“Certainly!” he responded with bluff heartiness. “We are not anti-Jewish in any way.”
When it was pointed out that Dr. Herbert Schnuch, national president of the Friends of New Germany and a notorious Nazi sympathizer, is a member of the committee, Dr. Ewald replied:
“Schnuch represents the younger German American element. He has only one vote. The rest of us are conservative men.”
“But how about C. K. Froehlich?” he was asked. Froehlich, besides being president of the German-American Conference—he was seated when the organization was Nazified last May—also is president of the DAWA, the anti-Jewish counter-boycott movement.
“I don’t believe Froehlich will vote,” Ewald asserted. “He holds an ex-officio status with the committee, by virtue of being president of the Conference. Of our eight members, six are strongly conservative.”
SEES UNITS IN HARMONY
Questioned as to rumblings of pending strife between the Conference and the Steuben Society, which in the past always has regarded itself as the political spokesman for German-Americans and which has indicated no little resentment over formation of the new committee. Ewald expressed confidence that the two organizations would get together on a harmonious basis.
“I plan to see several Steuben officials tomorrow, before our meeting,” he said. “I have no doubt they’ll come around all right.”
Although politicians were wary about commenting on the import of an overt attempt by a racial group, the German-American Conference’s action stirred outspoken expressions of disapproval in other circles.
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