The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-10-21
JEW GIVES LIE
T0CHARGE0F
B0LSHEVISM
Sol M. Stroock Likens
Persecution to That
OF Early Christian

Jews in Germany today to thu
of the early Christians
Sol M. Stroock, chairman Of thu
executive committee Of the Amer
lean Jewish Committee, in &
radio address from a New Yorl
station, declared that renewed
Hitler propaganda Of "Jewisf
Bolshevism" was utterly false.
Stroock pointed out that thu
same type of allegations nov
being made against Jews wer'
made against the early Christians
He stated that instead of beinl
inclined toward Communism tnt
Jews are the greater deterran
to Communism. He declared:
German Jews are linked up
with a fantastic world Boil
shevist plot. Yet the evidence
is convincing that the Hit
lerite attack on the Jews Is
based upon falsehOOd and false
hood alone.
VOTED WITH LIBERALS
"A study Of German cOndi-
tiOnS has shown that when the
German electorate still had the
right to vote freely, the ma
jOrity Of German Jewish citi
Gems were affiliated with the
liberal democratic parties. When
Hindenburg, Hitler and Thael-
mann were candidates for presi-
dent Of the German Republic,
Jewish leaders appealed to the
German Jews to vote for Hin.
denburg and against the Com.
munist and National Socialist
candidates.
German Jews were chiefly
engaged in those occupations
from which Communists are not
recruited; indeed their own
economic interests made them
unswervingly opposed to Com
muniSm. Newspapers owned by
Jews bitterly fought Com
munism. The NaziS cannot
name one prominent or even
one weIl.known German Jewish
leader who was ever identified
with the Communist party Of
Germany.
1.-THE revolutionary leaders in
Russia, with few exceptions,
were not Jews. Neither Stain
nor Lenin, the patron saint Of
modern communism, nor VOro-
shilov, the cOmmissar Of war,
nor Kalinin, president Of the
USSR, nor DimitrOff, head Of
the Communist international,
were or are Jews. OF course q
few-but q very few-COmmun-
lists have been Jews. But what
of the great mass of Jews in
Russia? At the time of the
Russian revolution they either
vigorously opposed the COmun-
lists or were themselves victims
Of the Communist regime.
JEWS SUFFERED MOST
"For the majority Of the Jews
in Russia before the revolution
were tradeSpeOple, whom the
Communists attacked most viO-
lently and who had most to lose
BY . Communist victory. In
deed, far from encouraging the
Communists, the Jews have suf-
fered more than any other group
as q result Of the Communist
victory.
"OrthOdOx Jews and ZiOnistS.
whose numbers were prepOnder-
ent in Russia, are to this day
treated as counter.revolutiOn.
aries by the Soviet government.
The official statistics Of the
PetrOgrad Communist Party in
1918, shortly after the revOlu.
ton, showed that of the 1874.
OIL members, only 2.6 per cent
were Jews.
"In view Of these facts, the
present NaZi barrage against
the supposed menace Of Jewish
Bolshevism' and Jewish Com.
munism' fades into a series Of
pop-gun salutes. Their prOpa.
ganda is conceived in malice
and cloaked with hatred and
falSehOOd,
"The greatest menace in the
world today is not the menace
Of So.called Jewish BOlSheviSm.
No sane mind recognizes the
existence Of such a menace
But every sane mind does rec
Ognize and will fight against
the growing and dangerous
menace that lies in the spread
ing Of NaZi ideas. And we are
best able to fight this menace
with the weapon that the NaZis
do not know how to use-for on
our side we have the mighty
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