The Joint Boycott Council, which was instrumental in shifting considerable trade from Germany to Czecho-Slovakia, formally announced today the extension of the anti-Nazi boycott to the areas of the former Republic now under Nazi control.
“We are not declaring an extension of the boycott to harm the democracy-loving masses of what was formerly Czecho-Slovakia,” declared Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the council, in a statement, “but rather to help free this martyred people from the brutal and unprecedented invasion of its sovereign rights by bringing about the economic collapse of its persecutors and defilers.”
Merchandise already paid for or goods in transit are exempt from the boycott, Dr. Tenen baum said. He added that the extension of the boycott would aid in building up substitute industries in the United States, regarding which the council was cooperating with a number of trade associations.
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