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Newspaper comment reflected American sentiment for a rebuke to Germany’s anti-Jewish drive, which prominent Americans supported in radio addresses. The Herald Tribune said editorially: “The recall of the ambassador records fittingly and beyond any possible doubt the unanimous resentment with which the American people regard the barbaric cruelty of the German Government toward its Jewish population.” The Times declared the instructions to Mr. Wilson “reveal how seriously our Government regards the present course in Germany,” asserting that the anti-Semitic developments indicated that restraint had been abolished in the Reich and the Nazi movement was just beginning to break bounds. The Newark Ledger urged severance of diplomatic relations with Berlin.

The Reich’s anti-Semitic drive was denounced in sitter terms last night by ex-President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, Alfred M. Landon, Senator William King, Methodist Bishop Edwin H. Hughes and the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, president of Fordham University, in a CBS broadcast arranged by the Federal Council of Churches of Christ. Dorothy Thompson, the newspaper commentator, urged a world-wide defense movement for the Jewish slayer of the German Embassy official, in an NBC broadcast.

Mass meetings, boycott drives and other activities to protest Nazi persecution continued to be arranged by various organizations. In Washington, AFL Vice-President Matthew Woll announced a plan to form a nation-wide organization to relieve and defend persecuted peoples in Europe. Leaders in every field of women’s activity throughout the United States expressed their horror over the persecution of Jews in Germany in statements released by the National Council of Women of the United States. The North American Democratic Hungarian Federation, which says it has 150,000 members, telegraphed President Roosevelt urging that the Government sever diplomatic relations with Germany.