In this almost all-German city, Abraham Goldberg of New York, national Zionist leader, sounded an appeal for harmony and peace between Jews and Germans in an address at a meeting of the Milwaukee Zionist organization here. The speaker declared he looked “forward to the day when Jews and Germans may sit around one table and solve their problems together, when racial hate and the spirit of vengeance will end.”
“If present discriminatory laws and persecution remain in Germany, 300.000 Jews will have to leave that land in the next five years,” he said. “And yet not all the lands in the world apparently can absorb a mere 60,000 refugee Jews a year. Not even the United States and Canada with their vast areas seem ready to receive them despite all their pratings of sympathy,” Mr. Goldberg said. Palestine remains as the only outstanding hope of persecuted Jews, he said, pleading for support in the up building of this homeland.
Goldberg’s address initiated a local drive for 400 new members of the Milwaukee Zionist organization.
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