A resolution denouncing German persecution of Jews and Catholics and urging President Roosevelt to emulate the late Theodore Roosevelt, who when President condemned the Kishineff pogroms in 1904, was unanimously adopted today by the New York City Board of Estimate. The resolution was introduced by City Council President Newbold Morris at the request of Mayor LaGuardia. Mr. Morris announced also that he planned to investigate the board’s rules on the purchase of materials from abroad with an eye to boycotting German goods.
The National Conference of Jews and Christians, which had called for nationwide prayers next weekend for the victims of racial and religious prejudice, today issued the text of a suggested prayer prepared by Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo, vice-president of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, and Rabbi David de Sola Pool, president of the Synagogue Council of America. It concludes: “Grant, we beseech Thee that the day may soon come when nation shall no more lift sword against nation, neither learn war any more and all Thy children everywhere shall dwell together in good will and peace.”
Additional protests against Nazi treatment of Jews in Germany were received by the Federal Council, it was announced by Dr. Samuel McCrea Cavert, general secretary. He released telegrams from Alfred M. Landon, Carrie Chapmen Catt, Professor Arthur H. Compton, and Raymond Leslie Buell.
The New York Times, in its third leading editorial on the subject of the Nazi pogroms, under the caption “Profit from Persecution” declared: “Long after every other consequence of the present wave of terrorism is forgotten decent Germans will feel a sense of national humiliation and shame because of it.” In her nationally syndicated column, Dorothy Thompson declared the issue “not whether Judaism will survive but whether the common civilization that runs from the Greeks to our own day will survive.” Heywood Broun, N.Y. World-Telegram columnist who is also widely syndicated, warning it was extremely difficult to localize a conflagration the size of the one sweeping Europe today urged unrestrained ringing of an alarm to prevent its spread across the ocean. The Telegram also published a cartoon and a leading editorial on the subject.
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