George Bernard Shaw urged the League of Nations today to appoint a committee which, with the assistance of psychiatrists, would determine whether the anti-Semitic measures taken by Germany and Italy constituted a legitimate decision or a “pathological phobia.” Writing in a special supplement on persecution of the Jews, in the magazine Time and Tide, the noted playwright said that if the verdict was for the “phobia,” the Fuehrer and the Duce must cancel the measures or stand before Europe as certified lunatics.
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