The American Jewish Congress today called upon the League of Nations to provide safeguards against further encroachments on Jewish rights in Rumania and appealed to the United States Government to make further representations to Rumania on its treatment of the Jews.
The appeals were adopted at an emergency conference of the congress administrative and executive committees at the Hotel New Yorker attended by about 150 persons. The resolutions were approved “in spirit” with the governing council to formulate the text. The resolutions also called for a united Jewish front and for an appeal to all Americans to join in the fight against Rumanian anti-Semitism.
“The assault upon the rights of the Jews is an extension of the assault upon Jewish rights which has become popular since the advent of Nazism in Germany and which today jeopardizes the very existence of five million Jews living in Eastern and Central Europe,” said one resolution. “If permitted to continue, the Jewish people are doomed to be victims of destruction in their native lands or wanderers on the face of the earth, begging for asylum.”
Speakers included Dr. John H. Lathrop, chairman of the American Committee on Religious Rights and Minorities; Dr. Stephen S. Wise, president of the congress; Carl Sherman, M. Maldwin Fertig, Prof. Horace M. Kallen, Nathan D. Perlman, Herman Speier and Louis Lipsky, who presided.
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