JEWS' APPALLING PLIGHT
The Jews in Central Europe have ceased to be human beings; they are driven like cattle from country to country and left to starve in the no-man's-land between frontiers which have become their .only resting-place, notes the Spectator. ■ The most significant factor in the whole situation is the cynical contempt shown for human, as. distinguished from politicalj rights; loss or cancellation of a passport turns human beings into homeless animals whom no man need respect, :without any protection against the mpst brutal mistreatment. It ; must be remembered that Central Europe contains millions of Jews living under Governments which take this view of them;»andtmless other countries interest themselves in their fate they. may soon have --no choice but to be starved and tortured to death. The Jewish problem, in all its horrors, shows how far Eurppe really is from the era of 'Peace >: and'reconciliation- between men that politicians so hopefully predict. , ~v
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23686, 19 December 1938, Page 15
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