TREATMENT OF JEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 9

TREATMENT OF JEWS

VATICAN'S MEDIATION MUSICIANS BOYCOTT NAZIS . LONDON, Sept. 12 The British? United Press correspondent in. the Vatican City states that Germany, besides ratifying the concordat with the Vatican, pledged herself to carry out the "Papal memorandum insisting that there should be no racial discrimination againsf 'Jews who were baptised into Christianity. The memorandum also demanded that Jews should be treated with .humanity in accordance with the principles of Christian charity.

The Daily Herald says Herr Furtwangler, State conductor of Prussia, invited many famous musicians, including Jews (to whom the Government would promise special protection) to perform in Berlin. . ~

However, all except Hofman, pianist, a Polish Jew, living in America, refused, including Casals, Spanish 'cellist, Cortot, French pianist, Huberman, I*oUsh violinist, Schnabel, Austrian pianist, Horowitz, Russian pianist, Fritz Busch, . conductor, and Fritz Kreisler, most famous violinist of them all. The youthful Hungarian violinist, Yehudi Menuhin, said he would be glad to perform under the conductorship of Bruno Walter, who recently lost his post in Berlin because he was a Jew. REICHSTAG FIRE ACCUSED .COMMUNIST BITTER FRENCH COMMENT \ PARIS, Sept. 12 At a meeting attended by 15,000 people Maitres Torres, Moro and Giaferri declared that Herr Torgler, the Communist deputy accused of causing the Reichstag fire, was innocent and General Goering himself the incendiary. AS resolution was passed denouncing the "parody of justice prepared at Leipzig, where the guilty are arrogating to themselves the right to judge the victims. The French people refuse to place confidence in a partisan magistrature." \ FILM INDUSTRY - ( WARNING, TO JEWS EXODUS OF PERFORMERS • ... LONDON, Sept. 7 The Nazi-controlled film industry's publication warns non-Jewish actors and producers against contracting to go abroad or renewing foreign contracts, says the Berlin correspondent of the Times. This, it is stated, would indicate a' "desire to sabotage German cultural reconstruction/' and the publication declares that offenders will bo excluded from all future filmwork in Germany. A great exodus of leading theatrical people and film, workers the departure of Max Jleinhardt and Elizabeth Bergner. Many of these, though Gentiles, had Jewish connections, or hesitated to face the uncertainties of the German film industry. Absent stars include Werner Krauss, Emil Jannings, Lilian Harvey and Marlene Deitrichi . , • . ... The first pronouncedly Nazi films are now being manufactured, but production is greatly handicapped by current restrictions.