Addressing the womanhood of America in a radio broadcast over Station Ward, Miss Blanche Jacobs asserted last night that Nazi policies had set back as much as a hundred years the fight for sex equality by German women. The American Jewish Congress, Boycott Division, sponsored this talk by Miss Jacobs, secretary of the Youth Division of the AJC.
Miss Jacobs urged an intensification of boycott efforts against German products as an act of retaliation for Hitler’s withdrawal of political, educational and cultural equality for German women.
“The Nazi chieftains loudly proclaim that the greatest victory which they can win is the victory of births,” Miss Jacobs declared. “Never before in the annals of history has the meaning and beauty of motherhood ever been called ‘battlefield fertilization.’ The State has taken over the very delicate duty of Motherhood and as soon as her sons are able to do the goose-step, they are transferred from so softening an environment as the home to the sterner care of the drill master. More marriages are constantly being urged but what is really meant was only too well emphasized by von Papen in a speech last Spring where he announced that the future needs soldiers and it is woman’s business to produce them.”
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