Discussing the Jewish world congress scheduled to be held next winter, the Frankfurter Israelite points out that it is impossible for the congress to focus on anything but the German Jewish situation.
“Making a public show of the Jewish tragedy in Germany will not serve the interests of Germany’s Jews,” it warns. It expresses the hope that English and American Jewish organizations will consider this point carefully.
“A quiet not demagogic meeting of the responsible Jewish bodies of the world is advisable,” it says, “but the manner of New York in arranging for the congress destroys the possibility of a quiet, businesslike, international consultation.”
The C. V. Zeitung, organ of the Central Union of German Jews, dealing with Chancellor Hitler’s Reichstag speech, with its emphasis on German suicides, points out that in Prussia during the last eight years, the Jewish proportion of suicides has been two percent of the total recorded, while the Jews constitute only one percent of the population. “Thus the Jews have suffered doubly in the spiritual and economic distress of Germany,” the paper declares.
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