While DAWA demonstrators against the anti-Nazi boycott gathered at Madison Square Garden last night to further plans for a boycott against the Jews, representatives of the Jewish and non-Jewish community condemned Hitler and Hitlerism in a series of three meetings held under the auspices of the American Jewish Congress.
With a symposium of educators at the New School for Social Research, a President’s Day meeting sponsored by the Women’s Division at the home of Adolph Lewisohn, a mass meeting at the Eastern District High School in Brooklyn, and a radio broadcast over Station WBNX, the Congress appealed to all Americans to unite in a movement against Hitlerism and its attempt to arouse suspicion and hatred among minorities here.
German-Americans were urged to show loyalty to American ideals by repudiating the DAWA movement.
An immediate program to counteract Nazi activities in this country was demanded by Judge Algernon I. Nova, speaking at the meeting in Williamsburg. “It would be criminal negligence to wave aside the implications of the DAWA and other Nazi organizations,” Judge Nova declared. “What has happened in Germany should teach Americans, as well as the entire world, a valuable lesson. In Germany, with its great and widespread democratic institutions and organizations, none believed it possible that Hitlerism would ever win control. Yet the Hitlerites are in power and in the space of one year have destroyed all democratic institutions and plunged the country into the darkness of the Middle Ages.”
Judge Nova urged the intensification of the boycott of German goods, and declared, “A declaration of war upon the American constitution is implicit in the organization and the operation of the DAWA.”
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