Instructions to proceed with plans for a march on May 10 in protest against the Hitlerite anti-Jewish policy in Germany on the occasion of the auto-da-fe of books by Jewish authors which the Nazis will carry on throughout the Reich on that date, were issued yesterday by the American Jewish Congress and other organizations associated with it in the protest movement.
In a statement reiterating its intention to continue its demonstrations against the Jewish policy of the present regime in Germany, the American Jewish Congress declared that it would adhere to this policy despite criticism levelled at it by other Jewish groups.
“The rank and file of our people, millions of them,” the statement said, “stand in solid formation behind the policy—of public protest and demonstration uttered through the American Jewish Congress.”
“In line with the pledge made on April 19 by 1,500 delegates representing 600 Jewish organizations, the American Jewish Congress calls upon their constituencies numbering millions, to continue their preparations for the protest march on May 10. In solid formation American Israel will reply to the calumny of Hitlerism, the degradation of the Jewish people and the discrimination against them,” the statement declared.
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