Establishment of a Jewish homeland which would permit Jews to have a voice in the world’s political and economic affairs as a nation was urged here by the Rev. Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, nationally prominent Methodist Episcopal leader.
Speaking in the fashionable Elm Park Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. Crane said that “America should be seething in protest against the vicious and cruel persecution of the Jews in Germany.”
He attributed Hitlerism to the Versailles treaty, the depression and to resentment of the Jews’ “natural intellectual superiority.”
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