WAR ON JEWS

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11951, 23 May 1933, Page 5

WAR ON JEWS

—-*<>■. - . NAZI HATRED OF RACE. PETITION TO LEAGUE. (UP.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) GENEVA, May 21. Herr Franz Bcrnheim, late of Gleniwitz, in Upper Silesia, who states that ho was dismissed from his employment in a German emporium because he is a Jew, arrived with a petition to the League of Nations stressing that Germany, when she secured special treatment for her minorities in Poland Czoeho-Slovakia, and elsewhere, undertook to extend the same treatment to foreign minorities established in Germany,

ANIMOSITY IN SPORT. TENNIS SQUABBLE. (UP.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright) PARIS, Alay 21. Though Promt was dropped from the German. Davis Cup team because he is a. Jew, he has accepted an invitation to compete in the French championships. The German, von Ora nun. consequently withdrew. INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS POSSIBLE .FRENCH AIAY SEEK TO ISOLATE GERMANY (U.P.A. by Elec. Tel. Copyright-) (Received Alay 22, 7.10 p.m.) LONDON, Alay 22 The Daily Express's Geneva correspondent states that- interesting developments are possible following Herr Bernhoim’s petition, which Sir Erie Drummond has decided requires urgent, procedure, so i-t will ho considered by tlie League Council on Tuesday in order to decide whether nnti-Jewish. measures arc a breach of the German-Polish convention of 1922. The French, assisted by the Poles and the Czocho-Slovakians, may sock to utilise- the petition to isolate Germany on the question of the Nazi treatment- of the Jews.