To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
In London next week an international conference will be held to extend and strengthen the boycott against Hitlerist Germany. The boycott is a year and a half old and, as is but natural, evidences of languishing interest have recently appeared.
This, however, is most regrettable, and I earnestly hope that the London conference will succeed in stirring the civilized world, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, into redoubled prosecution of the boycott—a peaceful weapon which will yet bring Germany to its senses.
In this connection, I believe Mr. Heinz Liepmann’s views on the subject somewhat benighted. Mr. Liepmann, in a column in the Jewish Daily Bulletin a week ago, claimed that the boycott has not affected the Reich. Figures on imports and exports clearly indicate the contrary is true. The boycott has hit Naziland quite hard.
Nevertheless, it would be folly to pretend that anything approaching a complete victory over the medieval forces entrenched in Germany has been won. Such a victory can be won and will be won, however, if we use the boycott to the hilt.
Let us hope the London conference will succeed.
Tessie Czernoweth.
Cleveland, Ohio,
November 16, 1934.
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