GERMANY AND BRITAIN

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22388, 29 April 1938, Page 11

GERMANY AND BRITAIN

GOOD UNDERSTANDING IMPERATIVE

AMBASSADOR’S SPEECH AT t HAMBURG

v « NOTHING MORE DISASTROUS THAN WAR »>

(UNITED PHBS3 ASSOCIATION— COPYRIGHT.) (Received April - 28, 10 pan.) BERLIN, April 28. , “A good British and German understanding is not only imperative in the interests of both countries, but also for the world and civilisation,” declared the British Ambassador (Sir Nevile Henderson) addressing the Anglo-German Society at Hamburg. Sir Nevile Henderson added that nothing could be more disastrous than war between Britain and Germany. “Let us not think of it and not talk of it,” he added.) “Let us rather think and talk, of the inevitability of a good understanding.”

JEWISH PROPERTY TO BE SEIZED

EXPROPRIATION SCHEME IN GERMANY

COMPULSORY REGISTRATION 'x ORDERED

BERLIN, April 27. As controller of the four-year plan, yield-Marshal Gopring has decreed the immediate compulsory registration of all property owned at home and abroad by German Jews and - property owned in %Germany by foreign Jews. This is believed to be the first step toward the expropriation of almost all the Jewish-owned property throughout Germany. No Jew in future may be a party to the purchase or lease *oi any property or business without the consent of the German authorities. x The official explanation of the new - measures in that they will enable the economic reconstruction of Austria, which, it is declared, has been hindered by 'Jewish financial control. Jews throughout Germany are panic-stricken, fearing the confiscation of much of their wealth. The law will not apply to Jews owning under £4OO.