PERSECUTED JEWS
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —Why is New Zealand (God's Own Country) making no attempt to help these unfortunate people? Mr. Savage- says: "Sympathy without a practical backing could easily be dangerous" and "as far as European refugees are concerned every individual case is dealt with on its merits." Would a man going along a river bank and seeing another in danger of drowning, instead of hanging on to something secure and stretching out a helping hand, sit down feeling very sorry for. the poor wretch but thinking where would he find a towel to dry him with if he got him out, and after that he might need to lend him his overcoat till his clothes dried, and, worse still, his own nice suit might get muddied and wet in his effort at pulling the drowning man on to the bank? Truly sympathy without something more would be dangerous.—l am, etc., ASHAMED OF NEW ZEALAND.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 128, 26 November 1938, Page 8
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