Christian Rally in Switzerland Scores Nazis

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A large Christian demonstration against anti-Semitism, arranged in Zurich by the district branch of the League of Nation’s Union, condemned the anti-Jewish propaganda which Nazis are now conducting in Switzerland.

Professor Nabholz, of the Zurich University, addressing the meeting, pointed out that there are only four or five Jews to every thousand Swiss citizens. The Jews have never exercised any real influence in Swiss political life and their economic influence is very slight, he declared. None of the directors of the big Swiss banks are Jews and the same applies to big industries and apartment stores also, he emphasized.

The Professor ridiculed the Nazi allegation that the Jews are endangering Switzerland. “A suggestion that a Jewish population of 18,000 could endanger the culture of about 4,000,000 Swiss people was an insult to the intelligence of the Swiss people,” he said, “The Swiss press is entirely in the hands of ‘Aryans’ and the same applies to the schools. There are a few Jews attending Swiss universities, and most of these are men of exceptional eminence.”

Professor Nabholz concluded by stating that the attitude of a people on the Jewish question is a barometer of the cultural level of that people. Dr. K. Fleischmann, voicing the Roman Catholic view at the meeting said that the Catholic Church always behaved with love and toleration towards the Jews and that anti-Semitism was a crime against Christianity.

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