An appeal to the rich Jews of the world to withhold financial support from the present government in Hungary as long as the present dictatorship and its anti-Jewish program last, was made here Sunday at the Temple by Count Michael Karolyi, first president of the Hungarian Republic. He was introduced to the large congregation by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver.
Count Karolyi devoted his address for the most part to an exposition of the conditions of the Jews in Hungary and the causes of Hungarian anti-Semitism. His discussion was frank and he did not spare the wealthy and influential Jews of Hungary for the role they played in helping to bring to pass and to maintain the present regime in that country.
He discussed the recent alliance between the Pope and Mussolini and prophesied that pooling the interests of Papacy and Fascism will in the long run prove harmful to the Jews and to liberalism in general. The Count’s message, which appeared to make a great impression on his listeners, was his first extended public utterance in American on the Jewish question in Hungary.
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