Evening star., 1933-03-24
PROTEST MEETING
IS PLANNED HERE
State Department Flooded
With Complaints of Ger
man Activities.

Washington Jews today were organiZ-
ing a mass meeting Of protest against
anti-Semitic activities in Germany as
kilograms complaining Of alleged abuses
on the part of Adolf Hitler's followers
continued to pour into the State De-
partment
Reports on the accuracy of various
accounts of persecution and atrocities
were being awaited from the Berlin en-
bassy. Meanwhile, Jews here planned
mass meeting, tentatively set for Mon
day night to coincide with similar
demonstrations in many large American
cities
The State Department requested an
official report of the embassy at Berlin
after leading American Jews asked for
action. Many kilograms urging this
course were phrased in strong terms.
They came from various organizations,
mostly composed of Jews.
Ore was sent by the International
Cathc@c Truth Society through Rev.
Lodge Curran of New York. the society's
president. 1t referred to Hitler as a
former Austrian citizen whose path had
been marked by blood.
Committee Appointed.
A committee of 16 leading residents
was appointed at preliminary ses-
sion in the Jewish Community Center
last night to unite 60 local Jewish Or
ganizations behind the mass meeting
of protest. This will probably be held
at the Washington Auditorium, al
though the committee was to set def
nitely the time and place at meet
ing later today, when the speakers will
be announced.
Persons of all creeds and political
beliefs will be invited to the mass
meeting. The sympathy and co-opera-
ton of Gentiles was urged at last
nights meeting by Rev. Russell j.
Clinchy. pastor of the Mount Vernon
Congregational Church, to an accom-
paniment of enthusiastic applause. Rev.
Mr.. Clinchy pledged his full support to
the movement.
The meeting was presided over by
Joseph L. Topper. Washington attorney
Other speakers were Maurice D. Rosen-
berg, attorney and banker; John A.
Norman, Benjamin Meiman, Rabbi j.
T. Loeb and Ben-Zion Emanuel, princi-
pal Of the Washington Talmud Torah
Speaker pointed out that the protest
cannot be interpreted as a criticism
of the German people or even of the
Hitler political philosophy. Rather, the
movement is aimed at "exterminatory
tactics" on the part of Hitler'S follow
ers, said to be depriving German Jews
of police protection and the most ele-
mental human rights.
Meeting at Center Tonight
Isidore Hershfeld, named to head
the Committee of Sixteen. called atten-
ton to the fact that protest demon
straion here will be Of wide significance
because staged in the American Capital
Other members of the committee are
Mr.. Rosenberg, Mr.. Norman, Joseph
Solomon Irving Goldstein, Mr. Mel
man. Louis E. Speigler, Mrs. Henry
Oxenberg, Rabbi Loeb, Morris Gar
f1nckle, Mr.. Topper, Mrs. Charles A..
Goldsmith, Joseph Wilmer, Morris Bis
eyer. Rabbi Solomon Metz, Zalmon
Henkin and Rev. L. Novick. cantor for
the Sixth Street Congregation.
Another protest meeting will be held
O'Clock tonight by the Jewish War Vet
Grams of the United States. Samuel w.
Silverman of Jersey City. N. j., who or
ganized the local club, will speak, as will
Mr.. Norman. Members of the organi-
Zat1on include veterans of the Civil and
Spanlsh-American Wars and various
overseas campaigns.
Other telegramS received by the State
Department include one from the Ma
tional Committee for Defense of Politi
cal Prisoners, through Joshua Kunitz,
It's secretary, protesting what it de-
Scrlbed as an unwarranted attack on
Edward Dahlberg, American novelist
and member of the organization. A dif-
ferent note was struck in a telegram
sent by John B. Trevor, chairman of
the board of the American Coalition of
Patriotic, Civic and Fraternal Societies,
New York. This message said that
While its senders had no sympathy with
persecution on racial or religious grounds
they opposed relaxation of the immigra-
ton laws to admit refugees from Ger
many.