Search JTA's historical archive dating back to 1923

League of Nations Ready to Defend Jews, Rabbi Wise Says at Geneva Conference

September 7, 1933
See Original Daily Bulletin From This Date
Advertisement

dent in his speech last night, declaring, “This stench-bomb performance may irritate us but it need not surprise us. It is on the high level of Hitler’s and Goebbel’s propaganda during the last six months. That bomb was the measure of decency and courtesy in dealing with the Jews and other Nazi victims.

“The Hitler forces and their agents in this land, whom they may have hired or inspired, should be told that neither stench-bombs nor any kind of bomb will deter the Jews from exercising the right to lawful assemblies to protest against their oppressors.

“Long before this, the world appraised the moral and spiritual values underlying the Nazi movement.”

A correspondent of the Voelkischer Beobachter, the newspaper published in Berlin and Munich by Adolf Hitler, was present at the conference today, sitting in the section reserved for correspondents reporting the conference.

Recommended from JTA

Advertisement