Ask for Measures Against Anti-semitic International

(Jewish Telegraphic Agency Mail Service)

A memorandum dealing with the growing danger of the anti-Semitic movement in Europe was forwarded by the Jewish Women’s League to the Fifth Congress of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. The memorandum urges the Congress to take action by the creation of a special Commission within the League in order to counteract this anti-Semitic international movement and to bring about peace.

“The organization of the anti-Semitic International,” the memorandum says, “is now an accomplished fact. The danger of such an International not only to the Jews but to the whole work of peace, is self-evident. The proposed special Commission to fight against anti-Semitism,” the memorandum states, “should concentrate on fighting the anti-Semitic propaganda among young people.”

The memorandum urges the Congress to adopt a resolution declaring the necessity of organizing in every country a local force to resist the anti-Semitic movement, and demanding that the national sections be empowered to carry the resolution into effect in their own respective countries, as the German section has already been doing.

Attention was drawn to the resolution adopted by the First Congress of Child Welfare held in Geneva in August, 1925, in which it was declared that race-hatred is detrimental to peace and that it is essential to combat the anti-Semitic movement, especially among the youth in the schools and Universities.

“We hope that your Congress,” the memorandum concludes, “will give its attention to this problem, and work out a series of measures which will enable the national sections of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom to fight more successfully against this subversive and demoralizing force called anti-Semitism.”