A rally designed as a reply to the intolerance shown by the German-American Bund was held tonight in Carnegie Hall under the auspices of the Council Against Intolerance in America. Scheduled speakers included Lieutenant-Governor Charles Poletti, Representative Bruce Barton, Jeremiah T. Mahoney, Fannie Hurst and Walter Damrosch George Gordon Battle, who presided, said the meeting was intended “not as a protest against the fact of the Bund’s meeting, but as an answer to the expressions of intolerance that were made there.”
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise cabled the following message from London: “I rejoice as an American to learn that New York’s answer to the Bund will be given tonight by a company of great Americans under the auspices of the Council Against Intolerance. The anti-American Bund supports the intolerance of Nazi totalitarianism, whereas the Council defends tolerance as essential to the maintenance of a democracy that means not merely political processes but fellowship and brotherhood. Intolerance as the mainstay of Fascist and Nazi states denies the value of fellowship on the basis of the concept that no human unity is possible except through racial uniformity and national identity under a dictatorship. I hail the first public assembly of the Council Against Intolerance which, under its high leadership and because of its distinguished membership will yet become a nighty and resistless force for safeguarding our country and its democratic ideal. “Messages were also received from Governor Lehmand and Senators Wagner and Mead.
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