40,000 Demonstrate in Hyde Park, London

A monster demonstration was held here in Hyde Park yesterday. It is estimated that some 40,000 people listened to the various speakers who addressed the numerous crowds from several platforms. The demonstration which was not of a specifically Jewish character is regarded here as an indication of the really deep interest which the general public is taking in the German situation.

Anticipating that the demonstration might be followed by an attempt to attack the German Embassy, large numbers of police were drafted into the Park, but the demonstrators dispersed quietly, and there was not a single incident to which the authorities might take objection.

Continuing their comments on the German situation, the editorials in most of this morning’s papers vigorously criticise the anti-Jewish boycott by the Nazis. The “Times” doubts whether the Nazi followers will rest content with their experiment of Saturday and, still more, whether Jews other than political critics of the Nazis abroad can be silenced with threats of reprisals. Moreover, the “Times” points out that racialism was always a notorious part of the Nazi program which has not been formally abandoned. It declares that, in the circumstances, the Nazis are not entitled to indignation merely because the Jews abroad had taken their threats seriously.

The “Daily Telegraph” ridicules the so-called “Bloodless victory” as the Nazis describe Saturday’s boycott. The “Telegraph” talks of it as a “victory over unresisting victims”. It goes on to say that none will be deceived by the real motives that influenced the Nazis to suspend the boycott which would have ruined Germany if continued.

Referring to Goebbel’s threat that a resumed boycott would mean the end of German Jewry, the “News Chronicle” stresses that it “might also be the end of a great many other things including the Nazi reputation abroad.”

The “Daily Herald” declares that Hitler is blackmailing the world into silent complicity with his crimes.