Evening star., 1938-05-29
DEMOCRACY HELD
M|N0R|T|ES' HOPE
Nazi Ideas Threaten Safety,
Speakers Tell Jewish
Social Workers.

The safety of minority groups in
this country and all over the world
Is being threatened by the Nazi-Ger-
man ideas of expressing racial and re-
ligious minorities, two authorities on
international affairs told Jewish social
workers at the seth annual meeting
of the National Conference Of Jew
ish Social Welfare at the Willard Ho-
tel last night
Prof. Joseph P. Chamberlain Of Co
lumbia University, q member OF Pres
ident Roosevelt's Advisory Committee
on Political Refugees. and Prof. Oscar
I. Janowsky, author and teacher OF
international relations at the City Col
kge of New York, declared the main
tenance and strengthening OF demo-
c, attic government offers the only
safety to the Jewish people, as we'll
as other minority groups.
Profs. Chamberlain and Janowsky
delivered the principal addresses at
the first general session OF the six
day conference. Two allied groups,
the National Association Of Jewish
Center Workers and the National
Council for Jewish Education, are
meeting with the welfare organiza-
ton, Of which Harry Greenstein, ex-
ecutive director OF the Associated Jew
Is, Charities of Baltimore, Is presi-
dent. The conference, which Is being
attended by approximately 1000 dele
gates, will close Tuesday with the elec-
ton Of officers.
"Cold Progrom" Destructive.
DR.. Janowsky. reporting on his own
recent observations Of conditions in
Europe, declared that 80, ,000, 900 people
live as minorities Of races in Eastern
and Central Europe, and the majority
Of them feel the hand Of the oppres-
sor. I'm Danzig, in Austria. in Po-
land and in Rumania, Jews live in
pogrom atmosphere" he asserted. But
pogroms are not the greatest danger
facing the Jews. Far more destruc-
tive Is the cold pogrom'-the progress
sive elimination Of Jews from the eco
nomic life OF their native lands"
With the enforcement Of violence
and brutality the hope for the protec-
ton Of minority rights vanishes, he
declared. "Naziism and Fascism are
menace not only to Jews, but to
everything American idealism stands
for" he said. There will be no room
for minorities under a regime which
divides humanity, which denounces
liberty and democracy and which
exalts violence and war as supreme
virtues"
Prof. Chamberlain warned against
the possible development Of complica-
tions in other states similar to condi-
tions in Europe resulting from the dec
laration of the German government
that regards all Germans, wherever
they may be, to be in some degree
under its protection, thus encouraging
the formation of minority groups OF
its nationality in other countries.
Two Sessions Today.
Maintenance OF democratic forms
is necessarily to the interest OF mi
nority groups, he said. because the
structure of our Government in itself,
buttressed by free speech and the free
press. is the best protection Of the
rights of any minority"
Two general sessions will be held
by the conference today. The after
noon session, presided over by Miss
Frances Taussig of New York, will
feature addresses by Prof. William
Haber Of the University of Michigan
and Samuel Gerson of st. Louis.
N
N. Y; DR.. Sidney F. Goldstein Of
the Jewish Institute of Religion, New
York. and DR.. Nathan Reich of Hunter
College, New York, will speak at the
evening session at 8 pm.