as 40c. The value of the It will be recalled that Ger­ purchases from Great Britain mark in the countries under re­ Perhaps you think I didn't ,. many has concluded a series of showed an increase of 87.30% view was determined by com­ 1 quote these American Nazis cor­ compensation and barter agree­ and from France a gain of puting the value of the respective rectly. They wouldn't dare say ments with virtually all of the 84.60%. Chilean imports from currencies in terms of dollars that. Maybe I'm a bit rusty on Latin American republics. While Germany, on the other hand, and Ask! marks as given in offi­ my German, and the peculiar these agreements appear to work showed a rather sharp decline, cial statistics. sentence order has me baffled. fairly smootl:!.ly in the early amounting to 20.90%. A careful examination of all But these speakers don't use Ger­ stages, the countries affected It is also of interest to call at­ the circumstances surrounding man, except among themselves discover sooner or later the dis­ tention to the value of the so­ ' German trade agreements with . after the meeting. advantages Which reside in their called Ask! mark in some of the other countries reveals conclu­ I admit that I may not really trade agreements with the Reich. Latin American countries with sively that sooner or later those have heard that particular sen­ The Republic of Chile, where which' Germany has trade agree­ deals are bound to be repudiat­ tence. But it remains in my German influences have made ments. It will be recalled that ed. Immediately following the mind as a composite of every­ themselves felt for many years, Germany attempted to effect an arrangement the country affect­ thing I have ever heard there. ed is in a position to bring about To the J�ws are attributed a marked expansion in its sales everything wrong'with the world. to Germany which, because of We are responsible for the de­ the peculiar monetary situation pression, for the C. L 0., for the in the country, is in a position to electrocution of ,Hauptmann, for offer higher prices for the pro­ President Roosevelt, for Moscow ducts of the country in question -for everything, real or imagin­ than is offered by any other coun­ that besets us today. ary, try. The more Germany buys the The first time I ever went to higher prices will rise in the one of these Nazi. meetings it country affected, and the, coun­ was a:Imost a lark. Unbelievable, try's exports to other countries was my first reaction. This is wlll tend to decrease. As a re­ the sort of stuff that we read as sult of this Situation, other coun­ reprints from Der 8teurmer. tries will also restrict their sales Only here it was all burlesqued. to the country in question. Ger­ These people were a sorry lot. many, in her turn, takes advant­ Further meetings have harden­ age of this situation by raising ed me. Speakers come in what the prices of goods which she seems to be an endless proces­ sells to the country affected. sion. Heroes to the perverted Thus the latter is compelled to mind, crackpots of every sort sell her goods to Germany and find willing ears where otherwise to pay the high prices Which they speak to blank walls. And Germany asks for her finished they put on a good show for the products. 25 cents admission. Twenty-five In this way the claims of ex­ cents from people for whom porters in the country upon "sorry" is the best word. Occa­ Germany register an increase, Sionally, though, I get a chill and they realize sooner or later when I recall that msybe the that this system is bound to iso­ same sort of sorry people put late their country economically Hitler over in Germany. from practica:lly the rest of the It's funny how you get used to world. Higher prices mean high­ anything, even insults. Yet I er cost of production, detrimental wonder if these really are insults. to the country's economy. It To hear yourself de:filed by people also happens that German claims for whom you feel at first only upon the country with which, an the basest contempt, then only agreement may have been signed pity, is not insulting. reach a point where they exceed claims upon Germany, Which in There is something mechanical turn make the latter reverse her about it alL With the slightest trade policy. As a consequence imagination, you can see the Fitzpatrick in the St. Louis Post·Dispatch of such change, prices in the speaker-robot saying "dirty Jew" NO SANCTUARY country in question will decline, every so often, and the robots in affecting seriously and adversely front grinning and yelling in an­ Jews" makes it all so vivid that 52 accidents per 1,000 workers. the entire economic structure of swer. you can't help but want to in­ In the year 1936, however, the the nation. Those countries Which It all has its valuable side. crease a thousand times your ef­ figure had risen to 82 accidents have realized the ultimate re­ Reading about the concentration forts to curb them. Only in that sults of barter agreements with camps, the burning of books, gets per 1,000 workers. This means way wlll this same horror be Germany are convinced that what under only one layer of skin. that among the additional 78 per kept from these shores. the Reich has to offer by way Hearing about these things from cent people who have gotten jobs, of foreign commerce are merely relatives and friends who recount Indnstrial Accidents at a greatly decreased wage rate, Greek gifts, which, for the sake tales of horror sinks a bit deeper. According to the official ftgures the rise in accid_�n ts was 184 per But hearing that "all the sins of the Reich Professional League, of self-preservation, must be of the world come from the during the year 1932 there were cent. shunn ed. 4 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 1938

There can be no excuse anymore for refusing to boycott goods The and services of Nazi Germany. The boycott is the only weapon in the common cause of Jew and gentile against those who would ANTI-NAZI ECONOMIC BULLETIN destroy religion everywhere. A Published monthly, except July and ugust, at 20 West 47th N. NON-SECTARIAN ANTI­ Street, New York, Y., by the tJENSURE BY AMERltJAN NAZI LEAGUE TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS, INC. BOOK PUBLISHERS The forty-eight American publishers who signed the state­ Subscription $1.00 Per Year 10c Per Copy ment that they will not attend this year's meeting of the Inter­ national Congress of Book Publishers at Leipzig, Germany, VOL. V ...... 450 No. 1 deserve the highest commendation for their act of censure against the Nazi Government-an act by way which should be Entered as second class matter, New York Post Office. copied by all others who are ever invited to attend similar Nazi­ controlled affairs. Had the American publishers accepted the invitation, they would have, as they must have known, become NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE unwitting collaborators in Herr Goebbels' propaganda scheme. TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS, Inc. 20 West 47th Street New York City As stated by the New York 'Times : "They (the American MEdallion 3-2720 publishers) are not 'boycotting German literature, German art, German science, German economics, German socioJigy, German OFFICERS history or German poetry. The boycott has already been im­ SAMUEL UNTllllMYEll •.,,. ...,., ..., ...... _., ...... ,, ...... ,.. ,, ...... ,, Preside1Jt DR. ABBA HILLIlL SILVllR ...... , "...... " ...... "...... Vice·President posed by the present masters of the German State. American HON. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA .... ,.. ... ,...... , ...... ,...... "" Vice-Preside11t readers will welcome the splendid Germany which speaks HON. ARTHUR S. TOMPKINS ...... Vice-President through books banned in their homeland, often written by au· MRS. MARK HARRIS ...... Acting-Chairman Exec,.ti"" Committee thors who have been driven into exile. Through those books J. DAVID STERN ...... "...... "".. ".... ".... "...... " ... ".".. Treasurer LOUIS MYERS ...... """" ...... "." ...... " .. "" ...... " ..... ,, ...... Acting-Treasurer they know that German culture is not dead. It is only on their own native soil that the best that Germans have thought, said BOARD OF DIRECTORS and done, and the best that they are now thinking, saying and SAMUEL UNTERMYllR, Chairman doing, are condemned as treasonable." George Gordon Battle E. N. Kleinbaum Hon. Richard J. Beamish Joseph Kraemer As stated by the publishers' statement : "No German pub­ Abraham Cahan Clarence H. Low lisher will dare at Leipzig to ex press an opinion other than those Dr. Benjamin Dubovsky Bishop Francis J. McConnell dictated by National Socialist officials ...It will be a display Hon. M. Maldwin Fertig Louis Myers Jacob Fishman Hon. Leopold Prince of ventreloquism; the publishing trade will .be the puppet, but J. George Fredman Ezekiel Rabinowitz the voice will be the voice of the German Bureaucracy." Mrs. Mark Harris Dr. Abba Hillel Silver Rev. John Haynes Holmes J. David Stern By reject�g the invitation the American publishers have Rev. Edward L. Hunt Hon. Arthur S. Tompkins become a meaningful addition to the great and illustrious Frank P. Walsh company of enlightened opinion in which Nazism engenders only contempt and indignation. Let us hope that somehow the Ger­ man people learn of their act. POPE PIUS ·XI vs. NAZI GERMANY

Pope Pius XI, emerging from the decorum of his holy office and, with apparent effort, conquering the pain of a severe THE NAZIS AND WILLIAM E. DODD asthmatic affection, finally named Nazi Germany as the great enemy of God and Church. (Reprinted from THE NATION of January 22nd.)

_�- Speaking on Christmas Eve, struggling against illness and THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT IS SELDOM MORE age, the Pope responded to the greeting of the Sacred College grotesque than in its periodic protests against "foreign criti­ of Cardinals with a long·awaited declaration against the anti­ cism." So abundant is Germany's export trade of violent prop­ Christian policies of the Third Reich. .At an age when most aganda that these outcries are as arrogant as they are trans· rulers are ready to retire, the Pope showed by his speech that parent. William E. Dodd, retiring American ambassador to he was still prepared to fight in the battIe for authority be­ Germany, has once more wounded Nazi sensibility, an offe�e tween the established church and the totalitarian ideology of rendered especially significant by his having had so outstandmg Adolph Hitler. an opportunity to observe the new Germany at first hand. He Said Pope Pius, in making his most vigorous and out­ saw, as he recalled in his New York address last week, how spoken protest against the treatment of the Catholic Church in men were "denied religious, personal, and press freedom, how Germany: "In Germany there is persecution. It is a persecu­ universities and schools were put under party control, and how tion that lacks neither brutality of violence nor the pressure almost as many personal opponents were killed in five years as of threats nor the deceits of cunnulg and falsehood." Charles II had executed in twenty years of the seventeenth century." It was an impressive indictment. Even more damag­ Those who accused the church of mixing in politics did so ing was Mr. Dood's reminder of the reckless attacks against the only as a pretext to justify persecution, he said, and "it will democracies delivered by high Nazi officials at Nurnberg and not escape our beloved children that this is the same accusation elsewhere. Needless to say, these attacks on the United States made against Jesus Christ." were never suppressed in American journals, as Mr. Roosvelt's I'l I Banned in Germany and Italy (except for the Vatican's own speeches are now being banned in Germany, or condensed into publication, Osservatore Romano) , the Pope's address was three lines, as the German papers have done with Mr. Dodd's widely reprinted in the world's press. For Jew and gentile remarks. The Nazis will do well to drop the subject. Their I alike, for anyone interested in the preservation and freedom most recent outcry comes appropriately at the moment when � , of religion, the picture of the aged prelate accusing the Nazis the propaganda they have subsidized in Yugoslavia has suc­ I· of destroying and distorting the church must serve as an in­ ceeded in driving the last Jewish representative out of the i spiration for concerted action against "those enemies of God." parliament at Belgrad. t !II JANUARY, 1938 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 5 i Foes of Nazis Meet in Berlin Murder and the Hitler Youth I Report Secretly Distributed A Story of Crime Without Punishment A report secretly distr�buted to gates from all classes and all The recent funeral of a 12-year-old boy in Leipzig has the representatives in Berlin of parts of the Reich, with the ex­ succeeded n dramatizing more than any other single event foreign newspapers and news ception of East Prussia, have for 1 services and Which was recently the first time met in Berlin to the utter cruelty and callousness developing among the reported in the press outside Ger­ discuss measures for conducting growing youth of Nazi Germany. 'II many, contains the startling and the fight for freedom. J The funeral attracted unusual attention because it was encouraging information that "The resolutions passed here attended not only by the entire local Hitler Youth, but also "the first Reich Congress of the show clearly that in our ranks by an unusualy large number of other persons. Most of German Opposition has taken the difficulties and risks of this pIa.ce in Berlin." great task are not underestimat­ these attended because of a rather conspicuous death notice Attended by thirty-seven dele­ ed. The present system in Ger­ inserted by the grieved parents in the Leipziger Neueste Nach­ gates from all sections of Ger­ many is now confronted by the richten. many, except East Prussia, the unbroken ranks of its adver­ The facts of the funeral and the events leading up to it meeting lasted for two days and saries. ws : � succeeded in mapping a cam­ "National Socialism is chal­ are as follo paign against the Hitler regime. lenged by us to fight for its posi­ Some time ago the Leipzig Hit­ That the meeting occurred at all, tion. National Socialism and ler youth held one of their regu­ DIGEST in the face of the present terror public world opinion will in the lar "evening parades" (so desig­ OF OTHER SOlJllCES I and the ingenuity of the Gestapo, future have to reckon with us. nated to reassure parents). must be regarded as a minor We will wake up Germany. For They are really semi-military President Roosevelt in his mes­ miracle of courage and conceal­ the first time the real opinion of drills. Boys from 12 years up sage to Congress : the German majority on German ment. participate. Among the children "It would seem, therefore, soil has been made public. Inde­ The report which was secretly on this occasion were two young that world peace through in­ circulated to the newspapermen pendent of foreign support tens sons of an official of the German ternational agreements is safe­ of thousands of pamphlets have in Berlin was in the form of a Supreme Court. The Group was est in the hands of the demo­ I letter and contains little to re"\leal gone into the tyrannized land." under the charge of a. 17 year old cratic representative govern­ the real strength of the "Opposi­ The movement's literature, leader. During a rest period the ments-in other words, peace tion Movement" or to throw any judging from two pamphlets children were lying in tents. One is most greatly jeopardized in light on the men behind it. available to observers in Berlin, of the two brothers went outside and by those nations where "The decisions reached," the challenges the regime's major and was seen by the "leader" democracy has been discarded report states, "clearly demon­ claims. The group undertakes who shouted: or never developed." strated that there' is no underes­ with statistics and generally ser­ "Stop . .. Who goes there ? Dean Ackerman before the timation in our ranks of the ious arguments to prove that The password !" class of journalism at Columbia magnitude of our taSk. The pre­ most of National Socialism's sup­ University : sent system has, however, found The boy thought it was a. joke posed accomplishments are imag­ "Today the Italian and Ger­ an organized opponent. We will and did not stop. Thereupon the inary or the result of policies man Governments directly are awaken Germany." that will eventually prove dis­ leader drew a revolver and fired, invading all South American Opening with an announcement striking the boy in the head. astrons. countries by the propaganda that the meeting had taken place, A long list of specific expendi­ Camp was struck in great route. The official Italian and the report says : tures of leading government and haste and the children were led German news agencies offer all !'The German Opposition has party members is presented that away. No att�tion was paid to newspapers daily cable news the honor to inform you that the it is asserted they could not han­ the injured boy, who was attend­ from Europe and regular pho­ First Reich Congress has recent­ dle honestly. In particular, re­ ed only by his brother and soon tographic and feature service ly taken place in Berlin for the ference is made to the recent bled to death. The news quickly free of all expense." purpose of rallying all those who purchases of luxurious residences reached the police in Grimma, Congressman Hamilton Fish, opoose the Nati onal Socialist dic­ costing- as much as 8.000.000 to near which the drills were held; Jr. : tatorship. Thirty-seven dele- 4,000.000 marks by party chiefs. they pursued the column and ex­ "If this Rumanian outrage­ amined all the boys. Apart from ous and intolerant program the prescribed daggers they goes through, it will mean that NAZIS AND lTALIANS ABROAD found ten loaded revolvers. 8 per cent of the population will be outlawed, will be de­ The 17 year old murderer de­ EXTEND THE ROME ..BERLIN AXIS classed, will have . no rights. clared in his defense that he Their property will ' be .eILnfis­ thought a spy' had gotten into A report in the OEuvre of ign Office of a Chief of the Fore­ cated and they will be praCtil?� camp and for that reason he had Paris declares that recently a ign Organizations is a guarantee ally driven out of the country fired. The father of the victim, meeting of the leaders of 600 that the prinCiples and the guid- . . . I hope the Congress will an old Nazi, ventured in his be­ organizations of Germans who lines adopted by the author- ask the president to protest to reavement to give the Leipziger are residing, abroad had been in Germany responsible for the Rumanian Govermnent in Neuellte NMhrichten a death no­ held in Berlin at which two lead­ the supervision of Germans the interest of humanity. jus­ tice in which he reported that the ers of Italian foreign organiza­ abroad are kept within the limits tice, peace and friendly rela­ boy "had met with an accident at tions were also present. Gauleit­ laid down by me and are vigor­ tions between nations and urge a nightly Hitler Youth exercise." er Bohle, a short time ago acord­ ously observed by the Foreign that the civic and economic ed ministerial powers, presided. Organization itself." He a Iso preferred charges rights of their citizens of Jew­ Plans were worked out, says against the murderer for "un­ ish origin be protected and that racial and religiOUS per­ the report in the Paris paper, for lawful possession of a weapon." secution be stopped." collaboration between the Ital­ Reich ChnrehDlan He did not dare charge him with Foreign ian and German organizations, Waldemar GUrian in murder. Affairs : and it was agreed that there Can't Be Nazis would be an exchange of infor­ The father was summoned be­ " . . . one must conclude that Pastors and candidates for or­ the futUre of the catholic mation, especially military infor­ fore the Party Court of the Dis­ mation. A secret circular was dination in Germany have been Church in Germany depends forbidden 'membership in the trict of Leipzig, which declared drawn up for transmiSsion to the above all upon the unknown Nazi Party according to the last that by his notice in the press he principal agents in foreign coun­ believers who defend them­ decree of Rudolf Hess, deputy tries calling for a doubling of had endangered not only the re­ selves against the totalitarian pal'ty leader. It was asserted claims and obscurantist tactics activities. putation of the Hitler Youth but that the decree was intended to of the National Socialist state. also that of the National Socialist It may be recalled that at church strife from reaching On the success of their attitude stuttgart, last August, Baron party ranks. State. "In consideration of hiS depends the answer to a ques­ von Neurath, during the rally of Hess declared the measure is to long membership in the Party" tion of the utmost importance, the Na�i Foreign Organization, be applied not only to adherents he was merely reprimanded, but the question whether there will referring to the objections of at the confessional ( opposition ) ever again be a humane cul- he was forced to withdraw his some foreign governments to movement in the Evangelical in Germany, one in Which Herr Bohle's activities, said : Church but to other pastors as charges against the Hitler Youth rig-hts of free individuals �� "The appointment in the Fore- well. Leader. are fully recognized." "

THE TRUTH ABOUT NAZI GERMANY IN PICTURES

MARCH OF TIM!! mows how large A pari geoqtaphy plaY' in wLipping up naHonol pride to fever pitch.

ER.SATZ. ikCt4d Mado out of anything but good flO\lr oIInd o+ha1 l)'nthati(l foods flrG fo'e&d'�pon tit. $erman peQple wht!. tho' Ret

BEVERAGES HENRY KAYSER &: FILLS, Barber &: Beauty Supplies, 41 Union Sq. N.Y.C. J. A. HENCKELS, INC., 456 Fourth Avenue, New York City HANS HOLTERBOSCH, INC., 841 East 79th street, New York City PETER J. MICHELS, Barbers' Supp., 1857 Catalpa Ave., Ridgewood, N.Y. JAEGER IMPORTING co., LTD., 106 Gansvoort Street, New York City MOLER SYSTEM OF COLLEGES, Beauty Culture Schools, 177 North State Street, Chicago, m., and branches throughout the United States M. KEMPINSKY & Co., INC., 1819 Broadway, New York City SCHRADER EH S, 289 Fourth Avenue, New York City H. LEHMAN, INC., 734 Park Avenue, New York City &: LER v..'ESTER BROS., LUCHOW IMPORTING Co., 101 East 13th Street, New York City Razors, Shears and Manicuring Implements, 250 West Broadway, New York City REIDENMEISTER &: ULRICHS CORP., 23 East 26th Street, New York City WILFRED ACADEMY OF BEAUTY CULTUBE, 1659 Broadway, N. Y. C. RHINEMO IMPORT, INC., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City CHAS. VON DER BRUCK, INC., 61 Park Place, New York City JULIUs WILE SONS & co., 8 Bridge Street, New York City MEDICAL AND DENTAL SUPPLIES

CAMERAS AND PHOTO SUPPLIES , AMERICAN HECOLITE DENTURE CORP., "Hecolite" Denture, 536 S. E. 6th Ave., Portland, Ore. 460 W. 34th St., N. Y. C, AMERICAN MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CO., 131 East 23rd Street, N. Y. C. ABE COHEN EXCHANGE, INC., 120 Fulton Street, New York City ADAM BERNHARD, Importer of Dental Plastic Materials, AGFA ANSCO CORP., Binghamton, N. Y. 45 East 17th Street, New York City BURLEIGH BROOKS, INC., 127 West 42nd Street, New York City DEPENDABLE DENTAL SUPPLY CO., 1923 Germantown AVe., Phila., Pa. E. LEITZ, INC., 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City DURO TEST CORP., 583 Broadway, New York City E. B. MEYEROWITZ, INC., 520 Fifth Avenue, New York City INJECTA CO., 112 East 19th Street, New York City PHOTO SHOP, INC., 136 West 82nd Street, New York City F. W. MAsSEL &: co., 120 Boylston Street, Boston, . Mass. WILLOUGHBY CAMERA STORES, INC., 110 West 32nd Street, N. Y. C. ADOLF PFINGST, "Busch" Dental Supplies, 309 Bible ,House, N. Y. C. CARL ZEISS, INC., 485 Fifth Avenue, N�w York City PREMIER DENTAL MAN. CO., 900 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. . GUSTAVE SCHARMAN, 1181 Broadway, New York City CANARIES L. SILVERMAN, 1033 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. STERLI NG PRODUCTS CORP., 118 East 25th Street, New York City MAX GEISLER BIRD CO., 50 Cooper Square, New York City TIP-TOp INSTEUMENTS, INC., 15 East 26th street, New York City ODENWALD BIRD COMPANY, 32 Cooper Square, New York City WM. BARTELS COMPANY, 45 Cortla.ndt Street, New York City DEPARTMENT STORES LoUIS RUHE, INC., 853 Broadway, New York City

S. S. KRESGE CO., Stores throughout the United states CHEMICALS AND DRUGS S. H. KRESS &: CO., 5c, 10c, 25c Stores throughout United States, Office 114 Fifth Avenue, New York City ADVANCE SOLVENTS M &: CHE . CORP., 245 Fifth Avenue, New York City W. T GRANT, stores throughout the United States, AKATOS, INC., Chemicals, 5 Vandam Street, New York City Office 1441 Broadway, New York City GENERAL DYESTUFFS CORP., Chemicals &: Dyes, 435 Hudson St., N. Y. C. S. S. KRESGE, stores throughout country S. B. PENICK &: CO., Crude D�gs, 130 Nassau Street, New York City MARSHALL FIELD &: CO., 121 N. State Street, Chicago, TIL, and PFALTZ & BAUER, Chemicals &: Glues, 300 Pearl Street, New York City 22 North Bank Drive, Chicago, m. N. V. POTASH EXPORT, My., 19 West 44th Street, New York City MONTGOMERY WARD &: CO., Dept. Store and Mail Order House, Chicago, STATE CHEMICAL CO., 80 West Houston Street, New York City TIL SEARS ROEBUCK CO., WI NTHROP CHEMICAL CO., Chemicals & Drugs, 170 Va:tjck st., N. Y. C. &: Mail Order House and Dept. Stores, Chicago and branches throughout the United States (-Combined with H. A. MElTz LABORATORIES, INC.)

CHINA WARE AND GLASSWARE FOODS

S. A. BENDHEIM, INC., 16 Horatio Street, New York City BENEDICT LUST HEALTH FOODS, 343 Lexington Avenue, New York City BUDDE &: WESTERMAN, 104 Worth Street, New York City WM. FAEHNDRICH, Cheese, 13 Harrison Street, New York City FISH-SCHURMAN CORP., 230 East 45th Street, New York City M. H. GREENBAUM, INC., 165 Chambers Street, New York City HEINRICH &: WINTERLING CORP., 49 West 23rd Street, New York City ROMANOFF CAVIAR CO., 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City HENROE Co., 225 Fifth Avenue, New York City H. G. MCFADDIN & CO., 324 Fifth Avenue, New York City GENERAL IMPORTERS ROSENTHAL CHINA CORPORATION, 149 Fifth Avenue, New York City PAUL A. STRAUB, 105 Fifth Avenue, New York City ARISTO IMPORT CO., INC., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York City ADAM BERNHARD, COKE 45 East 17th Street, New York City GEORGE BORGFELDT CORP., 46 East 23rd Street, New York City COLO NIAL FUEL CORP., 37 Commercial Street Brooklyn, N. Y. BUTLER BROS., Chicago and New York DOMESTIC FUEL CORP., 39 Broadway, New York City KOKANCOAL CO., INC., 37 Commercial Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. BEN RAFFE &: SONS, INC., 129 Varick Street, New York City

Firms not mentioned in this list are not necessarily CUTLERY, BARBERS' AND BEAUTY SUPPLIES cooperating with the boycott. It is endeavored to in­ clude here the names of only such firms as are of Watch for Trade Marks : "Tree Brand" ; "Valley Forge"; "Silver Steel"; "Dubl Duck" ; "Twin Brand" ; "Anchor Brand" nation-wide importance and persist in using goods of H. BOKER & CO., 101 Duane Street, New York City German origin or German materials without making BRESDUCK, INC., Razors, Shears and Combs, 224 Canal Street, N. Y. C. much of an effort to make replacements. R. H. FORSCHNER &: Co., Cutlery, 230 Third Avenue, New York City GIIIBS &: co., 43 West 43rd Street. New York City 1938 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 9

J. CHEIN & CO., Harrison, N. J. PRINTING TYPES MILLS SALES CO., 901 Broadway and 85 Orchard Street, New York CIty STRAUss-ECKHARDT CO., 45 East 17th Street, New York City & BAUll,'R, TYPE FOUNDRY, INC., 235 East 45th Street, New York City SPIEGEL BROS., 83 East 17th Street, New York City CONTINENTAL TYPE FOUNDERS ASSN., INC., 228 East 45th Street, New York City EUROPEAN TYPE FOUNDERS, INC., 710 Broadway, New York City GLASS

FISH-SCHURMAN CORP., Optical & Laboratory Glass, STATIONERY SUPPLIES 230 East 45th Street, New York City A. W. FABER, INC., 41 Dickerson Street, Newark, N. J. GLOVES MANHATTAN STENCIL co., 410 Broadway, New York City J. S. STAEDTLER, INC: ("Mars", "Luna" ), 55 Worth Street, N. Y. C. Trade Marks : ''Well Known"; "Wear Right" SWAN PENCIL CO., 221 Fourth Avenue, New York City ARCADE GLOVE CO., 112 East 28rd Street, New York CIty EMPIRE GLOVE CO., INC., 467 Broadway, New York City TOYS, NOTIONS AND FAVORS HYMAN HASPEL, Gloves, 468 Fourth Avenue, New York City WELL KNOWN GLOVE co., 468 Fourth Avenue, New York City B. SCHACKMAN & CO., 180 Madison Avenue, New York City WIMELBACHER & RICE, 1150 Broadway, New York City F. A. O. SCHWARTZ, 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City STRAUSS-ECKHARDT & Co., 45 East 17th Street, New York City HARDWARE YEAST D. P. HARRIS HARDWARE MFG. Co., 99 Chambers Street, New York City RoBERT E. MILLER, INC., Tacks and Nails ("Remco"), COMPRESSED YEAST CORP., "Blue Ribbon" Yeast, 85 Pearl Street, New York City 363 Greenwich Street, New York City STRAusS-ECKHARDT & co., 45 East 11th Street, New York City PHOENIX YEAST COMPANY, 359 Greenwich Street, New York City WATERBURY TACK CO., INC., Waterbury, conn. VULKAN YEAST CORPORATION, 339 Greenwich Street, New York City ERIC WEDEMYER., 162 Fifth Avenue, New York City

LEATHER MISCELLANEOUS

J. EINSTEIN, INC., Shoe Leather, 1 Park Avenue, New York City JULIUS BLUM, Iron, 532 West 22nd Street, New York City HERMANN LOWENSTEIN, 26 Perry Street, New York City CASTLE & OVERTON, INC., 630 Fifth Avenue, New York City LEATHER DE LUXE, 1 Park Avenue, New York City DURO TEST CORP., Glass Bulbs, 583 Broadway, New York City GENERAL BOTTLECAP co., 6 East 45th Street, N�w York City HENRY R. HOPKINSON, Linens, 40 White Street, New York City MACHINERY PARTS AND LEWIS & CONGER, House FurniShings, Sixth Ave. and 45th St., N. Y. C. N. S. MEYER, INC., Army and Navy Equipment, ADLANCO X-RAY CORP., X-Ray Apparatus, 54 Lafayette St., N. Y. C. 419 Fourth Avenue, New York City C. & C. SALES CORP., Ball Bearings, 1775 Broadway, New York City H. REIFENBERG, 205 West 19th Street, New York City H. H. HEINRICH, INC., "Matador" Bag Machinery, Aniline Prin1:ing ERNST ToEPFER, 2 Broadway, New York City Presses, 200 Varick Street, New York City MARBURG BROS., 90 West Street, New York City ORMIG CORPORATION, 373 Fourth Avenue, New York City RoBERT REINER, Embroidery Machines, 556 Gregory A"enue, Weehawken, N. J. Let the League know of any frauds , or RITTER CARLTON CO., 527 Fifth Avenue, New York City subterfuges used offering Nazi-Ger- RoTARY TOOL & MACHINERY CO., 217 East 38th Street, New York City in . RoTAFRINT MACHINES. INC., 141 Broadway, New York ·City man Goods? SANITAX ELECTRIC co., 803 Fourth Avenue, New York City If you need a substitute for a Nazi-made .---, product. communicate withThe League: METALPAPERS we will send you all infonnation. KARL PAULI CORP., 454 Broome Street, New York City NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE LEwIS DISPLAY MATERIALS (Window Displays), 480 Lexington Avenue, New York City

------MUSICAL SUPPLIES 1 --- �O�S:::�Ant�Nari-:�--- -- j C. BRUNO & SON, INC., 460 West 34th Street, New York City I 20 West 47th Street W. R. GRATZ IMPORT co., 251 Fourth Avenue, New York City New York, N. Y. I GRETSCH & BRENNER, 42 East 20th Street, New York City HARMONICA DISTRIBUTION CORP. OF AMERICA, 251 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. I Gentlemen: M. HOHNER, INC., Harmonicas & Accordions, 351 Fourth Ave., N.Y.C. I I enclose for an annual subscription to IMPERIAL MUSIC & SPORT SHOP, 101 East 14th Street, New York City I $1.00 I PROGRESSIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CORP., 404 Fourth Ave., N. Y. C. I the Anti-Nazi Bulletin. SORKIN MUSIC CO., .251 Fourth Avenue, New York City 1 ...... PEAT MOSS I Name...... I Watch for Trade Marks: "G.P.M."; "Pioneer"; "0. K."; Address...... _ ..m..... "Sorbex" ; "Justrite"; "P. I. C." I ...... ATKINS & DURBROW, INC., 165 John Street, New York City ] =.=.=.==State...... ==. _.. PEAR MOSS SALES CORP., 165 John street, New York City ...... __� PEAT IMPORT CORP., 155 John Street, New York City L_City 1938 ======10 THE ANTI-NAZI======� BULLETIN JANU4RY,- � ===

Nazism Denounced Hitler To Be Deified What We Do Not At Fifth Anniversary For Nazi Chlldren WOMENtS As we go to press announce­ The fifth anniversary of the I Like to Hear Is ments reach us of mass meetings Nazi assumption of power will ACTIVIT held and about to be held in all see the introduction of a new, � mystical ritual to be performed That in a burst of post-Christ­ parts of the world in protest of Denver, Colorado, reports henceforth by children in Nazi mast nastiness tbe Nazis have the fifth anniversary of the Nazi through Mrs. Lewis I. Miller, 10- once again reduced tbe butter schools. regime. eal chairman of the League's ration of the German people-­ The anniversll.ry, which will In the future mystical cere­ this time by 15 per cent ..•tbat Women's Division that all stores enjoy a forced celebration in the monies are to be performed be­ tbe Nazi authorities have started fore busts or pictures of Hitler in have been cleared of German­ Reich, will. be greeted by the an energetic drive against the the Schools of the Reich. The made merchandise and that Anti-Nazi League by a monster Christian Science Movement . . • rite, to symbolize the "resurrec­ protest meeting at Carnegie Hall, promises have been elicited from that the published speeches of tion of Germany" under Der New York, Sunday Evening, Jan­ store owners of future boycott President Roosevelt have been Fuehrer, was proposed by the uary 80th. prohibited as undesirable litera­ Saxony section of the Nazi cooperation. ture by the Joseph Goebbels of­ Featured in tbe League's de­ Teachers' Association. * * * fice ... that the Nazis in Vienna monstration will be a presenta­ Phrases with semi-religious are continuing in tbeir effort to members of the Labor The huge membership drive tion by connotations such as "Der smash 1,000 windows in Jewish­ Stage of some sketches from conducted in New York by the Fuehrer experiences his revela­ owned shops in retaliation for the their current hit revue "Pins and tion," occur in the proposed rit­ Women's Division ·under the lead­ breaking of one window in a Ger­ Needles." ual. A Nazi hymn to be sung is ership of Mrs. Mark Harris man propaganda center . . . that shows, according to Mrs. Harris, Addressing tbe meeting via entitled "We Lift Up Our Hands". the issue of the New York Times splendid results. Although wo­ telephone from Washington, D. Another chorus includes the line containing tbe Christmas Eve men, not only in New York, but C., former Amabassador William "From the midst of the people message of Pope Pius on the in other cities where the Division E. Dodd will be but one of many Der Fuehrer emerges." The church persecutions in the Reich has branches, have been very co­ notables expected to jOin the solemity of the ceremony is to be has been suppressed ...that Ad­ operative, Mrs. Harris urges demonstration. Among those enhanced by interpolating trum­ rian Arcand, "Fuehrer" of the all readers of the Bulletin to who have already consented to pet calls. Canadian Fascists has annopnced dOUble their efforts in enrolling address the conclave are : Hamil­ his intention to destroy the Par­ An alternative ritual includes a members in the Women's Divi­ ton Fish, Jr.; Oswald Garrison chant to be repeated by the chil­ liamE'ntary system in Canada ... sion. Villard; George Gordon Battle; dren. . In condensed form it says, * * * What we do not like to hear .is Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney; Vito in part : "We don't want rest. We tbat according to a well-detailed Marcantonio; Professor Franz loathe quiet. Waiting is death. The Women's Division plans report which has reached London Boas; Heinz Liepmaun; William He who is unfaithful and leaves e:rlensive picketing actions the Nazi Government is spending E. Taylor, Dean of the Howard the fiag of Der Fuehrer shall lose against chain stores which per­ $100,000,000 annually on propa­ Law School; Ernest Meyer, news­ honor forever, Unfaithful, be sist in selling German-made mer­ ganda . . . tbat tbere are 25,000 paper columnist; Johannes Steel; accursed! Fuehrer, we salute chandiSe:. All women who can agents and 2,450 Gestapo (secret and Isadore Gennett, the Jewish thee P' cooperate are asked to communi­ police) operating from 548 War Veteran who placed a Each room employed for the cate with the League so that branches in 45 different coun­ wreath on the tomb of the un­ ceremony is to be specially pre­ committees can be organized. tries, crowdiIig the woods and in­ known soldier in Berlin. pared. Unsightly objects are to terfering with everybody's busi­ The League's meeting is to be be removed. A picture or bust ness but their own • • . that the but one of many schedualed by of Hitler is to have a central posi­ Nil.zis are subsidizing more than League branches and affiliates in tion in the roQlX1. 300 . • foreign newspapers . that other cities. Announcements haVe Leo Blech, renowned orchestral also reached the League that NAZI VIEW OF conductor, has been denied per­ similar meetings have occurred THE ENGLISH­ mission to leave the Reich to con­ and will occur in Great Britain Roumanian Boycott duct a performance of. "Carmen" and other countries under the NOT PIJJ.lE �HITE in Prague and that, because he is sponsorship of organizations con­ (Continued from page 1) The war of the future will be a Jew, he is also forbidden to nected with the World-Nan-Sec­ Rumanian Government the out­ a racial war, declares Nazi Dr. conduct in Germany ...that the tarian Council, of which the rageous and intolerant program J. Paulsen, a physician and biol­ Nazi Government has banned the League is the American branch. ogist, who in "Germany's Re­ use of eggs and livestock by Organizations .of twenty-two na­ contemplated by Rumanian Pre­ naissance" makes a remarkable magicians and that now the tions constitute the membership mier Octavian Goga against the sleight�of-hand artists in Ger­ classification of the peoples, in of the Council Jews and other minorities. We Jnany will have to pull ersatz in­ which the English, he says, are stead of rabbits out of hats ... join you in the interest of peace not really pure white as the and humanity in urging other Germans are.

members of Congress to vote in Dr. Paulsen is not even greatly ANTI-CHRISTIAN Use �aste �ater favor of the resolution." impressed with Germany's allies. The Italians, it appears, although For Haw Material PROPAGANDA the inheritors of one of the older The anti-Christian propaganda During the course of the tre­ Mediterranean civilizations, are a very mixed race, while the other of the Nazis continues to meet mendous campaigu to use all l'1lb­ MOVIE ACTRESS the opposition of the German SHUNS SWASTIKA treaty partner, Japan, is yellow blsh to fulfill the so-called G er­ Army. � and Asiatic. At any rate, how­ lng Four Year Plan, an organ of Recently Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Claudette Colbert, noted ever, -Dr. Paulsen regards al­ chief exponent of anti-Christian the National Socialist Party in screen actress, refused to be liances between people who are photographed witb a :floral teaching in Germany, addressed Mannheim,

Boycott information sent out Savage, chairman of the Pater­ We have just finished reading advance proofs of the fifty 1?y the League's New Jersey Di­ son unit, reported that his com­ page pamphlet "Five Years of Hitler" about to be published vision has created a surprising mittee succeeded in eliminating here by the American Council on Public affairs. boycott-consciousnesS' am 0 n g German-made merchandise from The p�phlet, cOlIl;posed of seven significant studies, is an Jews and Gentiles alike. Our ap­ the leading department stores authontatlve analYSIS of what has occurred in Germany peal circular which was received and from the smaller business by 20,000 " residents of New Jer­ firms. under Nazi rule, and it should become an immediate addition sey 8.cquitiiIted these individuals The Union County division, al­ to the library of anyone interested in world affairs. with the purposes for which we though it is still in the throes of The titles of six of the studies exist and the dangers we are try­ organization, has already com­ and the names of the authors fol­ low, togcther with some of their ing to avert. pleted plans for a gigantic mass NAZI EDITOR conclusions: So great has been our res­ meeting to extend the boycott. JAILED ON WOMAN'S "History of a Lie," by Profes­ ponse, that individual organiza­ Under the leadership of such sor Frederick L. Schumann­ tions have come to our assistance able and spirited individuals as COMPLAINT "National Socialism is bullt on a by conducting boycott mass Judge Henry P. Nelson, who is lie . . . the Leader and his sub­ chalrman, Miss Vivian Grossman, Severin Winterscheidt, 34years meetings. Other organizations servience to Junkers and indus­ Secretary, Mrs. Leslie M. Lifson, have appointed boycott commit­ old, one of the editors of the triallsts. Mrs. l3amuel Koestler, Mr. Saul tees, whose duties are to visit D87�t8Che Weckruf und "The Plight of Religion," by Lehr, Rabbi Morris Baicofsky, Beibach­ numerous stores to discover if Dr. Henry Smith Leiper-"The Mrs. Vivian Kaufman, Rabbi ter, official Nazi organ in this merchandise made in Germany is power of a modern totalitarian being sold. These committees Nathan Zuber and Mr. F. Zeit­ country, was found guilty of dis­ state over the minds of youth is have been instructed to warn chlk, we expect Union County to orderly conduct in the Jefferson so great that in dUe time a gen­ become one of our most forceful merchants who are selling Nazi­ Market Court in New York and eration may very well rise up made merchandise that they will units in our campaign against which 'lmows not Joseph'." sentenced to 30 days in the work­ be placed on the boycott list if the Nazis. "The Coordination of Labor," they refuse to cooperate with the "It is encouraging to note," house by Magistrate Peter Abe­ by Professor Robert A. Brady­ League. said Dr. S. William Kalb, Presi­ les. "The. coordination . of labor in dent of our New Jersey Division, Germany is part of the process . The Young Men's Hebrew Club The complainant was Miss He­ "that we have been able to of transferring to the State the of Newark conducted a protest arouse a large mass of the popu­ len White of Silver Springs, function heretofore performed by mass meeting recently for the lation of our state to take notice Maryland, who had Winter­ the profit and loss accounts of New Jersey Division with Joseph of the inherent dangers that lie many bUljliness enterprises." Degnan, a former high official of scheidt arrested in the waiting in wait for us if we do not make "Women in Harness," by Dr. the Knights of Columbus, as the room of the Pennsylvania Sta­ a determined $tand against the Alice Hamilton-"The picture so chief speaer. Harry Rinsky, vice encroachments of the Nazis. tion on January 10th for inde­ movingly painted of women re­ preSident, acted as chairman. New Jersey is a strong-hold for cent exposure. Winterscheidt, stored to their homes, able to Julius Botansky arranged the them, and we li g in New Jer­ devote themselves solely to the meeting. viP.: who is married, has been in this sey who cherish ,the rights that care of husband and children, has country seven years and has ap­ The Plain Talk Club. another are granted us by our constitu­ faded away, and women are now back in factories, working in Newark organization, has ap­ tion, must ever be on our guard plied for his first citizenship. pointed a group of women known large numbers and for meager against the spreading of the After recieving the sentence, wages." as the Shoppers Committee, who poisonous racial and religious Winterscheidt, denied further "Regimentation of Education," visit numerous stores to ascer­ prejudices which the Nazis are clemency by Judge Abeles, Who by Professor Charles Beard-HAs tain where Nazi-made merchan­ pouring into our state by their the years pass this iron discipline dise is being distributed. If they insidious methods. They have had reduced the sentence from discover a merchant handling gains in effect. If' the Hitler become so bold as to criticize six months to thirty days, faint­ regime continues, the German and distributing Nazi-made mer­ publicly members of our judici­ ed. Before being taken. to the people will be a people almost chandise, they immediately as­ ary who refuse to agree with totally ignorant of the outside sure him that if he does not dis­ pen. the Nazi editor was told them on their narrow bigoted world and ind.l.fl:erent to all ideas continue such practices, he will by the Judge "not to try to teach stand bullt upon persecuting and and interests not contained in the be placed on our New Jersey list torturing minorities who refuse the American people to act, be­ Nazi creed." of violators. to accede to their creed. fore learning how to behave "� Nation in Arms," by H. C. Our units in Paterson, Union "We, in New Jersey, shall con­ yourself first." Engelbrecht-"Up to the present, City, Union County and Jersey tinue to counteract all German reactionary governments in the City, are reporting numerous propaganda by educating the democracies have tried to"m ak::: successes in eliminating German: people to understand the dire concessions to the Nazis in order j numerous N a.z i organizations made merchandise. Mr. Morris dangers we are facing from the to appease them, but such a pol­ which are springing up in our icy has ouly encouraged the Fa­ state. Even our colleges are not scists in their blustering. The free from Nazi propaganda. Re­ first step, therefore, is for democ­ cently we sent a protest to the WHY DO THESE NEW JERSEY FlEMS OONTINUE racies to elect determined anti­ dean of the Montclair State Tea­ fascist governments. Only then TO HANDLE NAZI GOODS ? chers' College, to stop the Ger­ will it be possible to end the man Club of that institution from fascist menace without recourse Kresge Five and Ten Cent Store, 157 Market St., Newark, N. J. distributing Nazi propaganda. to war." (Toys and Novelties) Our work continually calls for The last study, "American W. T. Grant, 777 Broad St., 85 Market St., 575 Orange St., such watchfulness on our part Nazis," by Ludwig Lore, is a Newark, N. J. and we are doing everything in competent survey of activities of S. N. Thomson, 219 Washington St., Newark, 1178 Elizabeth our power to stem the tide of the Facist organizations in the Ave., Elizabeth, N. J. (Typewriters ) Nazi invasion." United States. Douglas Hotel, 13-15 Hill St., Newark (Liquors-Wines) Kar Kniep, Inc., 71 Springfield Ave., Newark (Toys-Novelties) Newark Athletic Club, Inc., 14 Park PL (Wines-Liquors) DANGER IN THE BALKANS J. ChElin & Co" 310 Passaic Ave., Harrison, N. J. (Novelties­ (Oontinued from page 1) Toys) prevent any improvement in re­ in a way that Berlin does not ex­ Abe Cohen's Exchange (owned by Davega-City RadiO, Inc. ) lations with Hungary, and would pect or wish. 60 Park Pl., Newark (Cameras) by no means please Berlin. Wilfred Academy of Hair and Beauty Culture, 833 Broad St., On the other hand, the Govern­ Moreover, Premier Goga belongs Newark (Manicuring Implements) ment is unduobtedly sympathetic to those Transylvanian Ruman­ Rhine-Bavarian Corp., 12 Hill St., Newark, N. 3. (Wines- ians who Were opposed to the to Berlin and Rome. But even if I;..iquors) pre-war Hungarian regime, and these sympathies are reflected in Essex House, 1048 Broad St., Newark, N. J. in his opposition came into close foreign policy the extremely S. H. Kress & Co., Store No. 160, Elizabeth, N. 3. contact with the present Czech Nationalist character of the Goga Newar Scale Works, 10-14 Hobson St., Newark, N. J. � Premier, Dr. Hodza. The French Government may still force it in­ Hahne s Department Store, Broad St., Newark, N. J. hope that these ties will affect to cooperation with the non-revi­ Czechoslovak-Rumanian relations sionist powers led by France. · ,.

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NAZIS OPEN' ��Ete,.n"' Jew" SoIA FIND LAROE Nazi Subterfuge BRAZIL ..PERU OnJ N.¥.C. Newstand POTASH BEDS Seen In Fair Move New York: "The Eternal AIR ROUTES Jew," one of the most vitu­ IN N. MEXICO perous publications of the Dageubeek Dickeriug Nazi propaganda bureau, was Supply Will Make U.S. For Show; Berlin to placed Lufthansa Starts Direct on sale at a newsstand Independent of Nazi Baek Individuals in , Berlin-Lilna Service; the New York Times Build­ iug during the week of May 1. Exports New York:-Evidence' that the Danger to U. S. formal announcement of .Nazi The publication, research­ Discovery of four rich potash Germany's withdrawal from the ers of the League learned, is areas iu New Mexico promises The danger of air attacks from 193'9 World's Fair was a cover­ being imported to the United to rescue the American market organized Nazi bases in Sputh up move to escape public boy­ States by the International from domination by the French cotting was uncovered by the America is evidenced by two News Company, a subsidiary and Nazi fields, W. I. Smith of " League's research committee of the American News news stories published iu the Com­ the United States Geological duriug the week of May 1. pany of 131 Varick Street, Survey revealed at a meeting of aviation sections of New York The Hagenbeck Circus and New YOrk City. the American Chemical Society newspapers on May 1. Zoo of Hamburg, Germany is in Dallas, Texas, late in April. dickeriug with a Mr. Krimsy of The Lufthansa Airliue, already The German catalogue of International News lists ap­ Ninety-seven core tests have the fair's amusement division for operatiug mail planes from Ber­ proximately 100 Nazi books already been drilled in the New a large exhibit in the Midway lin to Rio de Janiero, . has com­ and publications beiug im­ Mexico area, Mr. Smith said, and s_ection, the League learned. pleted plans to open a weekly ported by the company. the extent of the beds has been Other reports reo leases at the established. fair by indiVidual mail and passenger service Nazi firms are The American ,potash, to be beiug tracked down by League across South America from Rio N. Y. Methodists Favor placed on the market late this investigators. to Lima, ;Peru, late this month. ��Aggressors" Boycott year, will be another stiff blow The Hagenbecks are known to The 2,812 miles will be covered New York :-Condemnation of to Nazi industry. Potash is one be ardent supporters of the Hit­ ler iu a two day flight. the Neutrality Act, coupled, with of the few natural surpluses iu regime. The trick, presum­ a call to Americans to boycott Germany artd its exPortation has ably, is to throw a dozen or The service will qut mail time the goods of aggressor nations been a major item in the trade more low bids iu for the fair con­ between Berlin and Lima to five were among the recomendations balance. cessions, under the name of in­ adopted on April 22 by the united dividual ' Nazi firms days. Passengers will be carried 'A description of the potash iu­ but with ac­ lay and ministerial session of the tive support from the Berlin only over the land section, west dustry at Searles Lake, Caltfor­ Conference of government. annual New York nia, was also given at the con­ from Natal, Brazil. The Ger­ Methodist Episcopal Church It seems articularly vention. This plant, recovering p strange mans feel that it wouldn't be meeting here. \ that Hagenbeck's offer the element from lake brine, last should be considered in a year when safe to take passengers over the year supplied 40 per cent of the Amer­ Nazis Heavy Losers ican circuses are making a come­ Atlantic. . .or PERHAPS THEY total U. S. production and 40 per In Colombian �Iarket back with one of the largest OWN REASONS cent of the world's consumption HAVE THEIR shows ever seen on the Nazi Germany was the great­ of borax and boric acid. contin­ FOR NOT WANTING PASSEN� ent. Even beyond this, est loser in the Colombian mar- there are SEE WHAT'S GOING a dozen zoos iu the GERS TO kets · during 1937, according to United Seek Indictment of States with larger animal ON ALONG THE ROUTE. figures just released by the exhi­ bits than the Hagenbecks pos­ United States Department of 17 as Nazi SpIes sess. The planes used will be Junk­ Commerce. each with three Ger­ New York :-Indictment of 17 A second possibility ers JU-52, While imports from the United is offefild of 750 Nazi sympathizers as members by New York newsmen man "Horuet" engines States rose from 49,559 tons iu Who re­ of an iuternational spy ring that call that Nazidom carry fro� 1936 to 81,450· tons iu 193'1', Ger­ pleaded pover­ h.p. Eac'!l plane can stole U. S. military secrets was ty until the French government and a load, man tonnage for the same per­ 13 to 17 passengers to be asked by the Federal Grand o!fered to pay iod dropped from 26,'1'04 to for construction iucludiug fuel, of 10,000 pounds Jury during the second week iu of a German 22,'I'3�. buildiug at the guns or poison �ay. Paris ExpOSition. This (bombs, machine Colombian exports to the offer was accepted with alacrity. gas missil es?). United States increased from Although only four of the sus­ pected agents were then in cus­ will be ·74 320 tons iu ·1936 to 85,082 In charge of the service , tons iu 1937. Exports to Ger­ tody, the United States' District Astor Slaps Anschluss Captain Berthold Alisch, former many dropped from 22,679 to Attorney's office here had gath­ New York :-The Austrian An­ Berlin-London night pilot of the 18,901 tons. ered evidence to show that at schluss failed .to convert the fam­ mail and a veteran of the South least thirteen others were involv­ ily of Vincent Astor, wealthy ed in the theft of · the United New York Atlantic service. realtor and clos� at sea; no passeI'!gers on the States' Air Corps secret code. friend of President Roosevelt. 5,:aOO Mile Hop South Atlantic crossing. A week after Hitler marched into It would be a comparatively Vienna, Astor quietly changed Coincidentally, the Nazis an­ the name of the top-floor res­ nounced that a plane outfitted simple job to carry a fieet of Ger­ taurant in his Hotel St. Regis man bombers out to the middle with two Junkers diesel engines from "Viennese Roof" Mats of all cjlXtoons used iu to "St. of the South Atlantic route, and recently shattered seaplane re­ Regis Roof." send them off, piloted by veter­ The Bulletin are available at cor� by making a non-stop cost. Credit lines are request­ ans from the South American ffight of 5,200 miles to Caravel­ ed iu re-prints. PelhalD Su.pper plana was cata­ liues, to bomb American coastal bi.s, Brazil. The The Pelham Parkway division cities. pulted from a German steamship, Clip The Bulletin all you of The League will hold a card off the English coast. One more reason to create a want to, but we're rather ego­ party and Dutch supper at the centric about having our name rooms of the Jewish War Veter­ The two stories tie in rather militant front for Americanism. ans, 2050 used. Wallace Avenue on the nicely. A new Nazi airline just One more reason to cut off Nazi night of May 23 at 8 o'clock. below our southern border; Die­ supplies, and squelch the Nazi Special rates for group sub­ sel motors that will carry those organizations iu the United scriptions too. planes for 5,200 miles; take-offs States. Write for Pamphlets

./ 1938 3 MAY, THE ANTI-NAZI 13ULLETIN LEACUE CALLS NATION-A L RALLY MAY 21 I�OOO Organizations to The bill according to Repre­ Congressional inveStigation about Taetics of Volksh�d sentative Dickstein, will seek a Join Struggle Against to get under way, can come only DelUand Action Now $200,000 appropriation for a com­ through unified expre 0n. NazislU in U. S. A. mittee of seven Congressmen,who BB! By True Am.ericans Will conduct investigations first With this end in view, The One thousand national organ­ Among the nationally knoWn in New York, then in alleged izations, representing every walk League has called the May 22 Nazi centers in Pennsylvania, figures who will attend the con­ in American life, have 'been in­ convention. It will seek to for­ Ohio, Illinois, Michigan and on ' vention or. send messages of vited to send delegates to the the West Coast. The voluminous mUlate a united program to:- national "Save America" con­ greeting are : Bishop Francis J. report prepared by the U. S. De­ 1. Consolidate national forces vention called by The League for McConnell of the MethOdist Epis­ partment of Justice following a May 22 in the Hotel Paramount, against the spread of Naz­ two-year study of American copal Church; William L. Green, 235 West 46th Street. ism in the United States. Nazis will be turned over to this president of the American Since 1933, The League has committee. 2. Consolidation' of American eration fo Labor; Mayor Fiorella ' carried on its fight against Nazi This part of the picture is en­ forces engaged in the boy­ H. LaGuardia of New York; Rep­ Germany in the form of a boy­ couraging except for one thing. cott of Nazi goods. resentative Dickstein ; Senator cott of German goods. Mean­ And that one thing is all-import­ William E. Borah of Idaho ; offi­ While, the Nazis have set up ant. It happens to be Public 3. Revive national pride in the their own organizations in the Opinion. American system of living. cials of The Catholic University United States. The Volksbund of Washington, D. C. ; offiCials of the Silver Shirts and a hal f Bnai Brith and various other dozen similar groups backed by Nazi money, conduct between Jewish organizations. forty and ftfty military camps, o!)erate a chain of eight news­ TM opening session will be papers, hold meetings in eVery called to order at 10 o'clock on large city of the United States. the morning of the 22nd and Their slogan, displayed in a dozen �iiI evasive forms, is "Make America probably last until one o'clock in German." the af ternoon. The afternoon During the first week of May, se�sion Will meet at three o'clock Fritz Kuhn, the Fuehrer of the and will last until supper time. American organizations, blatant­ The evening session will be called� ly announced that his group is between six and seven o'clock. not like the National Socialist movement but merely seekS to Simultaneously, a nOmination \ establish a German bloc in Con­ gress, in State Legislatures, in committee will be elected from city .governments, possibly in the the floor and will spend part of Army and Navy.. In other the day in executive diSCUSsion. words, Mr. Kuhn proposes to skid Late in the afternoon or at the America along the same Nazi opening of the night session they path used in the Austrian, Ruhr and Prague campaigns .. will bring in their recommenda­ tions for new directors and offi­ Early this month, Nazi activi­ cers of the League. ties at Camp Siegfried in Suffolk County, L. I., came under the Admission to the convention scrutiny of a New York news­ paper. The resultant furore has will be by ticket only. The tickets brought the Nazi threat still may be obtained through execu­ more to public attention. The American Legion and finally, tives of the Convention Commit­ town aJ}d county officers com­ tee at The League's offices, 2Q bined, with the newspapers, to West 47th Street, New York City. stir up public action. The town of Babylon passed a local ordi­ nance that forbids the display of all flags opposed to organized Ma"" Sees Collapse government and bans signs of a sacreligious or immoral nature. 01 Nazitlom 1If1 1943

In Washington, Representa­ Toronto, Ont. : The col- Dozens of organizations have Outstanding among the organ­ tives Dies, Dickstein and Scott izations invited are:-The Emer­ lapse of Nazi Germany within have been trying for months to come into being for the sole pur­ pass bills that would bring about pose of oppoSing some form of gency Peace Campaign, headed the next five years was fore­ by Harry Emerson Fosdick and an open CongreSSional investiga­ Nazism. Larger societies have cast by Thomas Mann, exiled tion of American Nazi activities. Admiral Richard Byrd; Catholic, appointed sub-committees for the German author, during a re­ Taking advantage of the Long Protestant and Jewish church Island publicity and with the same purpose. But each group organizations; the American Le­ ception given him by the Uni­ added backing of a strong resolu­ has gone along a separate path. gion; the Veterans 'of Foreign versity of Toronto on May 3. tion adopted by the Executive EaCh groUP. in a sense, combat­ Commitee of the Non-Sectarian Wars; the Daughters 'of the ted the others in order to place . However, he warned, Democ- Anti-Nazi League, Dickstein and American Revolution ; the Amer­ its ideas before the public. racy must learn to go armed. Dies moved their measure into ican SOciety for Race Tolerance; the open again, and on May 12 THERE HAS NOT BEEN the Federation of Women's Dr. Mann late in April an­ stood a splendid chance of push­ ANY COORDINATION OF AC­ Clubs; the C.I.O. ; the A.F.L., nounced his intention of be­ ing it through both Houses of and the Federal ' Council of Congress before the end of the TIVITY. Public demand, and coming an American citizen. Churches of Christ in America. month. assurances of success for the 4 THE ANTI-NAZI BJJLLETIN MAY, 1938

U.S. Ger.mans Ordered NAZI TRADE To Sign for Nazi Army II THE PROOF BALANCE STILL New York: - Instructions to � . register by May 31 for labor and military service in the home A DEEP'RED country have been issued by the Gennan Consulate General here BaBy Repon Shows to all German nationals reSiding MllljONS --- EXPORTS SIUDlP Continuing in OF in the United states who were born in the years 1918 or 191�. All March Figures DOLLARS • ...... \MPORTS The call also includes Austrians. r------�BELG 'IUM De�ite appearances to the 15 Anny conscription plus labor contrary the shrinking process services for young men as an that bef�ll Gennan foreign trade army preliminary were among 10 wit� the turn of the year, to the the measures restored by the extent . of causing concern Hitler government. It is a nec­ in Be�lin business circles, con­ 5 essary preliminary for entrance tinued through March. to a, Nazi university or govern­ ment employment. Exports, of course, rose to 477,700,000 marks, a ten per cent increase over February, while imports mounted t6 461,800,000 Ohio D.A.B. Denounees two per ,----'------,FR ANCE marks, an increase of 25 Amerlean Volkshund cent. This left a favorable bal­ 15 9QO,OOO Columbus, 0. : - A resolution ance of , marks for denouncing the Volksbund for March, compared with a deticit 20 f--'o.:------i "corrupting our youth, under­ of i7;000,OOO marks in February. mining our government, working But the expansion is due. ,entire­ 15 1----+------1 against the national defense of ly to the greater number of , t1'!e United ,States and against working days in March, com­ religious freedom and fostering pared with February. class hatred" was, unanimously Figured per working day, ex­ adopted at the annual convention , ports decreased 2.7 per cent and of the 6hio Society of the Daugh­ , imports decreased 9.5 .per cent. ters of the American Revolution held there. Since wo;rld-wide export prices were shoWing an improvement, the quantitative drop for Ger­ Y.W.C.il. Fears NazisDl many was even larger. Columbus, O. :-The necessity r------,GER MANY of making democracy a working ideal as a means of averting Nazi t::redit Lagging 30 1-4------1 Nazi-Fascist domination in the In Eeuador Market United States was emphasized by Mrs. A. L. Kimball, national Guayaquil :-A lack of demand 20 �-+---�--I president of the Y.W.C.A., at the for Aski marks, the Nazi con­ national convention of the or­ trolled exchange cI;,edits, is re­ ganization opening here on April ported here by the Government 22, 1938. Bank and the commercial houses of Ecuador. Exports to Ger­ many are pald only in Askis; ex­ Yallee Aids Refugees porters don't like the idea. Newspapers are suggesting a UNITED KINGDOM Rudy Vallee, The Ritz Broth­ reduction in the price of Aski ,------, ers, Lillian Roth and other stage . marks from a maximum of 4.35 and screen notables were guests ,to 4.20 sucres. at the benefit to aid refugees from Nazi Germany held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Merl, 6 East 56th Street, New N;'zi Balls in Flatltush York , City, on the afternoon of May 1, 1938. New York : - German�made rails are being used on the Flat­ bush Avenue line of the Brook­ Nazi Censorship l� and Queens Transit Corpora­ Sweep, into Spain tion here. No Nazi rails have NETHERLANDS 'been. purchased by ' the company 15 Burgos, Spain :-The Insur­ 'Since 1937, however. Recent 01'­ gent Government, backed by .ders have been placed with Beth­ Hitler and Mussolini, has lehem Steel. cracked down on the public press. A law announced on April 23 authorizes Franco's government to "organize and Heidt Buys Nazi Glass watch over the press, regulate .Complaints ,are still reachiOg the number and imporlance the League that the Heidt Glass of periodicals, intervene iIi Works of 1609 DeKalb Avenue, the 'designation of editorial .NOTE: Data in firs!section ofchar! are lTlon!hly averages of annual figures B;roqklyn, N. Y., are continuing directors, regulate the news­ their importation of colored paper profession, establish glass from Germany for the --IT. S. Department of Commerce, April, 1938. and maintain censorship." /manufacture of sun glasses. ______�T�HE�AN�=I�T -N���=B�UL=L=E=T�IN� 6 ______�----�MA== Y�, =1 9�38� ______�MA==Y�, =1 9�38� ______�THE==�AN�fl�- =N=�==B= ULL===EflN==�______

(c) Acml From the Atlantic to the PacIfic, Nazi propagandists rally the nnthinking to Bund meetings like this one, held In The Westchester Civic Anditorill Whitc Platns, N. Y. Their pnrpose is to make the lIitler Ideology a dominant lorce in the U. S. A. Now Is the time lor all good men to come to the aid of democracy. The map shows the location 01 active Nazi organizations in the U. S. MAY, 1938 .THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 5 YOU ARE YOUR BROTHER'S KEEPER! UNTERMYER By RUTH M. GOLD RESIGNS AS The time has long since passed thought to practice witch-craft, for honeyed words. At the very what it stands for. It is the and those who practice free LEAGUE HEAD beginning of F.(itler's sadistic ac­ duty of every humanitarian who speech share similar fates. Age and· Health tivities, Ii great many of us felt believ�s in the Brother Force hood of The Christians who were . that Nazism would sting itself Beloved Man. It is the privilege of every Leader to and die of its own venom. We thrown to the lions in the Rom­ civilized human being, whd looks Give up Offices thought it couldn't last. an arenas were no more abused to progress and civilization, " and by their keepers, than men and Fearless leader in the fight Oqr religious teachings: Cath­ who realizes that Nazi Germany women who are encarcerated to­ against the Nazi invaSion, Sam­ olicism, Protestanism, or Juda­ is a relapse into the Dark Ages. day in German prisous because uel Untermyer resigned as pre­ ism subconsciously imbued us . , SIdent and The Spanish Inquisition held of political and religious differ­ board chairman of with the philosophy that because The League on April He has no greater terrors than the Nazi en�es, without benefit of trial. 24: of the satanic elements of Hitler­ been in HI health for some time concentration camps of today. If you support such a country and is, ism, it couldn't survive, that at present, devoting his The slave galleys of ancient as this, morally or financially, energies to the New "right was might," and that we York State Constitutional Convention to Rome differ but in era from the you wear the shadow of a scarlet could all sit back , complacently which he is r.,gImentation of young men in letter. a: delegate-at-Iarge. or with suspense, and await the r "While I regret 'the necessity last act of a two-act play, known of this step," his letter of resig­ as the "Rise and Fall of Adolph nation read, "I am conspled ' by Hitler and His Henchmen"; at the . reflection that after more which time, when the final cur­ than five years of arduous and tain dropped, Evil would have continuous service, the objects of The League have become so destroyed itself. well known that it should from Instead, as the play unfolded, now on go forward under its o� momentum. and as we viewed the acts from the loge seats, across the ocean, "I consider the League a great humanitarian public work, in no the unpleasant suspicion began sense sectarian, that under to penetrate, that we were in for rightful guidance should . have a: play which goes on hour after the support of every civilized hour, day after day, week after human being, regardless of race, ' week, ¥ear after year: There is class or creed, and I hope to see it maintained under that basis." no indication of the lasf1 scene. When it was realized that our Mr. Untermyer had been a since 1933 passivity, with all its optimism, father to the League when it was formed from The would accomplish naught, many American League for the De­ persons saw the effectiveness of fense of Jewish Rights. And a boycott, as a peaceful means now, firm in its determination to parent, of defeat. They became pion­ uphold the pride of the the organization steps out on itS eers. They realized the neces­ own. sity of fighting scourges of men­ Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of tal depravity and prejudice, just Cleveland, automatically became as their forefathers fought dis­ president of The League. New ease and insect plagues. The officers will be elected during goal wuold be "Unified Tolerance the national convention to be Paramount, and Understanding." held at the Hotel 235 West 46th Street, on May 22. One of the most deadly of self inflicting poisous is "Inertia"; . League of Nations to . and too many people, thpugh Aid World's Refugees their sympathies were Anti­ " Geneva : - Final agreement Nazi, were INERT and INAC­ was reached among League of TIVE. For convenience, they as­ 10 Nazi Germany. Like cannons -so, when You are about to Na.tions members on May; sumed that the "little purchase" ent of -a they wait to be exploded by the make a purchase, you owe it to fo� th� establishm of German-made merchandise, hands of a man who holds no all that is decent and fine within single autonomous office to aid would make no difference. They nati0l1alitiel!l respect for human life. you to tum the product over and refugees of all did not have the foresight to if you see "MADE IN GER­ and creeds. The United states' visualize that the success of this There is littie difference be­ MANY, " be it prmted in type will be asked to cooperate. boycott would· come only by con­ tween Socrates who was forced ever so small, remember-a dol­ The agreement was reached, centrated and united efforts. lar spent for a German made ar­ to drink the hemlock because he League officials said, after ticle is one more breath for Naz­ The boycott of German goods dared to speak the truth, Galileo Russia withdrew objections to ism. It means the prolongation who had to recant his theories, the inclusion of White Rus� ' is not alone the duty of those of Nazi principles; added life to sians among those to bEl aided. who believe in religious tolera­ under pressure of being burned its corroding power, and every Under the agreement, a High tion. The boycottj of Nazi goods at the stake, and Albert Ein­ day that Nazism is prolonged, is Commissioner will be named is the duty of every liberty lov­ stein, who must spend the aut­ a blot on the "Escutcheon of Civ­ J by the League th head the ing American who pledges alle­ ,umn of his life exiled from the ilization," and a threat to our 9ffice. giance to the American :tiag and land he loves. Those who were own freedom. 8 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN MAY, 1938

at Saratoga, that "free speech" was a swell emetic for the thoughts that breed War, that America knew where it was going.

But .... no, it's all wrong. Fritz Kuhn is the only 'kuy in THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN step. PubliShed monthly, West 47th Street, N w Y., at 20 e York, N. Guess we'll have to ... SAY JUST WHAT 'VE SAID NON"SECTAlUAN ANTI-NAZI LEAG UE WE by the IN THE PAST, BUT WITH MORE ASSURANCE THAT WE'RE TO CHAMPION HUMAN RIGHTS, INC. RIGHT. -R. W. H. Subscription $3.00 Per Year

VOL.. V ...... 50 No. 5 The best news that Democracy. has had i,n. four years came, strangely enough, from barrel-bellied Marshal Wilhellp. Goering in . Entered as second class matter, New York Post Office. a statement published by the Nazi press on April 29 . Hands .on paunch, glycerine tears dripping from his chops, the Marshal said : NON-SECTARIAN ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE Inc. "We are hoping to be able to provide means for these poor Jews TO CHAMPION HuMAN RIGHTS, to emigrate. But then, FOREIGN COUNTRIES l\f(1ST PROVIDE 20 West 47th Street New York City MEdalUon 3·2720 AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ACQUIRING FOREIGN EXCHANGE BY WHICH EMIGRATION OF THESE JEWS MAY BE MADE POSSIBLE. OFFICERS' other words, other countries must open their doors to German DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER ., ...... Acting President "In goods, then we can transfer the money to take care of impecunious HON. FIORELLO H. LAGUARDIA ...... __ •. Vice·Presidetll , MRs. MARK HARRIS __ .. Acting-Chairman Executive Committee Jews and ease them out of the country." . . ::�::::::::�:::�:�.�:=��:.�:::�::::::::::::�:,�::::,·:·. A·;;;;;g-f�::=�:;, In other words, dear Marshal Beer-belly, the ' Nazi boycott by o �y�R�. . . l �:S democratic peoples is hurting like the very devil, so you're 'trying BOARD OF DIRECTORS another stunt to break it down.

In between your waggling ears has come the idea that perhaps George Gordon' Battle E. N. Kleinbaum Hon. Richard J. Beamish Joseph Kraemer Democracy would call off its boycott and buy oodles of Nazi tinware Abraham Cahan Clarence H. ' Low in the hope that you, in turn, would let thE\ Jews escape unharmed . Dr. Benj amin Dubovsky Bishop Francis J. McConnell from the Reich. Hon. M. Maldwin Fertig Louis Myers Jacob Fishman Hon. Leopold Prince That may be brilliance in Nazidom, but it's kindergarten stuff over' J. George Fredman Ezekiel Rabinowitz here. We call five-year-old Junior "cute" when he thinks up a stunt Mrs. Mark Harris Dr. Abba Hillel Silver just twice as bright as that. Rev. John Haynes· Holmes J. David Stern Rev. Edward L. Hunt' Frank P. Walsh American imports from Belgium, France, Netherlands and the Un ited KingdoI;Il have gone up and up since 1929. The only down­ trend on the gr aphs of the United States Department of Commerce is in imports from Germany. The same situation holds in England, in France, in most of South America, in Canada, in Australia and WRONG AGAIN, DARN IT! China. ' We've just finished reading the last issue of Deutscher Democracy is winning its fight in the PEACEFUL way. It's . Weckruf und Beobachter, the Bund's New York newspaper and, tough on the starving German peasants . . . but hunger should give as usual, discover that most of the stories in last month's Bulletin them courage to act against their real oppressors, the Hitler-Goering were juSt so many bourgeois lies. gang in Berlin. America, in the meantime, must stand firm. Keep a firm griP We learned, for instance, that the April 20 riot in Yorkville was incited by the Dickstein Committee with . a little off-stage on the NaZi boycott. Write Congress to move against the threat of help from the New York Police Department, The 1,000 Bunds­ Nazi military units m the Un ited States. Join our League in the fight to save Democracy. . men, when spoken to by 100 Americans, were forced to defend And the proof that we're right is on the record. Marshal Goering, themselves with knives and belt. buckles. in his roundabout way, has merely yelled a fat, terrified "Au!'!. We learned, also, that David Weiss, editor of an Anti-Nazi magaZine in Brooklyn, deliberately beat himself over the head with' a flag staff; scratched swastikas into the small of his back We in America wonder how safe we are. We read of. the and kicked himself in the groin, all for the privilege of being propaganda that goes into South America from Germany 'and photoed in his undershirt by news cameramen. Italy-as it went into Austria, Czechoslovakia, and the Free City ,- { of Danzig. We read of the co-operation between the German, We discover' that the Jews in Germany are dying, not from Italian and Japanese agents in the Panama Canal zone, South pogroms; but from .overdoses of joy at being able to live under America, Central America and lI;£exieo and we see no denial of the the Hitler regime. They haven't known such happiness for a existence of these things by any branch of our own government. thousand years ; their hearts just go "blop" under the strain. We know of the ambition of Hitler, MUSBolini, the Japanese mili­ tarists, the Nazis and the Fasdsts, and we wonder what part we We learn that Germany is a country rivaled only by Para­ play in those ambitions.--Congressman Byron N. Scott. dise, teeming with fat, smiling peasants, happy workers, and legions of Storm Troopers kneeling in the middle of the road * * "* praying for World Peace. Our sending helium to Germany might be the sowing of the seeds of our own destruction. Hitler would not hesitate one We learn that members of the Bund carry six inch knives moment to use that helium to inflate dirigibles that could hover because they' want to be like Boy Scouts. above our cities and bomb and slaughter innocent people. And particularly be it'remembered that under the circumstances, our So, with a.ll sort of humility, we should apologize for the nasty, .l;lorrid things we've said. We've been in the wrong before. Panama Canal would be most vulnerable. ' . We ahvays believed, for instance, that Burgoyne was defeated -Congressman Emanuel Celler. MAY, 1938 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN

Nazi Cruise Ships INSIDE GERMANY TODAY SeeD As Possi.ble AirplaDe Carriers London: Aerial photo- graphs of Germany's $5,000,- German living standards have fallen 10 per cent among the 000 "Strength Through Joy" working class and 20 per cent among the middle classes during cruise ship, the Wilhelm Gust­ Fritz Kuhn spent six wee� in the past five years, W;G. Knop reports. in the April 1938 issue of the Reich and didn't see a thing loff, forerunner of a fleet of The Living Age. out of the way anywhere. Those "If the increase in working hours is taken into considera­ twenty similar ships, have European fogs are terrific. tion," he says, "the average gross income of the working man aroused considerable specula­ .. * .. silice 1933 has increased by about 15 per cent. Against that, the tion here whether these craft The Nazis, according to T1;I.e official indices for foodstuffs have risen by 12 per cent, those for with their long upper deck, Bund, beat up the Jews because clothing ·by 21 per cent, while rents are officially reported to have obstructed only by a funnel, they love'm. Now, if they'll just remained unchanged. These figures, however, are apt to be mis­ could quickly be converted start loving one ap.other!!! ...... leading unless one takes into account their method of compila­ into aircraft carriers. tion. California's Silver Shirts are The Wilhelm GustIoff, of rushing to the defense Qf the Old "In the first place, all price indices are based on the official 25,000 tons gross, is about 700 Age Pension plan. Their motto maximum prices fixed by the authorities in their endeavor to feet long; and has a deck area is "A .machine gun in every P9t". keep prices d0wn. In actual fact, as the German press itself ad­ of 53,800 square feet, claimed * * * mits, the maxhnum prices are generally �eeded. Secondly, The Bund has changed its flag there is a serious decline in ·quality. Thirdly, the shortage of to be larger than any vessels of this size. The deck could from the swastika in a white foodstuffs and consUmption goods automatically forces the con­ lozenge to a swastika on a red­ easily be lengthened to form a sumer to resort to more expensive qualities. The cost of living white and black maltese· crOss. has consequently risen very 'mUch more than is apparent from flying deck and the vessel's And now, in the namEi of fair the official index figures. speed, now stated to be 15% play, they think we ought to . "Furthermore, the burden of taxation and of special 'volun­ knots could be readily in­ change our flag, too. tary" contributions has become a great deal heavier than it was creased. Thus mOdified, she ...... ' five years ago. If all these. factors are taken into account, it be­ could accommodate thirty-five Matter of fact, it might be a good idea to revive the emblem comes pbvious that the standard of living must have fallen re­ aircraft. markably. But the fall has been so evenly spread out over half of the Green Mountain Boys. a decade that it has been almost imperceptible to the individual. Remember ? A coiled rattlesnake Meet at Greystone with the motto "Don't Tread on "A skillful propaganda, which suggests that security of em­ Dr. Mitchell S. Fisher will Me". ployment is equal to a satisfactory standard of living, is contrib­ .. * .. uting its share. A continued decline in the standard of living speak at the meeting of the Met­ ropolitan Group of. the League Hitler is putting all Nazi dip­ must, however, be felt more acutely, no matter what steps are meeting in the Greystone Hotel, . lomats in uniform. The outfit taken' to . veil it. . Tuesday afternooh; May 24. Tea for formal occasions puts gold "Germany ...enters her sixth year of National Socialist will be served. Admission is buttons and stripes on evening rule in a condition that is anything but reassuring. Tpe more limited to Group members. clothes. American diplomats the country draws on its economic stamina, the more it suc­ have been warned to mooch cumbs to autarchy and .state Socialism. A year or two ago, it around and look the butler over might still have been · possible for foreign assistance to have P�ospeet ProgrulD Full carefully before turning in their hats and rubbers. The guy just restored Germany to a sound economic basis. Even this slender A series of parlor meetings is might be a German ambassa(1or. chance has now been destroyed by Germany's own actions." being held by the women of the Prospect Park division in order ...... * * * to strengthen its memberShip "Nazis Will Scale Austrian An unbiased observer must come to the conclUsion that to and create activity against Nazi­ Music to Their Level" ...N. Y. the bulk of German entrepreneurs and capitalists only one busi­ dom in that section of Brooklyn. Herald-Tribune. They'll give'm ness function is left unimpaired ...risk-bearing. And they do a chotce between "Horst Wessel" not even earn the net profits tb compensate them for the burden on the harmonica or "Heil Nonny Nonny" on the accordion. of the present and the ungrowing uncertainty as to the future. New StutleDt�s flat'" EVen the low wage level has hardly made up for the increase in Pledges ilut£.l!aseism .. * ,. taxation, the export levy, and the innumerable "voluntary" con­ Our bouquet of the month goes tributions to party and welfare organizations. The average rate The new oath of the Amer­ to Ruth Gold, originator of the employment agency of the air ican Students' Union swings of profits in 1936 was five per' cent, compared with 6.5 per cent over WINS. After the Bund­ during the boom of 1928-29. its 750,000 members in the fight in Yorkville last month, she There is a handful of big industrialists who, for the time United states directly into barged into Nazi strongholds there, preached Americanism at . being, enjoy vast monopoly benefits. But where are they going the fight against the Euro­ a ri!ile-a�minute Clip, and con­ to find a safe investment for them ? "We are all in the same pean dictatorships. verted ten of them. boat," said Dr. Schacht some time ago. .To all appearances, it is ,. .. " not drifting toward blessed shores. The oath, first used during the last week of April, reads : News photos taken of the Even in its most perfect organization, National Socialism Bund's May Day rally at camp has so far shown itself a tragic parody of Socialism proper. But ''Because we want to keep Andover, N. J. , show Fritz Kuhn if it enslaves labor and destroys capital whom is it going to America out of war, we wearing a German . Iron Cross. benefit? ...The Manchester Guardian, April 29, 1938. pledge ourselves to m�ke Fritz may be trying to s.aye our governrcnent a force for America now, but what was he trying to save in 1918 ? Hitler need not wait long in Austria before sweepiD.g to the east. peace; because Fascism Neither France nor England will be in a pOSition any longer to say would destroy our genera­ ...... as much as "Tut, Tut". The very most that Chamberlain can claim tion, we rededicate our­ Hitler thinks Max Schmeling in accounting to the voters is to ten them that through his great selves to the struggle for is simply divine. Max hS/il made diplomatic skill, the aggressive nations have promised not to include $2,000;000 so far. Hitler's crazy Democracy:' English democracy as a hors d'oeuvre but to wait until it comes time about anybody who can take that for the demi-tasse.-Heywood Broun. much out of the United States.

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NAZI BALLYHOO U. s. FACTORY Austrillu ,Tllriff REAL U. S. A. PRODUCING New York :-Austrian goods IS UNKNOWN FO RCES BAN ON are now subject to tariff rates SYN. RUBBER without the benefit of conces­ TO GERMANY SCHMELING FIGHT sions under existing trade Alnericau Products to agreements. Effective from Nazi Propaganda Has Replace Nazi Imports Cbauged Us, TiDIes Hitl�r Makiug Bout a June 14, articles from Austria FroDl May I Writer Says Political Issue, so entered for consumption will Mas production of synthetiC have to be marked to indicate The League Ads s "America still remains in the rubber under the trade name of Germany as the country of Teutonic mind the land .of "Thiekol" was started on May 1 Whoopee" but National Socialist The first step in The League's by the Dow Chemical Company origin. boycott of the Schmeling-Louis of Midland; Mich. The plant ex­ propaganda has added something fight, scheduled for the Yankee pects to be able to turn out to the picture, " Albion Ross said Hitler Is Akin Stadium, New York, on the 2,000,000 pounds annually. in an article sent from 'Berlin to the New York Times Magazine night of June 22, was taken by In ; 'America, the progress of to Mad Ludwig, for May 8. "To National Social­ womell! of the Metropolitan Divi­ !,ynthetic rubber haS been steady MeCormiek Says ism, the United States represents sion on the morning of May 6 rather than spectacular and a combination of liberalism and when they picketed the offices of "Thiokol" has been produced in "Hitler is essentially the frus­ materialism. Both are inimical Mike Jacobs, ' promoter, at 225 small 'quantities at Yardville, N. trated artist reveling at last in to its own ideology and therefore West 49th Street and the Hip­ J. since 1931. limitless opoprtunity," Anne podrome. O'Hare McCormick said in a re­ to be attacked in the bitterest The artificial product, superior cent article for the New York terms conceivable: Propagand­ Two weeks before, the League in the resistance of oils, is being Times Magazine. "Think What ists accordingly emphasize pov­ had offered to withdraw its boy­ imported in large quantities from the power to rebuild great cities erty and unemployment. cott if Schmeling would agree Germany by the Advance Sol­ must mean to a WOUld-be archi­ "Between the two conceptions to turn his share of the purse vents and Chemicals Corporation tect who never had the chance to the real America never has a over to a fund for the relief of of N. Y., whiCh we have contin­ chance in the German mentality. refugees from Nazi Germany. ually listed as one of the more build so much as a traffic sp.elter Intelligent Germans know well No official answer was received important violators of the boy­ or a bandstand. that there is an America quite either from Mike Jacobs or from cott. The Nazi rubber is known Schmeling's management. as {'Buna." "Hitler is in many respects different from the caricature drawn in " the worst type of akin to Ludwig II, the mad king The May 6 picketing was Total European production in­ movies we send over to Europe who built his beautiful fantasies merely a gesture to show that cluding Germany, is only H5 ,000 and equally different from the The League means business. tons a year. The Dow output, in into palaces in the curiously my­ poverty and degradation pictured The organization will move all its . first year in the new plant, thological setting of Bavaria, the in popular National Socialist lit­ its forces against the fight about will result in the fabrication of only place except the equally ro­ erature. But knowing and believ­ May when the ticket sale . over 3,000 tons of finished prod­ ing are different. 20 mantic landsc pe of the Rhein­ opens. ucts. , "The average German seems ' gold where ti'le creator of the In the meantime, wide diatri­ to prefer his preconception to his .. bution is being given to a four new German mythology feels at totalitarianism, he a reception given the fighter by which has deprived more than extracts a certain satisfaction ence, expresses the likes and dis­ Hitler. 6,000,000 Jews and non-Aryans from his fancied spectacle of a of a birthright, may some 'day likes, realize the dreams, magnify The League's boycott is based nation going gayly down the sweep across the United States on two premises :- the ideas, impose the tastes of an broad and joyous path that leads if Christian America does not uneducated man who failed in' to destruction. 1. Prize fighting, despite all the aggressively challenge the men­ everything he undertook until he charges ever brought against ace, Dr. Conrad Hoffman, Jr., "The natural habitat of the it, has never before been a assistant secretary of the Pres­ became the absolute ruler of one American about whom most Ger­ medium fOl( international poli­ byterian Board of Missions said of the greatest countries in the ±nans choose to think is the 'mar­ tics. Schmeling and Hitler in a May Da:w sermon here. world." ble lobby of a skyscraper hotel are using the matcb. with or the lounge of a luxury liner. Louis for this purpose, and The American male is held to be this purpose alone. Der Maxie rather out of place in either be­ has been promised the Nazi cause of his cowboy manners, post of Director of Athletics THE DEAD CO'ME HOME but the wife is very much at . . . if he wIns. The very fact home. The United States is a that he is fighting the world's female paradise. The male of It has become usual that every shlp of the Neptune Line on champion is being .used, by the speCies performs the useful, the Nazis, as another proof its return from Spain brings home'to, Bremen some dozens of zinc if not very ornamental, function of "Aryan" superiority. coffins with Reichswehr officers killed in the war. Because of the of the pack horse. Germans will shortage of rl1w material, wooden boxes have taken the place of inform you that during the pio­ Schmeling is worth neer epoch of our history a 2. $2,000,000 zinc coffins. The Neptune Line ship "Gaus" carried a number of today and most of the money scarcity of women caused them has come as a direct result of such boxes, the contents of which were decomposed already to a ' to be much in demand. They his American appearances. He degree that the terrible smell drove the workers out of the room then got the whip hand and have will be in a position to take where the boxes stood. The dockers declined to unload the boxes held it since. Few Germans anywheres from to have ever heard of Jigga of the $100,000 in spite of threats from the foreman. Thereupon the manage­ $400;000 more back into Ger­ comic strips, but their idea of many if this fight is allowed ment of the line compelled the crew to unload the boxes. The American domestic arrange� to continue 'unharassed. EV­ boxes left behind a disgusting fluid. No wonder that under these menta corresponds roughly to the ERY DOLLAR FOR A SCH­ circumstances twenty-four members of the crew of another ship, life of Mr. and Mrs. Jiggs. MELING FIGHT TICKET "Otherwise the American man ADDED LIFE FOR uHansa," which also carried such boxes, got typhoid fever •.. MEANS is summed up with a dollar sign. HITLER. --Germany Today, London, April, 1938. (Continued on Page 12) MAY, 1938 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN 11

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HANS HOLTERBOSCH. INC" 341 E. 79th St.• N. Y. C. AMERICAN HECOLITE DENTURE CORP .. "Hecolite" J. EINSTEIN. INC .. Shoe Leather. I Park Ave .. N. y. C. Denture. 536 S. E. 6th Ave .. Portland. Ore. JAEGER IMPORTING CO" LTD" HERMANN LOWENSTEIN. 26 Perry St.. N. Y. C. 460 W. 34th St .. N. Y. C. 106 Gansvoort St" N. Y. C. LEATHER DE LUXE. 1 Park Ave .. N. Y. C•. AMERICAN MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CO .. M. KEMPINSKL &-CO" INC" 1819 B·way. N. Y. C. 131 Easf23rd Street. N. Y. C. H. LEHMAN. INC .. 734 Park Avenue. N. Y. C. ADAM BERNHARD DENTAL PROD. CO .. MACHINERY AND PARTS LUCHOW IMPORTING CO .. 101 E. 13th St.. N. Y. C. 1923 Germantown Ave .. Phila" Pa. REIDEMEISTER & ULRICHS CORP.. 23 E. 26th St. DURO TEST CORP .. 5S3 Broadway. N. Y. C. .ADLANCO X-RAY CORP .. X.Ray Apparatus. N. Y. C. INJECTA CO .. 112 East 19th Street. N. Y. C. 54 Lafayette St .. N. Y•. C. RHINEMO IMPORT. INC.. 225 Fifth Ave .. N. Y. C. C. & C. SALES CORP .. Ball Becirings. F. W. MASSEL & CO .. 120 Boylston St.. Boston. Mass. CHAS. VON DER BRUCK. INC .. 61 Park PI .. N. Y. C. 1775 Broadway. N. Y. C. ADOLF PFINGST. "Busch" Dental Supplies. H. H. HEINRICH. INC.. "Matador" Bag Machinery. JULIUS WILE SONS & CO•• 8 Bridge St .. N. Y. C. 309 Bible House. N. Y. C. Aniline 'Printing Presses. 200 Varick St" N. Y. C. WILHELM WILD & CO.. 745 Fif� �ve .• N. Y. C. PREMIER DENTAL PRODUCTS CO .. 900 Chestnut St.. Philadelphia. Pa. MARBURG BROS .. 90 West Street. N. Y. C. GUSTAVE SCHARMAN. IIS1 B·way. N. Y. C. ORMIG CORPORATION. 373 Fourth Ave" N. Y. C. CAMERAS AND PHOTO SUPPLIES ROBERT REINER. Embroidery Machines. L. SILVERMAN. 1033 Chestnut St .. Phila .. Pa. 55& Gregory Avenue. WeehaWken. N. J. ABE COHEN EXCHANGE. INC .. 120 Fulton St.. N. Y. C. STERLING PRODUCTS CORP .. 36 E. 22nd St.. N. Y. C. RITTER CARLTON CO.. 527 Fifth Ave.. N. Y. C. BURLEIGH BROOKS. INC .• 127 W. 42nd St.. N. Y. C. TIP·TOP INSTRUMENTS. INC.. 15 E. 26th St .. N. Y. C. ROTARY TOOL & MACHINERY CO .. E. LEITZ. INC.. 730 Fifth Avenue. N. Y. C. 217 E. 38th St" N. Y. C. E. il. MEYROWITZ. INC .. 520 Fifth Ave.. N. Y. C. DEPARTMENT AND VARIETY STORES ROTAPRINT MACHINES. INC" 141 B·waq. N. Y. C. PHOTO SHOP. INC.. 136 W. 32nd St.. N. Y. C. SANITAX ELECTRIC CO•• 303 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. WILLOUGHBY CAMERA STORES. INC.. S. S. KRESGE CO .. Stores throughout the United States 110 W. 32nd St .. N. Y. C. S, H. KRESS & CO.. 5c. 10c. 250 Stores throughout CARL ZEISS. INC.. 485 Fifth Avenue .. N. Y. C. United States. Office 114 Filth Avenue. N. Y. C. METAL PAPERS W. T. GRANT. Stores throughout the United States. KARL PAULI CORP.. 454 Broome St .. N. Y. C. Office 1441 Broadway. N. Y. C. CANARIES LEWIS DISPLAY MATERIALS (Window Displays). MARSHALL FIELD & CO .. 121 N. State Street. 480 LexingtoD Avenue. N. Y. C. · Chicago. Ill.. and 22 North Bank Drive. Chicago. Ill. MAX GEISLER ilIRD CO .. 50 Cooper Square. N. Y. C. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO .. Dept. Store and ODENWALD BIRD CO .. 32 Cooper Square. N. Y. C. Mail Order House. Chicago. Ill. MUSICAL SUPPLIES BARTELS CO .. 45 Cortlandt St .. N. Y. C. WM. F. W. WOOLWORTH CO .. 5 and 10c Stores LOUIS RUHE. INC .. 853 Broadway. N. Y. C. throughout the United States C. BRUNO & SON. INC .. 460 W. 34th St.. N. Y. C. W. R. GRATZ IMPORT CO .. 251 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. GRETSCH & BRENNER. CHEMICALS AND DRUGS 42 E. 20th St.. N. Y. C. FOODS HARMONICA DISTRIBUTION CORP. OF AMERICA. 251 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. ADVANCE SOLVENTS & CHEMICAL CORP .. BENEDICT LUST HEALTH FOODS. 245 Fifth Avenue. N. Y. C. M. HOHNER. INC .. Harmonicas & Accordions. 343 Lexington Ave .. N. Y. C. 351 Fourth Avenue. N. Y. C. AKATOS. INC.. Chemicals. 5 Van!iam St.• N. Y. C. D WM. FAEHN RICH. Cheese. 13 Harrison St•• N. Y. C. IMPERIAL MUSIC & SPORT SHOP. CORP .. Chemical & Dyes. GENERAL DYESTUFFS M. H. GREENBAUM. INC .. 165 Chambers St.. N. Y. C. 435 Hudson St.. N. Y. C. 101 E. 14th St.. N. Y. C. ROMANOFF CAVIAR CO .. 4S0 Lexington Ave.. N. Y. Co PROGRESSIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT CORP .. CO .. Crude Drugs. S. B. PENICK & 404 130 Nassaus Street, N. Y. C. Fourth Avenue. N. Y. C. SORKIN MUSIC CO .. 251 Fourth Ave .. N. y, C. PFALTZ & BAUER. Chemical & Glues. 300 Pearl St .. N. Y. C. GENERAL IMPORTERS N. POTASH EXPORT. My .• 19 W. 44th St. N. Y. C. V. ARISTO IMPORT CO.. INC .. 630 Filth Ave .. N. Y. t:. STATE CHEMICAL CO.. SO W. Hudson St .. N. Y. C. PEAT MOSS ADAM BERNHARD . 45 E. 17th St.. N. Y. C. Drugs. WINTHROP CHEMICAL CO.. Chemicals & Watch for Trade Marks: "G.P.M,'·, "Pioneer'" 170 Varick St.. N. Y. C. GEORGE BORGFELDT CORP.. 46 E. 23rd St.. N. Y. C. "0. K," , "Sorbex", "Justrite", "P. I. C ," • (Combined with H. A. METZ LABORATORIES. INC.) J. CHEIN & CO.. Harrison. N. J. ATKINS & DURBROW. INC .. 165 John St•• N. Y. C. MILLS SALES CO .. 901 B'way and . S5 Orchard St .. N. Y. C. PEAT MOSS SALES CORP.. 165 John St.. N. Y. C. CHINAWARE AND GLASSWARE STRAUS·ECKHARDT & CO .. 45 E. 17th St.. N. Y. C. PEAT IMPORT CORP.. 155 John St.. N. Y. C. SPIEGEL BROS .. 33 E. 17th St.. N. Y. C. S. A. BENDHAIM. INC .. 16 Horatio St .. N. Y. C. BUDDE & WESTERMAN. 104 Worth St.. N. Y. C. PRINTING TYPES FISH·SCHURMAN CORP .. 230 E. 45th St.. N. Y. C. GLASS RY. INC .. 235 E. •• . HEINRICH & WINTERLING CORP .. 45th St N Y: C. ���WNrJ T1J 2 Broadway. N. Y. C. sWHiivMtfMlf' � THE MAY, ;I.��8 __ 2 ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN ;1. ..

WESTCHESTER TO Essafl Contest Nets REAL U. s. A. - BAN BUN» MEETS (Oontinued from Page 10) - MallY 'Elle-Opellers SOLICITING FOR IN CO. BUILDINGS We are, from the German view­ The scores of manuscripts VIENNA MED1CAl point, undoubtedly the most ma­ White Plains :-The Commis­ already received in The Lea­ terialistic of all peoples--our sole sion in charge of Westchester gue's essay contest on "The interest in any international or county's swank Community Cen- CRUISE COURSE Nazi Menace in the United other affair is our hope of profit ter has learned its lesson reo or our fear of losing our invest­ ter has learned its lesson reo States" are giving Bulletin League Feels Classes ment. Therefore, though the Volksbund promises. Resultant­ editors reason to believe that Are Below Par man may be courteous enough to ly, they have banned the organ­ a series of articles should be This Year listen to you, attempting to dis­ ization from future meetings in projected from the result, cuss American ideals with most county buildings. Tl,le League has found it nec­ Germans is quite useless. Connecticut and Westchester with credit given to the in­ essary to write American physi­ Bundsmen leased the Commun­ diVidual writers. "Professor otto E. Lessing, a ci� and object to the summer ity Center for a "dance and en­ German who taught for several We offer one $50 prize for course in Ophthalmology and tertainment" on the night of Ap­ years at Williams College before 3,000 Oto-Iaryngology to be given in ril 24. Approximately 500 people the best word essay. It returning to this country, wrote Vienna, Germany under the the attended, guarded by a strong­ would be a tough job to pick thus : 'One encounters often in direction of George W. Macken­ arm squad of 60 Nazi guards in the winner right now, and Germany the idea that the zie, M.D. of Philadelphia, Pa. uniform. Mrs. Paul Revere Rey­ gosh knows how many more United States has a high degree nolds, the county's recreation A circular now -being sent to of technical ciVilization but no we'll receive before the closing Co mmissioner in charge of physicians by r. Mackenzie's real culture.' And he was really date, JUne 15. But by all D leases, went too . . . with a Ger­ office states that "conditions in rather mild about it from the means, send your entry in. man interpreter. Vienna have improved in the last German viewpoint. Every manuscript is read two weeks" and that "accommo­ "Seven men made propaganda carefully by the board of "Some time ago a Berlin dations are at a premium." speeches," Mrs. Reynolds told newspaper, criticizing Harvard judges. the press the next day. "One "Every branch of the subjebt for placing former Reich Chan­ speaker advised all German­ is covered by teachers of inter­ cellor Heinrich Bruening on the Americaus to clean up America Hellum. Sale national reputation," the circular faculty, remarked that 'nothing Uie way Germany was cleaned says on its :first page. But at the better can be expected from an Ban Itl ust Stand, up." top of page two, 'it admits, that institution whose reputation de­ "owing to certain changes in the That afternoon, the commis­ President Says pends chiefly on its athletic teachiIfg faculty at the Univers­ prowess.' sion announced its own NaZi Washington :-Nazi chances to ity of Vienna., it will be necessary boycott. "An afternoon newspaper re­ buy American helium vanished to adjust the courses accord­ produced a picture of the Uni­ on May 11 when President Roose­ ingly." velt decided that under the ­ verSity of Oregon football team. Iron F.enees for Gnus lan It's fairly simply to guess just Pronouncing iron fences "sup­ guage of the law he was power­ The caption said : 'Who knows what those certain changes arc. erfluous" and "ugly," the Nazi less override any objections to where they found these stars ? to News reports of the past two Minister of the Interior has or­ such a sale that Secretary Ickes Many a student football player month!' prove that the best teach­ dered their replacement by or members of the Munitions in the American universities can­ ing and medical minds in Vienna "pretty hedges." The iron will Control Board might have. not even write his own name." '!Vent out on the day that Hitler be turned over to industries to The subject was brought to the Cl!.me In. _ "Incidently, on the subject of meet the acute shortage of ore President for review following Dr. Mackenzie is asking $1,150 American education the great and scrap. repeated queries by German majority of Gerrp.ans are adam­ per person for a two-month trip emissaries in Washington, and a ant. They are convinced that and also offers $800 courses in special trip to the United States our educational system is super­ Nazi TrafIe Off "languages, arts, dancing and by the aged airman, Dr. Hugo ficial and quite unfit to be com­ Germany slipped into second . other activities" for the wives Eckener. pared with German school and place in the import-export fig­ and daughters of physicians. The university arrangements. Ac­ ures of Nicaragua during the "The matter is entirely up to latter are arranged through the cordingly, the typical American first qu arter of 1938. The United the six Cabinet members," the ;'Austrd-American Institution of is held to �ve a smattering of States purchased two-thirds of White House decided, "and ob­ Education." many things and real knowledge the country's exports, sold two­ jections by any one of the six of none/' thirds of the imports. prevents the sale." Write for Pamphlets

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During 1 the past month, the League has prepared a series of pamphlets comparing the true foundations of the American and Hitler philosophies. It's up to you to read them, talk about them and pass them on to your friends. Copies will be mailed upon request. WRITE FOR: "What of Tomorrow, America?" "Let's Look at the Record"

" 'I Never Played Politics' ...Max Schmeling" I "Der Fuehrer Speaks! ! !"

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the Connecticut National Gnari; Kuhn meets Adolf; Yaphank hosses on trial, and over aU, the leering� arrogant shadow 01 HItler. 2 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN JULY-AUGUST, 1938 ALONG THE AMERICAN FRONT

.f'lorida Stickers . . . That Nazi-paid lawyers Association, Inc. Recommended : by the majority, were David Gill, hoped to prove that the trial was -Legislation to provide punish­ state president of the Young DuriX'.; the first week of July, instigated by The Non-Sectar­ ment for any person attempting Democratic Club; Frank Scully, rabble-rouser Edgar Dudley met ian Anti-Nazi League but could­ to "incite race hatred"; regula­ screen writer, and Superior Court with Nazi leaders in Miami, call­ n't get any evidence for the sim­ tion of foreign fraternal societies Judge Robert W. Kenny. ed for a boycott of Jewish mer­ ple reason that there wasn't any. through laws requiring all groups chants in Florida; confided that ... That the pro-Nazi Caroline to make public records of their NutJneg Ouster John L. Lewis of CIO and Wil­ Meade, who was introduced to membership and officers. Hartford, Connecticut doesn't liam Green of AFL are "both the court as daughter of a col­ want Bund meetings. Late in Jews", but got only $5.95 when onial American family, is legally Soeial Note .June, directors of the POlish Na­ he passed the collection plate. Mrs. Gustav Kunz, Wife of one of A sign painter dribbled gold leaf across tional Home turned down the re­ Next week, Anti-Semitic stickers, the New .Jersey leaders of the the door of an office in Vienna.. Austria, quest of Gustave Buckel, local bearing likenesses of cartoons Bund. during the !iISt week of July. Fitdshed, the sign read "'Igncm Griebl, M.D." "Fuehrer", to use their hall as a from .Julius Streicher's "news­ WANTED by the UnHed Stat". govem­ meeting place for Hitlerites. On paper" Der Sturmer appeared on ment for certain espionage ttcts� 19l1Uz Syraense Letter .June 21, Buckel sidled into the windows of .Jewish stores along � ;r;;:l, o:c�;. l::::: �srden�r :&; meeting of the Hartford Board Miami's Sixth Street. Brazenly, Friends tlf New Germany.: For ten years, Rolland B. Mar­ of Education, asked the use of Nazis continued to hold meetings vin, mayor of Syracuse, N. Y., a public school for a rally at in a house on Northwest Fifth Boyeott has cherished the dream of being which Fritz Kuhn was to speak. Street, continued to wind up a Republican governor of New Result :-A unanimous "No". their sessions by singing "The American importers of beads York State. Durtng the first Star Spangled Banner". Result: and spangles met in New York week of .July, "Rolly" was invited -Miamians grew hot under the last week, pledged themselves Negroes Alert to make the dream come true by not to handle German goods, collar, promised a house-cleaning "Nazis are attempting to reach organizing an "Aryan American" created a central store room for Within the month. On .July 19, into the Negro trade unions and movement among the 3,000,000 all German goods now on hand, Raymond .J. Healy, alleged boss share-cropper groups throughout people living between the cats­ with control placed in the hands of the smear campaign, was sen­ the South," Dr. Claude Williams, kills and Lake Erie. of an impartial committee . . . tenced to 30 days in Miami City president of Commonwealth Col­ Alleged writer of the invitation Chicago park offiCials cracked .Jail, so was Edgar Dudley. Rod lege, Mena, Ark., charged last was a person who signed himself down on a meeting of The Ger­ Krenson, acknowledged disciple week. "They preach non-cooper­ Lieutenant General Count Tzerp­ man-American Business League of the mob, was given five days. ation With whites and ironically Spiridowitch, founder of an or­ on .July 16, denied them the use promise freedom for Negroes ganization known as The Amer­ of Chi's Riverview Park . . . through cooperation With the Yaphank Yanked ican Tribunal The avowed pur­ Police in Spokane, Wash., ar­ .Japanese jtnd German govern­ (See Front Gover) pose of The American Tribunal rested 11 of 700 ptc:l!:e ts outside menfs. They're trying to make is to protect America from ".Jews the Silver Shirt meeting beiiig ad'": !)W blaYk. m� swallow J;he slo­ Toplleaa news ··in . all AfuericilJl and other foreigners". SelfSfjrled­ dreilBed by ' Roy Zachary, .Jew­ gan 'Unite Against the White dailies was the trial in Riverhead, American Lieutenant General baiter, on J:uIY 19; next day Minority'." Dr. Williams is bring­ Long Island, durlng the first Count Tzerp-SpiridoWitch also Police .Justice "Frank Yuse grant­ ing out the truth about Nazism week of .July of officials of the honored Mayor Marvin With the ed a continuance of the hearing during speeches in his trans­ German - American -Bettlement title of "Sir", appointed him to until .July 28. His reason : In­ continental tour this summer. League, Inc., operators of the the Advisory Committee of his vestigation of reports that Silver Ninety per cent of the Negroes, Nazi summer colony, Camp Sieg­ Tribunal's New York Division. Shirt doctrines are in opposition he reported, detest Nazism; he is fried at Yaphank. On .July 12, Sputtering, red-faced, Mayor to the American governmental struggling to convert the other six officers were found guilty of Marvin called in Syracuse news­ system. 10 per cent. violating New York's Civil hawks, turned over the letter and Rights Law which obliges oath­ memberShip blanks, made re­ To-Adolf-For-Orders Shirt Parade Ban bound organizations to file mem­ marks concerning Lieutenant berShip lists With the state. The General Count Tzerp-Spirido­ Out of Cleveland, Ohio, three A taboo on "Shirt parades" was organization was given the maxi­ witch and The American Tri­ weeks ago slipped Martin Kess­ ordered by officials of Minneapo­ mum fine of $10,000; Ernst Muel­ bunal that no editor would ever ler, ex-draftsman for the Cleve­ lis, Minn., recently when they is­ ler, the president, was sentenced publish. Result :-If Rolly Mar­ land Graphite Bronze Company sued orders to the Police Depart­ to one year in the Nassau County vin ever becomes governor of and "Fuehrer" of the local Bund. ment to prevent parades by "uni­ jail and fined $500. Henry Hauck, New York . State, he'll do it on Two days later friends revealed formed political organizations". manager of the camp, Herman the same Republican platform that he was bound for Germany, The order was prompted, they Schwarzman, Bruno Haehne, that sent his grandfather into might be going to visit friends, admitted, by the desire to prevent Henry Wolfgang and Addo Biele­ the Union army in '61. might be going to bow at the Silver Shirts, Bundsmen or any feld were given suspended sen­ Swastika throne. His followers other un-American organization tences and fined $500 each. Yankee Aetion bellowed that same week when from gaining a foothold in the the owner of Maus Hall, East city. But unmentioned in the press The special commission of the 69th Street and St. Clair Avenue, Meanwhile, The American Civil were the facts that the jury ob­ Massachusetts Legislature con­ refused to lease his auditorium Liberties Union announced that tained its verdict in one minute cluded a nine months investiga­ to the Cleveland Bund again. it would test in the courts any and 40 seconds flat, spent the tion into un-American activities revocation of a tavern license in next 13 minutes waiting for the last month. Overlooking the Milwaukee, Minn., if the revoca­ court and attornies to come back Hon. Picket headquarters of the Massachu­ tion came as a result of the Mil­ to the courtroom. setts Bund in Roxbury, a Boston Up and down and up again in waukee ordinance banning Silver ... That one Bundsman when suburb, the group reported no front of the German consulate at Shirt and Bund meetings in local asked to demonstrate the Amer­ basiS for charges that Nazi Los Angeles, Cal., last week taverns. The ordlnance violates, ican salute during the trial gave camps are operated in the Bay weaved a line of 1,000 pickets, the Unioli charges, the rights of the Nazi ealute, yipped: that "If State. They did agree, however, arms propped beneath signs that free speech and assemblage. Un­ isn't the salute now, it Will be that thousands of the State's citi­ read "Hitler persecutes the cath­ der the ordlnance, licensed tav­ soon�H zens are on the mailing lists of olics in Germany and murders erns renting their premises to . . . That Hauck when arrest­ Nazi newspapers and periodicals. .Jews and Catholics". Twenty­ groups which "foment racial and ed, exclaimed: "I didn't sell any The report also slapped out at five strong California organiza­ religious hatred" would be classed real estate" and aroused suspi­ .JeW-baiter Edward H. Hunter, tions were represented. Shuffling as public nuisances and their cions along another line. leader of The Industrial Defense along With thll. others, unnoticed licenses cancelled. .JULY-AUGUST, 1938 THE ANTI-NA2lI BULLETIN 3

Along the American Front (continued)

Craek-of-the-Month authorship and threatened to ask side of tke former. This report on his own people and is the for an investigation of the mat­ fOrms the balS·is of Nazi espion­ method he is UOtto Strasser was Printers of Greensville, N. C. "Although I could never in close collaboration with him favor voting to put this coun­ In 1935, Prof. Charles Beard and knows intimately both ffitler MANCHESTER GUARDIAN : try to war again on a foreign disproved the Franklin asser­ himself and his circle of advisers. Old man with a telescope, The field, twenty or thirty years In 1930, he left the party be­ tions, proved point-blank that Manchester (Eng.) Weekly from now when a younger gen­ Benjamin Franklin fraternized cause it was insufficiently Social­ eration of Americans is ... Guardian is, to millions; the phil­ with, received advice from jew­ ist; after 1933, his life was no resi

Published monthly September to June ; hi·monthly July·August by The NOD·Sectarian Anti·Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, Inc., 2. West 47th Street, New Yolk City. Entered as second class mail matter at Post Office of New York City. Subscriptio1l prlee, $3 per yeat. 4 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN JULY-AUGUST, 1938 THE,.LEAGUE,.IN ,. THE,.MONTH

Leagues usually go "bloop" in Pa., informed us that Benjamin ing the statement made by Pope 12. Finished early in July, now the summer�time. The cow-slips, Franklin never made an anti­ Pius on July 20 (see Thinkers, being distributed is a new leaflet the tiger-lilies and the tangy Semitic statement, that the "jour­ page 3). "Boycott Nazi Goods. Why and smell of a bathing suit just out nal of Charles Pinckney" alleged How." It is considered the first of moth balls drives away the de­ source of the Franklin statement Governors Co.. op. concrete summary of the move­ sire to .fight anything or anybody. never existed, that Franklin was ment, with both pro and con 9. An appeal to the governor of BTIT NOT SO with The Non­ co-operative and friendly with viewpoints. Copies are free. each state for immediate investi­ Sectarian Anti�Nazi League. JewiSh-Americans. Other re­ Under preparation, a leaflet gation of the pro-Nazi units in Since June, your League has search revealed that Nazi quota­ showing the campaign against the National Guard was made by done this : tions from The Talmud are Catholicism now being conducted the League on June 25. To date, spurious, that Samuel Roth was in Germany and scheduled soon 1. Trailed airplane banners, promises of co-operation have more or less of a crack-pot, any­ for appearance in the United 175 feet long and 10 feet high, been received from the governors way. So the facts lined up against States under auspices of The across the skies of New York and and adjutant generals of Vir­ the Nazi statements - anti­ Bund. New Jersey beaches. The signs ginia, Kentucky, Montana, Ariz­ Semitic, anti-Catholic, and read "You pay for Nazi Spies if ona, Idaho, Illinois, OhiO, Penn­ '* *' $: anti-Negro. Result: The League you buy Nazi Goods," were hailed sylvania, Georgia, Texas, Ala­ broadcast its findings to news­ as "Slogan-of-the-week" by TIME bama, New York, Maryland, Backslap Dept. papers and magazines from coast magazine on July 18. Kansas, Florida and Wisconsin. to coast, is building up a library BlUShing, but without com­ 2. Dumped leaflets fron;t air­ Typical is the letter of Adjut­ of photostats on subversive Nazi ment, we present an editorial planes on camps of the Nazi ant General John E. Stoddard of literature to be used in a cam­ from The Jewish Post of Indian­ Bund. The leaflets pointed out Georgia: paign that will swing into action apolis, Ind., for July 22; We the basic rules of citizenship in late this summer. (Nazis read­ "Your telegram of June 25 hope we can live up to it. The America, drove home the fact ing this are invited to send in with reference to the American Post said : Nazis training in the National that tolerance, enlightenment, their latest slobber.) Guard of the vari� states to "The new air (attack' on the fair play are essential parts of Governor E. D. Rivers has been Nazis by The Anti-Nazi League the American code. Bund lead­ forwarded to this office for Cartoons BhouZd be a great deal more ers snorted and pawed, but at­ action. BUCcessful than many of its tendance at their camps dropped 6. By letter, personal agents "This office has issued definite heretofore abortive attempts, on successive week�ends. orderB that no aliena will be and through friends, the League if for no other reason than itB enZisted in the NationaZ Guard, ,, 3. Sent cablegrams of protest is building up a trans-continental and that aliena now in the spectacular aspect. to Neville Chamberlain, British system of news-correspondents Guard are ' to be discharged "As the first attack in their prime minister, and other British in order to furnish you with the immediate'ly. new campaign) the League over officials warning them that an latest, most accurate news on "I wish to a8sure you that the Fourth Of July week-end, agreement between .Hitler and Nazi and Anti-Nazi activities this Department is co-operat­ sent ttp a plane bearing a long trailing sign with the message Great Britain would bring the from coast to coast. This group ing in this matter." 'You Pay For Nazi Spies If will conduct investigations in world to the threshold of the Y0I6 Buy Nazi Goods'. Then Second World War. their sectors to determine just Italy (!uizzed last Sunday the League "carried what is being done by, and the war into the enemies own 10. On July 20, alarmed by Ford Hat Out against, the Hitlerites. territory when they dropped press insinuations that Italy too 25,000 Amerioan leaf!,ets on the 4. Stepped on the neck of a 7. Matrixes have been pre­ might become officially "Aryan", NaZi oamp at Yaphank) L. I. Nazi mo ement to draft Henry pared of 25 outstanding anti-Nazi the League sent the following v "Admitting they borrowed Ford for ille Presidency in 1940. cartoons, either drawn for The telegram to Fulvie de Suvicb, the idea trom the Ohinese Our officials asked Mr. Ford if League or appearing in large Italian Ambassador to the United pamphlet raid on Japan when he would run on a Nazi plat­ newspapers and magazines. States : "Our League eager to Ohinese ships flew to Japan and dropped propaganda bul­ form. W. J. Cameron, Mr. These matrixes are being syndi­ learn whether Italy will officially letins over Japan's cities) the cated, at cost, to American, Eng­ Ford's personal secretary, re­ imitate racial terrorism and prej­ League announced the BUCcess­ plied: "This use of Mr. Ford's lish and Canadian newspapers. udice of Hitler government." Re­ ful raid and gave promise of name entirely unauthorized. He Inaugurated three weeks ago, sult : Silence by the Ambassador, newer and more surprising is not in polltics and has no sym­ the service has already met the investigation by League agents taotics. pathy with any un-American approval of 50 editors. League here and abroad, on the entire "For years now The League movement." The activities of 'the cartoons will help to awaken the situation. has been tolerated by news­ papermen who were plagued Bund-iinanced Ford-for-President American public to the dangers 11. Organization is being per­ with a multitude of releases League ended iInmediately after of Nazism. fected of a six months radio cam­ based less on accomplishment we had released this reply to the than on actual results. But now 8. Contact has been established paign. To date, two broadcasts The League is giving the news­ press. with various world leaders on the have been held. Speakers : Dr. paperB real stories. Whoever 5. Late in June, we went to subject of Nazism. Official pro­ Max Winkler, nationally known is responsible deserves ?IwA;ih, work on the anti-Semitic lies be­ tests were made to President economist, and Congressman credit and if the aotivities vf ing circulated by The Bund, Sil­ Cardenas of Mexico regarding Emanuel Celler. In prospect: the past few wee1G8 continue) newBpa,pers will Soon be send­ ver Shirts and other Nazi groups. the sale of oil to the Nazi Reich. League-sponsored radio speeches ing reporters to the League's Alfred Rigling, librarian of The Messages of congratulation were by civic, churCh and state leaders office to cover that valuable Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, sent to catholic leaders follow- coast-to-coast. news Bouroe." JULY-AUGUST, 1938 5

�� ttWon't they be surprised when they find ont who I really am." 6 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN JULY-AUGUST, 1938

PLAYING WITH FEAR

Nazi Germany could not last marks, about equal in value to marks from some person an xious ipulation between the American one week without the financial your $100 or perhaps somewhat to cash in on his credit in block­ business man and the cotton acrobatics designed by Mr. less." ed marks. Having bought up this brokerage concern described Schacht, director of financial "You mean I can't get my credit, he would negotiate for 'the a.bove. stuntism. money out?" buying of German goods and his On December 28, 1986 the The pity of it is that here in "That's right." blocked or controlled marks Treasury Department issued a the U. S. we have the machinery "But what if Hitler decided to would then, in the same manner, press release-not an order or to counteract his trade schemes, confiscate my money ? What it be converted into uncontrolled any other mandate binding upon but that machinery (Sec. 808 of 1 need my money ? What can I marks for the purpose of buying anybody, but a press release the Tarriff Act of 1980) has been do?" German goods, and he would which attempts to set forth cer­ rendered ineffectual by the Bu­ "It's true that your controlled thereby make a neat profit. tain procedures in connection reau of customs. marks are subject to special On July 2, 1936, the Attorney with imports from Germany We start with the well known treatment, sir. That's why they General of the U. S. rendered his which would not involve a pay­ fact that foreigners cannot take are worth less than uncontrolled. opinion that the practice of the ment or bestowal of any bounty any money out of Germany. We People like you are willing to sell German government in permit­ or grant within the purview of usually think of this in terms of their credit in controlled marks ting controlled marks to become Section 803. tourists. Think of it now in tor less, and the market value is uncontrolled marks for the pur­ terms of commerce. much lower than the uncontrol­ pose of buying German goods t�Inla.Dds Konto"" led marks." was a bounty or grant within the The sole distinguishing charac­ Easy Marks "Where's my $100, before I call meaning of Sec. 803 of the Tariff teristic of these permitted pro­ Mr. X., an American business a cop !" Act of 1980. Therefore on June cedures is that the credits are man is in the market for toys. "Don't be hasty sir. I have a 4, 1936, the Treasury Depart­ now continuously owned by. the He receives a letter from a cot­ German toy manufacturer on my ment, Bureau of Customs, order­ person. for whose actual account ton brokerage con cera, usually list who would gladly sell you his ed that countervailing duties the merchandise is purchased. with a German name, with offices toys-and cheap. Will you buy were to be placed on the follow­ Instead of buying "controlled" in the downtown section of New 400 marks worth ?" nig imports from Germany, as as a reduced value and then us­ York: The letter speaks of an ing them at the market value of "Will 11 Say, lead me to him! follows : attractive, "discreet" way of ac­ "uncontrolled" marks, the Amer­ -but wait, is that 400 controlled Article quiring toys through a transac­ )! �!a�/:! ican importer from Germany be­ or uncontrolled marks ?" Cameras ...... , ...... ,., ...... , ....,. 45% tion with Germany. No trouble, comes first an exp orter from "That's exactly the point sir. China Tableware 22% % and everything will be handled America into Germnny of cotton If you will buy German goods, Cotton and rayon gloves 39% by them, etc., etc. or some other merchandise. This your controlled marks can be Leather gloves ...... 47% He goes to see them, just to he does by negotiating with a used as uncontrolled marks. Then Surgical instruments ....._.. 56% inqUire. He tells himself that he cotton brokerage concern in your 400 marks will be worth Calf and kid leather ..... _.. 25% certainly would not deal with America. In other words, he buys $160 instead of $100 or less, and Glass tree ornaments...... 52% Nazi Germany, unless, of course, cotton in America, sells it to a you will make at least $60. You Metal-covered paper ...... 48% it were .made very at.tractive.. German concern, creates a credit can pay duty, and still undersell Thumb -tacks .. ,· "'".:.. ,�.":�:�.M.--3±o/,,. for himself in "controlled" marks, .11:irst, he is told, he must buy American manufacturers. " Toys, dolls andl toy fig- American cotton. He says he and then is permitted to use those ures ...... : ...... 45% doesn't want cotton. No matter! "controlled" marks as "uncon­ The Fear System On August 4, 1936 the Treas­ He must buy cotton nevertheless. trolled" marks in buying the Clever, subtle Schacht! He ury Department rendered another Well, he figures, this is certainly product which he seeks to import uses Germany's crutches as a decision which stated that as a screwy. "How much cgtton will from Germany in o the United weapon. He maneuvres, know­ result of "official advice" the de­ � I have to buy?�' he asks. States. ing full well that without the cision of June 4th, 1936 should It is apparent, therefore, that That is answered by-"How support of the crutches that he not apply to cameras, calf and again, by mandate of the Ger­ much German toys do you wish uses as a bludgeon, Germany kid leather and surgical instru­ man government in permitting to buy ?" must inevitably crumble to the ments, if the contract of . pur­ "controlled" marks to become "$100 w.orth." ground. chase or other agreement, pur­ "uncontrolled" marks, there is a "$100 please. Thank you. You suant to which there were ex­ This writer now wishes to bounty or grant bestowed upon are the owner of $100 worth of ported from Germany, was enter­ point out why this practice con­ the German importer within the cotton. Would you like to sell ed into after July 25, 1936. tinues in the U. S. and how easily purview of the statute. it ?" On August 14, 1986 another it can be prevented, In my opinion, ·the procedures "Certainly/' says the American decision was rendered by the Sec. 803 of the Tariff Act of set forth in the press release of business man, "I didn't want the Treasury Department which stat­ 1930 (USCA, Title 19, Sec. 1303) December 28, 1936 do come with­ damn stuff in the first place." ed that as a result of "official is also known as the Counter­ in the purview of the statute, and advice" the decision of June 4th, "Well, our firm has a contract vailing Duties Law. In plain the said press release is without 1986 shOUld not apply to all the with a German cotton buyer who language, it specifies: If Ger­ authority to say otherwise. The other articles listed in the de­ hereby offers you 400 controlled many or any other country is "iniands kon.to" method which cision of June 4th, 1986 if the marks for your cotton." going to subsidize, directly or either caused or was the imme­ contract of purchase or other "400 marks. Let's see . . . indirectly, its exporters, and thus diate result of the press release agreement pursuant to which That's fine, just fine. That's enable its exporters to undersell of December 28, 1936, is, in my they were exported from Ger­ about $160: I make $60 right our manufacturers, we are going opinion, fully within the statute. many was entered into after there. This is certainly a won­ to put a duty on the goods com­ This writer wants to know : August 2, 1986. derful system." ing from that foreign country So that we have this situation : 1. What was the reason for "You misunderstand, sir. I which will be equal to that sub­ In return for Germany's promise that press release of Dec. 23, said 400 controlled marks." sidy, "not to do it any more" the ef­ 19361 "Well, I'll take 400 of the one fect . of the decision of June 4th, 2. Why should the procedure that's worth most." FOl·gotten Step 1986 was entirely negated. With set forth in that press release be "Sorry, sir, you will have to Before June, 1936, the trans­ these actions, we possibly have permitted to continue ? take the controlled marks. Sure­ action described in the example no quarrel. 3. Why isn't the general policy ly you knew of the German law above was being practiced by But with the next action of the of the U. S. towards Germany that prohibits you from taking Germany, except that the first Treasury Department we defi­ (there is no trade agreement any money out of Germany. Your step was left out. . Instead of nitely have a quarrel, for by its with Germa ny) carried out by $100 is in Germany now. It's in selling cotton to Germany, the press release on Dec. 23, 1986, the positive action on the part of a speciall fund called aski, re­ American business man would Tl'eas\lry Department set the the Treasury Department 1 stricted, blocked, or controlled merely buy up a credit in blocked framework for the cotton man- �Bernard Kros'ney. UNITED SlAT ES \I&s-I 1CLES

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Germany leads the way, according to mtler. But factual statistics, as shown In ��Our Country� Our People and Theirs" hy M. E. Tracy (McMUIan, New York 1938) prove that Auterieans today are a heD of a lot better oft than Nazi sujects. J.

8 THE ANTI-NAZI BULLETIN JULY-AUGUST, 1938 You Pay for Nazi Spies if you Buy Nazi Goods

BEVERAGES MEDICAL AND DENTAL SUPPLIES LEATHER

HANS •• •• HOLTERl3OSCH. INC 341 E. 19th St N. Y. C. AMERICAN HBCOLlTE DENTURE CORP .. "Becolit,," 1. EINSTEIN. INC.. Shoe Leather, 1 Park Ave .. N. Y. Co lAEGER IMPORTING CO.• L Denlure. 53S S. E. 6th Ave .. Portland. Ore. HERMANN LOWENSTEIN, 26 Perry SI., N. Y. C. ' Gansvoor! St.. N. Y. C. 480 W. 34th SI.. N. Y. C. 'fo'a LEATHER DE LUXE, 1 Park Ave•• N. Y. C. H. LEHMAN. INC.. '134 Park Avenue. N. Y. C. AMERICAN MEDICAL SPECIALTIES CO.. LUCHOW IMPORTING CO•• 101 E. 13th St.. N. Y. C. 131 East 23.d Street. N. Y. C. BEIDEMEISTER <> ULRICHS CORP.. 23 E. 26th SI. ADAM BERNHARD DENTAL PROD. CO.. MACHINERY AND PARTS N. Y. C. 45 Easl 17th SI .. N. Y. C. ADLANCO X·BAY CORP.. X.Ray Apparatus. •• DEPENDABLE DENTAL PRODUCT CO.. 1923 German· BHlNEMO IMPORT. INC 225 rl lth Ave N. Y. C. 54 Lafayette St.. N. Y. C. .. lown Ave .. PhUadelphia. Pa. CRAS. VON DER RRUCK. INC.. 81 Park PI.. N. Y. C. C. & C. SALES CORP .. Ball Bearings. DUBO TEST CORP .. 583 Broadway. N. Y. C. JULIUS WILE SONS <> CO.. 8 Bridge SI.. N. Y. C. 1775 Broadway. N. Y. C. IN1ECTA CO.. 112 E".I 19th Street. N. Y. C. WILHELM WitD <> CO.. 745 Fifth Ave.. N. Y. C. H. H. HEINRICH. INC.. "Malador" Bag Machinery. F. W. MASSEL 0; CO.. 12D Boylston St.. Boston. Mass. Priuling 200 Anlliue Pre.S"S. Varick St" N. Y. C. ADOLF PFlNGST. "Busch" Dental Supplies. MABBURGBROS .. 9C1 West Street. N. Y. C. BREWERY SUPPLIES 309 Bible House. N. Y. C. OBMIG CORPORATION. 373 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. H. REIFENBERG. 205 W. 19th St.. N. Y. C. DENT PREMIER AL pR ROBERT REINER. Embroidery Machin .... MAGER BROS.. INC .. 332 W. 21st SI.. N. Y. C. 9�f��ln�?St.. Philadelphia. Pa. 55Il Gregory Avenue. Weehawken. N. J. A. GUSMER. INC •• 816 Clinton St .. Hoboken. N.l. GUSTAVE SCHARMAN. l1S1 B·way. N. Y. C. RITTER CAllLTON CO .. 527Filth Ave•• N. Y. C. L. SILVERMAN. 1033 Cheslnut St.. Pblla •• Pa. ROTARY TOOL & MACHINERY CO.. STERLING PRODUCTS CORP•• 36 E. 22nd SI•• N. Y. C. CAMERAS AND PHOTO SUPPLIES 217 E. 38th St.. N. Y. C. TIP·TOP INSTRUMENTS. INC.. 15 E. 28th St .. N. Y. C. ABE COHER EXCHANGE. INC•• 120 Fulton St.. N. Y. C. ROTAPRINT MACHINES. INC" 141 B·waq. N. Y. C. BURLEIGH BROOKS. INC•• 127 W. 42nd St.. N. Y. C. SANITAX ELECTRIC CO.. 303 Fourth Ave" N. Y. C. E. LEI'l'Z... INC '130 PlUhAv enue. N. Y. C. DEPARTMENT AND VARIETY STORES E. B. MEYBOWl'l:Z. INC•• 520 Fifth Ave.. N. Y. C. METAL :PAPERS S. S. KRESGE CO.. Siores throughout the Uniled States PHOTO SHOP. INC•• 138 W. 32nd St.. N. Y. C. S. H. XIlESS <> CO.. 5c. 10e. 25. Siores throughout KARL PAULI CORP.. 454 Broome St•• N. Y. C. . WILLOUGHBY CAMERA STORES. INC•• United Slal"s. Olli"e II4 Pllth Avenue. N. Y. C. LEWIS DISPLAY MATERIALS (Window Displays). 110 W. 32ndSt .. N. Y. C. C. •• 480 Lexington Avenue. N. Y. CARL ZEISS. INC.. 4.S5Fifth Avenue.. N. Y. C. W. T. GRANT. Siores throughout the United Siale OIlice 1441 Broadway. N. Y. C. MARSHALL FIELD & CO.. 121 N. Slate Street. MUSICAL SUPPLIES CANARIES Chicago. 1Il.. and 22 North Bank Drive. Chicago. m. MONTGOMERY WARD & CO.. Depl. Store and C. BRUNO & SON. INC" 460 W. 34th St.. N. Y. C. MAX GEISLER BlBD CO.. 50 Cooper Square. N. Y. C. m. B. Mail Order House. Chicago. W. GRATZ IMPORT CO.. 251 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. ODENWALD BmD CO.. 32 Cooper Square. N. Y. C. IDe F. W. WOOLWORTH CO .. 5 crnd Siores GRRTSCH & BRENNER. 42 E. 20th SI.• N. Y. C. WM. BARTELS CO.. 45 CorUandt SI•• N. Y. C. throughout the Uniled Siale. HARMONICA DISTRIBUTION CORP. OF AMERICA. Y. LOuis RUHE. INC.. 853 Broadway. N. C. 251 Fourth Ave .. N. Y. C. M. HOHNER. INC .. Harmonicas & Accordions. FOODS 351 Fourth Avenue. N. Y. C. CHEMICALS AND DRUGS IMPERIAL MUSIC & BENEDICT LUST HEALTH FOODS. SPORT SHOP. C. ADVANCE SOLVENTS <> CHEMICAL CORP .. 343 Lexington Ave.. N. Y. C. 101 E. 14th St.. N. Y. 24S PROGRESSIVE MUSICAL INSTRUMENT Fifth Avenue. N. Y. C. WM. FABHNDRICH. Cheese. 13 Harrison SI•• N. Y. C. CORP" 404 Fourth Avenue. N. Y. C. AKATOS. INC .. Chemieals. 5 Vandam St.. N. Y. C. M. H. GREENBAUM. INC .. 165 Chamber. St.. N. Y. C. Chemical & SORl!:IN MUSIC CO" 251 Fourth Ave.. N. Y. C. GENERALc DYEST1JPf'S,CORP.. Dyes. 'ROMANOFF CAVIAB CO.. 4S0 Lexington Ave .. N. Y. C. 435 Hudson SI .. N. Y. C. KLlPSTEIN <> CO•• 30 Rockefeller Plaza. N. Y. C. <> U PEAT MOSS B. PENlCX CO.� Cr de GENERAL IMPqRTERS l�rJ: ;saus Street. N. Y. C. Walch for Trade Marks, "G.P.M."; "Pion"er", Chemical & Glue •• ABIBTO IMPORT CO .. INC.. 630 Filth Ave .. N. Y. C. "0. R.", "Sorbe,,"; "lustrite"; "P. I. C." 300 Pearl St.. N. Y. C. ADAM BERNHARD. 45 E. 17th SI.. N. Y. C. ATKINS <> DUBBROW. INC•• 165 10hn SI.. N. Y. C. EXPORT. My.. 19 W. 44th St. N' Y. C. GEORGE BORGFELDT CORP .. 48 E. 23rd St.. N. Y. C. PEAT MOSS SALES CORP.. 165 lohn St.. N. Y. C. ';'E CHEMICAL CO.. 80 W. Hudson St.. N. Y. C. • r. CHEIN & CO .. Harrison. N. 1 PEAT IMPORT CORP.. 155 10hn SI.. N. Y. C. Chemic:alB & . :"r.dROP CHEMICAL CO .. Dru!lS. MILLS SALES CO•• 901 B'way and •• I ••• 170 Varick St C. 85 Orchard St.. N. Y. C. H. (Combmed with A. METZ LABORATOBlES. INC.) STRAUS·ECKHARDT <> CO.. 45 E. 17th SI.. N. Y. C. PRINTING TYPES SPIEGEL BROS.. 33 E. 17th SI .. N. Y. C. BAUER TYPE FOUNDRY. INC .. 235 E. 45th 51.. N. Y. C. CHINAWARE AND GLASSWARE CONTINENTAL TYPE FOUNDERS ASSN.. INC .. 228 East 45th Street. N. T. C. S. A. BENDH.I!.IM. INC•• 16 Horatio St.. N. Y. C. GLASS l EUROPEAN TYPE FOUNDERS. INC .. & WESTERMAN. .• BUDDE 104 Worth St N. Y. C. 710 Broadway. N. Y. c.. FISH·SCHURMAN CORP.. Optical &. Laboralory Glass. F1SH·SCHUl!MA.N CORP.. 230 E. 45thSI .. N. Y. C. 230 Eeast 45th Streel. N. Y. C. HEINRICH <> WlNTEIILING CORP.. 48 West 32rd Street. N. Y. C. STATIONERY SUPPLIES HEHROE CO.. 225 Fifth Avenue. N. Y. C. GLOVES EUGENE DIETZGEN CO.. 218 E. 23rd SI.. N.Y.C. H. G. McFADDIN & CO.. 324 Filth Ave •• N' Y. C. A. W. FABER. INC .. 41 DickersoD St.. Newark. N. J. Trade Marks. "Well Known," "Wear Right" ROSENTHAL CHINA CORP.. 149 Filth Ave .. N. Y. C. KEUFEL 0; ESSER CO .. 127 Fulton SI.. N. Y. C. ARCADE GLOVE CO .. 112 E. 23rd SI .. N. Y. C. MANHATTAN STENCIL CO .. 410 B·way. N. Y. C. PAUL A. STRAUB. 105 Filth Avenue. N. Y. C. .. EMPIRE GLOVE CO.. INC .. 487 Broadway. N. Y. C. J. S. STEADTLER. INC .. (.. Mar . . "Lun,,"). Y. HYMAN HASPEL. GLOVES, 48 Fourth Ave •• N. Y. C. N. C. SWAN PENCIL CO.. 221 Fourth A.;:.. �1:��. COKE WELL KNOWN GLOVE CO .. 488 Fourlb Ave .. N. Y. C. � COLONIAL FUEL CORP•• 37 Commercial St. WlMPJ.BAcmm & RICE. 1150 B'way, N. Y. C. Brooklyn. N. Y. TOYS. NOTIONS AND FAVORS DOMESTIC FUEL CORP .. 39 B·way. N. Y. C. HARDWARE i KOXANCOAL CO•• INC .. 37 Commercial SL. ����ag'JJW:LJo�. Wo14�Ji.;;,:l': ��'l:"l'::. Brooklyn. N. Y. D. P. HARRIS HARDWARE MPG. CO.. F. A. O. SCHWARTZ. '145 Filth Avenue. N. Y. C. BENRAFFE <> SONS. INC.. 129 Variek St.. N. Y. C. 29 WarrenSt .. N. Y. C. STRAUSS-ECKHARDT & CO.. 45 E. 17th SL. N. Y. C. ROBERT E. MILLER. ..INC Tack .. and Nails ("Remeo"). CUTLERY. BARBERS' AND BEAUTY SUPPLIES 35 Pearl Street. N. Y. Co STRAUSS-ECKHARDT & CO.. 4S E. 17th SI.. N. Y. C. YEAST Watch lor Trade Marks. "Tree Brand", "Valley WATERBURY TACK CO.. INC.. Waterbury. Conn. For ' !'!!' u £k'" COMPRESSED YEAST CORP•• "Blue Bibbon" Yo",,!, l!T�� ��!:�.� L:'�� :;.!d ERIC WEDEMEYER. 162 ru th Avenue. N. Y. C. 353 Greenwich Street, N. Y. C. H. BOKER <> CO. . 101 Duane SI .. N. Y. C. PHOENIX YEAST CO.. 339 Greenwich St.. N. Y. C. VULKAN YEAST Combs. CORP.. 339 Greenwich St.. N. Y. C. BBESDUCK. INC.. Razors. Shears and Let the League know of any frauds or 224 Canal St •• N. Y. C. subterfuges used in offering Nazi·German GIBBS 0; CO 43 W. 43rd S N• Y C. .. .: t.;'! � '; MISCELLANEOUS HENRY XAYSEB & FILS. ";;, pli... . Goods? ; •, � i , N. Y. C. If you need a substitute for a NWli.made r. A. A • HENCKELS. INC.. 456 Fourth product, communicate with The League; PETER r. MICHELS. Barbe"'" Supp .. 1857 CamIpa Ave•• Ridgewood. N. Y. we will send you all information. MOLER SYSTEM OF COLLEGES. Beauty Culture I.. NON-SECTARIAN SI.. N. Y. C. ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE N. S. MEYER. INC., Army and Navy Eqnipment. Y. C. �1rROS.. Razors. Shears and Manicuring 20 W. 47th Street N. Y,- C. 419 Fourth Avenue. N. Implements, 250 West Broadway. N. Y. C. H. REIFENBERG. 205 W. 19th fll.. n. Y. C. WILFRED ACADEMY OF BEAUTY CULUTRE. MEdallion 3·2720 STANOLIND OIL 0; GAS COMPANY. Tul .... Oklahoma. 1659 Broadway. N. Y. C. ERNST TOEPFER. 2 Broadway. N. Y. C.