A resolution condemning the Nuremberg race and citizenship laws was scheduled for adoption today by the International Union of League of Nations Societies.
With the German delegation absent, no opposition to the Netherlands Society’s motion was expected. The German League of Nations Society printed out in a letter to the union that the question of the Jews in Germany was “an internal German affair which cannot be discussed by the international union.”
The resolution follows:
“Whereas legislation concerning the ‘non-Aryans’ and their treatment and, in general, the policy pursued by the German Government in the sphere of religion and freedom of thought, violate the generally accepted principles of justice, principles which, as expressed especially in the minority treaties, have found application for the German minorities,.
“And whereas such laws and such a policy cause serious difficulties to other states, especially in the sphere of legal difficulties regarding marriage laws and the influx of refugees.
“The International Union of League of Nations Societies draws the attention of the German Government to the serious difficulties which can only result from this policy for the resumption of Germany’s international cooperation with the rest of the would, and expresses the wish that the next meeting of the League of Nations should find an opportunity for examining these different measures, examination of which is demanded by the present position of the Jews.”
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