Evening star., 1933-05-20
ASSA|L H|TLER'S
PEACE MESSAGE
Jewish Leaders, in State.
ment Here, Say Racial War
Bellies Declaration.

The world cannot accept the Hitler
assurances that he is for peace so long
as he is waging a bitter war against
the Jewish people within his borders" !"
it was declared here today on the eve
of the opening of the twelfth session
of the American Jewish Congress, con-
vened as an emergency session to deal
with the anti-JewiSh developments in
Germany.
The statement was issued over the
names of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, hon.
orary president of the congress, and
Bernard S. Deutsch, president.
approximately 400 delegates from
every section of the country are gather
ed here for the three-day meeting at
the Willard Hotel. opening with an ex-
ecutive meeting this evening.
Peace Declaration AssaiIed.
In the statement issued this morn
ing, DR.. Wise and Deutsch say:
"As one listened to the chancellor of
the German Republic, one wondered
how a self-respecting and intelligent
world could listen to man who de-
clared I am for peace when within the
borders Of his own country he Is waging
the most damnable war against its in
habitantS.
us this a great day for peace when
a man who has forfeited for his coun-
try and himself the decent respect of
mankind is by an incredibly generous
gesture on the part of the United States
lifted up again, if only for moment,
to a position of respect among man
kind?
THE American Jewish Congress will
at its Washington sessions deal with
the whole complex of Jewish problems.
From the viewpoint of organization, the
World Jewish Congress suggested and
urged by the American Jewish Congress
will have a dominant place in the pro-
ceedings. It is grim satisfaction to find
that the events of the year since the
World Jewish Conference of Geneva,
August, 1882, have confirmed us in our
belief that World Jewish Congress IS
the most imperative need of the hour !"
Rainey Banquet Speaker.
Speakers at tomorrow's session open
ing at 10 o'clock in the morning will
include Rabbi Wise, who will speak on
Germany and the World Congress"
and Prof. Horace M. Kallen of the New
School of Social Research, who will lead
the discussion of Rabbi Wise's subject.
Tomorrow evening there will be a
banquet at which Senator Gerald +.
Nye, Speaker Henry L. Raney REPRE-
sentative A. j. SABBATH, Rabbi Wise and
Mr. Deutsch will speak.
The congress today issued statements
of sympathetic Christian clergymen, in
cluding one from Right Rev. James E.
Freeman, Bishop of Washington, who
said:
"I am confident every right-thinking
man and woman in the country is pro-
foundly moved by the outrageS that
have been perpetrated upon the Jews
in Germany. Such situation does not
belong in this country.
Metcalf Makes Statement.
"I shall use every influence at my
command to arouse public opinion in
America to resist the forces that have
conspired to cast a dark shadow upon
the fair name of Germany"
Senator Metcalf of Rhode Island de-
clared:
IT cannot understand how, in these
days of enlightened civilization, great
country can persecute by law and force
any group of people of racial prejudice.
To my mind, one Of the most 1mpor-
tant things to be brought about in the
world is the existence of complete
racial and religious tolerance"