EXILED JEWS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 233, 3 October 1933, Page 7

EXILED JEWS.

REFUGEE PROBLEM.

Palestine Ruled Out As Sole

Solution

AGITATION IN LONDON.

United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 12.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 2. The Assembly of the League of : Nations at Geneva, -without discussion, referred the Dutch motion regarding an inquiry into the settlement of refugee Jews from Germany and their effect upon the economic life of the countries in which they are taking refuge, to the Second Committee which deals with economic subjects, also to the Budget Committee to consider any expenditure involved in a proposal to afford relief. Germany abstained from voting on the subject. In the course of the discussion of the Palestine mandate in the Sixth Committee, a Norwegian suggested that it was appropriate for the Mandate Commission to consider German Jewish refugees in connection with successful Jewish settlement in Palestine.

Captain Ormsby-Gore said that Palestine could not be the sole effective solution of tlie German refugee problem. The allocations of Jewish settlers In Palestine were being dealt with by friendly arrangement between British and German authorities in Berlin. London Agitation Deprecated. ■ The "Daily Mail" in a leading article' deprecates the mass meeting to lie held in the Albert Hall to-day to appeal for funds on behalf of German exiles. It says the choice of such a protagonist as Professor Einstein as the chief speaker is most unfortunate.

"Formerly the professor was a prominent pacifist connected with Communistic societies, including the antiwar movement," says the paper, "though recently he denied Communist sympathies. He encouraged in 1931 refusal to render war service, but now he favours conscription where a country is fighting to defend its liberties.

"The 'mock .trial' in London in connection with the Reichstag fire was a grave breach of international manners. So is this. Mr. Neville Chamberlain's presence at to-day's meeting will be regrettable, as it will seem that he officially countenances it." "PROSPERITY LAND." GOOD TIMES IN PALESTINE. JERUSALEM, September 26. With no unemployment, a Treasury enjoying an annual surplus, land values doubling and redoubling, capital flowing in, industries expanding, immigration increasing astoundingly, and malaria stamped out, Palestine thrives as neither the British mandatory administration nor the Zionists themselves ever dared to hope. Two years ago Palestine's orange crop—its main source of income —filled 2,000,000 cases at most. The forecast for tlie coming year is 0,000,000 Tel Aviv, the new Jewish settlement near Jaffa, had 2000 inhabitants in 1919. Now it claims 60,000 with 100,000 close ahead. JEWISH NEW YEAR. LEIPZIG PUR MARKET LOST. LEIPZIG, September 26. The Jewish New Year was not celebrated publicly. Business quietly closed, and services were held in synagogues. The Jews themselves are endeavouring to retire into dignified isolation, believing that time, combined with systematic non-resistance, will wear the edge off the Nazi onslaught.

They arc greatly alarmed by the boycott of Germany at the instance of Jews in other countries, because it has already appreciably curtailed wholesale trade, and finds inflection in retail commerce.

A walk round the streets of Leipzig, until recently the centre of the European fur trade, in which it is solely concerned, proves the startling loss of custom owing to the transfer of the main market to London, whose Jewish, fur dealers are profiting by the Leipzig Jews' deprivation of business. "WISHY-WASHY JEWS." |. IS JUDAISM IN DANGER? LONDON, September 26. "Without an influx of Continental Hebrews to sustain us spiritually," asserted Rabbi Harris Swift, speaking at Bristol, "Judaism will soon perish in England, because we are wishy-washy Jews. Our race is always persecuted, but our future was never so imperilled as now, when there are so many Blackshirts, Brownsliirts, Blueshirts and every other kind. Jews and Jewesses refusing sacrifice for sufferers under Hitlerism, or not heeding the call to Palestine, are knocking the nails into Jewry's coffin." DR. DOLLFUSS' POWER. WARNING FROM BRITAIN! VIENNA, September 26. Though Prince von Starhemberg, who hitherto has boycotted the Patriotic Front, now publishes a declaration of the Heimwehr's loyalty, uncertainty prevails regarding Dr. Dollfuss' ability to maintain his dictatorship.

The Vienna correspondent of, the "News-Chronicle," however, considers that Dr. Dollfuss emerges from the dust of conflict stronger than ever.

It is understood that France and Britain have again warned Dr. Dollfuss that they will not tolerate employing Hitlerism to keep out Hitlerites. This is a danger inherent in the reconstruction of Cabinet, which possesses the entire framework of a future Nazi Ministry. The "Daily. Mail's" Vienna correspondent believes that Starhemberg expects further concessions, with the ultimate complete acceptance of Fascism.