REQUEST TO LEAGUE

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 69, 23 March 1938, Page 12

REQUEST TO LEAGUE

JEWISH APPEAL

REMEDYING OPPRESSION

(Received March 23, 2.45 p.m.)

LONDON, March 22,

The Geneva correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" says that, invoking Articles 62 to 68 of the Treaty of Saint Germain, which provides that "all Aus- j trian nationals shall be equal before the law," the executive committee of the World Jewish Congress has peti^ tioned the League Council requesting immediate .measures to remedy "the present oppression of Jews in Austria." | The League is guarantor of the minority clauses of- the Treaty of Saint Germain. The Jewish Telegraph Agency's Vienna correspondent says that large detachments of Brown Shirts stood on I guard today in front of the British consulate, where large numbers of Jewish youths were applying for Australian visas. As the Jews came out of the building the Brown Shirts inpressed them for street cleaning, saying, "There's time enough to go to Australia. In the meanwhile come along and clean a few streets." DUKE OF WINDSOR AND HIS FRIENDS. The Paris correspondent of the British United Press says that, according to reports; Herr Hitler replied to a personal message from the Duke of Windsor regarding Baron Louis de Bothschild, who is under arrest in Vienna. He is a brother of Baron JEugene de Rothschild, who was the Duke of Windsor's host at Castle Enzesfeld. The Duke of Windsor is reported to have asked Herr Hitler to exercise clemency towards Louis, but tonight's reports . state that he has replied regretting that he is unable to comply with the request.