GERMANY AND THE JEWS

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 103, 29 October 1945, Page 8

GERMANY AND THE JEWS

The ill treatment and persecution by Germans of the Jews did more than anything else to alienate any sympathy that Netherlanders might have had with Germany, said the Consul-General for Holland (Jonkheer Dr. W. E. Van Panhuys) on arrival at Wellington to take up his new post. The Dutch, he stated, had always been - a liberty-lov-ing people, and there had' been no discrimination whatsoever against the Jews. In fact, they were always, regarded as a particularly valuable asset to the country in those channels in which they specialised. Dr. Van Panhuys, who had six years' experience of Spain, also said that he regarded the decadence of that country to be due, in a certain measure, to the expulsion of the Jews. It was rare indeed to find a Jew in Spain today, and undoubtedly that country had been the loser.

For the theft of an overcoat from the Seamen's Mission on Saturday evening, Francis Patrick McNulty, ship's fireman, 45, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence within six months if called upon, after he had admitted the theft before Mr. J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court today- It was stated that he had previous convictions for drunkenness and was under the influence of liquor when the offence was committed.