Jewish organizations–on the eve of the opening here of the German Industries Fair at the Museum of Science and Industry–have demanded that Nazis be removed from German industry and protested against the fact that some Nazis have been involved in the forthcoming exposition. The Fair opens tomorrow.
The National Community Relations Advisory Council urged that “Nazis be care-fully screened out of German industry to foreclose the possibility of another alliance between a revived Nazi Germany and a totalitarian Russia.” The Council, in a statement issued in behalf of the American Jewish Committee, American Jewish Congress, Anti-Defamation League, Jewish Labor Committee, Jewish War Veterans and Union of American Hebrew Congregations, said that it had no intention of picketing the exhibit.
Dr. Robert S. Marcus, political director of the World Jewish Congress, urged that the fair be cancelled “because it was the opening wedge for Nazi penetration into the United States.” Addressing a Congress meeting at the Hotel New Yorker, he said that “such events as the exhibition should be postponed until German industry was controlled by democratic elements.”
The Joint Committee to Combat Anti-Semitism–defense agency of the American Jewish Labor Council and the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order–set up what it called “token picket of 20” persons today outside the building where a preview of the exhibit was shown today. The Joint Committee announced that a “giant demonstration” will take place tomorrow “in protest against the Nazi participants” in the exposition.
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