Assurances that under no conditions would the Swastika flag fly over the World’s Fair were received by the Jewish Women’s Organization of Chicago today.
Mrs. Benjamin I. Morris, of the Jewish Women’s Aid Society, demanded this assurance as the price of her group’s participation in the large luncheon to be held in the German American Building, at the Century of Progress, on Monday. The luncheon is to be the main event in the celebration of Women’s Day at the Fair.
Miss Marie Becker, chairman of the German American hostess society, called a meeting of the advisory committee consisting of the presidents of 75 organizations of women at the headquarters of the Chicago Association of Commerce. Miss Becker told the Jewish organizations, “not only will there be no Nazi flag on the German-American Building, but there will be no official exhibit by the German government.” She added that the exhibit now in the United States for that purpose has been cancelled.
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