THE ZIONIST CONGRESS PRESIDIUM TODAY PROTESTED TO THE POLICE AGAINST REPEATED ATTACKS BY NAZIS ON DELEGATES IN THE STREETS, IN THE LAST OF WHICH TWO PROMINENT JEWS WERE INJURED LAST NIGHT.
RABBI WOLF GOLD OF JERUSALEM, PRESIDENT OF THE NIZRACHI ORGANIZATION AND FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN MIZRACHI, AND MANE KATZ, FAMOUS FRENCH ARTIST, WERE ASSAULTED LAST NIGHT. NAZIS ALSO STAGED A DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE THE CITY THEATRE, WHERE THE CONGRESS IS BEING HELD.
THE ATTACKS WERE DISCUSSED AT TODAY’S SESSION OF THE CONGRESS AND RABBI MEIR BERL IN, PRESIDING, EXPRESSED REGRET THAT THEY HAD OCCURRED. MOST OF THE ASSAULTS HAVE OCCURRED IN THE EVENING IN THE HEART OF THE CITY.
ANTI-SEMITIC PAMPHLETS AND SUCH PERIODICALS AS THE STUERMER, RABIDLY ANTI-JEWISH WEEKLY ISSUED IN MUNICH, HAVE BEEN DISTRIBUTED. HANDSILLS ATTACKED THE GOVERNMENT FOR PERMITTING THE CONGRESS TO BE HELD HERE AND ASSAILED ADOLPH PFISTER, HEAD OF THE CANTONAL ADMINISTRATION, FOR TELLING THE CONGRESS AT ITS OPENING SESSION THAT ANTI-SEMITISM WAS ALIEN TO SWISS SOIL.
NAZIS HAVE BEEN DEMONSTRATING OUTSIDE THE CITY THEATRE PRACTICALLY EVERY NIGHT. THE CONGRESS WAS GUARDED ALL LAST NIGHT BY SPECIAL DETACHMENTS OF POLICE INSIDE THE BUILDING.
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