To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Your issue of April 8 reporting my remarks at the National Conference of the Zionist Revisionist Organization last Saturday evening at the Hotel Edison contains several errors which I trust you will grant me space to correct.
I spoke no “harsh words” against Rabbi Wise, as your reporter declares. It is possible to disagree with Dr. Wise without speaking “harsh words” against him. I paid a tribute to Dr. Wise as my mentor, guide, teacher and friend, and regretted deeply that for the first time in twenty years I found it necessary to stand opposed to him on a question of major Jewish policy. I deplored his Carnegie Hall discourse as unnecessary, confusing and hurtful, but I quoted the well known aphorism: we “disagree in nothing except opinion,” concerning his attitude towards Jabotinsky. I predicted that when the Congress came, Dr. Wise, despite his previous speeches, in the final test would be on the right side.
If these be “harsh words,” then let the opponents of Revisionism, “Group B” and others who are critics of the present Histadruth-dominated Executive, make the most of them.
Rabbi Louis I. Newman (Congregation Rodeph Sholom).
New York City.
QUERY ON ANTI-NAZI RALLY
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
In the name of a group of readers of your paper, I should like to put an open question to the Anti-Nazi League of which Mr. Samuel Untermyer is president, why Dr. Kurt Rosenfeld, former Minister of Justice of Prussia, now in the United States, was at the last moment eliminated from the list of speakers at the mass meeting last Wednesday, called by the Anti-Nazi League at the Hippodrome?
Many people came to the meeting just because they wanted to hear the former Socialist Minister of Prussia. After all, he was the only speaker on the list who comes directly from Germany and who knows something about German life. Was there any politics in eliminating him at the last minute as a speaker? Is the Anti-Nazi League also conducting backstage politics?
Victor Mintz.
New York City.
ON MINORITIES PROTESTS
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
It seems incongruous to read in the day’s news that France, Italy and England have protested to the government of Lithuania about the treatment of the minorities in the Memel territories, said minorities being in the whole of German extraction, but not once have I heard of a protest from these same powers regarding the treatment of minorities in Upper Silesia, in the Saar Basin, and in the free state of Danzig, all of which are still under the jurisdiction of the League of Nations.
There have been flagrant violations of existing treaties and covenants by the German nation. Minorities, in the main, Jewish minorities have been suppressed, beggared, and deprived of livelihood, and not a sound has come from either Downing street, the Chamber of Deputies, or the Black Shirt Kingdom in Rome—how ironic.
Rapheal S. Pincasoff.
Brooklyn, N. Y.
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