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President is Drawn to Side of the Anti-Nazis as Pro-Nazis Boo His Name During Demonstrations
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- Wednesday, July 31, 1935
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Amateur Athletic Union Says “Yes” to Berlin Olympics
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- NEW YORK (U.P.) — President Roosevelt was drawn into current anti-nazi manifestations Wednesday on the side of those opposing repressive activities of the German government.
Pro-nazis and antl-nazis were organizing and protesting one against the other, in a manner that alarmed police.
Addressing an anti-nazi meeting Tuesday night, Rep. Emanuel Celler, democrat, New York, said the chief executive had told him of his sympathy with American protests against the treatment of Jews in Germany.
At the very time he was talking, his name, with those of Mayor Florello LaGuardia and both New York senators, was being booed at two mass meetings in New York's German colony of Yorkville, attended by approximately 6,000 Germans and American citizens of German origin.
The editors of The Commonweal, influential Catholic weekly, were preparing proofs of a ringing editorial calling for a Catholic boycott of the 1936 Olympic games in Berlin. The editorial will appear Monday.
Mayor LaGuardia heaped coals on the flame by reiterating his determination to refuse occupational license to German aliens until Germany alters its anti-Jewish and anti-Catholic attitude. Adherents of both sides made much of the state department's expression Tuesday of sympathy for Germany's Jews, interpreted an answering the German government's protest against an attack on the swastika flag aboard the liner Bremen in New York harbor.
Speaking to 700 persons meeting under auspices of the Federation of American Jews of German Ori-
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Bibliography
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Large, David Clay. Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936. New York: W.W. Norton, 2007.
Lipstadt, Deborah E. “The Olympic Games: Germany Triumphant.” In Beyond Belief: The American Press and the Coming of the Holocaust, 1933-1945, pp. 63-85. New York: Free Press, 1986.
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