Several factors developing in the elections which engrossed American attention during the past week were noted with particular satisfaction by American Jewry.
First was the re-election, by an overwhelming majority, of Herbert H. Lehman as Governor of New York. While his re-election had been conceded far in advance, nevertheless the tremendous vote of approval accorded a great Jewish leader by the electorate was most gratifying.
Secondly, the election resulted in complete and shattering defeat for the Nazis in their foolhardy venture into American politics. Candidates supported by pro-Nazi election units were uniformly unsuccessful as Nazi electioneers failed utterly in their vaunted attempts to swing the German-American vote.
This was particularly noticeable in New York where Judge Hylan, running with the backing of the Nazified German-American political committees, got only 10,000 votes. Yorkville, the Nazi strong-hold, gave Hylan 220 votes out of a total of 17,000. This can be safely taken as proof either that the following of the Nazi leaders here is entirely in the non-voting element or that the outward support afforded these people by the population is only a lipservice offered by individuals reluctant to incur the displeasure of the Nazi organizations.
KASHRUTH
A slight measure of order appeared in New York’s chaotic Kashruth situation when formal proclamation of a rabbinical “issur” on poultry slaughtered without rabbinical supervision, brought many dealers into agreement with the Kashruth Association on the one definite plan formally submitted to clean up the poultry situation.
THE BOYCOTT
Samuel Untermyer took issue with the statement of the Jewish Representative Council offering to abate the boycott providing full rights are restored to the Jews of Germany. The offer, he declared, “is entirely at variance with the sentiment of Jews and non-Jews who realize the menace of Hitlerism to civilization.” His statement bluntly rejected “any compromise with Hitlerism. “
An American delegation, headed by Mr. Untermyer, will sail next week for London to take part in the international boycott conference convoked there for Nov. 25.
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