GERMAN FAVOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 136, 10 June 1937, Page 7

GERMAN FAVOUR

SOUGHT BY RUSSIA Anti-Semitic Policy in Operation STALIN’S LOST FAITH j IN JEWS I 1 Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) I Received June 9, 11.50 p.mLONDON, June 8. , The Helsingfors correspondent , of the Morning Post says that Stalin is reported to be adopting an anti-Semitic policy with the avowed intention of currying German favour in order to ensure an influx of German specialists, whose task will be to create order and progress from Russia’s present chaos and incompetence. It is stated that as a result of the Yagoda revelations and various Trotskyist trials, both Stalin and Voroshilooff have lost all faith in their Jewish associaties. All officers and men of Jewish blood already have been dismissed from the army, while the expulsion of Jews from Government institutions, banks and trade organisations is reported to be proceeding with extreme severity. GERMAN COLONIES LEAGUE MUST DECIDE GENERAL SMUTS’ VIEWS. CAPETOWN. June 8. Asked whether the South African or the British Parliament would decide the issue if Germany demanded the return of her colonies. General J. C. Smuts (Minister of Justice) told a meeting that the League of Nations would decide. “And if the League decided that Southwest Africa was to return to Germany?” asked a questioner. “Then the puppets will start to dance,” re- t plied General Smuts.