WE ARE glad to note that the Jewish War Veterans did not participate in the attempt to interfere with the outrageous Nazi meeting in Queens last Sunday. We hope that they will not carry out their decision to resist in the future “any attempts made to disturb the peace and welfare of the people of this country.” We understand that “their patience has been exhausted,” that they are genuinely concerned about the tragic plight of the Jewish people in Germany and that they are indignant at the un-American and anti-American manifestations of the Nazis and their dupes in this country, but it is not the function of the Jewish War Veterans to resist attempts to disturb the peace and welfare of the people of this country. That should be the function of the Government and the police authorities.
The Jewish War Veterans, are, however, right in calling attention to the fact that at the meeting of “Friends of New Germany,” storm troopers wore “the uniform of a foreign government in direct violation of the Federal Foreign Relations Law,” and that these uniformed men, with swastikas upon their red, white and blue armbands, marched through the streets singing the Nazi anthem, “Horst Wessel,” the German song of hate, which contains the following lines:
“When Jewish blood drips from the knife, then will the German people prosper.”
The violence of the Nazis should not be met with counter-violence by the Jewish War Veterans. The violators of American law and order and the offenders of public decency should be dealt with vigorously by the American authorities.
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