At a meeting attended here by 500 delegates from various Chicago organizations, it was decided against a small minority, to held a monster protest demonstration next Monday. Though the time and place are to be fixed tomorrow, it is hoped to make the demonstration coincide with that in New York, and arrange for a broadcast from New York of the speeches by Governor Herbert H. Lehman, former Gov. Alfred E Smith, Mayor O’Brien and others.
A minority at the meeting had proposed that the demonstration should be postponed in order to see if it would be possible to merge it with one which is being planned by non-Jews here.
In the meantime, numbers of influential Jews, non-Jews, and individual organizations are sending messages of protest to officials in Washington.
Among those who have communicated with Washington is Charles West, President of Rogers’ Park Civic League, who has urged that the Illinois Senators and Representatives speed up the efforts of the State Department to put an end to the Jew-baiting in Germany. The South Town Hebrew Congregation, too, has wired the State Department requesting intervention on behalf of German Jewry.
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