Strong denunciation of Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini for their dictatorial methods featured an address at the Jewish Community Center by Dr. Abram Leon Sachar, Jewish historian and national director of the B’nai B’rith Hillel Foundation.
Several hundred persons packed the auditorium to hear Dr. Sachar. He assaidled both Hitler and Mussolini for emphasizing material values almost to the exclusion of values of a spiritual nature.
Unless there is an upheaval as the result of a war, the Nazi chieftain’s regime is likely to continue for a long time, the speaker predicted. Austria, he added, soon will pass under Nazi domination because the League of Nations, to which Chancellor dollfuss last week made a desperate appeal, has already proved impotent.
Dscussing other contemporary world figures, Dr. Sachar praised Prof. Albert Enstein, Jane Addams and Mahatma Ganhi.
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