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“I do not doubt,” the New York delegate continued, “but that many of the Congress delegates will speak their minds. Nazism doesn’t declare that the German Jews alone are of an inferior race, but that all Jews are. That makes the fantastic, foul attacks by the Nazi Government upon Jews a problem of the Jews who are free and not solely a question for such Jews who are not free because they live under the new ‘Aryan’ knout.”
“The German situation will be freely discussed in its entirety,” Dr. Wise continued, “That, I believe, is the decision of the Executive. But no decision will avail to prevent the Congress
“If any German Jews should say that implacable, cold Nazism cannot be moved by denunciations and protests, we answer that we have not lost faith in the conscience of humankind and the decencies of Christianity.”
Dr. Wise had been originally scheduled to speak among the first in the general debate which opened on the floor of the Congress yesterday. Yesterday it was disclosed that his name had been taken off the speaker’s list on the opening day of the debate. Rabbi Wise informed the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that he would make his speech in three days.
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