Resolutions for centralizing and intensifying the boycott of German goods and services were adopted today at an interstate conference at the Hotel Astor called by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to Champion Human Rights.
Congress was asked in a resolution to investigate Nazi propaganda in the United States and the Government was urged to take steps to prevent such propaganda. The delegates pledged their organizations to resist German attempts to obtain a loan in this country.
The Anti-Nazi League was named as the “coordinating body” of the boycott, and also of groups at the conference which do not prosecute the boycott. Steps were taken for exchange of research facilities and information on the boycott.
A message from Samuel Untermyer, president of the league, who is in Palm Springs, Calif., condemned Secretary of State Cordell Hull for his “gratuitous insult” in connection with Mayor LaGuardia’s attack on Chancellor Hitler.
“If he would take the trouble to inform himself of the unspeakable libels that are daily heaped upon Americans and American institutions, including our President, in the German-owned press with it. Government’s approval and by German officials, perhaps he could held his peace,” the message said.
The speakers included Siegfried Hartman, who president at the morning session, Samuel Leibowitz, who presided in the afternoon, Mrs. Mark Harris, Dr. S. william Kalb, Dr. Benjamin Dubovsky, Dr. Max Winkler and Dr. Gerhart Seger.
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