Lay New Reich Laws to Zionist Speeches at Lucerne

Speeches delivered at the last Zionist Congress recently concluded in Lucerne, Switzerland, were today given in a semi-official statement here, as motivating the new anti-Jewish legislation passed by the German Reichstag at its extraordinary session in Nuremberg yesterday.

“At the Zionist Congress, which was just concluded in Switzerland, it was established that the Jews are a nation in themselves, and therefore speakers proclaimed demands for national interests of Jewry,” the statement says. “Germany has only drawn from these demands its practical conclusions. It is only fulfilling these demands when it converts the Jews into a national minority.”

The new citizenship law and the laws against mixed marriage, as well as the law against flying the swastika flag, affect only “fullblooded Jews,” the statement reveals. No other “non-Aryans” are affected by this new legislation.

Emphasizing that Jews are being put on a national minority basis “in order to make normal relations between Jews and Germans posible,” the statement declares that as a national minority Jews will remain under government protection. “The new status of the Jews will only be for the benefit of the German Jews,” the state-asserts. “German Jews will not be dissatisfied with the new status and loss of equal rights.”

Explaining the new citizenship laws Deutsche Nachrichten Bureau, official German new-service, today declares “The Jewish minority in Germany will through the new laws be enabled to conduct its own national life. It will be permitted to maintain its own schools and its own theaters and to create its own sports assoc-

iations. Briefly, it will be independent in its own life. On the other hand, however, it is self-understood that it will be prohibited forever from interfering with government questions or problems concerning the German nation.”