MAYOR LaGUARDIA spoke with his usual courage and bluntness when he said at the luncheon in honor of Charles Edward Russell:
“The German question is not one which concerns the Jews alone but civilization as a whole.
“We can by repeated protest and by a system of boycotting German-made goods impress the German people that they connot expect the friendship of the world so long as the y tolerate the presentregime.
The same type fo arrogance that controls Germany today controlled Germany in 1914.”
As the Mayor of the greatest city in the world, as a fearless proopgressive, as an American and as the son of a Jewss, Mr. LGuardia has set a fine example to Jews and gentiles alike. The inhumanity of Nazism in Geramany and the sinister motives behind Nazi propaganda in other lands, including the United States, must not be glossed over by soft words and diplomatic subtarfuge. Those who expose and denounce the Nazi regime of silent ##ogroms and the Nazi pro## of strife adn confusion ### a borad, are rendering a great service to the world. They are working for peace by expoosing the Hitler menace to peace. And at this time there is no greater task before teh moral forces of the world than to work for peace.
The only weakness in Mayor LaGuardia’s statement was his reference to German arrogance as being the same as that which contrllled Germany in 1914. The arrogance fo Gernany under the Kaiser on th eve of the war did not express itself in such savage forms as Hitlerite arrogance has assumed. Germany was not the only nation responsible for the world War. Russian intrigues and Austrian ambitions alos played a determining role in the evets that bourght on the catastrophe. But Hitler’s Geramny is now deliberately and braazenly working for a war of vengeance. GEORGE Z. MEDALLE strock a timely note in his address to the delegates of the A.Z.A chapters of the Elastern United States adn Capade when th declared to the Young people that “If there is anything young Jews
The younger reneration of american Jewry must not only try to keep alive the finer traditions of the Jewish people and of th Jewish past, but must make every effort to secure a clear understanding of ethe problems that confront Israel today. Jewish education of the youth shuold receive close attention from the Jewish community in America, for only those young American Jews who are familiar with the traditions an the past of the Jewish people, wll be able to play their proper part not only in Jewish life but also in American life and by their work an achievements in the present, they will have the opportunity to make constructive contributions to the future of American Jewry.
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