More than 350 delegates were present last night at the opening of conference of the youth division of the Chicago Committee for the Defense of Human Rights at the Hotel Sherman.
Raymond A. Bragg, secretary of the western Unitarian conference, who recently returned from a fourth Summer in Germany, discussed the second phase of Hitlerism.
“It seems that the swagger of Hitlerism is gone,” he said. “But the problem of the brown shirt still remains to be solved. French antagonism is crystallizing more now than at any time since Hitler took power.” He called the murder of Chancellor Dollfuss “black justice,” but declared that Germany comes out of every crisis just a little more isolated than when she approached it.
The conference adopted a resolution expressing sympathy with the 16,000 German pastors who are openly defying Hitler. Another resolution congratulated Harvard University for refusing to accept a gift from Dr. Hanfstaengl. The conference also reaffirmed the boycott of German-made goods.
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