The Vienna “Neue Welt” (Zionist) in a recent issue which has just reached New York, discusses the German situation with special reference to the outlook for world Jewry. It asserts that the Jews of Germany are politically leaderless, that they lack any political organization and, therefore, are doubly defenseless. On the German Jews who had reached such an high cultural economic plane Herzl’s word: ‘We Jews are a people, one people,’ has made no impression. The result is that in times of danger they cannot even issue a united call for help and this makes the situation more desolate.
In another article, this paper discusses the attitude of the German unions, as the Union of German Nationalistic Jews, etc. It censures the attitude of the Centralverein, which was the first to be searched by the new Government under the suspicion of high treason, in spite of its repeated assurances of loyalty. It quotes the words of this organization:
“On the day of Potsdam, the wishes of the German Jews are consonant with those of the Germans of all parties who love their fatherland” and says that it would have been better had they remained silent and waited for the solution in a dignified attitude instead of engaging in flattery. In the same way, the Union of German Nationalistic Jews is condemned because this organization had made a statement in which foreign Jews and non-Jews were attacked.
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