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German Central Verein Voices Its Opposition to Jewish Rights Congress

August 4, 1927
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(Jewish Telegraphic Agency)

“We join our voice to those in England, France and the United States,” says an editorial of the “C. V. Zeitung,” the organ of the Central Verein Deutschen Buergerdes Juedischen Glaubens, writing against the conference of Jewish Rights which will open in Zurich on August 17.

“This conference,” the paper says, “is not representative of the Jewry of the world and especially not of German Jewry. The German public has so far referred to this conference only in a reportorial way. This may be explained by the fact that the problem of minorities in Germany, at least at present, is without active interest. We therefore have every reason to be cautious and to counter all national Jewish minority desires. Whatever protection Jewish minorities require seems to have its foundation in the articles of the League of Nations. The work can be continued, but to go further than this, in any attempt to establish special Jewish representation is undesirable.

“We German Jews must raise our voices and declare: We have nothing to do with this congress,” the paper declares.

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