Karel Capek, noted Czechoslovakian writer, issued a proclamation to Czechoslovakian students today outspokenly condemning recent manifestations of anti-Semitism in Praha.
“We are now hearing the cry of ‘out with the Jew,'” Capek wrote. “In democratic France or England, and even in fascist Italy. this cry is not heard. It is notoriously the device of the Hitler Reich and of the Austrian German Nationalists.
“Do you want to create the impression that our people and our government are so closely related spiritually to Hitlerism that they have taken over the anti-Semitic legacy? We must show that we will not allow ourselves to be spiritually Germanized,” Capek declared.
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