the Covenant of the League of Nations, and charged that these governments were “deliberately depriving the Jews of the means of earning a livelihood.” The situation of the Jews in Germany, Poland and other East European countries was deplorable, Dr. Goldman said, and required “earnest attention.”
Austrian anti-Semitism was similar to the German brand, the Jewish leader declared, asserting that the Austrian government was by no means free of anti-Semitic tendencies.
At the same time he pointed out that anti-Jewish feeling was developing rapidly in Mexico and in the Argentine Republic.
Dr. Goldmann concluded his address with the declaration that, in his opinion, the time had come for “peaceful negotiations with the Soviet government for a modus vivendi on the all-important questions of Zionism, Hebrew and the Jewish religion in the Soviet Union.”
Greetings to the conference were extended by the noted Jewish writers Sholom Asch and Andre Spire.
A proposal to make the world boycott on German goods even more effective than it is at present is to be placed before the conference, it was learned. Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, head of the American delegation to the conference, is sponsoring the move. Dr. S. Margoshes, editor of The Day, New York Yiddish daily, will present a report to the conference on the working of the boycott against Germany in the United States.
DR. MOTZKIN HONORED
Dr. Leo Motzkin sought security for his people, while the Hebrew poet laureate, Chaim Nachman Bialik, ministered to his peoples’ soul, Rabbi Wise declared in his tribute to the two great Jewish leaders whose passing he mourned.
“In addition to every burden of woe which Israel has borne throughout the year soon to end, it has sustained many grievous losses, greatest among them the passing of Leo Motzkin and Chaim Nachman Bialik,” Dr. Wise said.
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