Untermyer Backs Boycott at Palestine Campaign Opening in Boston

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi policy of persecuting the Jews in Germany were vigorously denounced here last night at the demonstration dinner at Symphony Hall which marked the opening of the American Palestine Campaign in Boston. Twenty-five hundred attended the affair which was addressed by Samuel Untermyer, of New York, who delivered the key-note speech; Hon. Elihu D. Stone, of Boston, New England Zionist president; Rabbi Solomon Goldman, of Chicago, and Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, of Massachusetts.

Mr. Untermyer, in a broadcast speech, declared himself “the ardent champion of an effective boycott that will teach the German people that the Jews have not lost their self-respect. It is the only effective weapon against this brutal onslaught upon our people,” he declared. He described Hitler as “the mad hatter of Vienna” and “master of false and poisonous propaganda.”

Condemnation of practices of the new German Government was expressed by Lieutenant Governor Bacon who endorses the movement to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine.

“It is fitting that the Jewish people of America should subscribe to the restoration of the Land of their forefathers,” he declared. “What seems to be needed is international action.”

Rabbi Goldman declared the position of the Jew in Europe is again being challenged with all the fury and fanaticism of the Middle Ages. Hitler and his Nazis have reminded the Jew that Palestine must be opened to the refugee, to the Jew who is again fleeing discrimination and persecution, he said.

Greetings were extended to the assembled group by Max Shoolman, chairman of the dinner committee; Harry Berman, chairman of the Boston drive, and Judge Jacob J. Kaplan, honorary chairman of the American Palestine Campaign, who acted as toastmaster.