Persons upon whom the utmost reliability can be placed, just arrived from Berlin, report that the German authorities are forcing German Jews to write to their relatives abroad that there exists in Germany no anti-Jewish terror.
REPORTS OF GERMAN EXCESSES ARE TERRIBLE EXAGGERATIONS, SAYS CABLE TO RABBI LEO JUNG
Reports from Germany are grossly at variance with the facts, was the substance of a cable sent by Rabbi Ezra Munk, one of the leading members of the Rabbinate in Germany, to Dr. Leo Jung, Rabbi of the Jewish Center in New York.
“I address my appeal to you,” runs the message, “as a colleague and friends of many years standing, as a former student of Universities in this country and as one who knows the German people. I am most emphatically determined to brand as untrue reports which are worthy of punishment because they are contrary to fact. I refer to the terrible exaggerations of excesses of individuals reported to have taken place during the elections.
“Please see to it that this message receives the widest publicity,” the cable concludes.
Dr. Jung added, however, that the cable did not contradict the reports regarding the systematic endeavor on the part of the Government to freeze out Jews from German professional, financial, and social life.
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