ANTI-SEMITIC FEROCITY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 25 January 1939, Page 4

ANTI-SEMITIC FEROCITY

FLEEING THE WRATH I Uy Air Mail-Own Correspondent! LONDON, 2Sth December. It is hard for people with a settled habitat, a land they can call their own, to realise what it must be like nowadays to be a Jew in any of the totalitarian oi neighbouring European countries. The anti-Semitic ferocity of Nazi Germany, with its handsome dividend of confiscated wealth and possessions, is sending a treiuo- through many lands Indeed, the maiut'estations of uneasiness in those smaller Mates adjoining the Reich are significant indications how the political wind is blowing. Already the Jews in some of those countries are planning to emigrate to dislant parts of the globe. They realise what the programme of Uitlbr is. and fear that, at any moment almost, they may find themselves in similar plight to their unfortunate co-religionists of Austria, the Sudeten, and Germany prop, er This Jew drive is one of the most pitiable and momentous symptoms in present-day history. But perhaps its pathology is more biological than political. It links up t.lie era of the aeroplane with that of the I'y ram ids. ATTACK ON THE ECONOMIC FLANK It is natural that, lacking other means of retaliation, the Jewish community should attack Nazi Germany on the economic flank. During his abortive London visit Dr. Sehacht must have encountered evidence of this fact in more than one quarter. Millions of leaflets are being circulated, not only in London, but elsewhere, appealing to people to “Buy British —and Boycott German Goods." That slogan is even ingeniously displayed on packets of book matches. Outside is the “Buy British" injunction. When the flap is raised to get a match, the “Boycott German Goods ’ appears. "This is the Season of Goodwill” runs one leaflet, "Buy Wisely—Buy British—and thus make sure your money is not helping to bolster up a regime which bullies defencele* minorities and makes war on children.” Or “Why buy from the Nazis this year? Your shillings and pennies can be better spent supporting products made n a free land by free men and women.” Perhaps the cutest slogan of all, however, is the exhortation to the women—- " Fight the enemies of civilisation with your shopping basket!”