Support of the Roosevelt Administration was advocated last night by the Rev. John Haynes Holmes, pastor of the Community Church, New York, as a counter measure to anti-Semitism in America.
Dr. Holmes was the speaker at a meeting of the Baltimore branch of the American Jewish Congress at the Southern Hotel, the title of his talk being “Hitler’s Revolution and Other Revolutions.”
He declared that Hitler’s anti-Semitic triumph was a menace to Jews everywhere and that given the same conditions such hatred against the Jews might arise anywhere.
Dr. Holmes intimated that, if the Roosevelt Administration should fail, the NRA accomplish nothing and the middle class in the United States be wiped out as the result of ensuing inflation, there would be persons who would turn upon the Jews as a scapegoat upon which to place the blame, and anti-Semitism might follow.
“If things go from bad to worse in this country, it will be almost impossible to prevent Fascism,” the speaker replied in answer to a question.
“As to the attitude of the Hitler regime toward the Jews,” Dr. Holmes said, “it is a slow-grinding process, like the action of a glacier, in which the Jew will be forced from the country or into a miserable existence in the ghetto.”
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