PERSECUTION OF JEWS.
GERMANS INDICTED.
LORD MELCHETT’S PROTEST;
WORSE THAN INQUISITION
United Press Assn.— Ele.c. Tel. Copyright (Received May 17, 12.45 p.m.)
LONDON, May 16
Lord Melchett in a fierce attack on the Nazi regime, speaking at Queen’s Hall, described Germany as an absolute death trap for the 600,000 Jews there.
In the Spanish inquisition the Jews could escape by being 'Converted, he said, but there was no escape of that •kind in Germany to-day, where the people were allowing themselves to be dominated by a small body of unbalanced savage individuals. The speaker cited a case in which he alleged that a German worker was forcibly “persuaded” to resign 'office in a trade union after being taken to a dark cellar, which w r as full of tortured semi- conscious men, why were in various stages of being beaten up.
The only permanent solution of the Jewish problem was the extension of the settlement in Palestine.
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Waikato Times, Volume 113, Issue 18947, 17 May 1933, Page 8
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