NEWS AND NOTES

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXII, Issue 4716, 14 November 1938, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

A decree fining the German Jews 1,000,000,000 marks (the equivalent of £80,000,000 at the current sterling rate of exchange) for the murder of Dr. von Rath, has been issued by Field-Mai'shal Goering. World tension was the subject of a broadcast to America by Mr. Lloyd George, who, emphasising the storminess of the present era, declared there was no disposition during the relief from the crisis to examine the terms under which the frightened democracies escaped from the dictators. The only chance of world peace was an assembly of the great nations to discuss the best means of attaining it. The Duke and Duchess of Gloucester, who are returning from a visit to Kenya, arrived at Paris on Friday and met the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at the Hotel Maurice. A witness to the meeting said the Duke Windsor was as happy as a schoolboy, schoolboy. The Berlin correspondent of the British United Press says it is understood that one of the forthcoming anti-Jewish laws will be a “ghetto law,” under which Jewish residences and businesses will only be permitted in certain prescribed districts. The Air Secretary, Sir Kingsley Wood, announced that the Government proposed to recommend legislation establishing a public corporation to acquire Imperial Airways and British Airways. The Government has been considering the question of the most suitable instrument for developing the country’s overseas civil communications. General Ismet Ineunu has been elected President of Turkey. He is 58 years old and commanded one of Kemal Ataturk’s armies in the Turkish War of Independence. He was also responsible for the crushing defeat of the Greeks. General Ineunu shares Ata } turk’s views on foreign policy and the desirabaility of maintaining British and Russian friendship. It is understood that the Imperial Defence Commission will shortly meet in London to plan a scheme for the defence of Australia and New land whereby the defence of the two Dominions might be considered separate from the rest of the Empire. American films have poisoned the public, declares the Italian journal “Giornale d’ltalia,” welcoming the decision of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Fox Warner Bros., and Paramount to close their Italian distribution centres at the end of the year.