Rabbi Wise Breaks His Silence on Boycott

Masaryk freed the nation and for all its people, majorities and minorities alike, irrespective of race, language or religion, he brought peace, justice and honor. Hitler’s way means destruction, extermination, sterilization, with freedom and security for none but the criminal leaders of the Nazi regime.

“Espionage has become the chief science of the Reich. Only occasionally is a Nazi leader frank, as in the case of Goering, who declared his policy of extermination in noble terms that no Jew shall be left in Germany but Jewish beggars and that an Aryan prostitute means more to him than a chaste Jewish woman.”

GERMAN JEWS AGAINST MEETING

In concluding his address, Dr. Wise announced that important decisions would be reached at the meeting tomorrow the the executive committee of the world Jewish congress regarding the congress and the preliminary conference set for September.

Earlier today a message was received here from Jewish leaders in Germany asking that the protest meeting here tonight be cancelled and that Jews abroad not conduct any campaign against Germany. Overruling this plea, the executive group this afternoon decided to continue with its plans for the meeting.

Rabbi Wise’s declaration was believed to be in response to the challenge of Samuel Untermyer, noted New York attorney and president of the World Jewish Economic Federation, made on the occasion of the Amsterdam boycott conference, to declare openly whether he was for or against the anti-Nazi boycott. The American Jewish Congress membership was ninety percent in favor of the boycott, Mr. Untermyer said, and charged that Dr. Wise did not represent the Congress membership.

When informed that Rabbi Stephen S. Wise had decided to support the boycott against Germany, Samuel Untermyer, in a statement to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, declared, “I am pleased to learn that at last Rabbi Wise has definitely come out in favor of the boycott.”