Unlike the occasion last Sunday night when 5,000 protestants stormed the hall in Boston where he spoke, the gathering last night at the Chesapeake Club here when Dr. Frederich Schoenemann was the principal speaker, was entirely orderly.
A number of detectives were on hand, but not a single untoward incident occurred. Jews were well represented in the audience at the meeting, held under auspices of the Foreign Policy Association.
Dr. Schoenemann was followed by A. Fenner Brockway, chairman of the Independent Labor party of England. The subject discussed was “Nazi Germany.”
At the conclusion of the addresses, Dr. Jacob H. Hollander, professor of political economy at the Johns Hopkins University, brought up the subject of anti-Semitism.
In answer to Dr. Hollander’s charge that Jews in Germany had been subjected to discrimination, Dr. Schoenemann said:
“We know we have sinned, radical instincts are stirred up in time of revolution, but in time there will be moderation. We do not defend everything that has taken place during the revolution, but at the same time one cannot generalize and condemn the National Socialist Party on just one item. Hitler did not go to power on anti-Semitism.”
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