The Thing Has Gone Beyond Attack on Single Race or Religion, Says N. Y. “times”

Yesterday’s New York “Times” publishes an editorial under the caption of “The Larger Question”, which, though restrained in language is nevertheless, one of the most powerful condemnations that has hitherto appeared in the American press of the course followed by the Hitlerist Government.

“The German Nationalists,” says the New York “Times”, “are forcing the world to see something more than a ‘Jewish question’ in the Reich. By their methods and manifestoes they are taking the matter out of the realm of narrow race hatred and making it appear one of humanity and civilization itself. The proposal is not to deprive 600,000 people in Germany of their lives, but only of their livelihood. ‘You take away my life who take away the means by which I live.’ There is to be, moreover, a sweeping condemnation of children to ignorance as well as to starvation; the doors of opportunity are to be slammed in the faces of ambitious and talented youth; a whole series of medieval restrictions and oppressions are to be revived….

“The thing has already gone far beyond an attack upon a single race or religion…. Feelings have been aroused which transcend political boundaries or definitions of race….

“One thing the German Government may set down for certain. It cannot compel citizens of other nations to be dumb in the presence of what they consider an outrage upon the finer professions and ideals of modern States. If they kept silent, the very stones would cry out.”