Timely Topics

Northern Advocate, 16 July 1938, Page 6

Timely Topics

“The evidence which I have got,” said the Marquess of Lothian in the House of Lords, “leads me to believe that the German proGERMANY'S duction next year will FIGHTING be 6000. As 'a matter AIRCRAFT, cf fact, the German production next year will more pi’obably be 8000 first-line machines, with all the accessory machines, training machines and so on, necessary to maintain the front line. They will have a total of machines of all sorts and kinds between 12 000 and 15.000. General Goering nor so very long ago said that his object was to have in a short time 50.000 pilots, and in the speech of Herr Hitler, made only last February, he said there were 600.000 members of the Flying Sport Union, cf whom 50,000 were active flyers, partly trained in gliders. I think nobody can go to Berlin and look at the Air Ministry and then look at the scattered and trivial offices in which the equivalent Department is housed in this country without realising that the scales and standards of the two countries are absolutely and completely different.”

52 IS ® S Lord Rothschild, speaking at Manchester, to the Women’s Appeal Committee for German-Jewish Women and Children, referred to TREATMENT the persecution of Jews. OF JEWS. He said: “Although the feeling of sadness at the medieval and bax'baric treatment that Jews are getting in Central Europe today must inevitably be uppermost in our minds, I cannot help feeling that 1 we ought at the same time to thank God that we live in so peaceful a country as England.”

Lord Rothschild said he believed that there was as little anti-Semitism in Britain as in any country in Europe and he was convinced that the reason was that the English were a just and generous people and they realised, unlike other countries, that a Jew was just as much a good patriot to his country as he was a good Jew. He himself had always felt the greatest pride in being English and he was just as much an Englishman with all the duties that went with it, as a Jew with all the duties that went with that. How many other countries were there in which the Jews were treated in exactly the same way as were the Christians, where the police guarded them, and their property, where they had equal rights and equal responsibilities? There were few countries where anyone had the same liberties, rights, and sense of security as the English.