JEWRY AGAINST THE WORLD

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22306, 21 January 1938, Page 7

JEWRY AGAINST THE WORLD

TO TUB EDITOR OF THB PBBSB. Sir, —There was published in "The Press" a week or so ago a cable message which strangely has not evoked the interest and public discussion which might have been anticipated. In that message it was stated that leaders of Jewry, meeting about the New Year, near Geneva, had agreed to raise a fund of £500,000,000 to fight and counteract the anti-Semitic policies of many governments in Europe. There would, it was added, be no difficulty in raising such a fund or in exercising vigorous measures against nations that proclaimed anti-Jewish policies. Assuming the news to be true, it suggests possibilities which may be fraught with the greatest dangers, not alone to Jewry itself, but to the peace of the whole world. It is somewhat difficult for a Briton to understand the hatred of so many peoples for the Jewish race, or the reasons or motives that are the driving force behind the jehad which has been declared against them in so many countries. It is not the understandable prejudice between peoples Of different colours. Perhaps the explanation may be found in pondering the history of the Jews as written by themselves in the Bible. A study of that history will reveal Jewish characteristics which have steadily persisted from the days of Jacob, the father of the race And many of these characteristics are anathema to most other people. Perhaps the most outstanding characteristic is an acquisitiveness which has made them a dispossessed and homeless people, the money masters of the world. To most people the typical Jew is Shylcck. In every country where they have found a foothold they ,have set themselves, as their forefathers did in the time of Moses, to spoil the Egyptians, and have done it very successfully. Holding a dominant position in the money markets of the world, they have been able to exercise a tremendous influence on the destinies and policies of the world, on the issues of war and peace. Perhaps it is on that account so many countries are resolved to crush their domination and break away from the Jewish yoke. One can understand how and why the Jews are planning to smash this anti-Semitic movement, but yet one may question the wisdom of any such attempt. They are a homeless, landless people; they have never really made any great effort to secure a country for themselves, and have preferred to live on sufferance among other peoples, finding the profits of "spoiling the Egyptians" a sufficient reward for their persecution. This latest movement of theirs, however, is virtually a challenge to the world, an intimation to the nations that if they do not walk as Jewry would like or demand, Jewry will punish them by refusing to ptpen its rnonejr bags and

by instituting trade boycotts. That way madness lies, and Jewry will suffer most Civilised people will not take such a threat lying down. They will wrathfully resent it, and do not. require to exhaust the resources of civilisation to respond to the .challenge, with disastrous results to the Jews. There is little fear of New Zealand's being involved, even if the threat is put into effect, but what would be the reaction of the people here, if it were established that the Jews had instituted a £sads as financial bojwott because our

r Government was pursuing a policy of f which Jewry did not approve?— » Your*, etc, „ T ™ A «,„ I AHTTOPHAL. January 20, 1938.