Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver, vice-president of the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights, has issued an appeal to the rabbis of the United States, both reform and conservative, not to visit Germany this summer.
Last summer a number of rabbis went to Germany to inform themselves of conditions there. While they may not be traveling on German boats, rabbis who visit Germany nevertheless support German railroads and hotels and help furnish the much needed foreign exchange with which Germany hopes to balance its foreign accounts, stated Rabbi Silver.
One of the most important ways of prosecuting the boycott against Germany is by way of destroying its tourist trade and rabbis visiting Germany set a bad example for laymen, he asserted.
It is common knowledge that the rigid censorship within Germany makes it impossible for any man, however alert or inquisitive, to learn much of anything about the true conditions in the Reich during a short visit there, concluded the Rabbi.
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