When the Hamburg-American liner Deutschland, flying a swastika flag, docked Friday morning at the West Forty-Fourth Street pier, also decorated with German flags, among the passengers was Rabbi Moses Lazur Mazur who returned with his wife after a prolonged visit with their daughter Mrs. Abraham Volks, at Worcester, Cape Providence, south Africa.
To the inquisitive press, Rabbi Mazur, who is seventh and looks twenty years younger, explained that he made his reservations for the Deutschland two years ago for Hitler’s advent to power, he emphasized-and was obliged to travel on Germany ship. Previous to embarking in Germany, he said he consulted a number of his friends in America, who counseled him to take the ship rather than suffer monetary loss. He has been away for eighteen months.
Asked if he was treated with courtesy Rabbi Mazus replied in the affirmative, to the chagrin of his friends on the pier, who urged the reporters not to publish that answer.
Even though the ship’s officers accommodated him into the second class cabin, although his reservations called only for tourist class travel, Rabbi Mazur declared that had he had his choice he would not have returned on the Deutschland. he will stay in Coney Island for the summer.
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