The Constituting meeting of the American League for Human Rights, was held last night at Hotel Commodore. Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, President of the City College of New York, presided.
Dr. Robinson, in his opening address, outlined the program of the League. Speaking of the objective which the League had set for itself, he said, “It will be the purpose of this League to ascertain the truth, to be the tool of no rascal nor the dupe of any despotic authority, and to set forth clearly the circumstances of systematic disregard of essential human rights.”
The meeting also heard a report on the German situation presented by David L. Podell, who outlined the series of events, commencing with the initial agitation of Hitlerism and leading down to the present state of affairs.
A resolution, based on the report, was submitted by Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of “The Nation”.
After the meeting, a symposium on the protection of human rights was broadcast over Station WEVD by Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, Judge Proskauer, and Michael Williams, publisher of the “Commonweal”.
Among the members of the Committee of the League are: Dr. Henry Goddard Leach, Roger W. Straus, Father Gillis of the “Catholic World”, George Gordon Battle, Professor John Dewey, Felix Frankfurter, Dr. Mary E. Wooley, Simon Bergman, B. W. Huebsch, Jacob Landau, Managing Director of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Emily Greene Balch, and Sarah F. Brandes, Secretary.
The address of the League is at 17 Lexington Avenue.
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