THE arrest of Dr. Benno Walter, vice president of the German B’nai B’rith, and his imprisonment in a secret police jail, is, but another indication of the ruthlessness of Hitler’s anti-Jewish policy.
Mrs. Alfred M. Cohen, president of the Independent Order B’nai B’rith, commenting on the arrest of Dr. Walter and the confiscation of B’nai B’rith property in Germany, said that “sealing the doom of the B’nai B’rith in Germany can only mean the closing of orphans’ homes that have been the pride of all classes of German people, depriving aged men and women of the refuges in which they are spending the last years of their lives, and depriving thousands of men of the opportunity of the cultivation of the highest things in life, including patriotism, loyalty and love for country,” and he pledges that “the B’nai B’rith will make every possible effort to arouse the conscience of the world against the utter disregard of human rights” under the Hitler regime.
It is high time that the Jews everywhere realize that the conscience of the world cannot be aroused by an ostrich policy, by failing to denounce vigorously the menace of Hitlerism. The only type of diplomacy that could succeed today is the diplomacy of courage and dignity and truth. And that is the type of diplomacy that the Jewish people should resort to in exposing the Nazi terror in Germany and the Nazi propaganda against the Jews in other lands.
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