Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Quite fortunately, and equally quite by chance, through the medium of a talk delivered by your editor, Mr. Herman Bernstein over the radio one night, I discovered The Jewish Daily Bulletin, the existence of which was unknown to me until that time, I bought it the very next day and it is the first thing I do each morning as soon as I reach a newsstand where same is sold. I do not put it down until I have read every word in it and then I save it. I can only say that I wish that every Jew would know about it and read it. I have done my best to advertise it and have given it to a great number of my friends who were as surprised and delighted as I was to learn of its existence. i am sure they are now daily devotess of this educational and enlightening little sheet. It may be small in size but it is great in importance.
As a Jewess I am, naturally, very interested in the present German situation and also very perturbed, as is every real Jew and a great many non-Jews.
What passes my understanding is the effrontery of a nation and its representatives, busy trying to convince the world that whatever occurs within the boundaries of that nation is its own internal affair and none of the concern of the world.
To illustrate: In Chicago, at the request of a German representative the Mayor of Chicago issued an order banning a German film depicting the “bloody reign of the Hitler terror.” In Prague, upon representations from the German Embassy, they removed caricatures because the “gentle, delicate and spiritual” rulers, who, as your correspondent stated “can dish it out but can’t take it” objected, and so on indefinitely, such as the attempts to interfere with meetings, publications, lectures, etc., in this and other countries, in which attempts, of course, they have not always met with success.
I have read a great deal of literature, pro and con, about the Hitler government and the ridiculous and insane ideas and lies which it fosters upon its people and which they swallow hook, line and sinker, and I have learned one thing which has always puzzled me, namely why they do the goose step in Germany. They are a flock of geese if they can be made to swallow the drivel which is being fed them, and haven’t the sense at the same time to see that it is but a ruse to blind them as to what is actually going on and what is being done to the “faithful followers” that they are being led about with a giant halter and manscied as surely as though they had chains and bolts. It passes all human understanding. But then I suppose stupidity. is something that does pass understanding. I guess there is nothing more blind “than those who will not see.”
Let us hope the day will come when these foolish blind people will regain the sense and intelligence with which the world has credited them, and that intolerance, hate, brutality and stupidity will meet the end they merit.
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