Two thousand Jews and non-Jews participated in a meeting held this afternoon in the City of London, the financial center of the capital, in connection with the Jewish situation in Germany. The meeting, which was sponsored by the fur trade, was attended by Colonel Josiah Wedgwood and Sir George Jones, both Members of Parliament. All speakers expressed severest condemnation of the unprovoked attack against German Jews and appealed to the German Government to put an end to the agitation which had brought about the outrages and to remove the political and economic restrictions against Jews.
As an expression of solidarity and sympathy with German Jewry, the meeting pledged itself to use every means to induce the German authorities not only to discontinue the agitation but also to restore to the Jews full rights.
Colonel Wedgwood, M.P., stressing the importance of the protests and other measures undertaken in England and America, declared them to be “the right thing,” manifesting as they do that the spirit of the Maccabees is still alive.
The boycott movement against German goods will take a further form tomorrow by the publication in the Yiddish press of special captions which will be retained until further notice, reading, “Jews Boycott German Trade as Long as Hitler Tortures Jews!”
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