“A year ago today, no one would have dreamed that one man could have transmuted hopelessness into hope. And a year ago today, no one could have imagined that one man could bring so much evil over mankind,” declared Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, contrasting the two anniversaries of Roosevelt and Hitler before a large audience at the Free Synagogue, in Carnegie Hall, yesterday.
Decrying certain mistakes of the administration, such as the NRA, Dr. Wise voiced his appreciation of the methods of the government, which he called hopeful. “The New Deal is answerable to the government, instead of the government being under the control of business, as in the last half century,” he declared.
Rabbi Wise summarized the desults of one year of the Hitler dictatorship, without dwelling upon the obvious predicament of the Jews. He stressed the destruction of political equality; the suppression of religious freedom; the perversion of education; the degradation of culture; the debasement of womankind; the disfranchisement of all minorities, and the enslavement of the Protestant church.
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