and property will not be abolished, and that German Jews will remain united with the German Fatherland and, together with all other Germans of good-will, will be able to work for the Fatherland’s revival.”
A statement in the same vein has been issued by the German League of Jewish Veterans, who, in a letter to the American Embassy in Germany, protested against the propagation of reports of anti-Semitic atrocities.
A statement has also been issued by the National German Jewish Party declaring “If in the United States, Poland, Holland, and other countries, attempts are made by Jewish and non-Jewish circles to coerce the National Government of Germany into any course of action, … we, as Germans, must oppose such blackmail attempts with the same decisiveness and intensity as any of our fellow non-Jewish countrymen.”
It should be recalled that this party supported Hugenberg during the recent election. Moreover, its moving spirit, Max Naumann, in a statement recently published by him in the “Deutscher Allgemeine Zeitung”, declared that the desire manifested among Germans to stem Jewish influence was justified.
Simultaneously with these denials there have appeared various statements emanating from German shipping companies and boards of trade, tending to minimize the gravity of the reports regarding excesses in Germany. Among these a cable addressed by Dr. B. Grund, President of the Deutscher Industrie und Handelstag, Berlin, to the Board of Trade of German American Commerce, located at 230 Fifth Avenue, New York City. It includes the passage, “We are very much astonished about news of wholesale acts of violence against the Jewish population. No organized acts of this kind have taken place. Jewish business men continue unmolested. Exceptional acts of violence were strongly disapproved and energetically suppressed by the German Government. Business is continuing quite normal. German people have during long years of great suffering kept calm and peaceful and still go on in that way.”
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