against the Jews. Jews, wherever they may be, have before them an enemy which is inspired by a sense of mission and whose history has bred into them the belief that, whatever defeats they may encounter on the way, victory lies at the end of the road. Jews, in whatever community may be threatened, should not fritter away their capacity for organized effort in premature gloating when a hall or an armory is closed to a Nazi branch, or a unit of the Friends of New Germany. The enemy is resourceful, determined and the object of that enmity has to counter not a sortie, a foray, or even the siege of a month or two, but a siege of years and decades, maybe, a siege fortified by a huge commissary and a vast propaganda-making and propaganda-distributing machine.
The enemy cannot be ridiculed away, its operations cannot be ignored and its leaders laughed out of court. The evil seed already is bearing fruit. In the Brown House in Munich there is a book of wood in which is inscribed the brief record of every victory. The 1923-33 history of Germany is in that book, in the brief compass of only a few dozen words. There must be no word about America, or of any other non-German nation, in that book.
Nazi-ism is too strong for Jews to dare to be weak; it is too audacious for Jews to be supine and indifferent.
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