World Press Digest

The Nation, in an article this week by Charles Angoff on Nazi Jew-baiting in America, writes:

Nazi anti-Semitism is still riding high in the United States. It is true that the investigations carried on by the Dickstein committee may have done a great deal to cripple the open activities of such Nazi organizations as the Friends of New Germany and its recent offspring, the American National Socialist League. The first group used to have an attendance of about 2,000 at its meetings in New York City, and less than two months ago the second group could count upon about 400. Now the Friends can muster only about 125, while the American Nationalist Socialist League is in grave difficulties with the law of New York State. Despite these facts, Nazi anti-Semitism continues to be an active force in our midst. The Dickstein committee has merely driven it underground. Mr. McCormack, chairman of the committee, and his colleagues are well aware of this, and in their report to the Committee of the Whole House, submitted on February 15, 1935, they made several recommendations for curbing underground propaganda.

DEPLORES SECESSION OF REVISIONISTS

The Day, a New York Jewish daily, commenting editorially on the secession of the Revisionists from the Zionist Organization, says:

The decision of the Revisionist World Executive to leave the Zionist movement and to boycott the Zionist Congress will not do any good to the Zionist World Congress, nor to the Revisionist Organization.

The Zionist World Congress will no doubt lose much of its prestige, not to speak of its interest to the public, due to the absence of the Revisionist wing.

PRESTIGE LOWERED

The Zionist World Congress spoke always in the name of the entire Zionist movement. If, however, a part of this movement secedes, then the function and the prestige of the Zionist Congress will greatly diminish.

It is true that even without the Revisionists the Zionist Congress can and will continue its work to lay down the program for the upbuilding of the Jewish National Home. None can deny, however, that the absence of the Revisionists, who after all represent a certain power in the Zionist movement, will greatly influence the role of the Congress as the authoritative organ of all Zionist groups. And the influence will be to the worse.

CAUTIONS REVISIONISTS

For the Revisionists, the boycotting of the Zionist Congress may turn into a real misfortune. The Revisionists represented a power as long as they were within the Zionist Organization. It is there they were considered. Although their demands were not always fulfilled, nevertheless they could not be ignored.

The moment, however, that the Revisionists secede from the Zionist Organization they are in the same position as the Agudath Israel. They are then no longer an opposition within the Zionist movement but an opposition against Zionism.