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The League of Nations could overthrow the Hitler government within sixty days by merely invoking economic sanctions against Germany, Samuel Untermyer, leader of the world boycott against Germany, declared yesterday on his return from California to New York.
Mr. Untermyer expressed the belief that an organized economic boycott against Germany will eventually end the Hitler regime. The end of the Nazi regime is already in sight, he stated.
“The report that the European nations are at last adopting the obvious protection of mutual security-pacts against the thinly veiled, bullying threats of Germany is too sane and good to be true,” Mr. Untermyer said.
ONLY ROAD TO PEACE
“It is the only road to world peace against this Mad Dog of Europe to whom treaties and agreements are meaningless, one sided pacts, made only to be broken and scrapped at Germany’s will.
“So long as this medieval reign of terror continues the preservation of peace must depend upon the fear of superior force and the determination to use it.
“Our non-sectarian boycott is constantly gathering momentum all over the world. It is proving an effective, peaceful substitute for war.
PENALTY PROVIDED
“It is not, but should be, generally realized that specific provision is made for the boycott under present conditions by the express terms of the Covenant of the League of Nations, under the title of ‘Economical Sanctions.’
“Why does not the League invoke those provisions? For what were they intended if not for such a flagrant, self-confessed case of wanton defiance of solemn contract obligations?
“At last, before it is too late, the League has the opportunity to demonstrate its power and vindicate its usefulness as an instrument to avert war. If it now fails to act, it is doomed.
SEES REGIME’S END
“At the present rate of progress of our world boycott, I believe that the economic collapse of the benighted Hitler regime and the restoration of democratic government in Germany are well in sight, but the exercise by the League of the power reserved for it for just such a case as this would settle this within sixty days, and we shall have peace.
“Why was this power reserved to the League if it was never to be exercised? Isolate this pariah among the nations to whom solemn obligations are mere meaningless ‘scraps of paper.’
APRIL 15 IS DEADLINE
“Of what use are new agreements when existing ones are kicked to pieces at will? Why should self-respecting nations want to be members of such an impotent body? The meeting of April 15 should be a red-letter event in the history of civilization, for then the League will be galvanized into new life—or die.
“Our organization is holding a mass meeting at the Hippodrome on the evening of April 10 to protest German rearmament and suggest the ‘economic boycott’ as the answer to the Nazi war threat.
“Like meetings are being held by our organizations in London, Paris and possibly Brussels, prior to the meeting of the League of Nations on the 15th.
“The American Federation of Labor is joining in our meeting of protest.”
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