“By maintaining the boycott steadily for a few more months and by enlisting in it all those who see the worldwide implications of the Nazi policy of fostering race hatred, the point will presently be reached at which the industrial interests of Germany itself will require of their government an abandonment of its policy of racial discrimination.” This belief is expressed in a leaflet written by Dr. Paul Hutchinson, president of the Chicago Committee for the Defense of Human Rights Against Nazism.
Dr. Hutchinson sees Nazism as a vital challenge to Christians and declares that the committee’s campaign is not confined to the Jewish community and that many Gentiles are stirred by the race and religious policies of the Nazi government. The leaflet points out that the league has no intention of interfering “with the right of the German people to establish any form of government which they may desire.” It is made clear that the group is seeking the abandonment of a policy which infringes on human rights. Comment is made on the effectiveness of the boycott, which, in Dr. Hutchinson’s view, is causing deep concern to German industrial interests who financed the Nazis in their campaign for power.
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