Open war between the Steuben Society of America and the Friends of New Germany, predicted in the Jewish Daily Bulletin many weeks ago, raged on all fronts yesterday.
Long-brewing hostility, fanned to a white heat by numerous recent attempts of Nazi leaders to make inroads into what formerly had been regarded as hallowed Steuben ground, flamed into the open at Schwaben Hall, Ridgewood, Queens, when Joseph Schuster, addressing a partisan audience of 500 persons, sounded a warning to the older society against interfering with the “Friends.”
STEUBEN POLICIES ‘COWARDLY’
Branding Steuben’s policies as “too cowardly to fit with the Hitler ideal,” Schuster, chieftain of the “Friends” eastern departments, said his organization is mobilizing to take over the “moral leadership of German America.”
He also denounced Steuben for supporting a Pittsburgh school which employs two Jewish teachers.
“You can’t trust an Irishman any more than a Jew!” shouted William Meter of New Jersey, referring to W. L. McLaughlin, former managing editor and part-publisher of the now defunct Deutsche Zeitung, as a traitor to the cause.
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