Formation of a German-Jewish council in Milwaukee to fight the importation of foreign race prejudices into this country may soon be realized as a result of action taken by the Professional Men’s Club of this city.
The club, after hearing the three representatives of the National Conference of Jews and Christians who have been touring the country on behalf of tolerance, voted to appoint a committee to lay the groundwork for cooperation between Germans and Jews here.
This vote was taken on the recommendation of the Rev. E. LeRoy Dakin, liberal pastor of the First Baptist Church. Efforts will now be made, it was explained, to organize a representative group of Germans and Jews who will struggle against the spread of Nazi anti-Semitic ideas.
The “tolerance trio” that appeared before the Professional Men’s Club was Rabbi Morris S. Lazaron, Baltimore; Father John Elliott Ross, of the University of Iowa, and the Rev. Everett R. Clinchy, New York, Protestant minister.
All urged a “tariff wall against prejudices that have laid Europe low” and declared that each religion “must muzzle its own fools.”
In Madison, the visit of the three men, who spoke at three public schools, and at the University of Wisconsin’s Union Memorial building. were received with enthusiastic public acclaim by civic leaders. Mayor Low of Madison hailed the visit as “an important venture in developing mutual understanding which is necessary if we are to have the finest type of community life.”
Other secular and clerical leaders issued statements lauding the effort at fostering religious harmony and criticizing the persecution prevailing in Germany.
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