Women of the World Denounce Reich for Its Degrading of Humanity

Resolutions expressing “the general feeling of indignation at the attacks on liberty and the violence under which the German people have been suffering” have been adopted by the executive committee of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, of which Jane Addams is honorary president, and sent to the German Government. Included in the series is a resolution protesting against the anti-Semitic measures in force in the Reich.

The text of the resolution follows:

“The measures of repression and the special laws treating Jewish citizens as an inferior class because they belong to a different race are degrading not only to Jews but to humanity.

“The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom protests against placing peaceful citizens under special laws on account of their belonging to a different race from that of the majority;

“against the dissemination of hatred of Jews through the wireless and the press and the refusal to them of the protection of the regular police;

“against depriving Jews of all means of livelihood within Germany and at the same time compelling them to remain inside the country;

“against the attempt to treat German Jews as hostages in order to prevent foreign criticism of events in Germany;

“The W.I.L.P.F. protests against a policy of using exceptional privileges to induce certain Jews, of economic or cultural importance in Germany, to let themselves be counted as awakened Germans’, thus exploiting, to the shame of Jewry and to the betrayal of their own people, the pressure of the struggle for existence and the moral weakness of individual Jews;

“protests against the fact that Jews as such are deprived of the rights of citizens in general without being given the rights of a minority.”