Mr. Neville Laski, the Anglo-Jewish leader, addressing the Board of Deputies of British Jews, branded any “assurances” by the Nazi government regarding the treatment of all Jews in Germany as “delusive.” He said that “so long as the German government tolerates the perpetual incitement against the Jews, foreign opinion must regard its assurances of liberty for Jews in business life as delusive. If anything we say or do may have little effect on Germany, we must, however, ensure that public opinion outside Germany be informed of the true nature of the Jewish persecutions. We ask nothing except what Germany is asking for herself, equal treatment.”
The vague “assurances” given by the Nazi government are deceptive. On the eve of the projected new anti-Jewish boycott, which is being organized with typical German thoroughness and Nazi ruthlessness, these “assurances” become a hollow mockery. The Hitlerite propagandists are growing ever more confused in their attempts to stir up more intense anti-Jewish hate in Germany and at the same time to hoodwink public opinion abroad by misleading fiction.
Hitlerism will eventually be crushed by an aroused world public opinion. It is isolating itself morally and politically in international affairs, and destroying itself economically.
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