The effect of the Nazi regime in Germany upon the surrounding countries is pointed out in a report of the Joint Foreign Committee which will be submitted at the meeting of the Board of Jewish Deputies here Sunday.
In Austria, according to the report, a dangerous situation has arisen as a result of increasing Nazi agitation. In Poland, the anti-Semitic National Democrats have been stimulated to renewed activity and anti-Semitic disturbances have taken place at Lodz, Cracow, in East Galicia and elsewhere. Consequently, the Government has had to move to suppress anti-Semitic agitation throughout Poland.
The followers of Professor Cuza, leader of the anti-Semitic movement in Roumania, have increased their agitation all over the country and the extension of the Nazi movement there resulted in serious outbreaks at Czernowitz which were suppressed only with the aid of troops. The Hungarian Government has found it necessary to prohibit the Nazi uniform and swastika display.
In Germany, the report declares, the Nazi program against the Jews continues with undiminished vigor. Jews are steadily being eliminated from the intellectual, economic and political life of the nation and, in addition to official decrees against Jewish doctors, lawyers, professors and civil servants, administrative pressure is being used to drive the Jews out of all their important positions in business, journalism and sport.
Though little light is to be seen in the deep gloom surrounding the future of the Jews of Germany, the report points out, measures have been taken to provide assistance to the refugees.
The report also deals with other measures taken by the committee, such as the organization of mass meetings of protest in the provinces and the dissemination of information regarding the German situation as well as a cable to the Palestine
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