The Archive · 1938

Convenient Scapegoat

Alas! The world today is in a state of chaos and the problem confronting it is to determine how the different races might live together in peace and freedom. The position today is immeasurably worse than it has been for many generations Although the Jew has always proved himself {0 be a good citizen, law-abiding and generous, he is being madè a convenient scapegoat. Racialism is used asa pretext against a defenceless minority in order to intunate the mob against the Jew, to deprive him of his livelihood, to drive him to penury and despair, to make him toothsomely hatefül in the yes of his fellow-men, to "embitter his life" and crush his spirit.

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