Rabbi Stephen S. Wise returned here today on the Ile de France after a visit of several months in Europe, during which he attended the World Zionist Congress, and characterized the new anti-Jewish laws enacted by Germany as “the crime of Nuremberg, a crime that was to be expected.”
“I warned the German delegation at the World Zionist Congress,” he told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, that ‘you can silence me but you cannot halt the crimes of Hitlerism.'”
Rabbi Wise asked for world intervention in Germany on behalf of the Jews there.
“Why,” he demanded, “doesn’t the civilized world intervene and protest against its destroying enemies?”
Discussing the Committee of Jewish Delegations, of which he was named president at its meeting in Lucerne, Rabbi Wise said the committee would now assume new importance in view of the latest developments in Germany. He said the World Jewish Congress definitely will be held, but refused to say when it would be convened.
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