All Jewish problems must remain dwarfed before the German issue, Leonard Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish Association, warned today in an address before the council of the organization. Expressing the hope that time and resources could be devoted to alleviation of Jewish distress, he declared, however, that “so long as the anti-Jewish war in Germany is going on, everything else must be dwarfed before the German issue.”
“The year 1934 has been a year of anxiety for Jewish communities,” he declared. “Only the most optimistic could see rays of light behind the clouds. Some people say that things are better because they do not see any new Jewish tragedies in the morning papers. These people shrink from the awful truth.”
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