Boycott Council Opposes Emigration Plan Linked to Exports

The Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and Jewish Labor Committee has announced its opposition to any plan of Jewish emigration from Germany which will increase exports of Reich goods. Increased German exports are involved in the German plan negotiated by George Rublee, to which the Intergovernmental Refugee Committee gave its approval this week.

The council’s decision was announced yesterday by Chairman Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum at a luncheon in the Hotel Astor in honor of Friedrich Stampfer, former editor of the Berlin Socialist paper, Der Vorwaerts. Dr. Tanenbaum said he had cabled notification of the decision to Dr. Stephen S. Wise in London. The council’s action was based on the belief that any slackening of the boycott would improve Germany’s economic situation at a time when the Nazi regime was within a year of “collapse,” Dr. Tenenbaum said. “We shall not have to wait long now for a change in the Nazi Government, and then the refugee problem will not exist at all any longer.”