A statement by 215 outstanding Germans not of Jewish ancestry, who occupied positions of prominence in the life of the German nation, made in 1912 in protest against the ritual murder libels against the Jews in connection with the trial of Mendel Beilis, was quoted today for the edification of Nazi Germany, where the ritual murder libels have been given official sanction and widespread publicity.
Dr. J.H. Hertz, chief rabbi of England, today quoted part of the statement of the German notables at a meeting of the Anglo-Jewish Association. Dr. Hertz read the part of the statement protesting “against the unscrupulous fiction without a shadow of proof, which is causing misguided crowds to pollute themselves with innocent Jewish blood.”
Haham Moses Gasterof of the Spanish Portuguese Congregations and former president of the English Zionist Federation, warned that the Jewish problem exists not only in Germany, but also in Poland and Rumania, and is being intensified in the Moslem countries.
LASKI INSISTS ON CONTINUITY
Neville Laski, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, in his address, referred to the resignation of B. A. Zaiman as secretary of the Joint Foreign Committee, composed of representatives of the Board of Deputies and of the Anglo-Jewish Association, which he declared was causing anxiety as to the future of the committee and insisted that there be continuity of policy, “whether I am president or not.”
Mr. Laski complained of the difficulty of persuading English newspapers that events in Germany were still news. He excepted, however, the London Times, the Daily Telegraph and the Manchester Guardian.
He announced that the Joint Foreign Committee was taking drastic action against those guilty of spreading the notorious “Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” citing the sensational charges made in London by Colonel Graham Seton Hutchinson, Nazi propagandist, who declared that King Albert of Belgium was “murdered by Communist international financiers.”
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