Boycotting of German products in protest against Hitlerist persecution of the Jews has spread to Egypt, “Al Blag,” Cairo newspaper, reveals. An Egyptian firm, it states, has cancelled an order from Germany for agricultural machinery amounting to £42,000 as a gesture of protest.
The German Minister in Cairo, it is learned, has protested to the Egyptian Government publication of a special edition of the weekly “L’Aurore” which is devoted to the persecutions of Jews in Germany.
A Mohammedan paper published here, “Al Mokattam,” cannot understand how a nation so presumably civilized as Germany, should make so stupid a blunder as to persecute law-abiding Jews, and quotes Lord Macaulay for the benefit of the Nazis. In its article, entitled “The Nazi Party and the Jews,” “Al Mokattam” says, in part:
“Those who realize the great strength of the Jews in the world and the potential influence they wield in the moral, financial and political spheres, are surprised that such a sordid and wholly illogical course should be embarked upon by the supporters of the new movement in Germany and approved by the leaders, all the more since they are known to be wise and far-sighted people.”
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