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Taranaki Daily News, 19 July 1933, Page 7

“The Jew is just what the world has made him,” said Dr. L. S. Talbot in an address to the Timaru Rotary Club on the history of the race and its viciss*tudes in many lands. “The characteristics and moral outlook of any people at any age in their history is an inevitable \ result of their heredity and environment” The business instinct in the Jews, he thought, was a result of the prohibition’of land-owning,; their sharpness and resourcefulness the result of ■ ages of cruelty. They paid tho price of success. Their past had bred a race nimble in intellect and infinitely adapt- • able, and their success was a constant - < wonder to their competitors. “It almost seems to me that if they were given * chance they would remove a great many of the economic barriers which the rest of the world is putting up,” concluded - - - —-