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e German Situation Attacks on Two American Citizens Prompt Request to President Roosevelt for Interference: Plight of German-Jewish ExiLes Grows as Boycott Movement Is Strengthened Wantonly continuing their defiance of public opinion everywhere, the Hitlerites have just launched a new offensive against the Jews which, if carried to its logical conclusion, will mean a new wave of atrocities and deaths. At a special meeting of Storm Troop chieftains, Captain Goer- ing, Prussian Premier, and other high Nazi dig nitaries, it was decided to institute the death pen alty for all enemies of the Nazi state. Plans for pushing the “cold pogrom” on a new and intensi fied scale were also mapped. While the Hitlerite generalissimos were moving to crush their remaining internal foes, Nazi Storm Troopers involved the German government in a new international complication when they at tacked and seriously injured Philip Zuckerman, an American Jewish businessman, and held Walter Orloff, another American Jew, for trial on the alleged charge of Communistic activity, a charge which confronts Orloff with the death penalty. Zuckerman was set upon and seriously injured by a band of Storm Troopers in Leipzig. After great difficulties he managed to reach a Berlin hospital where he dictated a bedside affidavit to George Messersmith, American consul-general, who im mediately lodged a strong protest with the German Government. While the German authorities formally deplored the attack no action has vet been taken against the Storm Troopers. In the meantime the consul-general is seeking to effect the release of Orloff, but he has been informed that no deportation proceedings can be instituted. The renewed attack on American citizens led Congressman Kmanuel Celler of Brooklyn to tele graph to President Roosevelt a request for prompt protest against the mistreatment of American citi zens in Germany. Pointing out that more than 30 outrages on American citizens had occurred in Germany without a single Hitlerite being pun ished, Congressman Celler declared that interfer ence is necessary and informed the President that “liberal forces trust and ask you for wise and thorough action now.” Consul-General Messersmith has also taken up the matter of the closing of the Berlin office of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency which was raided and put out of commission on the ground that such action was necessary to prevent possible fu ture activities by the agency' that might endanger law and order. In the meantime the plight of the Jewish refu gees from Germany, who had found asylum in Paris, Prague, Vienna, London, Antwerp and Am sterdam is becoming so serious that it is likely to demand world attention shortly. While some of these exiles can support themselves temporarily. By Robert Stone the time is not far distant when their economic status will require international action. Equally serious is the situation of the tens of thousands of Jews still in Germany who are now barred from all means of making a livelihood and who cannot escape from the German hell. To assist these exiled Germans, an American committee of the International Relief Association, whose chairman is Albert Einstein, has been formed in the United States. The American chair man is Amos Pinchot. Jewish efforts to mitigate the sufferings of these people made rapid progress in the past week. Nearly $\,000,()()() has been raised in the United States by the Joint Distribution Committee, while in England a sum of similar proportions has al ready been subscribed. The international anti-Jewish boycott move ment assumed additional strength as a result of the action of the International Boycott Conference in Amsterdam. As the Hitlerites went ahead with their ruth less campaign to eliminate “non-Aryans’* from German life, they took a step which, if carried out strictly, would be the climax of a campaign of persecution unparalleled in the history of the world, namely, to improve the breed of Germans by wed ding the unfit, a policy which might mean steriliz ing a substantial portion of the German population. T Amsterdam. — Thirty-five representatives of world Jewry assembled at an international confer cnee called to organize the Jewish anti-Nazi boy cott as a world-wide movement pledged themselves solemnly to boycott German goods, products and shipping throughout the civilized world. Main fig ure at the conference was Samuel Untermyer, of New York, one of the best known advocates of the boycott movement in the United States. A resolution adopted unanimously urged “all men and women of the civilized world, irrespective of race or creed to support and join in this movement against brutal fanaticism and bigotry and to help lead it to a victorious conclusion and until the last trace of barbarous persecutions has been eliminated fiom the political program and actions of the Ger man Government.” Among the countries represented at this confer ence, which marks an important step in the sys tematic organization of the boycott movement are the United States, Great Britain, France, Egypt, South Africa, Holland, Belgium, Poland, Latvia. Other countries sent messages endorsing the boy cott movement and assuring the conference of their support. The representative of Holland reported that 40 per cent of the imports from Germans were cut off. Egypt, the gateway of German* s former great trade in Africa and the Orient, re ported that Germany’s trade has become almost non-existent. It was also revealed that the bo\- cott has extended beyond German goods and now also includes merchants persisting in trying to sell (lerman-made merchandise. The conference also decided to call for next October a Jewish World Economic Conference to intensify and extend the boycott movement. Samuel Untermyer was elected president of the conference and in his address appealed to the league of Nations for help. “The first and most important duty of the League of Nations,” said Mr. Untermyer, “is to send a commission to Geor- many to uncover the despicable Hitlerite camou flage and find out what is really happening under cover of their lying propaganda.” Referring to the unfriendy attitude of I)r. Stephen S. Wise toward the boycott conference, Mr. Untermyer said that he deplored Rabbi Wise’s “apparent determination to discredit every movement he cannot lead.” and also issued an invitation to Dr. Wise to “tell world Jewry frankly whether or not he personally favors a boycott.” T Nuremberg.—It is estimated that no less than between 200 and 300 Jewish merchants of this city were arrested and marched through the street to the internment camp where they have been con fined. Nothing is known concerning the causes for these wholesale arrests, but it was intimated that the official charge against these Jewish merchant' will be profiteering. The actual reason for these renewed activities on the part of the local Brown Shirts must be ascribed to orders from Munich, instructing them to enforce the cold pogrom at all costs. The arrests of Jewish merchants in this city are in line with the recent raids made in Munich when 4,(X)0 Jewish merchants were in terned in prison camps. The Munich victims were released after a time. T Berlin.—The European visit of Rabbi Stephen S. Wise is receiving much attention in the Berlin newspapers. One of the Hitlerite dailies “prai- ' Wise’s Palestine program for Jewish refugees from Germany, saying that “Rabbi Wise deserves pr. for his wisdom in demanding extensive measire' for settling Jewish families in Palestine. Tha* i* an admirable thought. List of Jewish fami whose settlement in Palestine would be especi. b’ desirable, will be gladly put at Rabbi Wi v ‘ s service. [14] * THE SOUTHERN ISRAELI E