The financial front of the Hitler regime is weakening, declared Rabbi Louis I. Newman of Congregation Rodeph Sholom of New York, speaking at the Brotherhood of Temple Ohabei Shalom here this evening on the anniversary of the Madison Square Garden meeting last year.
“The return of Ambassador Dodd to this country makes it clear that the German situation is being discussed at Washington,” Rabbi Newman asserted. “Now is the time for all Americans who believe in fair play to make clear to the Government that they will tolerate no agreements with Germany which will undermine the counter-boycott against German made goods. The ‘sales-resistance’ of purchasers in the department stores of this country and elsewhere ought to convince Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary Hull that there is no yielding on the part of the people in their opposition to Hitler.
“If Hitler eliminates the ‘Aryan’ clause,” Dr. Newman continued, “if he halts the propaganda, both official and unofficial, against German Jewry, if he restores the exiled to their posts, and if he gives an ironclad guarantee that there will be no resumption of the anti-Jewish campaign, Jewish leaders will be disposed to listen. There are precedents for apologies to the Jewish race for slanders, and Hitler would do well to read them carefully, and to act upon them.”
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