The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-28
Waterbury Jews And
 Friends In Protest
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i neighbors. Our hearts go out in pity to your friends and relatives
 in that stricken area and 1 pray
 to God to bring sense back to the leaders and restore a reign of peace
 of society and humanity in Ger many"
 Rev. pr. James E. Gregg, pastor of the First Congregational church, a volunteer speaker, told his con- gregation Sunday from his pulpit of the high importance to make this a worldly gesture. "We have outgrown in the United States that piece of folly evident here years ago. There is no room for race discrimination on this small planet, and the Germans must know 1t, and this hatred must cease" Rev. M. R. Lowell Speaks Rev. Moses R. Lowell, pastor of
 the Second Congregational church, said, "I am here because I am a | friend of the Jews. I honor them for their social and racial integ- | rity, and their mental alertness. On the other hand, I am friend of the German nation. We hope will end. We ought to try to under stand German minds. To lose the war was crushing blow which I cut deep into their spirits with the thought of revenge predominating. According to the treaty today which | Germany is under, l think 1t un- | fair their being blamed for the war. 1 believe in protest meetings and hope they will prove advanta- l geous to Jews in Germany and ] make the nation rouse in wide | opinion which will be felt in the
 Hitler regime and l pray to God | that my conviction of, reversal in
 conditions there today will be borne out"
 Rabbi Bresled then read mes | sages from tlose unable to attend,
 namely, Governor Wilbur L. Cross, Congressmen F. W. Goss, Lierten- ant Governor Roy c. Wilcox, and Senators Augustine Lonergan and
 Frederick Walcott.
 7'elegmms of Regret Rabbi Brcslau then read tele- grams from Judge John J. Me- Grath, which bore the following postscript, Germany needs the Jews more than she needs Hitler." Others were received from Rev. Theodore Greene of New Britain, and Rev. Kenneth Kingston, pas tor of St. Paul's Methodist church.
 Rabbi Greenfield of Temple Beth
 Fl asserted, Are we to sit by and see all our labors of thousands of years go by? Almost 1000 years ago Jews met their first persecu- tion in Germany. The Jews didn't forget their loyalty to Germany. Some 200 years later, between one and two thousand Jews were killed due to something mob civilization would shudder at. The Jews knew how to forgive and I needn't list the prosecutions of the Jews in the middle ages. Then for 15O years in Germany the Jews felt secure, when 13 years ago today a per- secution started, and despite deni- als, that persecution has not only been mental, but physical. After 13 years of this propaganda are we back in the middle ages and the Jewish peoples foregiveness been in vain? This is q challenge to the Jews of the world, and I do not believe German people respon- sible, but blame 1t to the work of a 1nadman."
 Resolutions Adopted
 At the meeting the following resolutions were adopted:
 Resolutions were adopted as fol- lows:
 Whereas, In the recent months Jewry and the entire civilized world has been startled by the inhuman atrocities perpetrated on the Jews of Germany, and
 Whereas. These reports have been duly authenticated by such reliable press agencies as the United Press: special news- paper correspondents; visitors to Germany who have just returned from there of such responsibility as Dr Henry Atkinson, general secretary of tho Church Peace Union and numerous refugees from Germany, and
 Whereas, Secretary of State Cor dell Hull, in a telegram made pub lie yesterday pointed out that the American embassy at Berlin re- ported that Jews were subjected to considerable physical mistreat- ment" adding further confirmation of the 'atrocitics,' and
 Whereas, no denial or repudi- ation of the Nazi program which disenfranchises the Jew, boycotts him economically and injures him culturally, has to date been forth. coming, and
 "Whereas, Such reversion to barbarism, is menace to the peace of the world and to 0 civili- zation which has been thousands of years fin the building, and
 Whereas, Even now "reprisals against the Jews are being threat ened by the Nazi government for their honest outcry against such inhumanities, which seems to in- dicate even greater atrocities in the future, therefore be it
 "Resolved-That we Jews and non-Jews of Waterbury, Conn, here assembled in mass protest meeting at the Wilby high school auditorium on March 27, 1893 hereby express our indignation and condemnation of the atrocities, acts of physical violence, indigni- ties and cruel discrimination which have been and are still being perpetrated against and inflicted upon our Jewish brethern in Ger many, and be 1t further
 "Resolved---That we indorse the program of the American Jewish Congress in it's four vital de- mands' which are as follows:
 1. There must be an immedi-
 ate cessation of all anti-Semi-
 tic activities and propaganda
 fin Germany.
 2. The abandonment of the
 policy of racial discrimination
 against and of ecoonmic exclu-