The case against members of the Jewish anti-Nazi boycott committee collapsed completely today for lack of evidence.
Resulting from a secret complaint brought more than a year ago by a group of Latvian Jews who failed to observe the boycott, the case had called forth considerable attention. The leaders of the boycott committee were accused of blackmailing the non-observers of the boycott by making them pay a certain sum to help defray the committee’s expenses, or their names would be published on a black-list.
JTA has documented Jewish history in real-time for over a century. Keep our journalism strong by joining us in supporting independent, award-winning reporting.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
