GERMAN POGROMS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 5

GERMAN POGROMS

NERO COMPARED MODEL OF RIGHTEOUSNESS ALBERT HALL PROTESTS WISH TO HELP JEWS ARRIVAL OF REFUGEES (Elec. Tel. Copyright—United Press Assn.) (Reed. Dec. 2, noon.) LONDON, Dec. 2. Yesterday’s mass meeting at the Albert Hall, when 8000 people pledged support for every legitimate form of action ‘to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of religious racial persecution in Germany, was addressed by church and political leaders of all shades.

The Archbishop of York, Dr. William Temple, said: “We desire, almost above all things, friendship with the

German people and refuse to identify them with all that is done by the Nazis.”

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Hinsley, said: “Nero, who revelled in the persecution of Jews and Christians and incendiarism, now appears somewhat as a model of righteousness.”

The Labour member of the House of Commons for Hackney. Mr. Herbert Morrison, contended that the immigration restrictions in Palestine should be relaxed.

•The Liberal Party leader in the House of Commons, Sir Archibald Sinclair, gave the opinion that Palestine was 'best fitted to receive the refugees. Two hundred German Jewish children, the first of 5000 refugees under Lord Samuel’s scheme, many 'being orphans who were rendered homeless when an orphanage was burned down in Berlin during 'the pogrom, arrived to-day and were accommodated at a holiday camp, pending their distribution to foster parents.

.it is learned that inquiries by the international committee in Vienna revealed that 700 of the Jews who were arrested in the recent trouble died.

Men and women were confined in barns and bare rooms without beds or chairs.

A message from Budapest states that 310 arrests were made following street demonstrations in Hungary in which shop windows, mostly of Jewish premises, were smashed and other damage done.