An appeal for intensification of the anti-German boycott on the ground that Nazism constitutes a menace to the United States and other countries as well as Germany was made today by Dr. Stephen S. Wise at a press conference of the Joint Boycott Council at the Hotel Commodore.
He said that America was rife with Nazi propaganda and that there were more than 200 anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi organizations in the United States. While many expected that anti-Semitic propaganda would end with Roosevelt’s re-election, Dr. Wise asserted, he was not so hopeful.
Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the council, in reviewing four years of the boycott, said that “Nazi Germany is doomed economically and therefore bound for disaster politically.” He declared that the boycott was important if Hitler was to be prevented from plunging the world into war.
Another speaker was I. Minkoff, secretary of the Jewish Labor Committee, which, with the American Jewish Congress, comprises the council.
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