Four thousand British young men, including university, liberal, labor, Christian, Quaker and Y.M.C.A. groups, attended a mass meeting in Queens Hall here last night to protest against the Hitler anti-Jewish policies in Germany. Resolutions holding that “racial discrimination is contrary to the principles of justice and liberty” and appealing “in the spirit of friendship” to the German people and especially to the young men and women of Germany, were adopted at the meeting.
Isaac Foot, Liberal member of the House of Commons; Professor John Murray and Lord Melchett, addressing the meeting, described the carefully planned terroristic methods used. The Jew could escape from the Spanish Inquisition by being converted to Catholicism, speakers pointed out. During the persecutions in Russia, the Jews were buoyed by the hope that liberation would come. But in Germany, they asserted, escape is impossible and the body of German Jewry is snared in a death-trap.
Germany is allowing itself to be dominated by a small body of unbalanced, dangerous and savage individuals, the meeting was told. Speakers pointed out the ultimate solution of the problem lay in Palestine. Blanche Dugdale presided at the meeting.
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