A special session of the administrative committee of the American Jewish Congress, which met yesterday at the Hotel Commodore on the eve of the first anniversary of Adolf Hitler’s appointment to the German chancellorship, announced that arrangements-had been completed for the presentation of “The Case of Civilization Against Hitlerism”, in Madison Square Garden on March 7.
“With the cooperation of all anti-Nazi organizations in this country, this review, to be based on factual evidence only, will be the most formidable indictment of Hitlerism and its threat to civilization which,” according to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, honorary president of the American Jewish Congress, “has yet been made.”
“While the Jewish case against Hitlerism will also be presented, it will form but a single link in the chain of evidence against Hitlerism; its threat to civil liberties and democracy; to science; to the arts; the liberal professions; the churches; the status of women. Outstanding American representatives of these various fields will have part in the presentation,” he said.
The announcement was made following an address on Hitlerism in South America, presented by Dr. Samuel Guy Inman, authority on Latin America, who served as observer at the Pan American Conference at Montevideo, and who was the guest of honor at the meeting.
SOUTH AMERICA REFUGEE HARBOR
Dr. Inman declared that South America offers possibilities for absorbing German refugees in flight from Hitler oppression; that there is a willingness on the part of the various governments to aid in this fashion. He declared that a tremendous effort is being made to sow the seeds of Nazism in South America, through the embassies, legations and
Moreover, he stated, delegates from the various South American countries to the Montevideo conference “expressed to me a deep interest in having the American continent as a tranditional asylum for persecuted peoles, do tis share in recciving refugees from Germany.”
“While there is little room for professional people, there are great streches of rich land which are awainting population. Jewish colonies under the Jewish Colonizaition Association have been most successful, and it would seem that the League of Nations Commission on Refugees might find most hepful cooperation in South America.”
Describing the repercussions of Hitlerism in South America, he said: “The Hitler movement is entering South America through the embassices, legations and consulates of Germany in these countries. Literature concerning the movement is received by an American educator, so he told me, practically every week from the German Legation in Ascunsion, Paraguay. Specially established press agenices are now appearing to furnish cables and mail articles for dailies and weeklies, the service being gratis or nearly so. Newspaper men in Brazil say that cables from become prominent in papers of Rio, Sao Paulo and other cities in the last three months.
On the other hand, he asserted, South America is particularly alive as to the dangers of anti-Semitism, since that is opposed to the fundamentsal belief of all Latin America in leaders has called “the Cosmic Race”, a people entirely free from race divisions and prejudices.
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