World Press Digest

The Irish Times of Dublin, commenting on the secession of the Revisionists from the Zionist World Organization, says in an editorial:

After two thousand years the tribulations of the Jewish people are not ended. There are signs, moreover, that Jewish affairs may become a world concern ere long. The Zionist Party has split —how seriously we cannot judge until events show whether the new departure has as strong a following as at first appears. Mr. Vladimir Jabotinsky, the organizer of the Jewish regiment which fought in the Great War for the liberation of the Holy Land, has gone out from the official party, demanding that a claim be made for the establishment of a free Jewish State on both sides of the Jordan. Such a claim, of course, goes far beyond what British policy has secured for the Jewish people in their ancient fatherland—a “national home,” a region in which numbers of the race may settle and live in the manner of their ancestors, speaking the Hebrew tongue and cultivating Hebrew learning in a university of Jerusalem, but only as equal citizens with other races, under the flag of the Mandatory Power.

LEAGUE CAN FORCE DANZIG TO OBEY

The Manchester Guardian, writing on the outcome of the petition of the Danzig Jews to the League, says editorially:

Though by the terms of international treaties and the League Constitution the Jews, like all other religious and racial minorities in Danzig, are protected from any discrimination, yet since the National Socialists first gained power in 1933 they have been subjected to a systematic boycott hardly better than they might expect in Germany itself. The officials of the government, who have taken oath to respect the constitution with all its guarantees against oppression, have in nearly every case also pledged themselves to the National Socialist faith, of which anti-Semitism is a fundamental tenet. Those who thought otherwise, who imagined that the callous terrorization of the Jews in Germany would pass with the first ardor of the “revolution,” are refuted by the fresh outbreak of those brutalities in Germany today, when National Socialism has settled firmly in the saddle and the revolution has been forgotten or forsworn. But Danzig is not Germany, though it is German, and not Nazi, though its rulers tried to make it say so, and what in Germany can only be a matter of shame and sorrow to those outside it, in Danzig it is unconstitutional, illegal, and within the power of the League to stop.

SOME ‘ISMS’ JEWS HAVE PASSED THROUGH

George S. Duncan of The American University, writing in the New York Times on the archeological discoveries in Palestine, says:

The probable order for prehistoric man was naturism, animism, polytheism, henotheism and monotheism.

The Bible proves that the Hebrews passed through polytheism, henotheism and monotheism. The Mosaic commandment, Exodus 20:3, “Thou shalt have no other gods beside me,” implies that formerly other gods had been worshiped in Israel. In Joshua 24:2, 14, 23 the people are exhorted: “Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt.” Ezekiel 0:8, 16, 23, and Amos 5:26 affirm that the Israelites were polytheists before Moses’s time.

‘SIMON SHAKES HANDS CORDIALLY WITH HITLER’

The Sunday Referee of London, commenting on the present Jewish situation in Europe, says:

Everywhere the Jew is the object of hatred and brutality. The Nazi attack on German Jewry is merely the advance guard of a developing movement which embraces the greater part of the Continent.

At the time when Spain celebrates Maimonides, organized Jew-baiting rages furiously from the Rhine to the Black Sea. Apart from the Nazis in Germany, there are the Polish National Democratic Party, the Austrian Christian Socialist Party, the Swiss National Socialist Party, the Greek National Association, and the Rumanian Iron Guard engaged in the frightful business of persecuting the Jews.

In a civilized world the anti-Semite would be regarded as a moral atavist, unfit to associate with moral, decent people. But Sir John Simon shakes hands cordially with Hitler.