World Press Digest

The London Daily Express, car-can put to sea.

silver, ivory and apes and pea-three years once came the ships of Tarshish, bringing gold and most adaptable race on earth cocks.” The ships of Tarshish were Spanish.

But it is not too late. The ries the following editorial:

Down comes the Nazi swastika from the masthead. Up goes the ensign of Palestine to flutter at the truck. The Jews acquire their first liner.

Great the role of the Hebrew people in the history of the world. From them spring two religions and many philosophies, contributions to science and art beyond numbering.

Not a military race, perhaps? The Romans would have told you another tale. There was Judas Maccabeus.

But seamen? No. Even wise Solomon, with the gold of Ophir luring him, borrowed the navy of Hiram, king of Tyre. “Every

TIMES EXPOSES LIPPERT FALLACY

The New York Times, in its Friday issue, comments editorially on Dr. Julius Lippert’s appeal to America to discontinue the boycott on German goods:

The speech of Dr. Julius Lippert, State Commissar for Berlin, before the American Chamber of Commerce there, is amazing even in these days not only for its bland disregard of the most glaring facts but because it is impossible to know what purpose he could seriously have expected it to serve. Ostensibly deploring the curtailment in German-American trade in the last two years, Dr. Lipper held that “the principal cause lies in the special difficulties created by the so-called Jewish boycott movement in the commerce world center of New York.”

The most cursory glance at the actual figures shows that the chief curtailment does not come from the American side. The Hitler Government came into power at the beginning of 1933, and the “boycott” was not discussed until several months later. It is true that, while our total imports in 1934 show an increase of 25 per cent. in dollar value over those in 1932, our imports from Germany alone show a decline of 6 per cent. No doubt a good deal of this comparative decline is due to the refusal of many private American citizens to buy German goods. But what, meanwhile, has happened to Germany’s purchases from America? The most drastic change has occurred since Germany put into effect its “new economic policy” last September, compelling every importer to get a certificate from the Government for every import made.