An appeal to the Jews of South Africa to refrain from boycotting German goods was issued by Premier Hertzog. Declaring that the boycott would injure South Africa, the premier asked the Jews not to forget the country’s interests. He explained that Germany is now in the “throes of a revolution in which the innocent suffer with the guilty.”
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