MENACE TO PEACE
GERMAN PERSECUTIONS APPEAL TO THE LEAGUE INTERVENTION NEEDED PROTECTION OF REFUGEES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Doe. 80, 11 n.m.) GENEVA, Dee. 20. Mr James MacDonald, High Comsioner for Jewish and other refugees from Germany, in a letter to M. Avcnol resigning the post to which the League of Nations Council appointed him in 1033, deplores the intensified persecution of minorities in Germany and urges the intervention of the League to avert an even more terrible human calamity.
Mr MacDonald states: “Conditions in Germany which create refugees have developed so catastrophically that reconsideration by the League of the whole situation is essential. The intensified persecution threatens pauperisation or exile of hundreds, o-f thousands in Germany—<men, women, and children—not only Jews, but nonAryan Christians who are treated as Jews, and Protestants and Catholics, who, in obedience to faith or conscience, have dared to resist the absolute will of the Nazi 'State.
“More than 500,000 people against whom no charge can be made, except that they are not what the Nazis choose to regard as “Nordic,” are being crushed.
“Efforts must be made to remove or mitigate the causes creating refugees. This could not form part of the work of the High Commission’s 'Office. It is a political function properly belonging to the League itself.
“The victims of terrorism are being driven to a point at which, in utter anguish and despair, they may burst the frontier in fresh waves of refugees, because more than half the Jews remaining in Germany already have been deprived of their livelihood. The moral authority of the League and its members must be directed to appealing to Germany in the name of humanity. Pity and reason alike must inspire a hope that intercession will meet with a response; otherwise it will continue to constitute a danger to international peace.
“Considerations of diplomatic correctness must yield to those of common humanity. I cannot remain silent.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18900, 30 December 1935, Page 5
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